Tag Archives: pollution
Protesters oppose fracking by Cuadrilla Resources in UK
Opposition to shale gas extraction flared up in the tiny village of Balcombe, England on Sunday as hundreds marched on an oil exploration site in protest at the drilling process known as ‘fracking’. Activists are concerned the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process used to extract gas from rocks underground can trigger small earthquakes and pollute […]
International carbon taxes unfairly target citizenry
Australia has not abandoned its commitment to reducing climate-warming emissions. And carbon tax systems, while rare and rife with controversy, retain a firm foothold in a number of advanced economies. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/business/global/a-carbon-tax-by-any-other-name.html In Australia, the government’s decision entails a change of methodology. By next July, the country will shift from its controversial carbon tax system to […]
Obsolete technology tsunami
Cardboard boxes, stacked in teetering rows, 9 feet high and 14 feet deep, were so sprawling that the inspectors needed cellphones to keep track of each other. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/19/us/disposal-of-older-monitors-leaves-a-hazardous-trail.html?hp&_r=1& The layer of broken glass on the floor and the lead-laden dust in the air was so thick that the inspectors soon left over safety concerns. Flat-screen […]
Polluted drinking water attributed to fracking
Residents of a western Pennsylvania community, The Woodlands, say the water was spoiled by drilling deep underground for natural gas. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/03/10/us/ap-us-gas-drilling-water-contamination.html?ref=us In late 2011, the drinking water for about a dozen residents in the Woodlands, a rural community about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh, began to change. At first, the families blamed gas drilling, or […]
Radiation leak in WA compounded by sequester
Six newly confirmed leaking tanks of radioactive waste was added evidence that even after decades of work and billions of dollars in taxpayer sacrifice, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s risks remain unresolved. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/us/struggling-hanford-site-awaits-new-cuts.html?ref=us Plutonium production for the nation’s bomb arsenal was elevated to industrial scale for years in the rolling scrub country of south-central Washington and […]
Dirty Babylon 