After over a decade of fracking, oversight of the industry's radioactive waste is still lacking, reports Sharon Kelly. Over half of the 280 billion gallons a year of radioactive waste water from fracking ends up in rivers and streams.
… Fracking's radwaste - supervision remains inadequate Sharon … oversight of the industry's radioactive waste is still lacking, reports Sharon Kelly. … the 280 billion gallons a year of radioactive waste water from fracking ends up in rivers …
Fracking operations produce radioactive waste derived from naturally occurring uranium and thorium - until now, safely buried deep underground. And right now the industry has neither a plan, nor the technology, to deal with it.
… Fracking operations produce radioactive waste derived from naturally occurring uranium … radioactive material that is found in the waste water, principally radium, is high … neither will it be possible to dispose of the waste water by injecting it back underground. …
When the US's biggest ever coal ash spill buried 300 acres of waterfront property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by the time it reached Uniontown, a black community in Alabama, that was all forgotten. Now they are fighting back.
… Alabama - a community fights toxic waste, discrimination Oliver Tickell | 20th August 2014 News Waste Toxics USA Fossil Fuels Coal … property in a white, middle class suburb, the waste was treated as a toxic hazard. But by …
Six environment heroes, one from each continent, are honoured for their work today - fighting threats from giant coal mines to forest destruction, fracking, high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports.
… coal, dams, palm oil, fracking, toxic waste Sophie Morlin-Yron | 28th April 2014 News Fracking Fossil Fuels Waste Water Energy USA Indonesia Russia Peru … high dams, illegal development and toxic waste dumps. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports. San …
We need to abandon Petropolis to prevent climate breakdown - and start building the ecomegacities of the future.
… of the land, only to deposit huge amounts of waste into landfill, into our seas and - in … London alone creates seven tonnes of waste every year. Just half of this is … The capacity of landfills accepting London’s waste is expected to run out by 2026 and …
Moving away from fossil fuels will require transforming our technological, social, and economic systems, rather than focussing on individual consumption.
… natural world. Public revulsion at plastic waste was stoked by Blue Planet II , the UK’s … choked, enmeshed and tortured by plastic waste. It also had an international impact: … in parts of the global south too. Wasteful consumption Most plastics are used …
Gas flaring of natural at shale oil wells is carried out on such a scale in North Dakota and Texas that 'phantom cities' show up at night in satellite photos, writes Sharon Kelly. Billions of dollars worth of gas are going up in smoke, adding to CO2 emissions - but far worse for the climate is when the gas is 'vented'. Regulators are doing too little, too late.
… a process known in the industry as 'flaring'. Wasteful and destructive - $854 million up in smoke It's a process so wasteful that it's sparked class action … was responsible for two thirds of the state's wasted gas in 2012, totaling 21 billion feet …
A Spending Bill now under debate in Congress would cut over $100 million from renewable energy, grant extra funds for dumping nuclear waste and fossil fuel research, exempt 'mountain top removal' coal from regulation, and limit the EPA's power to enforce clean water laws.
… energy, grant extra funds for dumping nuclear waste and fossil fuel research, exempt … designate money to everything from nuclear waste cleanup to renewable energy investments, … bill provides $150 million for nuclear waste disposal at the proposed Yucca Mountain …
America's coal-fired power plants produce 140 million tons of ash a year, reports Ben Whitford, most of it dumped in open storage ponds that contaminate drinking water with arsenic and heavy metals. And now Presidential candidate Jeb Bush is promising to scrap 'new and costly' (actually feeble) EPA regulations before they have even been implemented.
… September 2015 News Fossil Fuels Energy Coal Waste Regulation Politics … than four billion gallons of ash slurry - the waste from years of coal-fired energy … it the country's second-largest industrial waste stream. The vast majority of that ash is …
Traveling in the US by boat and train visiting solar laboratories and environmental groups, Keith Barnham found many successful community initiatives in renewable electricity, and brings news of progress towards the ultimate renewable challenge: a solar fuel that could eventually replace gasoline in cars, trucks, buses, trains and aircraft.
… Germany in exploiting the AD of farm and food waste. This might reflect the influence of the … for the fossil fuel industry. The solid waste from AD contains the very nutrients that … to encourage the collection of bio-degradable waste for anaerobic digestion (AD) making …
Last week the EU ratified the Paris Agreement to limit climate change, writes Tony Bosworth. So how did Communities Secretary Sajid Javid mark the occasion? By overturning Lancashire's democratic rejection of fracking, so giving a whole new fossil fuel industry the green light to let rip. Hypocrisy? The word hardly does justice to our government's mendacity.
… had got their figures wrong on how much waste water would be generated. The figure … that it was up to Cuadrilla to deal with the waste water. This is a risky approach. What … if there is no capacity to deal with the waste water? What if there is more waste water …
After over a century of coal ash and colliery waste dumping, the Tyne and Wear coastline is no stranger to industrial pollution. But soon a horrific new technology - underground coal gasification (UCG) - will endanger human health and the environment, backed by unflinching Government support and generous lashings of taxpayers' money.
… After over a century of coal ash and colliery waste dumping, the Tyne and Wear coastline is … villain to a lonely beach location where coal waste is being dumped into the sea. That was … A 1979 investigation of the impacts of waste disposal along the north east coast - …
When Shell decided to quit its Arctic oil exploration it cited 'insufficient quantities' of oil and gas, writes Louise Rouse. But that was not the whole story: what tipped the balance was a combination of investor discontent, reputational damage and public opposition on an unprecedented scale.
… concerned about the project came laden with wasted capital; uncertain return; growing … - reverse. So, after four years, 7 billion wasted dollars and a shredding of its … its fate - there is no more time for wasteful detours. The arc of inevitability has …
A new report warns that coal, oil and gas assets will be stranded if the world is to limit temperature rise to 2C. Losses are projected to reach $2.2 trillion over the next decade, with coal taking the biggest hit, while oil demand peaks in 2020. Yet fossil energy companies are ignoring the very innovations that will put them out of business.
… out of business. The fossil fuel industry may waste as much as US$2.2 trillion (£1.45 tn) in …
Almost all UK laws that regulate fracking's impact on the environment emanate from EU directives and regulations, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Once out of the EU, the UK would be free to amend them, scrap them or simply ignore them. And given the UK's record of support for fracking and lobbying in Brussels for deregulation, that may be exactly what the Brexiteers have planned.
… EU UK Fossil Fuels Pollution pillaga-waste-water-cut.jpg Almost all UK laws that … used in the fracking process; the Mining Waste Directive covers the handling and …
Making fossil fuel firms pay to clean up carbon could help curb climate change.
… which holds producers responsible for the waste generated by the products they sell, … pay for the treatment and disposal of waste water. Recaptured Applying the approach …
With its choice of Hinkley Point C - a £100 billion nuclear boondoggle - its enthusiastic support for expensive and environmentally harmful fracking, and its relentless attack on renewable energy, the UK government's energy policy is both morally and economically bankrupt, write Peter Strachan & Alex Russell. It must urgently reconsider this folly and embrace the renewable energy transition.
… the unstated decommissioning and radioactive waste management costs, and it soon becomes … will be delivered too late, and the nuclear waste legacy will be a curse on future … Timpson earthquake in 2012, widely blamed on waste water being injected at fracking sites …
The UK government is all for fracking, writes Dr Robin Russell-Jones, but on climate grounds alone it should be banned. Evidence from the US shows that shale gas is twice as dirty as coal from a climate viewpoint due to 'fugitive emissions' of methane. That makes fracking incompatible with the UK's climate change commitments and the Paris Agreement - as the CCC may soon rule.
… of drilling platforms and lorries carrying waste products away from the fracking site. … and produces at least 3 million gallons of waste which requires disposal, some of it in …
Emails released by the Science Museum show that Shell pressed its case to Museum staff to deny NGOs the opportunity to open up a debate on the company's operations in connection with an exhibition it had sponsored on waste and climate change, writes Terry Macalister.
… with an exhibition it had sponsored on waste and climate change, writes Terry … project [an interactive exhibition examining waste in the context of climate change], …
Nearly 100,000 people have pledged to risk arrest if the Obama administration approves the Keystone XL pipeline. Among them is Jeremy Brecher, who believes that the real criminals are governments who betray their fiduciary duty as trustees for the public good.
… private and public enterprises to lay waste to the very natural conditions that our … can choose not to be complicit in the state's waste of the public trust - the earth's … private and public enterprises to lay waste to the very natural conditions that our …
The Government is struggling to spin its policy to fast track fracking, writes Paul Mobbs. So as it cuts the public out of the regulatory process, exempts exploratory wells from controls, and forces the Environment Agency to issue permits with 1-2 weeks, its spin machine has resorted to outright lies and misinformation to conceal the scale of the attack on our environmental rights.
… interest'." Exemptions for emissions and waste from fracking Currently all on-shore … Agency to issue permits for the emissions and waste created. During 2011/2012 this created …
The world is in the grip of a 'fracking frenzy that threatens us for centuries to come with polluted aquifers, runaway climate change, destruction of biodiversity and worthless 'sub-prime' investments. Just as the world must make the transition to a sustainable future, our 'leaders' are determined to make this last losing throw of the fossil fuel dice.
… Fossil Fuels EU Climate Change Pollution Waste USA fracking-sign-karoo-cut.jpg The …
India's planned power expansion depends overwhelmingly on coal, with over a hundred huge new generation units planned by 2030. Sarah Stirk reports on the nightmare the dash for coal is bringing to once peaceful rural communities.
… or thorium. Man-made mountains of mining wastes, excavated and dumped, gradually bury … one cares about the poor." Buried under mine waste Jharia, in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh, … The remote village is being buried under waste from a nearby mine opened by Reliance in …