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Water a concern for 2050
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 25th, 2010
Capital Journal: Shawnee County is at risk for moderate to "extreme" water shortages by 2050, depending on the degree to which climate change may occur. That analysis is from a new study commissioned by the Natural Resources Defense Council. The prognosis is even more dire for other parts of Kansas, especially the western counties. They would suffer at least "high," if not extreme, water shortages if warming occurs as some are projecting. Earl Lewis, assistant director of the Kansas ...
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United Kingdom: Energy prospectors go west to Blackpool in search of ‘shale gas’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 25th, 2010
Guardian: Blackpool could become the new Houston if an experimental "shale gas" well being drilled in the north-west of England this week turns up the same stellar results that have been seen in America. Lord Browne of Madingley, the former BP chief executive, is one of the backers of Cuadrilla Resources, which will start operations on a geological formation that stretches from Pendle Hill to the Lancashire coast near Blackpool. The well being drilled is the first of its kind in Britain ...
Hayward leaving behind daunting tasks at BP
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 25th, 2010
Associated Press: For BP, removing Tony Hayward is just the beginning. The departure of the man who became the vilified public face of the Gulf oil spill changes very little for BP. His successor still faces what could be decades of cleaning up and paying for one of the worst environmental disasters in American history. Experts said Sunday that the new chief must also persuade thousands of employees to embrace a culture of safety that Hayward apparently failed to instill. He'll need to mend ...
Brazilian Indians take hostages at Amazon dam site
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 25th, 2010
Reuters: Brazilian native Indians on Sunday took 100 workers hostage at the construction site of a hydroelectric plant in the southern Amazon region, local media reported. As many as 400 Indians from several different tribes occupied a power plant they say was built on an ancient burial site. "They didn't take into account the situation of the Indians. The company used dynamite to blow up part of an archeological site," Antonio Carlos Ferreira de Aquino, a local administrator with the ...