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Assembly panel backs halt to fracking
Posted by LA Times: Chris Megerian on April 30th, 2013
LA Times: Plans to halt fracking in California advanced in the Legislature on Monday, when a key committee approved three measures that would prohibit the practice until the state can study it further.
The votes were a victory for environmentalists, who have been scrambling to slow the boom in fracking nationwide. A proposed moratorium on fracking failed in the California Legislature last year.
Hydraulic fracturing is the practice of injecting chemicals into the ground to break apart rock and release...
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Canada: Harper Gov’t Drops Heavy Oil Processing From Environmental Review List
Posted by Calgary Herald: Mike De Souza on April 30th, 2013
Calgary Herald: Building a diamond mine, expanding an oilsands mine, offshore exploration or an interprovincial bridge could soon require a federal environmental review under proposed additions and subtractions to the Harper government's new environmental rules.
But provincially regulated pipelines, facilities used to process the heavy oil from the oilsands, pulp and paper mills as well as chemical explosive plants are among those being deleted from a list of projects requiring federal environmental investigations...
The consensus seems to be: Let somebody else fix the delta
Posted by LA Times: Bettina Boxall on April 30th, 2013
LA Times: Confidential surveys of water officials, water users and others involved with the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta offer some telling insight on why the delta is stuck in a perpetual quagmire.
When it comes to fixing the hub of California's water system, most parties would prefer it if someone else made the sacrifices.
The surveys, conducted last year by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California and discussed in a new institute report, found that there was general agreement with scientists...
Bristol Bay: Largest Salmon Fishery vs Giant Mine Proposal
Posted by Environment News Service: None Given on April 30th, 2013
Environment News Service: If Bristol Bay, Alaska is opened to mining, the ore deposit would be mined for decades, and the wastes would require management "for centuries or even in perpetuity," finds a revised environmental assessment issued Friday by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The Bristol Bay watershed in southwestern Alaska supports the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world, is home to 25 federally recognized tribal governments, and also contains one of the largest concentrations of copper, gold and...