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Fukushima radioactive water likely breached barrier: panel head
Posted by Reuters: Antoni Slodkowski and Mari Saito on August 5th, 2013
Reuters: Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an "emergency" that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country's nuclear watchdog said on Monday. This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, Shinji Kinjo, head of a Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) task force, told Reuters. Countermeasures planned by Tokyo...
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Comments Off on Fukushima radioactive water likely breached barrier: panel headFracking will meet resistance from southern nimbys
Posted by Ecologist: Patrick Wintour on August 5th, 2013
Ecologist: Michael Fallon's comments in private meeting herald shale gas exploration from Hampshire to Kent that risks putting Tories on collision course with heartland support The energy minister Michael Fallon has warned privately that fracking might soon face fierce resistance from the middle classes in Conservative heartlands as he heralded further exploration across swaths of southern England. Fallon, a strong supporter of shale gas extraction, told a private meeting in Westminster: "We are going to...
UK: Fracking Will Meet Resistance from Southern Nimbys, Minister Warns
Posted by Guardian: Patrick Wintour on August 5th, 2013
Guardian: The energy minister Michael Fallon has warned privately that fracking might soon face fierce resistance from the middle classes in Conservative heartlands as he heralded further exploration across swaths of southern England.
Fallon, a strong supporter of shale gas extraction, told a private meeting in Westminster: "We are going to see how thick their rectory walls are, whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive."
Fallon, who is MP for Sevenoaks in Kent, said exploratory studies for...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on UK: Fracking Will Meet Resistance from Southern Nimbys, Minister WarnsTransCanada’s East Coast Oil Pipeline to Change Trade Dynamics
Posted by Reuters: Sabina Zawadzki and David Sheppard on August 5th, 2013
Reuters: TransCanada Corp's (TRP.TO) plan to build one of the world's longest oil pipelines has reverberations far beyond Canadian shores. The planned 2,700 mile pipeline, which will bring crude from Canada's energy capital of Alberta to refineries and ports on the East Coast, has the potential to upturn the dynamics of the North Atlantic oil trade squeezing out some imported crude to North America and revitalizing once-ailing refineries. The Energy East line could also reinforce North Sea Brent crude as...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on TransCanada’s East Coast Oil Pipeline to Change Trade DynamicsUnited Kingdom: Fracking row splits apart the Coalition…
Posted by Daily Mail: Tamara Cohen on August 4th, 2013
Daily Mail: Fracking has driven a rift through the Coalition as the minister in charge of it described Middle England shaking with the sound of drills.
Energy Minister Michael Fallon said at a private meeting that the controversial drive for shale gas could soon extend across a vast swathe of the South.
But in the first major attack on fracking by a senior member of the Coalition, Liberal Democrat president Tim Farron predicted opposition would grow stronger than the campaign against wind farms.
Local...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on United Kingdom: Fracking row splits apart the Coalition…United Kingdom: Gas flares scare? It was a fracking joke says Tory minster as he tries to laugh off drill gaffe
Posted by Mirror: None Given on August 4th, 2013
Mirror: Bungling Michael Fallon yesterday desperately back-pedalled after seeming to admit fracking will blight peaceful communities – claiming that his comments were meant as a joke.
The Energy Minister, who backs controversial plans to drill for shale gas, had presented a gloomy vision of gas flares and disruption across the South East commuter belt.
He suggested even the most vocal supporters would be tested if it came to their own back yards.
Telling how a shale bed with potentially massive...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on United Kingdom: Gas flares scare? It was a fracking joke says Tory minster as he tries to laugh off drill gaffeU.S. and Canada Vie for Big Gas Projects
Posted by Wall Street Journal: Chester Dawson and Ben Lefebvre on August 4th, 2013
Wall Street Journal: Some of the world's largest energy companies are racing to transform backwaters like this hamlet of 544 people into boomtowns. The energy giants are proposing half a trillion dollars in projects to export vast new finds of North American natural gas. Western Canada and the U.S. Gulf Coast are competing to see which region receives the lion's share of the investment. Port Edward has been shrinking since the canneries and pulp mills began shutting decades ago. But it has a deep-water port that could...
Dire projections of ‘runaway’ global warming
Posted by Summit Voice: None Given on August 4th, 2013
Summit Voice: Earth’s climate is not only changing, it’s changing rapidly — as much as 10 times faster than any other climate shift in the past 65 million years, according to researchers with Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution. The accelerating rate of change will strain terrestrial ecosystems around the world. Many species will need to make behavioral, evolutionary or geographic adaptations to survive, the scientists said, adding that some of the expected changes are already baked into the system....
Global warming will impact the power grid
Posted by Tribune: John Lindsey on August 4th, 2013
Tribune: The power distribution grid is a remarkable machine that regulates and transports vast amounts of electrical energy that we use in our homes and businesses. It's there out in the open for all of us to see; in fact, it's so wide open, most of us don't even notice the lines and poles any longer. It's only during a power outage when you actually think about it.
Unfortunately, a new report released by the Department of Energy in July, says that our electrical grid will be impacted due to the effects...
Greenhouse gas controls not so far off, study says
Posted by Gazette-Mail: Ken Ward Jr. on August 4th, 2013
Gazette-Mail: A new study suggests that technology to capture greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants may be more ready for wide deployment than industry officials and political leaders in coal states would have the public believe.
The new review, published last week in the journal Energy Policy, found that most experts on the process don't question the "readiness" of carbon capture and storage, or CCS, technology.
"CCS experts share broad confidence in the technology's readiness, despite continued...