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A world without water: Financial Times counts the cost of water scarcity
Posted by Blue and Green: None Given on July 18th, 2014
Blue and Green: Since 2011, companies around the world have spent more than $84 billion (£49bn) to improve the way they conserve, manage or obtain water, according to a new investigation from the Financial Times.
In the first article of a new series on the global threat of water scarcity, FT environment correspondent Pilita Clark looks how the marginal cost of water – a resource previously taken for granted – is rising for companies of all sizes.
The report explains how a growing, aspirational global population...
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Regulators Asked to Consider Changes in Sandpiper Pipeline Path
Posted by Star Tribune: David Shaffer on July 18th, 2014
Star-Tribune: Minnesota regulators will study shifting some segments of a proposed northern Minnesota crude oil pipeline in the face of public concern about the risk to lakes, wetlands and the Mississippi River headwaters. But the state Commerce Department, which is overseeing an environmental review of Enbridge Energy’s proposed Sandpiper pipeline, on Thursday said it doesn’t endorse studying a wholesale reroute of the proposed $2.6 billion project to carry North Dakota crude oil. State officials recommended...
Coal Ash Remains But Duke Energy “Completes” Cleanup
Posted by WFMY: None Given on July 18th, 2014
WFMY: Coal Ash might still be in the Dan River, but as far as the EPA and Duke Energy are concerned, cleanup is done -- for now.
"They've done what they could do and we're satisfied with the EPA and what they are saying needed to be done," said Bill Sgrinia, director of Danville's Parks and Recreation.
"They've done what they could do and we're satisfied with the EPA and what they are saying needed to be done," said Bill Sgrinia, director of Danville's Parks and Recreation.
Duke Energy moved into...
Canada: First Nation Pulls Out of Hearings into Grand Rapids Oil Sands Pipeline
Posted by Globe and Mail: Lauren Krugel on July 18th, 2014
Globe and Mail: An aboriginal group that lives in northern Alberta's oil sands region has withdrawn from a regulatory hearing into the proposed Grand Rapids crude pipeline, but the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation vowed to explore other ways to fight the $3-billion project.
The ACFN announced late Tuesday it would no longer be participating in the Alberta Energy Regulator's process, which it criticized as too rushed and skewed in favour of the oil industry. Landowners along the proposed route raised similar concerns...
Protests Grow Over Proposed Gas Pipeline Through Massachusetts
Posted by Boston Globe: Hattie Bernstein on July 18th, 2014
Boston Globe: Boards of selectmen hosting informational sessions. Residents packing town halls and school auditoriums to learn about a proposed natural gas pipeline that would cross the state's northern hem, starting at the New York border and passing through thinly populated rural areas, conservation land -- and their backyards.
There are the local votes against the pipeline, and a rolling protest rally moving in stages across the state.
And there is outrage.
"We know we need energy if we want to keep...
In U.S. Energy Boom, Who Decides If Fracking Comes to Town?
Posted by Christian Science: None Given on July 18th, 2014
Christian Science: A failed compromise on local fracking bans in Colorado this week makes the oil-and-gas-rich state the latest flashpoint in a nationwide fight over the controversial drilling process.
Environmental concerns have driven activists to pursue restrictions and bans on hydraulic fracturing (or fracking), a groundbreaking extraction technique that has fueled America’s domestic energy boom. Those battles are increasingly playing out at the local level rather than at the state level, which can make it difficult...