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Did Canada Just Have the Largest Coal Slurry Spill in Its History?
Posted by EcoWatch: Donna Lisenby on November 8th, 2013
EcoWatch: A scary thing happened on Halloween near Hinton, Alberta. Canada had what may be the largest coal slurry spill in its history when a dam failed at the Obed Mountain coal mine and 264 million gallons (1 billion litres) of waste water contaminated at least 25 kilometers of the Athabasca river. Ten municipalities located downstream of the spill were warned not to withdraw raw drinking water from the Athabasca river until it was deemed safe. Residents were also warned not to let their animals drink water...
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Bangladesh: Thousands March to Oppose World’s Worst Location for a Coal Plant
Posted by EcoWatch: Donna Lisenby on September 26th, 2013
EcoWatch: Buriganga Riverkeeper Sharif Jamil and hundreds of his fellow Bangladeshis, including BAPA, the largest civil society platform in Bangladesh for the environment, and the National Committee for Saving Sundarbans (NCSS), are fighting to save the Sundarbans, an irreplaceable world heritage site, from the destruction of a massive new coal-fired power plant. To show the government the size and scale of the opposition, they began a five-day, 400-kilometer march from Dhaka to Rampal on Tuesday. Their goal...