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environmental impacts Archive
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Panama Hydroelectric “Clean Energy”: Village of the Dammed
Posted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsHuge new hydroelectric dam projects now underway call for damming pristine rivers and flooding virgin rainforest, home of the Ngäbe People. The Panamanian government deems it vital for economic growth, with multinational corporations cashing in. Even the UN has awarded carbon credits predicated on "sustainably" produced energy. -
Shale Gas Boom Triggers Poisoned-Water Gold Rush
Posted on February 25, 2012 | No CommentsThe dirty water produced from fracking has triggered a gold rush among water-treatment companies, with the private water industry profiting while downplaying its environmental, public health and economic risks. -
Tar Sands Documentary: White Water, Black Gold
Posted on October 27, 2011 | 2 CommentsCanada is the number one oil supplier to the US and is pushing to increase that role using the Alberta Tar Sands, slated to mine and strip an area of Boreal Forest the size of Florida, impacting land resources and indigenous communities, producing bitumen-crude that will foul the global climate. -
Collamer: Foreclosing on Nature
Posted on September 29, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe human commodification of nature often overlooks small, seeming inconsequential values, someday leading to the earth's foreclosure and unavoidable eviction. -
Dam, You’re One Ugly Hurdle…
Posted on September 29, 2011 | No CommentsGo ask any fish how it feels to have your road home permanently blocked by a "clean" "green" "renewable" "low-cost" hydroelectric dam. -
Bolivia: Indigenous Protesters March Against Amazon Superhighway
Posted on August 28, 2011 | 4 CommentsA highway to facilitate traffic from Brazil through Bolivia is to bisect an enormous tropical national park, severely impacting self-governed indigenous communities. No regulations exist for consulting these communities where initiatives affect their territories. They are marching for 35 days from the Amazon jungle to La Paz, the capital, in protest. -
Finland’s Nuclear Waste: 100,000 Years of Poison Into Eternity
Posted on August 18, 2011 | 1 CommentInto Eternity is a feature documentary film by Danish director Michael Madsen, released in 2010. It follows the plan to construct Onkalo Waste Repository deep underground, designed to last 100,000 years, at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant. -
Fracking Study: Contamination Happens
Posted on August 11, 2011 | 3 CommentsFor years the drilling industry has insisted there has never been a proven case in which hydraulic fracturing, or natural gas fracking, has led to contamination of drinking water. Now Environmental Working Group has unearthed a 24-year-old case study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that unequivocally says such contamination has occurred. -
Newhall Ranch: Feds OK Massive Flood Plain Development
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsThe US Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers resolved their differences and advanced one of the largest sprawling developments ever contemplated in California on 12,000 acres along the Santa Clara River in northwest Los Angeles County. Newhall Ranch would create a city for 60,000 on a six-mile stretch of the wild, open, agricultural, free-flowing river flood plain. -
Honduras: Patuca River Dams Threaten Indigenous Survival
Posted on July 26, 2011 | 3 CommentsThe Moskitia is the largest, most biodiverse expanse of tropical wilderness north of the Amazon Basin – and the Indigenous Peoples who live there are determined to keep it that way. Unfortunately, no greater threat exists to the natural wealth hidden in the "Mesoamerican Biological Corridor" than the gigantic, transnational Patuca II, IIA, and III Dams. -
Impending Nuclear Storm: News Beyond Fukushima – 6 April 2011
Posted on April 6, 2011 | No CommentsThreats: Mounting stresses on the containment structures filled with radioactive cooling water made vulnerable to rupture; explosions from the release of hydrogen and oxygen from seawater, and fuel rods continuing to melt. -
China’s Utopian-Growth Overdose: Cities for Nobody
Posted on April 5, 2011 | No CommentsChina's planned mega-city for 42 million people has created vacant rows of overpriced high rise apartments and office buildings, sprawling malls without tenants or shoppers, freeways and transit lines constructed for no one.
