Comment: Do they get fined for dumping poo water into the rivers? Look out Danville, pooh has reached your water supply! Later, it may be uranium pooh from the proposed uranium mill rumor to be located at Berry Hill!
By LATALA PAYNE
Staff writer
Published: January 31, 2010
The Eden Public Works Department reported a wastewater spill of an estimated 22,181 gallons on Jan. 25.
The untreated wastewater spilled into the Dan River and the Roanoke River Basin. Spills were reported at four pump stations: Covenant Branch, Meadow Greens, New Street and the village pump station.
Bill Harvey, collection and distribution superintendent for Eden’s environmental services, said the wastewater spill didn’t have a major affect on the river.
“With all the rain and the amount of volume of the river, it probably didn’t affect it – very little, if any,” Harvey said. “When you consider runoff from farms and everything else that’s washed in there, it won’t cause that many problems.”
Katherine Mull, executive director of the Dan River Basin Association, said the river will be healthy again in a short amount of time.
“In these situations, there is a high concentration of bacteria for a while, and then they tend to die off rather quickly,” Mull said. “As long as it’s not an ongoing thing, there’s really not much to worry about.”
Harvey said the problem should clear up pretty quickly, since the water is already receding and the overflows have stopped.
The announcement came as a response to House Bill 1160, which passed in 1999. It requires industries, municipalities and other operations which operate waste handling systems to issue a release when a wastewater spill of 1,000 gallons or more reaches surface water.
Read more:
http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/rockingham_news/article/wastewater_spill_not_expected_to_have_lasting_impact/17558/
Showing posts with label Big Polluters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Big Polluters. Show all posts
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Areva trying to block TV documentary on residual contamination left around former uranium mine sites in France
Comments: According to web page of the local, Canadian uranium corporation, uses France as example of the perfect uranium mining, well, duh, France has ruin their land, air and water with uranium mining and nuke power! Thanks KM!
Areva trying to block TV documentary on residual contamination left around former uranium mine sites in France
Areva, once again, spares no efforts to prove that it rightly received the 2008 Public Eye Award as one of "the world's most irresponsible companies":
On Feb. 11, 2009, public service TV chain France 3 plans to air a programme on the residual contamination found at former uranium mine sites all over France.
The broadcast titled "Uranium : le scandale de la France contaminée" (Uranium: the scandal of contaminated France) is to be aired in the monthly programme Pièces à conviction (Incriminating evidence).
According to the programme's investigators, 300 million tonnes of radioactive waste have been left at 210 former uranium mining sites in France without any protective measures nor surveillance.
Areva announced on Jan. 29, 2009, to call the regulatory authority Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA) to prevent the airing of the programme. (AFP/Le Républicain Lorrain Jan. 30, 2009)
Wednesday, February 11 - 20h35
Pièces à Conviction n°72 Exhibits No. 72
Uranium : le scandale de la France contaminée Uranium: the scandal of contaminated France
Discreetly in the countryside, nearby villages or towns, highly dangerous radioactive waste have been scattered or buried methodically for decades.
Pire encore, ils ont parfois servi à construire des routes, des parkings, et même des logements, des écoles ou des aires de jeu pour les enfants... Worse, they sometimes used to build roads, parking lots, and even homes, schools or play areas for children ... Sans aucune mise en garde sur les risques encourus ! Without any warning about the risks!
Car entre 1945 et 2001, la France a exploité 210 mines d'uranium sur son territoire. For between 1945 and 2001, France has operated the 210 uranium mines on its territory. Elles ont produit 300 millions de tonnes de déchets radioactifs qui ont été abandonnés sans mesure de protection ou de surveillance particulière. They have produced 300 million tons of radioactive waste were left unprotected or special monitoring.
Qui sont les responsables ? Who is responsible? Pourquoi ceux qui ont tenté de donner l'alerte n'ont-ils jamais été écoutés ? Why those who tried to raise the alarm they have never been heard? Pourquoi l'Etat n'at-il pas alerté les riverains ? Why the State Has not alerted the residents?
Elise Lucet et l'équipe de Pièces à conviction ont mené l'enquête sur ce scandale, au coeur des campagnes et des villes françaises. Elise Lucet and team Exhibits led the investigation into the scandal at the heart of town and country French.
Read more at:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://programmes.france3.fr/pieces-a-conviction/51415247-fr.php&ei=PuMSS6jtK9CUtgeZwbTDBA&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBQQ7gEwAg&prev=/search%3Fq%3DUranium%2B:%2Ble%2Bscandale%2Bde%2Bla%2BFrance%2Bcontamin%25C3%25A9e%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1I7DMUS_en
http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/index.html?http://www10.antenna.nl/wise/378/3709.html
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Time to Speak Out Against the Biggest Polluters
This is the weekly post from Bruce Nilles, director of Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.
Wednesday and Thursday of this week are big days if you live in Arlington, Virginia, or Chicago, Illinois.
Those are the two days of public hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Big Polluters” rule. But of course, this whole issue is huge whether you live in Virginia, Illinois, or anywhere else in the U.S. – it affects everyone.
Right now only a handful of pollution sources, including coal-fired power plants, are responsible for more than half of all of the global warming pollution in the United States.
Cleaning these up is a large step towards stopping global warming, so EPA is proposing a new rule to start cleaning up these Big Polluters under the Clean Air Act. By targeting the worst offenders, the Big Polluters rule is an important step that will cut global warming pollution while still helping our economy grow.
That’s why we’ve helped organize crowds of folks to turn out to the Wednesday and Thursday hearings: These mega-polluters should be held responsible for their share. (You can also check in on the hearings by following the #bigpolluters hashtag on twitter. We’ll have lots of folks tweeting from inside the hearing rooms)
This rule will bring the most bang for the buck—resulting in real pollution reductions and helping spur growth and development of clean energy technologies.
Again, this proposed EPA rule uses the time-tested Clean Air Act, which has already succeeded at cleaning up other sorts of pollution all over the country, to help control global warming pollution.
The sources that EPA will focus on under this rule already have decades of experience with this process. Having used best available control technology to reduce many other types of pollution, they have the engineering expertise to work with EPA and community groups to select appropriate, cost-effective controls.
Global warming pollution controls will also reduce emissions of other pollutants, including those that cause smog, heart attacks, and lung disease.
By focusing on these big sources, EPA is spending its resources wisely. Although global warming pollution comes from many places, EPA can cut down on the lion’s share by taking on the largest sources first.
The Big Polluters Rule marks one of EPA’s most important commitments yet to moving us towards a clean energy economy and away from dirty power sources like coal.
If you can’t make it in person to the hearings Wednesday and Thursday, you can still send in your comments to EPA on this important rule – simply use our Big Polluters website:
And don’t forget to follow along with the #bigpolluters hashtag on Twitter for tweets from inside the hearing.
For a recap of how these hearings went, be sure to check in on my colleague Greg Haegele’s column later this week for photos and a wrap-up.
Click Title or Link to whole post:
http://sierraclub.typepad.com/compass/2009/11/time-to-speak-out-against-the-biggest-polluters.html
Wednesday and Thursday of this week are big days if you live in Arlington, Virginia, or Chicago, Illinois.
Those are the two days of public hearings on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Big Polluters” rule. But of course, this whole issue is huge whether you live in Virginia, Illinois, or anywhere else in the U.S. – it affects everyone.
Right now only a handful of pollution sources, including coal-fired power plants, are responsible for more than half of all of the global warming pollution in the United States.
Cleaning these up is a large step towards stopping global warming, so EPA is proposing a new rule to start cleaning up these Big Polluters under the Clean Air Act. By targeting the worst offenders, the Big Polluters rule is an important step that will cut global warming pollution while still helping our economy grow.
That’s why we’ve helped organize crowds of folks to turn out to the Wednesday and Thursday hearings: These mega-polluters should be held responsible for their share. (You can also check in on the hearings by following the #bigpolluters hashtag on twitter. We’ll have lots of folks tweeting from inside the hearing rooms)
This rule will bring the most bang for the buck—resulting in real pollution reductions and helping spur growth and development of clean energy technologies.
Again, this proposed EPA rule uses the time-tested Clean Air Act, which has already succeeded at cleaning up other sorts of pollution all over the country, to help control global warming pollution.
The sources that EPA will focus on under this rule already have decades of experience with this process. Having used best available control technology to reduce many other types of pollution, they have the engineering expertise to work with EPA and community groups to select appropriate, cost-effective controls.
Global warming pollution controls will also reduce emissions of other pollutants, including those that cause smog, heart attacks, and lung disease.
By focusing on these big sources, EPA is spending its resources wisely. Although global warming pollution comes from many places, EPA can cut down on the lion’s share by taking on the largest sources first.
The Big Polluters Rule marks one of EPA’s most important commitments yet to moving us towards a clean energy economy and away from dirty power sources like coal.
If you can’t make it in person to the hearings Wednesday and Thursday, you can still send in your comments to EPA on this important rule – simply use our Big Polluters website:
And don’t forget to follow along with the #bigpolluters hashtag on Twitter for tweets from inside the hearing.
For a recap of how these hearings went, be sure to check in on my colleague Greg Haegele’s column later this week for photos and a wrap-up.
Click Title or Link to whole post:
http://sierraclub.typepad.com/compass/2009/11/time-to-speak-out-against-the-biggest-polluters.html
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