Virginia’s North Anna nuclear power plant, shut down by power failure after the East Coast earthquake, had seismographs removed in the 1990s due to budget cuts. Four other plants experienced “unusual events” due to the quake.
A Shell Oil spokesman in Aberdeen, Scotland, assured that “everything” possible is being done to contain a massive oil spill from a North Sea pipeline. But officials acknowledged that the pipeline is still believed to contain up to 660 tons of oil.
BP is denying blogosphere reports that the company has contracted 40 vessels to contain a new “oil sheen” near the site of last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster—but the denials are full of “wiggle words” and obfuscation.
A federal appeals court rules that human genes can be patented, as the Daily Mail reveals that British scientists have created more than 150 human-animal hybrid embryos. Relax, popcorn-heads, it’s only a movie.
We sure hope not, but this isn’t looking too good. From AP, June 26: BROWNVILLE, Neb. — A berm holding the flooded Missouri River back from a Nebraska nuclear power station collapsed early Sunday, but federal regulators said they were… Read moreFukushima on the Missouri?
As the new UN climate summit opens in Bonn, advocates of the hubristic “geo-engineering” agenda appear to have won the ear of some on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Extreme weather events, such as the flooding now devastating much of the South, are likely to increase in the future due to biospheric imbalance that once scientist terms “global weirding.”
Barack Obama announced that he is ordering the Interior Department to conduct annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve—as the oil industry gears up for a new thrust of expansion in the Last Frontier.
Two oil line ruptures in as many weeks—one in North Dakota, one in Canada’s remote boreal forests—may jeopardize a planned Alberta-to-Texas tar-sand pipeline that Calgary-based TransCanada is seeking US approval for.
The US approved a Royal Dutch Shell plan to drill for oil in five location under the Gulf of Mexico, in the company’s second exploration plan to win approval since the moratorium was lifted in October.
A group of Nobel Peace laureates called in an open letter for all countries to pursue safer forms of renewable energy rather than going ahead with plans for nuclear development in light of the current disaster in Japan.
Right-wing websites are jumping on a 2005 UN report predicting that climate change would create 50 million refugees by 2010—and gloating that it hasn’t come to pass. But maybe we are closer to the 50 million than they think.
