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Mining The Earth & Fracking The World: That Dirty F-Word

February 4, 2015 By Kate Lanier 1 Comment

Every week, Kate Lanier assembles the most important global energy and climate news. This week includes:

England: No shale gas fracking for two-fifths of England? Seems likely.

Bolivia: President Evo Morales “renationalized Bolivia’s oil and gas industries” and invested in the public sector. Poverty is down by 25% (extreme poverty by 43%), and the rich-poor gap “has been hugely narrowed.” Morales’ third inauguration was held in Tiwanaku, a pre-colonial city, with full participation by indigenous people. Don’t miss the portrait of 18th century rebel Bartolina Sisa, made from “local potatoes, carrots, corn and other vegetables” — and don’t miss the story of Bartolina Sisa.

Oklahoma: Daily earthquakes have people so rattled they’re discussing public protection vs private profit. Scientists point to “the deep wastewater disposal wells … [but] officials have been reluctant to crack down on an industry that accounts for a third of the economy and one in five jobs.” A case pending before the OK Supreme Court could have potential big impact.

Filed Under: Environment, Foreign Affairs, National News Tagged With: agriculture, Alberta Tar Sands, Amazon, Amazon River, anti-nuclear, Apache, Arizona, Australia, Bolivia, BP, Bridger Pipeline, Britain, british petroleum, California, Canada, Clean Water Act, Climate change, coal, Copper, Eagle Ford Shale, Ecuador, energy, England, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Evo Morales, Exelon, fracking, gas, Georgia, GMO Food, GMOs, Greenpeace, Gulf of Mexico, hydraulic fracturing, Illinois, India, indigenous, John Thune, Kichwa, Koch Brothers, labor, London, Maria Cantwell, Mexico, mining, Mitch McConnell, Montana, NASA, Native Americans, Navajo, North Dakota, Oak Flat, oil, oil prices, oil trains, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Peru, Peter DeFazios, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, pipelines, renewable energy, solar, steel, Tar sands, tarsands, Ted Cruz, Texas, unions, United Kingdom, United Steelworkers, uranium, US Dept of Transportation, Utah, West Virginia, wind

Nuclear Horror Stories From Fukushima Daiichi to Kazakhstan

December 11, 2014 By Dennis Riches 13 Comments

I’ve been living in the Tokyo area since the time of the Fukushima Daiichi catastrophe (2011/03), and for the most part it has been good to see the international concern and increased support for the anti-nuclear movement. Yet some of the reactions haven’t been helpful at all. There has been a lot of alarmism and hyperbole over the tragedy arising from a failure to see it in the historical context of similar industrial accidents and atrocities.

There have been many disasters which have had devastating impacts on vulnerable populations, yet most of them have received less international recognition and sympathy than Fukushima. Much of the outrage over Fukushima has implied, unintentionally perhaps, an outrage that it happened to people in an advanced nation, or that it threatens the west coast of North America with what some believe to be an apocalyptic wave of radiation. There has never been this much concern for the fallout that affected the inhabitants of the Bikini Islands, Christmas Island, Fangataufa, Lop Nor, or “The Polygon” in Kazakhstan—some of the sites where the US, the UK, France, China and the USSR tested nuclear weapons. One could add to the list dozens of eco-disaster zones where forgotten people have had to live with the imposed risks of chemical pollution.

In order to put Fukushima in a global and historical context of ecological disasters, the rest of this article will discuss the humanitarian and environmental catastrophes in Kazakhstan and the Southern Urals of Russia. These Central Asian catastrophes have never received the level of attention given to the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, even though the environmental, health and social impacts have been far worse.

Filed Under: Foreign Affairs, Health & Lifestyle Tagged With: 2020 Olympics, anti-nuclear, Aral Sea, Bikini Islands, California, Chernobyl, Chris Busby, Christmas Island, Colorado, Fangataufa, Fukushima, Fukushima Daiichi, Hanford, history, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lop Nor, Los Angeles, Maiak factory, Marshall Island, Marshall Islands, Navruz Project, Nevada Test Site, nuclear, nuclear energy, Polygon test site, Rocketdyne meltdown, Rocky Flats, Russia, Semipalatinsk, Tajikistan, Techa River, Tokyo, Totsk nuclear test site, USSR, Uzbekistan, Washington

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