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The
site is leaking up to 145,000 pounds per hour, according to the
California Air Resources Board. In just the first month, that’s added up
to 80,000 tons, or about a quarter
of the state’s ordinary methane emissions over the same period. The
Federal Aviation Administration recently banned low-flying planes from
flying over the site, since engines plus combustible gas equals kaboom.
Steve
Bohlen, who until recently was state oil and gas supervisor, can’t
remember the last time California had to deal with a gas leak this big.
“I asked this question of our staff of 30 years,” says Bohlen. “This is
unique in the last three or four decades. This is an unusual event,
period.”
Families living downwind of the site have also noticed
the leak—boy, have they noticed. Methane itself is odorless, but the
mercaptan added to natural gas gives it a characteristic sulfurous
smell. Over 700 households have at least temporarily relocated, and one
family has filed a lawsuit against the Southern California Gas Company
alleging health problems from the gas. The gas levels are too low for
long-term health effects, according to health officials, but the odor is
hard to ignore.
Given both the local and global effects of the
gas leak, why is it taking so long to stop? The answer has to do with
the site at Aliso Canyon, an abandoned oil field. Yes, that’s right,
natural gas is stored underground in old oil fields. It’s common
practice in the US, but largely unique to this country. The idea goes
that geological sites that were good at keeping in oil for millions of
years would also be good at keeping in gas.
Posted: Nov 03, 2015 5:15 PM CST Updated: Nov 03, 2015 5:39 PM CST
By JJ Bailey, Online News Producer
ST. PETERS, Mo. (KMOV.com) - Residents
in St. Charles County are familiar with seeing trains. Locomotives roll
through the county several times a day, but a topic under discussion involving the Westlake Landfill has some on edge.
If
a decision is made to remove radioactive waste from Westlake, railways
could end up transporting it. A derailment is always a risk near any set
of tracks, but if train carrying radioactive waste is the one that
derails, it could be a catastrophe.
“Basically, what we want is to
have the trains run at a slower speed coming through the towns,” said
St. Peters Alderman Rock Reitmeyer. “We don't want to see any accidents
coming through our area and dropping all this waste. It could have a
hazardous effect.”
Published: 11:55 EST, 12 November 2015 | Updated: 12:58 EST, 12 November 2015
A third mysterious black space object to fall from the sky into rural Spain has caused panic among locals.
The
strange-looking black orb was found in the village of Villavieja in
Murcia - becoming the latest instance of an increasingly bewildering
phenomenon, the Olive Press reported.
It's not yet known what the objects are, though theories range from UFOs to pieces of space debris.
The
first instance of the strange phenomenon occurred one week ago, when
Spanish goat farmers discovered the strange object, which bears a
striking resemblance to the Star Wars torture device, the IT-O Interrogator, in Calasparra, Murcia.
The
Civil Guard were called to investigate the black orb and the area was
subsequently put under quarantine. Pictured is the second object to be
found in the village earlier this week
The
Civil Guard stated the object was an aerospace artefact and pointed to
the possibility that it fell from a rocket or a satellite.
However, a few days later a second orb fell from the sky.
According to The Mirror, Jose Velez, the mayor of Calasparra, implored authorities to provide answers to worried residents.
'Where are these objects coming from? Why are they falling here precisely?'
Monday, November 02, 2015 by: L.J. Devon, Staff Writer
(NaturalNews)
A five-year fire is burning beneath a landfill in a St. Louis suburb,
and it's rapidly approaching an old cache of nuclear waste.
At
present, St. Louis County emergency officials are unsure whether or not
the fire will set off a reaction that releases a radioactive plume over
the city. An emergency plan was put together in October 2014 to "save
lives in the event of a catastrophic event at the West Lake Landfill."
St.
Louis County officials warn, "There is a potential for radioactive
fallout to be released in the smoke plume and spread throughout the
region."
Many residents are taking precautions; some are buying
gas masks, while others are considering moving away. Just recently, over
500 local residents discussed the precarious situation at a church
meeting which usually draws in less than 50 people.
EPA not worried about the fire or the nuclear waste
Nothing
stands in the way of the uncontrollable landfill fire, which is
smoldering hot underneath the trash of the West Lake Landfill of
Bridgeton County, St. Louis. This "smoldering event" is not uncommon.
Fires ignite and smolder under landfills because the trash becomes so
compact and hot. In this case, the fire is brewing less than a quarter
mile from an old deposit of nuclear waste that threatens to spread
cancer-causing radon gas.
EPA
officials admit that although the waste may eventually emit radon gas,
it won't affect anything outside the landfill property. This is the same
EPA that polluted the Colorado River with 3 million gallons of toxic
sludge full of lead, arsenic and other heavy metals. EPA
contractors breached a mine, sending the sludge flowing into the Animas
river, which quickly turned putrid and murky. That pollution has now
spread to New Mexico, Utah and Arizona, infiltrating the countryside
with toxic elements. Why should anyone in St. Louis County trust the EPA with radioactive waste?
To
make matters worse, the EPA isn't even worried about the fire reaching
the nuclear waste. "We just do not agree with the finding that the
subsurface smoldering event is approaching the radiologically impacted
material," said Mary Peterson, director of the Superfund division for
EPA Region 7.
There have been no plans to remove the radioactive
waste as of yet, leaving local residents baffled and worried. Most
residents were unaware of the existence of the radioactive waste, which
had been dumped there illegally four decades ago. If it weren't for
activists educating the public about the waste, no one would know.
Radioactive waste comes back to haunt St. Louis
The
radioactive waste includes 8,700 tons of leached barium sulfate
residue. It was illegally dumped in the West Lake Landfill by Cotter
Corporation sometime after World War II and wasn't discovered by
investigators until 1973. The radioactive waste was left behind due to
the mishandling of uranium by Mallinckrodt Chemical Works, a company
that started out working for the federal government's Manhattan Project.
Since 1990, the West Lake Landfill
has been managed by the EPA and deemed a Superfund site. The U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Toxic Substances and
Disease Registry recently warned all agencies not to disturb the surface
of the landfill.
They warned that radium-226, radon-222 and radium-228 could be released
into the air, putting people near the landfill at risk.
The
agency reported that radon levels in the area are often measured above
regulations "by as much as 10 to 25 times at individual surface test
locations." Moreover, radium increases people's risk of developing bone,
liver and breast cancer.
The EPA is downplaying the potential for a Chernobyl or Fukushima-like disaster,
but residents have every reason not to trust the agency's guesswork,
given its decades-long refusal to safely remove the radioactive material
from the area.
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Tonya
Mason, who works just feet away from the fence line of Republic
Services' landfill in Bridgeton, expresses anger that the air from
burning underground material has never been tested for contaminants on
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2015 at a meeting by Just Moms at John Calvin
Presbyterian Church. Hundreds of people gathered to hear about the
ongoing problems at the site. Photo by Christian Gooden,
cgooden@post-dispatch.com
More
than 40 years ago, radioactive waste was dumped at the West Lake
Landfill in Bridgeton. The decades since have been filled with legal and
political moves that have not gotten the site cleaned up.
Now
a growing number of residents want to know how dangerous it is to live
and work in the area as a fire burns underground in the adjoining
Bridgeton Landfill. More than 500 people showed up at a Bridgeton church
on Thursday for a meeting organized by residents. The monthly meetings
held for the last two years typically attract no more than 50.
The
surge in public interest comes after state reports showed the fire is
moving toward the nuclear waste, and radioactive materials can be found
in soil, groundwater and trees outside the perimeter of the landfill.
At
least six school districts have sent letters home in the last week
outlining their plans for a potential nuclear emergency. St. Louis
County recently released its own emergency evacuation plan that was
written last year.
Underground fires are common in
landfills as buried garbage can get hot, much like the bottom of a
compost pile. Typically they are monitored and allowed to burn out. But
none of the fires have gotten so close to nuclear waste, which was
created during the World War II era for St. Louis’ part in the
production of the atomic bomb.
Published: 17:18 EST, 2 November 2015 | Updated: 23:50 EST, 2 November 2015
A
large ship found in deep water off the Bahamas is the lost freighter El
Faro that sank with 33 crew members in a hurricane last month, U.S.
authorities said on Monday.
The
wreckage, in an upright position and intact on the ocean floor, was
initially detected by a U.S. Navy salvage team over the weekend at a
depth of nearly three miles.
It was
found in the vicinity of El Faro's last known location off Crooked
Island in the southeastern Bahamas, the U.S. National Transportation
Safety Board (NTSB) said.
A
large ship found in deep water off the Bahamas is the lost freighter El
Faro (pictured in a file photo at sea) that sank with 33 crew members
in a hurricane last month, U.S. authorities said on Monday
The
790-ft cargo ship, disappeared on October 1 during a regular weekly run
between Florida and Puerto Rico after the captain reported losing
propulsion and taking on water
The
Navy salvage tug Apache subsequently deployed a deep ocean remotely
operated submersible, CURV-21, equipped with a camera to confirm the
identity of the ship, officials said.
A
salvage team will now seek to retrieve the ship's voyage data recorder -
similar to an airplane's black box - which could contain vital clues
for the NTSB-led investigation into what sank the El Faro.
ASSOCIATED PRESSIn
this Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015 photo, Genetha Campbell carries free water
being distributed at the Lincoln Park United Methodist Church in Flint,
Mich, Since the financially struggling city broke away from the Detroit
water system last year, residents have been unhappy with the smell,
taste and appearance of water from the city’s river as they await the
completion of a pipe to Lake Huron. They also have raised health
concerns, reporting rashes, hair loss and other problems. A General
Motors plant stopped using the water, saying it was rusting its parts.
(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
DETROIT
(AP) -- A public health emergency has been declared in cash-strapped
Flint after tests showed the Michigan city's water supply is causing
elevated levels of lead in children and following months of complaints
about the smell and taste.
Gov. Rick Snyder
this week questioned the switch to the Flint River from the Detroit
water system in 2014, a decision that was made as a cost-saving move
while a new regional pipeline is built to Lake Huron.
And
on Thursday, the Genesee County health department declared a public
health emergency, recommending that people not drink the water unless it
has been filtered and tested to rule out elevated levels of lead. More
steps will be announced Friday.
The problem: Although the river water is treated, it is corrosive and releasing lead from old plumbing in thousands of homes.
A
coalition of residents and national groups petitioned the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency to order the state to reconnect Flint to
Detroit water.
201 dead in Turkey mine explosion, hundreds trapped
Published time: May 13, 2014 15:49 Edited time: May 14, 2014 02:47
A
mine explosion in western Turkey has killed 201, according to Energy
Minister Taner Yildiz, and the toll could rise with many more still
trapped.
Yildiz told reporters 787 workers were in the Soma mine when the explosion hit a power unit, Reuters reported.
Most of the confirmed dead were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning, Yildiz added.
An additional 80 people were injured and hospitalized, he said, four of them in critical condition.
AP reported that more than 200 miners are still trapped in the debris. More than 360 workers have been evacuated thus far.
Rescue
workers pumped oxygen into the mine in an attempt to keep trapped
miners alive, Reuters reported. A line of police held back thousands of
family and fellow workers of the trapped miners who assembled outside of
a Soma hospital. "Fresh air, oxygen is being pumped into the mine. This is the most important thing for our workers down there," Yildiz said.
Firefighters
are busy at a building damaged by an explosion in Vienna, Austria,
Saturday, April 26, 2014. Austrian police say at least six people have
been injured after the building collapsed following the reported
explosion.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/26/5768570/blast-causes-partial-building.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
Austrian
police say at one people dead and least thirteen people have been
injured after a building in Vienna partially collapsed following a
reported explosion. Police spokeswoman Adina Mircioane says rescuers are
trying to reach one injured person inside the residential building in
Vienna's 15th district. Five other people are being treated for minor
injuries. Mircioane says other people may still be trapped inside the
building, whose top two floors collapsed shortly after 10 a.m. Saturday
(0800 GMT). Austrian public broadcaster ORF a photo on its website
showing a cloud of dust enveloping a street.
.....
1 killed, 1 missing in Vienna building collapse
AP Photo
Ronald Zak
Firefighters
and police are busy at a building damaged by an explosion in Vienna,
Austria, Saturday, April 26, 2014. Austrian police say at least six
people have been injured after the building collapsed following the
reported explosion
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/26/5768570/blast-causes-partial-building.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
Posted Saturday, Apr. 26, 2014
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/04/26/5768570/blast-causes-partial-building.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
The Associated Press
VIENNA —
A residential building in Austria's capital partially collapsed after
an apparent explosion Saturday, killing one person and leaving another
missing, officials said. Five others were injured.
Witnesses heard
a dull thud before the top two floors of the building collapsed,
raining debris onto the street in Vienna's 15th district shortly after
10 a.m. Saturday (0800 GMT; 4 a.m. EDT).
"There was a cloud of
dust, and lots of people screaming and running," Ted Knops, a
32-year-old resident, told The Associated Press in a telephone
interview. "It was like a science-fiction movie when something comes
bursting through the wall."
More than 2.5 years have passed
since the Great East Japan Earthquake. Now, more and more people are
returning to live in areas that were inundated by tsunami waves. This
program takes a look at what should be done to protect these communities
in the future.
