Donald Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ Push Leads to 388 Layoffs at Environmental Protection Agency https://www.byteseu.com/753211/ #CleanEnergy #DepartmentOfEnergy #DonaldTrump #EnergyDominance #environment #FormerUsPresidentJoeBiden #IndustrialPollution #LayOffs #LeeZeldin #NuclearEnergy #USEPA
FROM CNN.com: The most powerful rocket ever built exploded over a populated island. Residents are still dealing with the fallout
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/science/spacex-starship-explosion-debris-turks-caicos?cid=ios_app
The #Walsall canal #SodiumCyanide spill is a complete ecological disaster, with the CRT now having to consider removing the contaminated water and silt entirely.
Good news at least the the #EnvironmentAgency will be pursuing #Anochrome for the costs, but in the meantime there's a crowdfunder for the immediate clean up.
The #CowichanRiver #estuary is one of the largest & most important in #BritishColumbia. The #watershed drains 90,000 hectares & provides #CriticalHabitat to dozens of #fish species, including #steelhead, #Chinook, #chum, #coho & #PinkSalmon, as well as brown, #cutthroat & #RainbowTrout. But the #Cowichan’s troubles are by no means unique; they are a #CaseStudy for a much larger problem.
#TimberCompanies store #LogBooms all along the #BCcoast, says Jamieson Atkinson, a fish #biologist & program manager for the #Aquatic #Research & #Restoration Centre at #BritishColumbiaConservationFoundation. “It’s shocking.” While #estuaries make up less than 3% of British Columbia’s coast, they provide rich #habitat for 80% of the province’s coastal #wildlife. The #FraserRiver estuary, near #Vancouver on the mainland, supports more than 300 species of #birds & 80 species of fish & #shellfish for at least part of their life cycles.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/07/05/Estuary-Marine-Life-Smothered-Timber-Industrial-Log-Booms
Carbon capture is getting an energy storage makeover
#energy #energystorage #battery #batteries #carbonemissions #industrialpollution #carbon #carbondioxide #greenhousegas #CO2 #globalwarming #climatecrisis #carboncapture #CCU #energytransition #cleanenergy #wind #solar
Carbon capture is getting an energy storage makeover
#energy #energystorage #battery #batteries #carbonemissions #industrialpollution #carbon #carbondioxide #greenhousegas #CO2 #globalwarming #climatecrisis #carboncapture #CCU #energytransition #cleanenergy #wind #solar
Across the inlet - the #Bamberton cement plant created more #IndustrialPollution & contributed to decimation of native clam beds, shellfish gardens & generations old fish traps.
I don't want anyone saying that #Indigenous folks were simplistic because their early #engineering #technologies were much more advanced than most civilizations & they knew what they were doing. I venture to say many engineers today could learn lots from Indigenous technologies used before they were born.
(The Kearl tailing ponds leak is worse than anyone wants to see and as bad as everyone thought it would be – and the fight for who needs to clean it up, to what extent, and how is still in debate. The tailings leaked onto muskeg and forest, a small lake, and tributaries of the Firebag and Muskeg rivers.)
https://watershedsentinel.ca/articles/water-heart-kearl-mine-tailings-leak
