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MediaFaro Analysis<p>A major ship collision in UK waters sparks fears of a toxic chemical leak.</p><p>Scientists fear a major collision between a cargo ship carrying sodium cyanide and a tanker transporting jet fuel in the UK’s North Sea could cause a huge leak of toxic chemicals into delicate marine habitats, with potentially devastating consequences for local wildlife.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250310-a-major-ship-collision-in-uk-waters-sparks-fears-of-a-toxic-chemical-leak?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250310</span><span class="invisible">-a-major-ship-collision-in-uk-waters-sparks-fears-of-a-toxic-chemical-leak?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/NorthSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthSea</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chemicals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/SodiumCyanide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SodiumCyanide</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/JetFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JetFuel</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Marine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>BBC: Crew member missing and vessels still on fire after collision in North Sea</p><p>March 10, 2025</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Greenpeace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenpeace</span></a>: We are extremely concerned about multiple <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> hazards</p><p>"Greenpeace says it's 'extremely concerned' about 'multiple toxic hazards' from the North Sea ship collision.</p><p>"We've been reporting that the cargo ship was carrying 15 containers of the toxic chemical sodium cyanide. It is not clear if this has entered the water.</p><p>"The tanker was transporting jet fuel for the US government, some of which is spilling into the sea.</p><p>"'As more information emerges about what the ships were carrying, we are extremely concerned about the multiple toxic hazards these chemicals could pose to marine life,' Paul Johnston, a senior scientist at the Greenpeace Research Laboratories at Exeter University, tells the AFP news agency.</p><p>"'The jet fuel that entered the water close to a breeding ground for harbour porpoises is toxic to fish and other sea creatures,' he adds."</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">bbc.com/news/live/cgq1pwjlqq2t</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NorthSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NorthSea</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SodiumCyanide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SodiumCyanide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ShipCollision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShipCollision</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/JetFuel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JetFuel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a></p>
Jules<p>The <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Walsall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Walsall</span></a> canal <a href="https://social.coop/tags/SodiumCyanide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SodiumCyanide</span></a> spill is a complete ecological disaster, with the CRT now having to consider removing the contaminated water and silt entirely.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/24/cleanup-from-walsall-canal-chemical-spill-could-take-years" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/articl</span><span class="invisible">e/2024/aug/24/cleanup-from-walsall-canal-chemical-spill-could-take-years</span></a>? </p><p>Good news at least the the <a href="https://social.coop/tags/EnvironmentAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentAgency</span></a> will be pursuing <a href="https://social.coop/tags/Anochrome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anochrome</span></a> for the costs, but in the meantime there's a crowdfunder for the immediate clean up.</p><p><a href="https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/walsallspill" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">crowdfunder.co.uk/p/walsallspi</span><span class="invisible">ll</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.coop/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://social.coop/tags/IndustrialPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IndustrialPollution</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>Experts working with the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FirstNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNation</span></a> of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NaChoNy%C3%A4kDun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NaChoNyäkDun</span></a> who have witnessed the fallout at <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VictoriaGoldEagle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaGoldEagle</span></a> mine near <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mayo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mayo</span></a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Yukon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yukon</span></a>, say systems on-site are so severely compromised that damage to the land &amp; water is all but inevitable.</p><p>What they describe is a system rendered mostly <a href="https://beige.party/tags/inoperable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>inoperable</span></a>, with each affected piece elevating <a href="https://beige.party/tags/risks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>risks</span></a> to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> — every day.</p><p>On June 24, part of the Eagle <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mine</span></a> failed and a massive <a href="https://beige.party/tags/RockSlide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RockSlide</span></a> involving roughly 4 million tonnes of material cleaved off a large piece of the facility where <a href="https://beige.party/tags/gold" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gold</span></a> is extracted from ore using a chemical process called cyanide heap leach. Estimates put the amount of ore stacked on the heap leach pad — which functions as a giant industrial percolator — at nearly 4 times what was lost in the slide. </p><p>With the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HeapLeach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeapLeach</span></a> pad downed, experts say a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>toxic</span></a> soup of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SodiumCyanide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SodiumCyanide</span></a> &amp; other <a href="https://beige.party/tags/contaminants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminants</span></a> — up to 300,000 cubic metres of solution, according to the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YukonGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YukonGovernment</span></a> — was released in the initial slide. Since then, they say, more of it has been draining. </p><p>The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun has called the event "the region's most recent and potentially <a href="https://beige.party/tags/catastrophic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>catastrophic</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mining</span></a> failure."</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victoria-gold-mine-experts-1.7264503" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victo</span><span class="invisible">ria-gold-mine-experts-1.7264503</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NativeLand</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pollution</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecocide</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EnvironmentalCrimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalCrimes</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GoldMine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GoldMine</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MiningIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiningIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CorporateGreed</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GreedKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreedKills</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CDNpoli</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AbolishIndustryLobbyists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishIndustryLobbyists</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MiningPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiningPollution</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EcoJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EcoJustice</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecological" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ecological</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arctic</span></a></p>
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