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Wind turbine payback: Environmental lifecycle assessment of 2-megawatt wind turbines
2014-06-16 18:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: US researchers have carried out an environmental lifecycle assessment of 2-megawatt wind turbines mooted for a large wind farm in the US Pacific Northwest. Writing in the International Journal of Sustainable Manufacturing, they conclude that in terms of cumulative energy payback, or the time to produce the amount of energy required of production and installation, a wind turbine with a working life of 20 years will offer a net benefit within five to eight months of being brought online. Wind turbines...
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Assess The environmental Impact Of Shale Gas And Improve Its Commercial Potential | Shale Gas Environmental Summit, 27-28 October 2014, London, UK
2014-06-16 10:31:15| pollutiononline Home Page
The UK Government is launching a consultation on proposals to simplify the existing procedure for shale gas and oil and deep geothermal underground drilling access
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One environmental activist is killed each week while trying save the Amazon rainforest
2014-06-15 05:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: No one could accuse Nilcilene Miguel de Lima of being easily afraid. When loggers beat her and burned down her home in Lábrea in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon the environmental activist refused to give up her struggle. When they killed her dog and frightened away the armed guards who had been sent to protect her, she carried on without them. But after they murdered her fellow campaigners and warned her she would be next, the mother of four finally fled. Today, she is in hiding hundreds...
St. Paul requires railyard expansion undergo bigger environmental review
2014-06-14 03:50:53| Railroads - Topix.net
The city of St. Paul is requiring Canadian Pacific Railway to perform a lengthier environmental assessment of its proposed track extension project by Pig's Eye Lake.
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Require electric compressors, environmental group to urge regulators
2014-06-13 15:36:49| Waste Management - Topix.net
Downwinders at Risk, a group formed about 20 years ago to fight air emissions at Midlothian cement plants, says the U.S. EPA and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality should require electric compressors at Barnett shale well sites and natural gas transmission lines.
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