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Leaking Pipeline Offers Warning on Keystone XL Proposal
2013-04-03 20:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Environmental groups are sounding alarms about conflicting reports on the size and seriousness of an oil spill that took place late last week in the southern U.S. state of Arkansas. The spill has generated particular interest because it emanates from a pipeline carrying "tar sands" oil, a particularly heavy and environmentally destructive oil composed of bitumen and diluted with lighter elements.A lot of the people we talked to said, "We didn't even know there was a pipeline under our homes.'...
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Radioactive waste leaking from tanks at Washington state nuclear site
2013-02-23 11:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear facility in Washington state are leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, officials say. The newly discovered leaks, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, come one week after the US energy department revealed that radioactive waste was found to be escaping from one tank at Hanford. The seeping waste adds to decades of soil contamination caused by past storage tank leaks at Hanford and threatens to further taint groundwater...
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New 73-story, $1B Tower Planned for Downtown L.A.; Buried Hanford Site Tank Show Signs of Leaking
2013-02-20 17:02:34| ENR.com: Headline News
A $1-billion, 73 story tower is planned for Los Angleles, and a buried tank of radioactive waste is showing signs of leaks at the Hanford Site.
Canada: Oilsands tailings leaking into groundwater, Joe Oliver told in memo
2013-02-18 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Canada.com: Tailings ponds from oilsands production are leaking and contaminating Albertas groundwater, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver was told in an internal memo obtained by Postmedia News. The memo, released through access to information legislation, said that federal government scientists, including Quebec City-based research geoscientist Martine Savard, had discovered evidence of the contamination in new research that rejected longstanding claims that toxins in the region of the Athabasca River...