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Surprising "Lake" Bigger Than West Virginia Found Inside Greenland Ice
2014-01-03 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: A vast aquifer "lake" lies trapped under southeastern Greenland, scientists report, based on ice core results. The finding may help reveal a changing climate's effects on the world's massive, but shrinking, ice sheets. Greenland's ice sheet, the second largest in the world, covers some 656,000 square miles (1,710,000 square kilometers). Together with Antarctica's even more vast ice sheet, its melting in a warming climate is a big factor in projections of future sea-level rise. That is why the...
Chesapeake fined $3.2 million for West Virginia water violations
2013-12-19 22:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. federal regulators on Thursday said oil and gas company Chesapeake Energy Corp will pay a civil penalty of $3.2 million to settle Clean Water Act violations in West Virginia where it drills in the Marcellus Shale. Chesapeake will also pay an estimated $6.5 million to restore streams and wetlands. The U.S. oil and gas company allegedly dumped rocks, sand and dirt into wetlands while building drill sites and roads, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department...
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Energy Company to Pay $3.2 Million Penalty to Resolve Clean Water Violations in West Virginia
2013-12-19 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, a subsidiary of Chesapeake Energy, will spend EPA-estimated $6.5 million to restore 27 sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material into streams and wetlands and to implement plan to comply with federal and state water protection laws at company’s natural gas extraction sites in West Virginia, many of which involve hydraulic fracturing. Company will also pay civil penalty of $3.2 million for violations of the Clean Water Act, under Section 404 ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
Babcock & Wilcox exec named chair of Virginia nuclear consortium
2013-12-18 16:49:28| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
The Virginia Nuclear Energy Commission Authority has elected Marshall Cohen, senior vice president of government affairs and communication at The Babcock & Wilcox Co.
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Fortistar Expands Virginia Landfill Gas-to-Energy Facility
2013-12-17 15:34:00| Waste Age
Fortistar has launched an expanded 4.8 megawatt landfill gas-to-energy facility in Prince William County, Va. read more
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