Energy & Fossil Fuels (1492 articles) Usually associated with air quality problems, the burning of fossil fuels can have disastrous impacts on water quality. Contaminants like mercury fall from smokestacks and build up in the food chain. Mercury pollution has affected fish in every region of the Great Lakes Basin. The plants themselves can create problems – intake pipes suck up fish, while cooling water discharges release hot water into the lake that affects the natural environment. It is important to remember that many industries on the Great Lakes generate power by burning fossil fuels, not just power plants. This category also includes articles about our energy system, including alternatives to fossil fuels.
|  | Steve Orr in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle writes about the growing number of connections between fracking and earthquakes, November 16, 2011:
The surge in hydrofracking has meant a surge in injection wells to dispose of drilling wastewater — and those disposal wells are increasingly being linked to small earthquakes. Clusters of "induced" quakes in the Dallas-Fort... (more) | | (0 comments) Energy & Fossil Fuels New York State Other |
| | | Mr. François Lapointe (Montmagny—L'Islet—Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, NDP):Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the government quietly revealed that it will spend more than $800 million on AECL this year alone.Many people may say that massive overspending on the nuclear crown corporation is par for the course for the government, but what is different this time is that it has... (more) | | (0 comments) Canada Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Nuclear Industry Other |
|  | BY EMAILCaroline Ducros, Environmental Assessment Specialist
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
280 Slater Street, P.O. Box 1046, Station B
Ottawa, ON K1P 5S9
Email: caroline.ducros@cnsc-ccsn.gc.caCC: Aldo E. D’Agostino, Project Manager, Vision 2010
Cameco Corporation, Fuel Services Division
1 Eldorado Place, Port Hope, ON L1A 3A1
Email:... (more) | | (0 comments) Energy & Fossil Fuels Fish Nuclear Industry Port Hope, Cobourg, and Region Research |
| | | A system used by 1,769 health care and research workers to measure their workplace radiation exposure may have under-reported radiation levels since 2008, says the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.The commission says a “calculation error” in the management system used by the devices is responsible for the low readings.The errors led to potential under-reporting of... (more) | | (0 comments) About Waterkeeper Canada Drink Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish Nuclear Industry |
| | | Patrick Lamarre, who heads Candu Energy Inc. is quoted in the Toronto Star saying that new Candu reactors are on hold:
In an interview, Lamarre said work on the next-generation Advanced Candu Reactor, or ACR, has been put on hold because there’s no market demand.
via Candu Energy seeks Ontario boost - thestar.com. (more) | | (0 comments) Canada Drink Durham Region Energy & Fossil Fuels Fish |
|  | On October 20, 2011, CBC reported from Ottawa that a 43% budget reduction at the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency could mean layoffs for 80 people at a time when Canada's major development projects are booming:
The federal watchdog that keeps an eye on natural resources projects to prevent environmental damage says it could soon be understaffed and overworked, limiting... (more) | | (0 comments) Canada Drink Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish Swim |
| | | Ontario bureaucrats have been given “no firm deadline” for reporting on the possible health effects of offshore wind turbines, says the Ministry of Natural Resources.But it says one of the studies will take up to three years.The province is facing a $2.25 billion lawsuit from a wind power developer after it slapped an indefinite moratorium on offshore wind power... (more) | | (0 comments) Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish Great Lakes-Basin Kingston and Region Ontario |
| | | The one company that holds a signed contract to build a wind farm in the Great Lakes is going ahead with plans for the project, despite the ban on offshore wind development put in place by the Ontario government earlier this year.Windstream Energy Inc. says it could begin construction at a proposed wind farm in Lake Ontario near Kingston as early as 2014, if the province... (more) | | (0 comments) Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish Kingston and Region Ontario |
| | | Ms. Megan Leslie (Halifax, NDP):Mr. Speaker, government scientists are being muzzled. They have to ask the minister for permission to speak to the media. Media coverage of climate change has decreased by 80%. Is that the government's real target? There are not enough statistics on the impact of the oil sands on greenhouse gas emissions in Canada.If the Canadian... (more) | | (0 comments) Canada Drink Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish |
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