Energy & Fossil Fuels (1508 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.
|  | The old adage 'waste not, want not,' might as well be the motto for one of the proposed residual waste processing systems for the City of Kingston.Currently seeking public input, the city is in Phase B of its four-part development of an integrated waste management plan. Last week, the city hosted a public information session on the proposed ideas to deal with solid waste in... (more) | | Energy & Fossil Fuels Kingston and Region Other Waste Management |
| | | Big Island's Ian Hanna is pretty sure having both federal and provincial politicians involved will help slow down wind turbine developments in Ontario — at least until more studies are completed.
Bob Runciman, the senator for Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes, presented a motion in Senate earlier this week calling for a moratorium on wind energy projects in the area... (more) | | Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Kingston and Region |
| | | Comment Period: 60 days: submissions may be made between November 30, 2011 and January 29, 2012.This posting is for a proposed Renewable Energy Approval for Gilead Power, proposed to be located in Prince Edward County. This is a Class 4 Wind Facility with a total expected generation capacity of 22.5 megawatts (MW).The proposed facility is considered to be a Class 4 Wind... (more) | | Development & Land Use Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Other Quinte Region |
| | | An interesting piece by Thomas Walkom in the Toronto Star on November 9, 2011 examines the changing powers behind Ontario electricity generation:
Ontario is quietly privatizing its electricity system. Unlike former Tory premier Mike Harris, Dalton McGuinty is not advertising this fact. But slowly and inexorably, his Liberal government is squeezing out public power.The... (more) | | Energy & Fossil Fuels Ontario Other |
| | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | About Waterkeeper Canada Drink Energy & Fossil Fuels Environmental Law Fish Nuclear Industry |
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