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Kingston Coal-Ash Spill, One Year Later
/in Coal, Incidents /by John AmosExactly one year ago, at 1am in the morning on December 22, an embankment gave way at the Kingston Fossil Plant, a coal-fired power plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) near Harriman, Tennessee. Over one billion gallons of sludge spilled out of the impoundment, flowing into adjacent ponds, the Emory River, and residential […]
Timor Sea Drilling Spill – Now There’s a Hurricane
/in Incidents, Montara, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosActually, it’s called a cyclone in that part of the world. Now a small but surprisingly powerful Category 5 storm, Cyclone Laurence is moving through the Timor Sea parallel to the northwest coast of Australia, and is expected to make landfall near the town of Derby today. The oil fields in the Timor Sea have […]
Mount Tenabo – Cortez Hills Gold Mine Temporarily Halted
/2 Comments/in Mining /by John AmosYesterday a federal court of appeals temporarily blocked construction of a proposed 2,000-foot-deep open-pit gold mine on public lands in Nevada. Barrick Gold Corporation’s Cortez Hills Mine is now on hold until the U.S. Bureau of Land Management revises its environmental impact analysis. The court ruled that BLM failed to adequately analyze the potential for […]
Measuring the Direct Landscape Impact of Natural Gas Drilling
/in Oil & Gas /by John AmosPinedale, Wyoming: the Pinedale Anticline natural-gas field is one of the largest tight-gas sandstone reservoirs in the Greater Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) controls 80% of the mineral rights in the 198,034-acre area. In 2008 the BLM proposed a new development plan that includes 10-acre spacing of […]
Mountaintop Removal Mining, Part 2: Mountains at Risk
/in Coal, Mining /by John AmosSkyTruth, in partnership with Appalachian Voices, documented the impact of mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) over a 59-county area in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and Virginia by mapping the extent of mountaintop removal mining over a 30 year period using satellite imagery. The historical record shows a 250% increase in MTR occurring over the last […]
Mountaintop Removal Mining, Part 1: Measuring the Extent of Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia
/4 Comments/in Coal, Mining /by John AmosSkyTruth, in partnership with Appalachian Voices, documented the impact of mountaintop removal mining for coal over a 59-county area in Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee and Virginia. The goal of the project was to map the direct landscape impact — the “footprint” — of mountaintop removal mining (MTR) over a 30-year period, from 1976 to 2005. […]