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Methane from fracking triggers climate change

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Thursday, 16 August 2012 in Mining

By Dominic Frongillo of syracuse.com Gas from fracking is mostly methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas that is up to 105 times more powerful at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide over 20 years. As this record-breaking summer continues to heat up, Gov. Andrew Cuomo is purportedly nea...

Republicans push through mining deregulation bill that could avoid US environmental reviews

Posted by Aaron on Thursday, 12 July 2012 in Mining

Republicans pushed a bill through the House Thursday that allows the government to exempt gold, copper, silver and uranium mining on federal land from formal environmental reviews. The bill makes it harder for opponents to mount legal challenges against new ventures. The legislation, appro...

Big Coal Claims that Inbreeding, Not Mining, is to Blame for Birth Defects

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 in Mining

Last month, when coal execs read the report linking birth defects to mountaintop removal mining, they weren't exactly thrilled. One rebuttal, penned by four attorneys with the firm Crowell & Moring, which represents the National Mining Association, accused the study's authors of using cherry-pic...

Mountaintop Mining and Birth Defects

Posted by henryfool on Thursday, 23 June 2011 in Mining

New study on the association between mountaintop mining and birth defects among live births in central Appalachia, 1996–2003 AbstractBirth defects are examined in mountaintop coal mining areas compared to other coal mining areas and non-mining areas of central Appalachia. The study hypothesis is th...

Quebec to Spend Billions to Develop Northern Regions

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 09 May 2011 in Mining

By IAN AUSTENQuebec province, anticipating continued strong growth for its natural resources, has rolled out an ambitious 25-year plan to develop its vast but sparsely settled northern and Arctic regions. The region is well endowed with mineral resources, woodlands and potential hydroelectric devel...

Transforming Dirty Coals’s New Corridor

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Mining

The Corporate Doomsday Machine’s (aka the fossil fuel industry) latest scheme to plunder and ruin the earth for profit involves transforming the highways, waterways and railways of the Northwest into a transport corridor for coal. King Coal’s domestic options are soon going to be limited after Obam...

Fighting the Alaskan wilderness mine

Posted by ep-admin on Wednesday, 03 November 2010 in Mining

"Anglo American promised it would not touch the pristine habitat of Bristol Bay without our blessing. It must honour its word" Thousands of pink salmon swimming upstream in an Alaskan river. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters Among our Alaskan native tribes, a promise made is a promi...

Thousands of pink salmon can be seen swimming upstream to spawn in Valdez, Alaska

Is coal power headed for a downsizing in US?

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 19 October 2010 in Mining

Tougher federal air pollution rules coming next year could prompt electricity companies to close as many as 1 in every 5 coal-burning power plants in America, primarily facilities more than 40 years old that lack emissions controls, according to a recent Wall Street analysis. The regul...

EPA wants companies to disclose the chemicals used in gas drilling process

Posted by ep-admin on Sunday, 12 September 2010 in Mining

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency asked nine natural gas companies Thursday to voluntarily disclose the chemical components used in a drilling technique called hydraulic fracturing. The agency said the information is important to its study of the controversial drilling practice, also...

Activists Sit Down so EPA Will Stand up to King Coal

Posted by ep-admin on Saturday, 10 July 2010 in Mining

Cross posted from the RAN Understory, By Nell Greenberg On July 8th, activists with the Rainforest Action Network have staged a super creative and gutsy sit-in at the EPA headquarters to demand stronger protection for Appalachia’s drinking water and an end to the devastating practice of ...

Assault on Public Lands

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 18 August 2009 in Mining

In the April/May 2008 issue of National Wildlife magazine senior editor Roger Di Silvestro tells us how, because an antiquated 1872 law, hard rock mining companies are able to obtain leases on public lands at ridiculously low cost and extract minerals from those lands at huge profits, and leave behi...

Bristol Bay - Pure Water is more precious than gold

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 08 March 2009 in Mining

Examples of Modern Mines that Damaged Rivers & Fisheries (Compiled by Mara Bacsujlaky for the Bristol Bay Alliance) The mines that are featured here are all mining operations whose main components were developed within the last 30 years, using “state-of-the-art”, modern hardrock mining technol...