Hearing on Inslee plan to charge big polluters draws divided crowd
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee’s sweeping climate-change bill drew hundreds to a packed public hearing Tuesday, putting the divided world view of supporters and opponents on full display throughout the Capitol.
An air of urgency filled environmentalists who sang songs and waved signs at passing lawmakers, and erected a display of a burning planet.....
via Yahoo News
Not the Radioactive waste, mind you,
just the cost of dealing with it.
By Ernest
Scheyder
WILLISTON, N.D.
(Reuters) - North Dakota's oil industry is pushing to change the state's
radioactive waste disposal laws as part of a broad effort to conserve cash as
oil prices tumble.
The waste,
which becomes slightly radioactive as part of the hydraulic fracturing process
that churns up isotopes locked underground, must be trucked out of state.
That's because
rules prohibit North Dakota landfills from accepting anything but miniscule
amounts of radiation.....
Two
Pennsylvanian children will live their lives under a gag order imposed under a
$750,000 settlement.
By
Suzanne Goldenberg The Guardian Alternet January 26,
2015
Two young children in Pennsylvania were banned from talking
about fracking for the rest of their lives under a gag
order imposed under a settlement reached
by their parents with a leading oil and gas company.
The sweeping gag order was imposed
under a $750,000 settlement between the Hallowich family and Range Resources
Corp, a leading oil and gas driller. It provoked outrage on Monday among
environmental campaigners and free speech advocates.
The settlement, reached in 2011 but
unsealed only last week, barred the Hallowichs' son and daughter, who were then
aged 10 and seven, from ever discussing fracking or the Marcellus Shale, a
leading producer in America's shale gas boom.
The Hallowich family had earlier
accused oil and gas companies of destroying their 10-acre farm in Mount
Pleasant, Pennsylvania and putting their children's health in danger. Their
property was adjacent to major industrial operations: four gas wells, gas
compressor stations, and a waste water pond, which the Hallowich family said
contaminated their water supply and caused burning eyes, sore throats and
headaches.
Gag orders – on adults – are typical
in settlements reached between oil and gas operators and residents in the heart
of shale gas boom in Pennsylvania. But the company lawyer's insistence on
extending the lifetime gag order to the Hallowichs' children gave even the
judge pause, according to the court documents.
The family gag order was a condition
of the settlement. The couple told the court they agreed because they wanted to
move to a new home away from the gas fields, and to raise their children in a
safer environment. "We need to get the children out of there for their
health and safety," the children's mother, Stephanie Hallowich, told the
court..... more here
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