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Climate and water threatening Thabametsi coal plant still on the cards

August 3, 2017 1 Comment

The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) could be giving the go-ahead for what will be one of the most greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensive coal-fired power stations, not only in South Africa, but in the world. Its GHG emissions are likely to be 60% higher than Eskom’s new Medupi and Kusile coal plants. This is apparent from the final climate change impact assessment … [Read more...]

Time to act on uranium mining while we still can

March 14, 2016 Leave a Comment

We have a small window of opportunity – until Tuesday 15 March 2016 - to make submissions on the uranium mining rights application of Tasman RSA Mines, which is set to destroy more than 500,000ha of Karoo farmland and contaminate the last remaining groundwater. Beaufort West will be the epicentre of millions of tons of radioactive uranium ore. This cannot be the future for … [Read more...]

Fukushima plant to leak radioactive water for 4 more years

March 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

Operators of Japan’s damaged nuclear power plant Fukushima have warned that it will take a further four years to fix the problem of contaminated water leaks. The admission was made as a sombre nation prepared to mark the fifth anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami, which triggering the world’s worst nuclear disaster in decades. The problem of dealing … [Read more...]

How to save the planet from gold mining

July 17, 2014 Leave a Comment

Diamonds are supposed to be forever, however it’s the human love affair with gold that has been truly lasting. For thousands of years, since even before the time of King Tut, gold has been prized for its beauty and value. It’s no wonder, then, that so much gold is sitting in jewelry boxes and central bank vaults. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that 171,300 tons of gold … [Read more...]

Fracking plans need a unified voice now

September 14, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Minister Shabangu’s announcement last Friday of the Department of Mineral Resource’s pro-fracking decision to cabinet ripped like wild fire through environmental circles the past week. If there is one issue that can unite all the different green role players in this country, I think it’s this one. The sensitive Karoo ecology is regarded as the heartland of the country by … [Read more...]

Global shale gas moratoriums increase

May 9, 2012 Leave a Comment

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“While our government is scrambling to produce a secret document on which this country may make a potentially irreversible decision on shale gas mining ‘fracking’, international sentiment is increasing against the technology. Fracking is banned, or under some form of moratorium or restriction in more than 140 places around the world.” These were the words of TKAG (Treasure … [Read more...]

28 new coal ash water pollution sites revealed

May 2, 2012 Leave a Comment

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A new report by the Environmental Integrity Project documents that 49 coal-fired power plants have contaminated groundwater at 116 coal ash disposal sites in the United States. The data, which was released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, revealed 28 previously unknown contamination sites in Iowa, … [Read more...]

Wave of radiation headed for US

April 16, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Over the last year the threat of radiation hitting the United States from the Fukushima nuclear disaster has gone from a conspiracy theory, to a possibility, to a flat out fact. Now, scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute have confirmed that a wave of highly radioactive waste is headed directly for the US west coast. In a segment on the Big Picture with … [Read more...]

The fight against fracking in South Africa

February 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

Should you care whether or not South Africa is fracked? The Treasure Karoo Action Group (TKAG) believes you should and urges the country to take up their position in society in the fight against fracking. Fracking (Hydaulic fracturing) is banned or restricted in more than 90 places and 5 countries worldwide and has only been practiced in its current form in the Unites States … [Read more...]

European commission misled over nuclear safety

October 28, 2011 Leave a Comment

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European leaders are being misled over the safety of underground disposal of highly dangerous nuclear waste which could poison groundwaters for centuries, a new study concludes. The European Commission is due to publish a draft nuclear waste directive this Autumn. Deep disposal has dominated the research effort put into the management of highly radioactive nuclear waste for … [Read more...]

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JOHN GROBLERJACOBUS Oma looked sadly at the stockpile of several hundred ancient rosewood logs he had just helped to load onto a Chinese-owned truck in north-eastern Namibia. Some were

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A Can Tho court sentenced a Vietnamese man to 12.5 years in jail Tuesday for illegally transporting white rhino horns weighing 28.7 kilograms from Mozambique.

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