Thursday, March 28, 2024

The fracking industry’s water nightmare

Water itself now poses a risk to the already failing financial model of the American fracking industry, and that is something the industry won’t be able to ignore.
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25 zones along the proposed Shell Falcon Pipeline are at risk of explosions due...

A landslide caused a natural gas pipeline 35 miles west of Pittsburgh to explode on Monday. It wasn't an isolated incident.

Warnings of ‘catastrophic and historic’ flooding as experts say worst of Hurricane Florence yet...

"For many (most?) places, the worst of Florence's flooding is still on the way. Still expecting record or near-record flooding across a large part of North Carolina in the days to come."

Progressive Briefing for Monday, September 17

U.S. Border Patrol supervisor confesses to executing four women, FEMA blames hurricane deaths on spousal abuse, Kavanaugh accused of assault, and more.

18 dead, more than 900 rescued as Florence floods the Carolinas

"The storm has never been more dangerous than it is right now."
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“Climate capitalism is killing our communities”: Protesters disrupt Gov. Brown’s SF climate summit

Protesters disrupted Bloomberg’s speech at the summit’s main plenary.

4 groundbreaking announcements from the global climate Action Summit

"In the long term, this is an unstoppable train."

Progressive Briefing for Friday, September 14

15 groups account for nearly all dark money, Trump claim Democrats rigged hurricane death toll, Bezos commits fraction of $163B fortune to help homeless, and more.

Pipeline that exploded in Pennsylvania part of push to build fracking-reliant petrochemical network

The 24” diameter pipeline responsible for the blast had gone into service just seven days earlier.
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NC Lagoons hold billions of gallons of hog feces. The hurricane may blast that...

Even if the storm weakens, experts warn Hurricane Florence could kill thousands of farm animals and trigger catastrophic waste spills from sewage treatment plants, hog waste lagoons and chicken farms.