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It is the acid rain that is going to eat through everything.
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In California, the trucking operation means about 20% more salmon from Central Valley rivers will take wheels rather than fins to travel downstream, with a total of 16.8 million fish riding on 146 temperature-controlled truck loads between April and June. Chinook’s typical life cycle takes them from rivers to the ocean and back again over the course of three years.
Two populations of Chinook salmon are considered endangered on the west coast, and seven are considered threatened under the Endangered Species Act, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Sustained drought conditions can also spell disaster, as the fish rely on colder water to keep their eggs viable. During the 2014 and 2015 drought, because levels were so low, water released from Lake Shasta rose to a temperature that killed almost all juvenile Chinook.
California is in the midst of its fourth-driest water year in state history, with most reservoirs at less than 50% of overall capacity, and some rivers flowing at just 30% of their average rate this spring.
It seems that only a single complaint is enough these days.Noise pollution dealt with.
A village church clock which has chimed for 121 years has been muffled after a complaint.
A resident of Kenton in Devon complained about the nightly chimes from All Saints Church. The diocese said an environmental health team had measured the sound and it was louder than legally permitted.
The clock has been fitted with pads to "try to dull the sound" and further measuring would take place, said rector, the Reverend John Williams.
The anonymous complainant drew anger from some local people after saying the clock, which chimes hourly and every 15 minutes, was too loud.
Mr Williams said: "While some residents of Kenton don't mind hearing the clock striking at night and find it comforting, we are nonetheless obliged to comply with the law." ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-57453889
Things like this do annoy me, i.mean, whoever complained must have been aware of the clock chimes whilst viewing the property prior to purchasing it, so why move there if the chimes annoy you?Noise pollution dealt with.
A village church clock which has chimed for 121 years has been muffled after a complaint.
A resident of Kenton in Devon complained about the nightly chimes from All Saints Church. The diocese said an environmental health team had measured the sound and it was louder than legally permitted.
The clock has been fitted with pads to "try to dull the sound" and further measuring would take place, said rector, the Reverend John Williams.
The anonymous complainant drew anger from some local people after saying the clock, which chimes hourly and every 15 minutes, was too loud.
Mr Williams said: "While some residents of Kenton don't mind hearing the clock striking at night and find it comforting, we are nonetheless obliged to comply with the law." ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-57453889
Things like this do annoy me, i.mean, whoever complained must have been aware of the clock chimes whilst viewing the property prior to purchasing it, so why move there if the chimes annoy you?
It seems that only a single complaint is enough these days.
Apparently it does, but the difference is the clock in question has been happily chiming the quarters for 100+ years without any complaint, when i used to go to Amsterdam regularly i always stayed in an apartment in the red light district, one street over from 'The Oude Church' which chimes the quarters and i soon got used to it.Shouldn't the law apply to church clocks just as much as to noisy clubs etc? The buyer likely didn't realise they would have to suffer from he chimes at 2 am.
Apparently it does, but the difference is the clock in question has been happily chiming the quarters for 100+ years without any complaint, when i used to go to Amsterdam regularly i always stayed in an apartment in the red light district, one street over from 'The Oude Church' which chimes the quarters and i soon got used to it.
On Wednesday morning, the air quality index surged to 157 in Manhattan, well above the threshold of 100 where health is considered to be threatened. Vulnerable people include pregnant women and the elderly, although even healthy people outside these groups can experience breathing difficulty, throat irritation and runny eyes when exposed to air this bad.
“I think it’s unusual to have this kind of haze, I don’t recall seeing this kind of thing,” said Greg Pope, professor of earth and environmental studies at Montclair State University, who added that he could not see Manhattan from his New Jersey office. “You can pretty much always see the skyline, at least a silhouette, if it’s a hazy day. This is, like, this is unprecedented.”
Toxic? What is toxic in a diamond mine?A serious toxic leak.
A toxic leak from a massive diamond mine in Angola killed at least 12 people and left 4,500 sick, a minister in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo says.
The leak turned a tributary of the River Congo red and killed huge numbers of fish, which some people ate, said Environment Minister Eve Bazaiba. She said that DR Congo would seek damages but did not specify how much. There has been no public response so far from the Catoca mine's owners.
According to Reuters news agency, the mine produces about 75% of Angola's diamonds. After a reservoir containing toxic by-products from the mine leaked in late July, the Tshikapa river across the border in DR Congo turned red killing hippos, fish, and other animals.
Ms Bazaiba said there were "tonnes of dead fish floating on the river... and then the first reflex was to take the fish".
Officials in Kasai province banned people from drinking water and eating fish from the river but about a million people were affected.
Communities living on the river banks suffered from diarrhoea and other health problems.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-58432578
Diesel, hydraulic fluid, engine oil, there is a lot of machinery use in any mining operation, I'm unsure if any chemicals are used to process the diamond, but this sounds pretty serious whatever it was.Toxic? What is toxic in a diamond mine?
OK, maybe if there was a lot of arsenic in the soil...
Toxic? What is toxic in a diamond mine?
OK, maybe if there was a lot of arsenic in the soil...
FULL STORY: https://www.reuters.com/world/afric...tion-congo-rivers-researchers-say-2021-08-20/Angola mine leak causes 'unprecedented' pollution in Congo rivers, researchers say
A suspected leak of heavy metals from a mine in northern Angola is causing an "unprecedented environmental catastrophe", affecting some 2 million people in Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers at Kinshasa University said on Friday.
Analysis of satellite imagery and interviews indicate a reservoir used to store mining pollutants was breached on July 15 in a diamond-mining area straddling Lunda Sul and Lunda Norte provinces in Angola, said Raphael Tshimanga, director of The Congo Basin Water Resources Research Centre (CRREBaC). ...
"We have never seen such huge pollution in the Congo river," Tshimanga said by phone. "It is still increasing, the consequences are beyond what we could imagine. This is a catastrophe. It's an unprecedented environmental catastrophe." ...
The discolouration of the waterways appears to have been caused by a toxic substance spill at an industrial diamond mine in Angola, Congo's environment minister Eve Bazaiba said in a statement on Aug. 9. ...
"We can confidently say that this pollution is from heavy metals that have surged into the river and our worry is that it should get into the food chain," CRREBaC's Tshimanga said. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.reuters.com/business/en...-leaked-into-waterways-last-month-2021-08-23/Waste from Angola's Catoca diamond mine leaked into waterways last month
Waste material from Angola's biggest diamond mine leaked into a river last month, filling waterways with sediment before the breach was sealed, Sociedade Mineira de Catoca (Catoca Mining Company) said in a statement seen by Reuters on Monday. ...
Catoca said in a statement, dated Aug. 9 and seen by Reuters on Monday, that tailings were seen to have leaked into the Lova river on July 27 following a rupture in a spillway for the mine waste dam.
The company said it immediately sought to repair it, built two dykes to filter sediment out of the water and by Aug. 9 the breach was sealed. ...
FULL STORY: https://www.reuters.com/world/afric...llowing-angola-mine-tailings-leak-2021-09-02/Congo says Angola tailings pollution kills 12, to seek compensation
The Democratic Republic of Congo will seek compensation from the owners of an Angolan diamond mine after a tailings dam leak polluted drinking water, causing 12 deaths and making thousands of people ill, the country's environment minister said on Thursday.
The late-July leak from Angola's biggest diamond mine turned a tributary of the Congo River red following a rupture in a spillway for the mine's tailings dam, which stores mining industry waste meant to stay undisturbed. ...
Congo ... will seek compensation in line with the "polluter pays" principle, where those who produce pollution should bear the cost of mitigating it, Eve Bazaiba told a media conference after visiting the country's southern Kasai province.
Bazaiba said she could not yet say how much in damages the country could seek. She said 4,400 people had fallen ill. ...
It's not easy being greenWe should have listened to the Muppets:
Seriously, this was back in 1984 and nobody listened then.
I saw that on the local news, according the the witness it was pumping the sewage for 49 hours non-stopSewage pumped into the sea
Drone footage from Langstone Harbour in Hampshire - they’re apparently currently allowed to at high rainfall/high tide times, but it happens all over the country.
Last year there were 400,000 incidents of sewage dumped into rivers & sea.
Indeed. And it's a big pipe.I saw that on the local news, according the the witness it was pumping the sewage for 49 hours non-stop
7ft diameter I think he saidIndeed. And it's a big pipe.