Thursday, September 13, 2012

Green Blog: On Our Radar: A Pipeline Land Grab?

The replacement of Line 6B, a 43-year-old pipeline that leaked more than one million gallons of heavy crude into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan, faces opposition from landowners who do not want more of their land taken over to accommodate the new one. [InsideClimate News]

A crippling drought has resulted in the smallest American soybean harvest in nine years and left the nation?s inventory at the lowest level in four decades. Only 32 percent of the soybean crop was deemed by the U.S.D.A. to be in good or excellent condition as of Sunday, compared with a five-year average of 60 percent. [Bloomberg News]

The Australian government looks into the possibility of changing its environmental protection laws to prevent a controversial Dutch-owned super-trawler from fishing in its waters. Environmentalists and others are worried that the vessel, docked at Port Lincoln, could scoop up an enormous amount on bycatch while trawling off Tasmania. [Agence France-Presse]

A state audit showing that highly contaminated waste was illegally shipped into Utah and buried there stirs fierce criticism of the state?s environmental regulators. Self-reporting is the norm for companies transporting radioactive waste into the state, the auditors say and the regulators acknowledge. [The Salt Lake Tribune]

A stench that stretched across Southern California this week is traced to the Salton Sea, a saltwater lake where winds apparently stirred up gases at the bottom. [Associated Press]

Source: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/on-our-radar-a-pipeline-land-grab/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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