Texas Oil Spill threatens Wildlife. Out on a limb, I predict another oil spill by pipeline, rail car, tanker truck, barge or ship in the near future. Or another accident with energy resources. The willing price paid for energy commodities increasingly difficult to extract, the Age of Extreme Extraction is here together an aging infrastructure aging infrastructure, a recipe for reoccurring disasters. Pipelines used well beyond service life, aging rail tankers not well regulated or designed; an aging coal electrical generation fleet and ash waste ponds, closing in 50 years of age; One hundred nuclear power plants reaching the end of their operational design Extreme extraction of oil, gas, uranium and coal. Deep water gulf drilling, proposals for arctic drilling still on the table. Fracked gas wells, an increase in uranium mining in sensitive areas, and a proposal to build a nuclear waste dump on Lake Huron by Ontario, and coal. Nuclear waste spills 8th lake Michigan are an annual occurance, normalized. Mountain top removal, open pit coal mining, gasification of coal seams on site, all the easy coal has been dug up already. All of it using tremendous amounts of clean water, another commodity increasingly in short supply. Out on a limb....
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:16:54 +0000
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