RT | June 3, 2015 The British government has spent £16 million storing and maintaining its unused nuclear submarines over the past five years, figures suggest. The 19 laid-up submarines have been stored in Fife, Scotland, and Devonport, England since 1980 and 1994, respectively. Figures obtained by the BBC in a Freedom of Information request […]
By Arjun Walia | Collective Evolution | May 30, 2015 The Netherlands has just become the latest country, following Russia, Mexico, and many others, to say no to Monsanto. The sale and use of glyphosate-based herbicides (the most commonly used herbicides in the world) has just been banned for non-commercial use in the country, effective later this year. […]
By Pierre L. Gosselin | NoTricksZone | May 5, 2015 The editor-in-chief of the Iserlohner Kreisanzeiger und Zeitung (IKZ) daily Thomas Reunert dedicated an entire page on the topic of wind energy last Sunday, bearing the headline: “The Norwegians Are Giving Us The Finger!” It is an interview with a former professor from the University […]
By Gordon Edwards | Dissident Voice | May 8, 2015 Ontario Power Generation owns 20 nuclear power reactors. Two of them permanently shut down. Six more scheduled to be retired by 2020. The largest nuclear power station in North America is the Bruce NPP, located close to the shore of Lake Huron. The Western Waste […]
RT | May 9, 2015 Waste outside an abandoned uranium mine on the Navajo Nation, Cameron, Arizona (Image from ehp.niehs.nih.gov) As part of a cleanup settlement, the US will pay out more than $13 million to start dealing with hundreds of abandoned uranium mines on Navajo Nation territory. Navajo officials tell RT it is just […]
By Matt Agorist | The Free Thought Project | May 6, 2015 For over two decades now, US planes have been dumping tons of pesticides over Colombian coca fields. Originally the Colombian government wholeheartedly supported the ridiculous notion of mass killing all vegetation in attempt to cull the drug trade. However, it is no longer […]
RT | April 29, 2015 A forest fire near Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear site may cause problems for communities a long way from the area as the dispersal plumes can transport radiation further to the north, nuclear safety expert John Large told RT. RT: How dangerous is the situation in your opinion? Do you agree with ecologists […]
By Eric Zuesse | Black Agenda Report | April 29, 2015 One of the major barriers blocking U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign for his mammoth international trade deals — the TTIP with Europe, and the TPP with Asia — is: other countries want the freedom to make up their own minds about the safety or […]
By Niqnaq | April 29, 2015 Yatsenyuk inspects forest fire in the exclusion zone. After visiting the zone, the Head of Government told journalists at the airport: The situation is under control. Fire stations are from Chernobyl at a distance of about 20 km. Our State emergency service actively works to cut off the spread […]
RT | April 28, 2015 The Ukrainian National Guard has been put on high alert due to worsening forest fires around the crippled Chernobyl nuclear power plant, according to Ukraine Interior Minister Arsen Avakov. Earlier the country’s emergency ministry said there was no danger posed to the sealed-off power plant from the three forest fire […]
