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Dozens missing BHP-Vale mine disaster in Brazil as rescue continues
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 7th, 2015
Guardian: Rescue teams searched through mud and debris on Friday for dozens of people missing after a pair of dams collapsed at a Brazilian mine owned by two of the world’s biggest iron ore producers.
Walls of water filled with mining waste cascaded downhill when the dams burst on Thursday, engulfing a nearby village in a sea of mud and flooding others far removed from the open-pit Samarco mine jointly owned by BHP Billiton and Vale.
“I heard screaming and saw the water coming fast, about 15 to 20 metres...
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Posted by Reuters: Stephen Eisenhammer on November 7th, 2015
Reuters: Rescue teams searched through mud and debris on Friday for people still missing from a village devastated by the collapse of two dams at a Brazilian mine owned by the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton.
While only one worker has been confirmed dead, the local governor said the mining disaster caused the most environmental damage of any in the state's history. It could cost the mine's owners a fortune to clean up and repair.
Walls of water filled with mining waste cascaded downhill...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Search ongoing for missing Brazil mine disaster, death toll uncertainCiting Climate Change Obama Rejects Construction Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
Posted by New York Times: Coral Davenport on November 7th, 2015
New York Times: President Obama announced on Friday that he had rejected the request from a Canadian company to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline, ending a seven-year review that had become a symbol of the debate over his climate policies. Mr. Obama’s denial of the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline, which would have carried 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast, comes as he seeks to build an ambitious legacy on climate change. “America is now a global leader...
Posted in Water Conservation Comments Off on Citing Climate Change Obama Rejects Construction Keystone XL Oil PipelineWith Keystone rebuff, Obama aims for more leverage and credibility in global climate talks
Posted by Associated Press: Josh Lederman on November 7th, 2015
Associated Press: For years, President Barack Obama chided Republicans and Democrats alike for treating the Keystone XL pipeline as a signal of whether the U.S. would seriously fight global warming. Now that he's killed the project, Obama is holding it up as Exhibit A as he works to lock in his environmental legacy with a powerful international climate accord.
Rejecting Keystone, the proposed 1,179-mile crude oil pipeline from Canada to the U.S., was the latest in a long and growing list of steps Obama has taken...
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