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Obama takes `bold action` to protect Pacific marine life
President Obama today proposed expanding protections in the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument. The expansion would shelter some of the world's most pristine and biologically rich marine ecosystems. Frances Beinecke, President of the Natural Resources Defense Council, made the following statement: “The President’s proposed action is a huge step forward for the ocean. ...
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OASE PeriDox blanketweed & harmful parasite treatment
Does your fishing lake or reservoir suffer with fish parasites? Is your pond perpetually covered in blanketweed or filamentous algae? Make it a new year’s resolution to book a professional treatment of OASE Peridox water treatment from our experienced aquatics team. Murky water will be a thing of the past by summer 2022 and your pond, lake or reservoir will look incredible reflecting the ...
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Farmer to pay £12,000 for pollution
Ammonia polluted 6.5km of stream at Shipdham when slurry leaked from a farm lagoon, King’s Lynn Magistrates’ Court heard today (Thurs). Farmer Kenneth William Proctor pleaded guilty to the pollution and was fined £8,000 and ordered to pay £4,000 costs for causing the pollution in June last year that killed fish and damaged invertebrate species. Environment Agency ...
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Salazar announcement shows new approach to offshore energy at Department of Interior
US Department of Interior Secretary Salazar announced this week that he is going to take a thorough review of the five-year OCS oil and gas leasing program that was announced in the final days of the Bush administration. Following is a statement by Wesley Warren, director of programs for the Natural Resources Defense Council: “There’s a new way of doing business at the Department of Interior ...
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Dry Self-Priming Pump on Board a Sustainable Razor Shell Dredger
Maaskant Shipyards has recently built an innovative shellfish dredger - the YE 118. The 43-metre long razor shell dredger is the flagship of the Stellendam shipyard and best demonstrates the constant innovation delivered by the shipping sector in order to meet the continually changing needs of the modern fishing industry. “We are delighted to have had the opportunity to build such a ...
By BBA Pumps BV
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Sulphur and nitrogen pollution falling - but still harming ecosystems
European emissions of sulphur and nitrogen pollution have fallen greatly in recent decades, a new report shows. However, even at present levels they harm sensitive ecosystems, and will continue do so for some years to come. Air pollution damages ecosystems as well as human health. Sulphur and nitrogen are both acidifying air pollutants which travel long distances, affecting water, forests, ...
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Fines for River Mersey poachers
Two men have been found guilty of illegal poaching and were fined a total of £710 at Warrington Magistrates Court yesterday. Gintaras Valiukonis and Arturas Bulota have been prosecuted by The Environment Agency for attempting to take 100’s of Carp, Pike and Bream from the River Mersey between 19 January and 23 January 2013. The use of nets, such as the Gill Nets used in this case, ...
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EPA cites international petroleum corporation of Delaware for an oil spill in Chester County, Pa. (PA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has filed a Clean Water Act complaint against International Petroleum Corporation of Delaware in connection with a 30 gallon oil spill that entered Trout Run in Avondale, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The spill occurred when 400 gallons of oil was discharged onto Pennsylvania State Highway Route 41 in Avondale. The oil traveled through a nearby storm ...
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Rehab Prospects Good After Korea`s Worst Oil Spill
SEOUL, South Korea, December 31, 2007 (ENS) - The prospects for environmental rehabilitation after the worst oil spill in South Korean history are good due to 'quick and effective action' by the Korean authorities, a joint United Nations-European Commission Assessment Team has found. The team said in its initial report that emergency assistance was not required for cleanup operations after the ...
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Landfill operator gets fined by the EA for polluting waterway
A Wiltshire-based waste management company Hills Waste Solutions has been found guilty of polluting a local river, potentially endangering fish and invertebrates. Hills Waste Solutions, which operates the Chapel Farm landfill site, at Blunsdon, Swindon, was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £16,300 costs at Swindon Magistrates court, in a case brought by the Environment Agency. The court heard ...
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Time to stop losing ocean data to vandalism
More must be done to prevent damage of ocean data buoys that costs money, vital data — and lives, say Sidney Thurston and M. Ravichandran. The global community relies on a rapidly expanding ocean observing network to understand the climate and ecosystems, to help warn against ocean-borne hazards such as tsunamis and storm surges caused by cyclones, and to support sea rescue missions. ...
By SciDev.Net
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Multiple weedscreen cleaners for canal infrastructure
Medjerda Cap Bon canal Landustrie, together with its Tunisian representative EMC Entreprise Mongi Charabi, supplied 5 no. of LANDY weed screen cleaners with electrotechnical equipment, and also supervised the commissioning and start-up on site, in hard conditions with COVID-19. SOCOOPEC, being lead contractor was in charge of the installation of the Landustrie provided equipment. Two screen ...
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NACWA applauds USDA on water quality initiative but calls on congress to weigh on nutrients
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (NACWA) applauds U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack’s announcement on May 8, 2012, of the National Water Quality Initiative to control and trap nutrient and manure runoff that pollute U.S. waterways. Nutrient runoff is the greatest water quality challenge facing the United States today. The Environmental Protection ...
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MEPs clamp down on wasteful Use of Plastic Carrier Bags
EU countries will be required to reduce the use of the commonest and most polluting plastic bags drastically under new rules voted by Parliament on Tuesday ""This legislation will create a genuine win-win situation"” said Margrete Auken (Greens/EFA, DK), who is steering the legislation through Parliament. “"We're talking about an immense environmental problem. Billions of plastic ...
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British company fined for polluting National Trust beauty spot
Thames Water was ordered to pay more than GBP 40,000 after admitting destroying the ecology of a high-quality stream and lake after a burst pipe churned raw sewage out onto National Trust land. Thousands of fish, including notable species of brook lamprey, brown trout, bullhead, and native crayfish were left dead as the sewage caused oxygen levels to plummet and ammonia to rocket in the Penwood ...
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Environmental concentrations of antibiotics are potentially damaging to aquatic life
Combinations of antibiotics have been found in high enough concentrations to pose a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems, in a recent Spanish study. Antibiotics can have toxic effects on the bacteria and algae that form the basis of aquatic ecosystems. Antibiotics are in widespread use, not only for human medical conditions, but also for increasing growth rates in livestock, in the feed of ...
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Teck Metals ordered to pay $3 million fine
Teck Metals Ltd. was ordered to pay a $3,000,000 penalty on February 29, 2016, in British Columbia Provincial Court after pleading guilty to three offences under the Fisheries Act related to releases of effluent deleterious to fish into the Columbia River. In addition to the penalty, Teck Metals Ltd. agreed to undertake on-site improvement projects. The company estimates that these projects, ...
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Air pollution still harming Europe`s ecosystems, despite reduced emissions
Emissions of nitrogen-containing pollutants continue to harm sensitive ecosystems, according to two new reports published today by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Nonetheless, both reports show a marked improvement over the last two decades. 'Effects of air pollution on European ecosystems' assesses the proportion of European ecosystems exposed to nitrogen and sulphur-containing ...
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Washington state issues aquatic weed control pesticide permit
Although the key definition of whether a pesticide applied to surface waters is, or is not, a pollutant is still to be decided in court. The Washington State Department of Ecology Wednesday reissued a general permit for the application of pesticides to control aquatic weeds in irrigation water conveyance systems. The permit covers 16 irrigation districts that use pesticides to control aquatic ...
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