Sentences with phrase «chemical waste dumped»

According to experts, the possible cause of this mass mortality could be poisoning from chemical waste dumped into the bay from the drains.

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This approach assumes that if all communities take the NIMBY attitude, government agencies will not be able to find any backyard in which to dump toxic chemicals and nuclear waste, and the system will become plugged.

(Reuters)- Government scientists have not been able to replicate a chemical reaction suspected of causing a radiation leak at a U.S. nuclear waste dump in New Mexico, complicating efforts to understand what went wrong, a U.S. Energy Department official said Friday.

In our country the situation has become dire because of the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste like plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

The former President said a report in the media that Ghana stood the risk of importing water by 2021 was a reality created by the abuse of our water bodies through the dumping of non-degradable waste such as plastics, metals, chemicals and other poisonous material.

In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst - a sixteen - acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood.

It also gives the location of nearby environmental trouble spots, including brownfield sites, hazardous waste dumps and chemical plants.

He found 72 toxic chemicals exuding from the hazardous waste sites, but 113 at dumps taking household waste.

THE latrines and waste dumps of ancient Crete may have served as a source of agricultural fertiliser, according to a new chemical analysis.

Take the burping tanks: huge sealed stainless vessels holding 4 million litres or more, into which chemical and radioactive wastes were dumped indiscriminately by the contractors who ran Hanford.

For forty years, the contractors who ran Hanford dumped their nuclear and chemical waste more or less indiscriminately throughout the site, which covers an area of 1456 square kilometres.

Drinking water free of chemicals like sodium fluoride and chlorine is essential because water will help flush the waste away, but the chemicals dumped into most western public water supplies will kill off good intestinal flora, and therefore should be avoided.

They dumped all their agri waste and industrial chemicals in the pond too.

One final note, when it comes to the treatment of our environment I will be the first to say that I do not agree with the use of harsh chemicals, fossil fuels, clear cutting, dumping, toxic waste disposal, etc..

Citing mining waste as well as chemical dumping and emissions from industry as key polluters, the article provides an excellent examination of the many factors, including the shortfalls in the regulatory systems, contributing to the degradation of US drinking water supplies.

This included fracking wastewater that state officials had allowed to be dumped at local sewer plants — facilities incapable of removing the complex mix of chemicals, corrosive salts, and radioactive materials from that kind of industrial waste before they piped the «treated» water back into Pennsylvania's rivers.

Problems no doubt caused by pollution from runoff of things like fertilizers, animal waste, human waste, sewage, and the dumping of chemicals that could also be causing fish decline.

«Nuclear waste remains radioactive for thousands of years and the nuclear industry has not come up with a technological process to deal with this highly toxic waste and similarly as toxic chemical industry dump their waste in the ground, so does the nuclear industry.

The dead zone in this otherwise lush mountain country meant one thing to Parrish: Gas drillers had been illegally dumping briny water mixed with chemicals, and the waste had killed everything from the rusty well head all the way downhill into a creek.

2014 Goldman Prize winner Desmond D'Sa answers our question about how he rallied south Durban's diverse and disenfranchised communities to successfully shut down a toxic waste dump that was exposing nearby residents to dangerous chemicals and robbing them of their constitutionally protected right to a safe and clean environment.

There's a difference between being good stewards of the environment (e.g. dumping industrial chemical waste into rivers, etc.) and surmising that there is «man - made» climate change, when there is no scientific consensus to back up that claim.

For example, the Dutch government is currently conducting a criminal investigation into the alleged dumping of chemical waste in the Ivory Coast by a Dutch - owned company, in which 10 people died and hundreds fell ill, but in some EU countries this would not be possible.

General Overview of Truck Driver's job Truck drivers drive different types of trucks and heavy vehicles in order to make deliveries, dump chemicals and waste and transporting materials from one place to another.