Daily Archives: August 5, 2022

2022-08-05: News Headlines

Infobrics (2022-08-05). Russia, China to Break Ground on Gas Pipeline Via Mongolia in 2024. infobrics.org The Power of Siberia-2 pipeline, which will deliver Europe-bound gas from western Siberian fields to China for the first time, is expected to go online in 2030…

____ (2022-08-04). 5.6-magnitude quake strikes off Japan's Fukushima prefecture, no tsunami warning issued. ecns.cn An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.6 struck off the coast of Fukushima Prefecture in northeast Japan on Thursday, the weather agency here said, although no tsunami warning has been issued.

TeleSUR (2022-08-04). India Adds 10 Wetlands to List of Ramsar Sites. telesurenglish.net On Wednesday, the Federal Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change announced that India has added 10 wetlands to the Ramsar sites list. | RELATED: | Designation of these sites would help in conservation and management of wetlands and wise use of their resources. India is one of the contracting parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971. | India signed it on 1st Feb 1982. So far 64 w…

TeleSUR (2022-08-04). Japan Builds Facility to Release Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater. telesurenglish.net The construction of facilities to release radioactive wastewater into the sea from the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan began Thursday despite opposition from the local community and neighboring countries. | RELATED: | Plant workers started construction of a pipeline to transport the wastewater from hillside storage tanks to a coastal facility before its planned release next ye…

Richmond Our Power Coalition (2022-08-04). Saturday 8/6: End Climate Chaos: 10th Anniversary of Richmond Explosion. indybay.org March, starting at Richmond BART…

Heidi Harmon, former SLO mayor (2022-08-04). Roof top should be affordable for all-don't tax it! indybay.org We gathered proudly chanting "Don't tax the sun" in front of PG&E's office in downtown San Luis Obispo during a Don't Tax the Sun statewide rally and tour. We are living in a climate emergency and oppose a tax targeted at net energy metering currently being considered by the California Public Utilities Commission. Help us stop the proposed tax and save our planet.

_____ (2022-08-03). Anti-Mountain Valley Pipeline Protest. popularresistance.org A small group of dedicated activists today rallied in front of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters calling for the commission not to issue a second extension certificate to the controversial Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) a $5.5 billion 303-mile-long interstate natural gas project. The 42-inch diameter pipeline is facing opposition from numerable groups with issues related to global warming, the route's effect on endangered species, construction issues including continual erosion problems along its length along with complaints from landowners whose property the massive pipeline project is…

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