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Louisiana Sinkhole Evacuees Won’t Be Home For Awhile
At the eight-acre, Bayou Corne sinkhole in Assumption Parish,
owners of slab houses are waiting for methane-gas monitors to be installed
in December. The sinkhole deepened in November and coughed up debris
and hydrcarbons late in the month. Cypress trees fell into the gap.
Residents are watching natural gas being flared from the site and are
ventilating homes while bayous around them bubble.
Texas Brine fined $100,000
The state Department of Natural Resources said Saturday it has fined
a Houston-based company $100,000 for failing to obey several safety
directives the state issued Nov. 12 regarding the sinkhole in Assumption
Parish.
New View from Inside Fukushima: Chaos and Uncertainty
Even in the early days of the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant in March of last year, as the reactors spiraled out of
control, the terse statements issued by the operator felt like an exercise in
denial. Radiation readings were “higher than the ordinary level” (about
100 times higher), and a “loud noise and white smoke” had hit the No. 4
reactor (a possible hydrogen explosion).
High thyroid radiation doses in 178 Fukushima workers
Dozens of workers received potentially cancerous doses of radiation
to their thyroid glands during recovery work at the Fukushima No. 1
nuclear power plant, according to data submitted to the World Health
Organization.
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
A Viewer’s Guide to Steven Spielberg’s
‘Lincoln & the American Civil War’
By
NOI Research Group