Nuclear waste fracas that just won't go away
Casey Weekly Cranbourne
Like a science fiction fantasy, the Yucca Mountain repository was intended as a permanent store for a small mountain of lethal waste accumulated in more than half a century of American nuclear activity, civilian and military.

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Yes, LEED-Certified Buildings on Chopping Block Too
SustainableBusiness.com
It prohibits use of Department of Defense funds to achieve LEED- Gold or Platinum, although waivers are possible if it can prove its efficacy through cost-benefit analysis for a given project or if achieving those levels "imposes no additional cost.

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Ron Paul speech resonates with young crowd
Estes Park Trail-Gazette
WAPA' s proposed plan for a rebuild of the Estes-Flatiron transmission line appears, upon examination, to be designed to waste the maximum amount of money at the same time that it causes the greatest amount of adverse environmental impact and violates …

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Letters: Don't fill aquifer with waste matter
Monterey County Herald
If it is Cal Am's intent and that of the sewage district to pump treated waste matter through the former Fort Ord and into the Seaside aquifer as a partial solution to the overpumping of the Carmel River aquifers, they had damn well put it on the …

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In protecting lakes, everyone needs to give a hand
VietNamNet Bridge
The analyses have shown that though the improved lakes' water still cannot meet the standards, the quality of the water has been much improved. However, it is not easy to keep the lakes clean forever. Nguyen Ngoc Ly, Director of CECR, said that the …

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The Best | Cat-box solution is litter-perfect
Louisville Courier-Journal
We have three cats, which means a lot of litter sifting and a lot of trips to the garage with the waste bags. To be honest, there were times when the boxes should have been sifted but a trip to the garage was not appealing, so the cats had to suffer …

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A modern waste solution
Bega District News
TO COMPARE the old Bega tip and the new Central Waste Facility at Wolumla is akin to comparing apples with oranges. The Bega tip operated from the 1950s as a solid waste facility until 1994 with the majority of the solid waste being burnt.

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Aureus Mining Inc. – Maiden Reserve of 873000 oz at New Liberty – Production …
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
The Reserve is based on completion of a National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") compliant technical study, which includes an updated Resource statement, an open pit mine plan, operating and capital cost estimations, and an economic analysis.

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ZamRay Marks First Year Providing Solutions for Construction Waste
Green Building Elements
Construction waste surpasses 136 tons per year according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Kurt Fisher, founder of ZamRay, said, “We're providing a way for companies to connect and find a home for excess materials that might otherwise go into a …

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Capstone Completes Another Successful Drill Season at Minto Mine
Sacramento Bee
With respect to the MSD mineral resource estimate and the Fireweed discovery, the analytical method for the copper and silver analyses is aqua regia digestion of the samples followed by atomic absorption spectroscopy. Gold is analysed by fire assay …

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