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Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/1970972/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/1970972/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Most Auckland beaches unsafe for swimming after heavy rain <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/after" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>after</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/atmospheric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>atmospheric</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/auckland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>auckland</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/aucklands" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aucklands</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/beaches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>beaches</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/been" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>been</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/country" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>country</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/for" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>for</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/have" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>have</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/heavy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>heavy</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/most" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>most</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/rain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rain</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/recent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>recent</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/river" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>river</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/swept" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swept</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/swimming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>swimming</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/through" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>through</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/unsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unsafe</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/with" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>with</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>High tide for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Holtec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Holtec</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tritium</span></a> dumped into <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapeCodBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapeCodBay</span></a> will wash back onto community shores, says a new report</p><p>"The permanently closed Pilgrim nuclear power plant is now owned by Holtec, which wants to dump <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWastewater</span></a> into Cape Cod Bay. While waiting for a permit, so far denied, the company is quietly venting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tritium</span></a> into the air."</p><p>by Linda Pentz Gunter, Posted on December 29, 2024 </p><p>"Holtec, the company that has purchased a number of permanently closed <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> reactors in order to decommission them, has encountered yet another obstacle to its '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dilution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dilution</span></a> is the solution to pollution' plans.</p><p>"One of the reactor sites Holtec has taken over is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PilgrimNuclearPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PilgrimNuclearPlant</span></a> in Plymouth, Massachusetts, on the Cape Cod Bay, which closed permanently in 2019. Holtec’s not-so-little problem there is what do with what started out as at least 1.1 million gallons of radioactively contaminated <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> stored at the site. </p><p>"The company first suggested it would simply release the wastewater into Cape Cod Bay, assuring residents and the immediately alarmed fishing community not to worry because (a) the wastewater isn’t dangerous anyway (b) everyone does this all the time at reactor sites and no one has gotten sick so far and (c) it would quickly disperse into the wider ocean. Holtec chose this disposal method for one reason alone: it is the cheapest.</p><p>"The proposal was vigorously fought by citizens, the state, and powerful Massachusetts Democrat, Senator Ed Markey. The state of Massachusetts effectively banned the discharge option, a decision Holtec is contesting. </p><p>"That Final Determination to Deny Application to Modify a Massachusetts Permit to Discharge Pollutants to Surface Waters was issued by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MassDEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MassDEP</span></a>] Division of Watershed Management on July 18, 2024. A month later, Holtec launched its appeal to reverse the decision, something that could take months or longer to find its way to court.</p><p>"In the meantime, help has come from a new quarter in the form of an in-depth study by the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WHOI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WHOI</span></a>], also, as it happens, based on the Massachusetts shoreline, near Falmouth.</p><p>"The study — Model-Based Study of Near-Surface Transport in and around Cape Cod Bay, Its Seasonal Variability, and Response to Wind — found that contrary to Holtec’s claims, the wastewater would not immediately disperse into the ocean, but would linger potentially for months, and wash up on the shores of area communities.</p><p>“'We found virtually no out-of-the-Bay transport in winter and fall and slightly larger, but still low, probability of some of the plume exiting the Bay in spring and summer,' said Woods Hole study leader and physical oceanographer, Irina Rypina.</p><p>"The radioactively contaminated wastewater stored at Pilgrim is contaminated with what Holtec and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have described as 'four gamma emitters — <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Manganese54" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manganese54</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cobalt60" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cobalt60</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Zinc65" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zinc65</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cesium137" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cesium137</span></a> along with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tritium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tritium</span></a>, a beta radiation emitter'. </p><p>"While the Woods Hole Study did not look at the health outcomes of releasing the radioactive water into Cape Cod Bay — only at the plume pathway — there are plenty of data that demonstrate the harmful effects of these <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioisotopes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioisotopes</span></a> on human health, especially women and children.</p><p>"After acquiring the Pilgrim reactor, Holtec’s President and CEO, Kris Singh, assured surrounding communities that, <br>'the decommissioning of Pilgrim will replicate the superb record of public health and safety and environmental protection that typified the plant’s 47 years of operations.'</p><p>But since that acquisition, Markey observed, 'Holtec has fallen woefully short on this commitment.' He noted of the Woods Hole report that 'In light of these recent findings, I urge Holtec to develop a wastewater discharge plan that is informed and guided by scientific fact and community input.'</p><p>"Long-time <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PilgrimWatch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PilgrimWatch</span></a> activist, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaryLampert" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaryLampert</span></a>, welcomed the report’s initial findings and said that 'Holtec dumping Pilgrim’s radiological and chemically <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> wastewater into semi-enclosed CapeCod Bay is harmful to human health, the environment, and our marine economy.' </p><p>"In a handbook explaining Pilgrim’s decommissioning process on the Pilgrim Watch website, the authors note that 'Cape Cod Bay, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PlymouthBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlymouthBay</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DuxburyBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DuxburyBay</span></a>, and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KingstonBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KingstonBay</span></a> are all protected <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OceanSanctuaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OceanSanctuaries</span></a>. Cape Cod Bay is a critical habitat for right whales and other endangered or special species. Dumping this <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radioactive</span></a> and chemically contaminated wastewater into them would cause incalculable economic damage and would harm both the environment and public health.'</p><p>"Absent a liquid discharge permit, Holtec’s preferred solution since has been to quietly evaporate the wastewater into the air. It has done this, as revealed during a Pilgrim Nuclear Decommissioning Citizen Advisory Panel meeting, by installing submerged electric heaters to increase the plant’s ambient temperature, ostensibly in order to improve worker comfort and expedite the drying of plant components.</p><p>"But, as Markey noted in an April 30, 2024 letter to Singh, the consequence of installing the heaters in that location 'is an increased rate of wastewater evaporation above the pace at which it occurs naturally.' That 1.1 million gallons is now down to 880,000 gallons remain, according to Holtec’s own reports.</p><p>"As Lampert points out, 'Meteorology studies show 60% of winds blow offshore,' which means at least some of that evaporated wastewater is going to fall into the bay anyway. </p><p>"Under Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules, Holtec has four disposal options: liquid discharge, evaporation, storage onsite, and shipping to a licensed facility. None of them are good solutions.</p><p>"In August, Holtec filed an appeal against the state’s ban on liquid radioactive discharges, in part claiming that the decision on whether or not to allow the discharge falls under federal not state jurisdiction.</p><p>"This, argue some opponents of Holtec’s discharge plans, is a stall and a distraction while it quietly gets on with the gradual evaporation of all the wastewater. </p><p>"'They’re using the appeal to buy themselves time,' Andrew Gottlieb, executive director of the Association to Preserve Cape Cod, told radio station WBUR. 'And what they buy themselves, with time, is the ability to continue to induce evaporation of the wastewater, so that ultimately it’s gone, at minimal cost to them.'</p><p>"Lampert agrees. 'Holtec can evaporate all the water to meet its schedule to dismantle the reactor building,' she said.</p><p>"In October, Lampert, along with other citizens representing the fishing, environmental, real estate and medical communities traveled to Boston to meet with staff in Massachusetts Governor Mary Healy’s office to demand that Healy’s administration call a halt to the evaporation.</p><p>"'There are laws on the books already that prohibit <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirbornePollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirbornePollution</span></a>,' Diane Turco of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CapeDownwinders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CapeDownwinders</span></a> told the local NPR station after the Boston meeting. “And we’re asking our governor to immediately enforce those laws… She’s been very strong about no dumping in the bay. And we see this as a parallel assault on our communities,' Turco said.</p><p>"So far the governor has not taken action."<br> <br><a href="https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2024/12/29/high-tide-for-holtec/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">beyondnuclearinternational.org</span><span class="invisible">/2024/12/29/high-tide-for-holtec/</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HoltecLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HoltecLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PilgrimNuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PilgrimNuclear</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RethinkNotRestart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RethinkNotRestart</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoRadioactiveDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoRadioactiveDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AirIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AirIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveWaterDumping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveWaterDumping</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NewEngland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewEngland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeyondNuclearInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BeyondNuclearInternational</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Good ol' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KerrMcGee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KerrMcGee</span></a>. You remember them, right? <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KarenSilkwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KarenSilkwood</span></a>'s employer!</p><p>Karen <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Silkwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Silkwood</span></a>'s sudden death unpacked in ABC documentary</p><p>The four-part podcast unearths never-before-heard audio tapes. </p><p>ByDoc Louallen<br>November 14, 2024</p><p>"Fifty years ago, the death of a 28-year-old <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a> plant worker and whistleblower in Oklahoma -- a death many found mysterious and sparked decades of speculation -- shocked the nation.</p><p>"The official story was that Karen Silkwood died in a one-car crash on Nov. 13, 1974. She was on her way to meet a New York Times journalist, reportedly to hand over documents she'd secretly been collecting at her job at a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearFacility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearFacility</span></a>. The Oklahoma State Highway Patrol concluded that Silkwood fell asleep at the wheel -- possibly under the influence of prescribed drugs --- drove off the highway, crashed into a ditch, and died.</p><p>"'We’ve never believed it,' Mike Boettcher said of the official narrative. Boettcher and his reporting partner Bob Sands, both veteran Oklahoma journalists, say many in Oklahoma speculate that Karen Silkwood may have died for what she knew.</p><p>"Silkwood's story has become widely known, inspiring several books, articles, and a major motion picture.<br>Silkwood worked at a nuclear fuel production plant that manufactured <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plutonium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plutonium</span></a> fuel rods to power a new type of nuclear reactor, which was part of a multi-million dollar experiment to enhance <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nuclear</span></a> energy. When she noticed what she felt were <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/unsafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unsafe</span></a> working conditions -- such as leaks, spills and co-workers frequently getting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioactiveMaterial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RadioactiveMaterial</span></a> -- she spoke up and tried to make improvements.</p><p>"'Karen became nuclear energy's first <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/whistleblower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>whistleblower</span></a>, though the term whistleblower was just starting to be used,' Boettcher said. 'This was at a time when the idea of someone inside of a big corporation exposing alleged misdeeds was shocking.'</p><p>"Silkwood's allegations, contamination, and untimely death sparked an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, an FBI inquiry, a civil lawsuit, several appeals, a congressional hearing and two appearances before the U.S. Supreme Court."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/karen-silkwoods-sudden-death-unpacked-abc-documentary/story?id=115778837" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/k</span><span class="invisible">aren-silkwoods-sudden-death-unpacked-abc-documentary/story?id=115778837</span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CoverUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoverUp</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NoNukes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NoNukes</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearIndustry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigOilAndGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BigOilAndGas</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WhoKilledKarenSilkwood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhoKilledKarenSilkwood</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>'This is our best option:' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Maine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maine</span></a> farmers turn to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarEnergy</span></a> due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a> fields</p><p>Story by Brad Rogers<br>7/25/2024</p><p>ARUNDEL (WGME) – "<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a>, also known as forever chemicals, have been nothing short of disastrous for hundreds of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Mainefarmers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mainefarmers</span></a>.</p><p>"It's ruined their land, made their cattle, milk and eggs unsafe to eat and left many farmers with serious health problems.</p><p>"'This farm has been in our family since 1914,' <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FredStone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FredStone</span></a>, whose <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arundel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arundel</span></a> farm was contaminated with PFAS, said.</p><p>"Stone was a third-generation dairy farmer in Arundel until forever chemicals were discovered in his fields, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WellWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WellWater</span></a>, cows and milk.</p><p>"The pollution came from spreading <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wastewater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wastewater</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/sludge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sludge</span></a> on his farm after the state told him it was safe.</p><p>"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineDEP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaineDEP</span></a> has identified more than 500 sites where sludge was applied to farmland as <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/fertilizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fertilizer</span></a>.</p><p>"In 2017, Stone was the first farmer in the state to have his dairy farm and his pasture shut down due to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAScontamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFAScontamination</span></a>.</p><p>"To make up for it, the state offered to buy his farm, but he refused to walk away.</p><p>"'We’re not in the farm selling or land selling business,' Stone said. 'Given what options we had left, that brought us to the solar thing.'</p><p>"He's been working with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaldenRenewables" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaldenRenewables</span></a> to build a solar array on 100 acres of his contaminated farm.</p><p>"'It's their best alternative, but for some of these landowners, it's hard to kind of accept the change that they're facing,' Dale Knapp of Walden Renewables said. 'This is an injection of revenue that they desperately need.'</p><p>"This week, the Maine Public Utilities Commission [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MainePUC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MainePUC</span></a>] approved new rules, paving the way for solar development on PFAS-polluted farms.</p><p>"'The Act provides that the commission must give a primary preference to projects that are located on contaminated lands,' Carrie Gilbert of the Maine PUC Commission said.</p><p>"'This is our best option,' Stone said. 'So reluctantly, very reluctantly I guess, that’s what we ended up having to do.'</p><p>"Stone plans to sign a 30-year lease for the solar array.</p><p>"After that, his farm may still be contaminated with forever chemicals, but 30 years is a long time for someone to come up with a solution.</p><p>"'That might mean that generational farm just goes on pause,' Knapp said. 'And the next generation may have the opportunity to return it to being a family farm someday.'</p><p>"'I’m very bitter,' Stone said. 'This is not the way we wanted to see this go. Yeah, I would love to see it continue on as a farm of some kind but damn the state of Maine for putting me in this position.'"</p><p><a href="https://wgme.com/news/local/this-is-our-best-option-maine-farmers-turn-to-solar-energy-due-to-contaminated-fields-pfas-forever-chemical-dep-sludge-milk-cows-array" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wgme.com/news/local/this-is-ou</span><span class="invisible">r-best-option-maine-farmers-turn-to-solar-energy-due-to-contaminated-fields-pfas-forever-chemical-dep-sludge-milk-cows-array</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MaineFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MaineFarms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFarms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFarms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ContaminatedFarmland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ContaminatedFarmland</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Reuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reuse</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SolarFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarFarm</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewablesNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewablesNow</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RenewableEnergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenewableEnergy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFOA</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFOS</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASContamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFASContamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WaterPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PFASPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PTFE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PTFE</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cancer</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Contamination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Contamination</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chemicals</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenXChemicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenXChemicals</span></a></p>
SubtleBlade ⚔️<p>Former <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RAF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAF</span></a> base to house <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/AsylumSeekers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsylumSeekers</span></a> is <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a>, government letters say</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/RAFScampton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAFScampton</span></a> in <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Lincolnshire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lincolnshire</span></a> is one of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HomeOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomeOffice</span></a>’s three main accommodation sites, with first arrivals due within weeks</p><p>UK military base due to accommodate up to 2,000 asylum seekers under controversial plans has been found to be contaminated with ground gases and unexploded ordnance, according to government documents.<br> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/01/former-raf-base-to-house-asylum-seekers-is-contaminated-government-letters-say-scampton-lincolnshire" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/a</span><span class="invisible">pr/01/former-raf-base-to-house-asylum-seekers-is-contaminated-government-letters-say-scampton-lincolnshire</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryPoliciesInAction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToryPoliciesInAction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ToryInhumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ToryInhumanity</span></a></p>
anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p>26% of children had levels above those associated with adverse <a href="https://mas.to/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> impacts. In the Colombian Amazon, 24% of study participants in Indigenous communities of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Putumayo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Putumayo</span></a> region self-reported symptoms of mercury poisoning, 84% had mercury levels deemed unsafe for pregnant women, these levels were associated with areas in which “on boat” mercury mining occurred and their <a href="https://mas.to/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a> supply, an important source of nutrition, was <a href="https://mas.to/tags/contaminated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>contaminated</span></a>.</p><p>14/18</p><p><a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00244-016-0285-5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s00244-016-0285-5</span></a></p>