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The Kyiv Independent [unofficial]

Ukraine Daily Summary - Wednesday, September 11 2024

Moscow claims Ukraine launched 'massive' 144-drone attack on Russia -- Sweden takes step toward supplying Ukraine with Gripen fighter jets -- China supplies Russia's war machine, receives military tech in exchange -- How Russian propaganda reached Venice’s red carpet -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily Summary - Wednesday, September 11 2024Moscow claims Ukraine launched 'massive' 144-drone attack on Russia -- Sweden takes step toward supplying Ukraine with Gripen fighter jets -- China supplies Russia's war machine, receives military tech in exchange -- How Russian propaganda reached Venice’s red carpet -- and more
#estonia#france#highprecision
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DoomsdaysCW

More of this, please...!

Feds pick #Hanford #nuclear site for massive #SolarFarm

By Conrad Swanson
July 25, 2024

"While Washington struggles to contend with surging demand for electricity, federal officials on Thursday announced plans for a massive solar farm on the Hanford nuclear site.

"The U.S. Department of Energy is negotiating a real estate deal with Chicago-based #HecateEnergy, which would build a solar farm across 8,000 acres of federally owned lands on the heavily #polluted site.

"If built as planned, the project would have the ability to generate up to a gigawatt of renewable energy, and would rank among the largest solar installations in the country. That’s about enough energy to power half of Seattle City Light’s customers during record peak demand.

"The project would also include #battery storage, which is a critical component that allows electricity generated by solar power to be used at times when the sun isn’t shining.

"Producing #RenewableEnergy at the #HanfordSite would mark a substantial new chapter for the land.

"The site covers 560 square miles, nearly half the size of Rhode Island, said Sean O’Brien, executive director of the renewable nonprofit Energy Forward Alliance. For decades, the government made plutonium for nuclear weapons there.

"Despite its history — and contamination — large swaths of the site are not #radioactive, O’Brien said. And local organizations like his and the Tri-City Development Council share a vision for the place to be a national hub of clean energy generation.

"The solar array and battery storage would make up just one portion, albeit a large one, of the site’s renewable energy potential, Reeploeg and O’Brien said.

"The partnership between federal officials and Hecate — representatives for which could not immediately be reached for comment — could sidestep major hurdles these types of massive projects face, said Glenn Blackmon, manager of Washington’s Energy Policy Office."

seattletimes.com/seattle-news/

The Seattle Times · Feds pick Hanford nuclear site for massive solar farmThe renewable energy project could mark a substantial new chapter for the land, which is among the most polluted in the country.
#SolarFarms#SolarEnergy#RenewablesNow
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A.Stringer

I think this is good news as #KelhamIsland needs further #regeneration & adding shops as well as homes will be a definite draw. My only caveat being that there needs to be a % of #affordablehousing and #greenspaces added to what is currently a fairly ugly #polluted part of Kelham Island.

BBC News: Derelict brewery site homes plan set for approval
BBC News - Derelict brewery site homes plan set for approval
bbc.com/news/articles/c728jp29

#regeneration
#Sheffield
#Sheffieldhousing

www.bbc.comSheffield: Cannon Brewery site housing plans set to be approvedMore than 500 apartments will be built if plans for the former Cannon Brewery in Sheffield go ahead.
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DoomsdaysCW

#LandBack at #Barnhart:
Contextualizing the Re-occupation of #BarnhartIsland in Shared Legacies of Struggle

From #TurtleIsland to #Palestine, the struggle at #Akwesasne is rooted in the shared struggle of all #OppressedPeoples of the world who are opposing the illogic of #SettlerCapitalism and the endless violation of the #lands and #waters that our current economic system necessitates.

By Jennifer Lee
June 25, 2024

"On May 21, 2024, a group of eight Kanien’kehá:ka (#Mohawk) community members from Akwesasne were arrested at Niionenhiasekowa:ne (Barnhart Island). Certain individuals among the '#Akwesasne8' had originally gone to Barnhart to exercise their right to build a hunting and gathering shelter on their own territory, in part to protest an ongoing land claim settlement that threatens to hand over Kanien’kehá:ka title to this island, among other traditionally held territories, to New York State. The settlement is being negotiated between New York entities and three Akwesasne government councils.

"Presently, the settlement negotiations would require the extinguishment of Mohawk title to Barnhart Island, which would be effectuated through an act of Congress. By asserting their right to the land, the #Akwesasne8 have sent a clear message to both negotiating parties. Barnhart Island, like all other territories illegally stolen and swindled from their community, is not for sale—particularly not by collaborationist band and tribal council entities that purport to represent the full community but that were in fact historically imposed upon it at gunpoint.

"The fact that a group of eight community members was surrounded within just a few hours by approximately 35 police agents (including both border patrol agents and state troopers) is a clear indication of the strategic significance of this island to the interests of settler-capital. As Taiewennahawi (Marina Johnson-Zafiris), one of the eight arrestees, explains in her article 'Akwesasne and the History of #Hydropower,' the Moses-Saunders #hydrodam, located at the east end of Barnhart Island, is one of the many dams along the St. Lawrence Seaway that has supplied 'cheap' electricity to an unending procession of heavily #polluting factories since the 1950s.

"For decades, dirty plants like #Alcoa, #GeneralMotors, and #ReynoldsMetals harnessed the immense power of the #Kaniatarowanenneh (#SaintLawrenceRiver) at the Moses-Saunders dam to manufacture aluminum, a cheap, abundant, and malleable building material that requires vast amounts of power to extract and process. Not only was hydropower-fueled aluminum production critical to New York’s economic development, it was central to the national pride and independence of so-called #Québec. Eager to assert its autonomy from Anglophone capital in the 1960s, the province began damming rivers on #Indigenous land in a frenzy of hydropower nationalism.

"Upstream on the St. Lawrence, the aluminum plants at Akwesasne used a #toxic #sludge containing polychlorinated biphenyls (#PCBs) as a hydraulic fluid during the production process. These PCBs were manufactured by the infamously litigious #corporation #Monsanto, which continues to evade public #accountability for discharging this known #carcinogen into the St. Lawrence River and onto Kanien’kehá:ka soil. The #carcinogenic soup was left exposed on the very grounds where the children of Akwesasne played and where families grew their vegetables. Today, Akwesasne sits downstream and downwind of three heavily #polluted #superfund sites, and residents of Akwesasne report that almost everyone they know has a friend or family member suffering from a rare #cancer, #MetabolicSyndrome, or #autoimmune disorder. Rare, life-threatening illnesses exist at Akwesasne at rates that the public would never consider normal or acceptable in any non-Indigenous community.

"Dana-Leigh Thompson, one of the Akwesasne 8, lived about 3,000 feet from the PCB #dumpsite of the #GeneralMotors (#GM) factory for a decade. She calls what is happening to the community nothing short of an '#environmental #genocide.'"

Read more:

magazine.scienceforthepeople.o

Science for the People Magazine · Land Back at Barnhart • SftP MagazineThe “Akwesasne 8,” arrested exercising their rights to the land, brings to fore the interconnectedness of the world's anticolonial struggles.
#EnvironmentalRacism#Ecocide
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DoomsdaysCW

More of this, please...!

On #Oneida #Wetlands, Bird Surveys Affirm Tribal Conservation Success
A recent collaboration between #Wisconsin birders and the #OneidaNation demonstrates how the tribe's decades-long habitat restoration paid off.

Words by Xian Chiang-Waren
Senior Associate Editor, #Audubon Magazine
Published Winter 2021

"Twenty years ago, Tony Kuchma took charge of restoring the Oneida Nation's wetlands in northeastern Wisconsin. The land was marked by old mills and farm operations. The water was #polluted. The fields were overrun with non-native plants.

"Since then, Kuchma and his team have rehabilitated about 3,000 acres of the reservation. 'Large-scale #restoration is an accumulation of years of effort,' he says. 'We’re looking at the land: Some wants to be prairie, some trees, some wetland. The land tells you what it wants to be again.'

"Now streams flow where ditches stood, and there's a renewed #wildlife presence. 'We’ve had eagles come back,' says Randy Cornelius, a cultural representative of the tribe. 'I’ve seen ospreys, cormorants, ducks I’ve never seen before.'"

audubon.org/magazine/winter-20

Audubon · On Oneida Wetlands, Bird Surveys Affirm Tribal Conservation SuccessBy Xian Chiang-Waren
#RestoreNature#RestoreTheWetlands#NatureBasedSolutions
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DoomsdaysCW

So, ignoring the elephant in the room (that #PFAS is EVERYWHERE), apparently, the state of #Maine has been restocking fish in ponds and lakes that have known PFAS contamination...

Maine stocks PFAS-laden waters with fish, warns ‘do not eat’

Scientists worry that some anglers will still consume the #trout tainted by #ForeverChemicals. One environmental watchdog group calls the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife practice 'super disturbing.'

by Penelope Overton, June 2, 2024

"Chock-full of forever chemicals, the #FishingHoles next to Fairfield’s youth athletic complex on Industrial Drive are believed to be some of the most #polluted waters in #Maine – yet the state still stocks these ponds every year with hatchery-raised #BrookTrout for local children to catch.

"The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife [#MaineDIFW] said it puts brook trout in the ponds for kids to catch for fun, not for sustenance, and that it warns against eating anything caught from these waters. A fish doesn’t have to be eaten to be enjoyed, said state fisheries director Francis Brautigam."

Relevant quotes:

Sarah Woodbury, Defend Our Health: “This is super disturbing to me that they are intentionally stocking areas they know are contaminated. Folks that depend on fish to feed their families shouldn’t have to be worried about additional contamination.”

Michelle Flewelling, #FairfieldMaine Town Manager: "“Forever chemicals have done a number on this town. We’ve got the highest numbers in the state, maybe the country. We all know it. It’s no secret. It’s in our drinking water, our ponds, our fields. It’s white noise at this point. We’ve lost so much. Why let it take one more thing from these kids?”

Read more [may be behind a paywall]:
pressherald.com/2024/06/02/sta

#WaterIsLife #PFOS #PFASContamination #WaterPollution #PFASPollution #PFOA #PTFE #Wildlife #Cancer #Contamination #Chemicals #Environment #GenXChemicals
#Toxic #Capitalism #Crapitalism

Press Herald · Maine stocks PFAS-laden waters with fish, warns ‘do not eat’Scientists worry that some anglers will still consume the trout tainted by forever chemicals. One environmental watchdog group calls the state Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife practice 'super disturbing.'
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anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖

Not only is #GinnieSprings losing precious #water, but the water that does remain is #polluted by excessive nutrients from nearby #agriculture. #BlueTriton, which owns #PolandSpring, #ArrowheadWater, #DeerParkSpringWater and more, wants to compound the #crisis by drawing more than a million gallons per day, putting Ginnie Springs at risk.

With BlueTriton's plan to pull nearly double the amount of water from the spring than in the past, Ginnie Springs could decline to unsustainable levels.

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beSpacific

#factoryfarming set of #economic, #genetic, #chemical, #pharmaceutical innovations enabled humanity 2 raise tens of billions of animals for food every yr has transformed America. It has #polluted our #water #air, ruining quality of life 4 people who live near animal confinements. It has altered entire landscapes helping drive conversion of much of Midwest’s #biodiverse prairie #grasslands 2 soy, cornfields growing feed 4 billions of #animals warehoused in industrial sheds vox.com/future-perfect/2407942

Vox · 9 charts that show US factory farming is even bigger than you realizeBy Marina Bolotnikova
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