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By Robert, on September 2nd, 2010
A fuel tanker loaded with 9 million liters (2.4 million gallons) of diesel fuel has run aground in Canada‘s Far North but none of the fuel has spilled, the Canadian Coast Guard said on Thursday.
The 117 meter (384 foot) vessel, called the Nanny, got hung up on a sand bar southwest of the community of Gjoa Haven in the territory of Nunavut on Wednesday, said Larry Trigatti, superintendent of environmental response in the Canadian Coast Guard’s central and Arctic region.
“There’s no pollution. We’ve had two overflights of the area,” Trigatti said. “The vessel has not reported any damage. There is no egress of water into the vessel and the crew is safe.”
The vessel is owned by Woodward’s Oil and was carrying the diesel fuel to supply villages in the remote region.
It is the second time in less than a week a ship has run aground in the Northwest Passage through Canada’s Arctic archipelago. Last Friday, the Clipper Adventurer, a tourist vessel with about 130 passengers, struck an uncharted rock. The passengers were evacuated.
Trigatti said the Coast Guard has a ship in the area and was working with Transport Canada and the company to free the grounded tanker. There are no plans to evacuate the crew.
By Robert, on September 2nd, 2010
Electric trolleys still cruise the streets of Philadelphia. Dating to 1892, Philly’s transit system is one of the oldest in the U.S. It’s also the country’s sixth largest.
A section of it is about to get an energy upgrade.
A $900,000 pilot project is on its way to save, and possibly profit from, SEPTA’s energy use. Viridity Energy plans to recycle the energy of trains coming into the station for use of the trains when they pull out.
Funded by the State of Pennsylvania, the project entails a huge battery (with 1 to 1.5 megawatt capacity) that will capture energy from the regenerative braking system of the trains, as they screech into some of the substations along the popular Market-Frankford Line.
By lessening SEPTA’s dependency on electricity from the grid (remember, Pennsylvania is coal country), the system, according to Viridity, might cut SEPTA’s carbon dioxide emissions by 1,258 tons each year.
By Robert, on September 2nd, 2010
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As costs soar, diligence is tumbling. In 1961 full-time students in four-year colleges spent 24 hours a week studying; that has fallen to 14, estimates the AEI. Drop-out and deferment rates are also hair-curling: only 40% of students graduate in four years.
The most plausible explanation is that professors are not particularly interested in students’ welfare. Promotion and tenure depend on published research, not good teaching. Professors strike an implicit bargain with their students: we will give you light workloads and inflated grades so long as you leave us alone to do our research. Mr Hacker and Ms Dreifus point out that senior professors in Ivy League universities now get sabbaticals every third year rather than every seventh. This year 20 of Harvard’s 48 history professors will be on leave.
America’s commitment to research is one of the glories of its higher-education system. But for how long? The supply of papers that apply gender theory to literary criticism remains ample. But there is evidence of diminishing returns in an area perhaps more vital to the country’s economic dynamism: science and technology. The Kauffman Foundation, which studies entrepreneurship, argues that the productivity of federal funding for R&D, in terms of patents and licences, has been falling for some years. Funding is spread too thinly. It would yield better results if concentrated on centres of excellence, but fashionable chatter about the “knowledge economy” stirs every congressional backwoodsman to stick his fingers into the university pie.
By Robert, on September 2nd, 2010
With the climate set to get warmer from greenhouse gases, Chinese scientists predicted on Thursday that freshwater for agriculture will shrink further in China, reducing crop yields in the years ahead.
In a paper published in Nature, they said the temperature in China had gone up by 1.2 degrees Celsius since 1960 and will increase by another 1 to 5 degrees Celsius by 2100.
“Such a pronounced summer warming would inevitably enhance evapo-transpiration, increasing the risk of water shortage for agriculture,” wrote the researchers, led by Shilong Piao of the Center of Climate Research at Beijing University.
“Climate change may induce a net yield reduction of 13 percent by 2050.”
Transpiration is similar to evaporation and refers to the loss of water vapor from plants.
They forecast that rice yields would decrease by 4 to 14 percent, wheat by 2 to 20 percent and maize by zero to 23 percent by the middle of the 21st century.
China only has 7 percent of the world’s arable land, but needs to feed 22 percent of the world’s population. Although its total water resource is huge in absolute terms, it is only 25 percent of the per capita world average.
By Robert, on September 1st, 2010
U.S. government officials urged residents of a Wyoming farming community near natural gas drilling sites not to use private well water for drinking or cooking because of chemical contamination.
“Sample results indicate that the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds in groundwater represents a drinking water concern,” the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement about tests of 19 water wells around the town of Pavillion.
The Wyoming investigation precedes a national study by the EPA into the safety of the drilling technique known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, in response to concern in Congress and in some communities near gas rigs in many states that human health is threatened by the process.
The tests in Pavillion found that 17 of the 19 wells tested contained petroleum hydrocarbons as well as napthalene, phenols and benzene, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a report issued late on Tuesday.
The tests are part of the agency’s first investigation into claims that toxic chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing are contaminating ground water.
But officials expressed no views about the source of the contamination.
“EPA has not reached any conclusions about how constituents of concern are occurring in domestic wells,” the report said.
Concerns about the safety of fracking threaten to slow the development of vast shale gas reserves that may be sufficient to meet U.S. natural gas demand for a century or more, experts believe.
The EPA’s latest results were analyzed by federal toxicologists who recommended that Pavillion residents find alternative sources of water for drinking and cooking.
For residents whose wells contain organic hydrocarbons, the new water supplies will be paid for by EnCana, the Canadian energy company that owns Pavillion’s approximately 250 gas wells, said Richard Mylott, an EPA spokesman.
Some wells were found contain to methane, and their owners were advised to ensure proper ventilation while showering.
By Robert, on September 1st, 2010
U.S. communications regulators said on Wednesday they are considering whether wireless devices should be subject to different Internet traffic rules than telephone and cable lines, in a potential victory for carriers.
At issue is net neutrality, a term that means high-speed Internet providers should not block or slow information, or make websites pay to reach users more quickly.
Broadband providers and Internet companies have held a series of meetings this summer to forge a framework on how to treat the flow of Internet, but failed to reach an agreement.
The Federal Communications Commission has been involved in many of the talks and has been seeking public comments on the topic for months.
Proponents of net neutrality, including some Internet companies and public interest groups, argue consumers will be harmed if carriers create a two-tiered Internet.
By Robert, on September 1st, 2010
The Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it had disapproved parts of Texas‘ program for permitting new industrial pollution sources.
The action will not affect permits at the state’s refineries, in which Texas leads the nation.
EPA has been wrestling with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to end the use of a single permit for a plant with multiple pollution sources, instead of a permit for each pollution source at a plant as is done in most states.
The dispute has triggered a lawsuit by the Texas attorney general against the EPA.
Under the new source review portion of the U.S. Clean Air Act, a new pollution source is to have the best type of pollution control and evaluate pollution coming from the new source and its relation to the total pollution coming from a plant.
“One example is the pollution control project standard permit revision offered by TCEQ,” EPA said in a statement. “The permit is designed to streamline permitting of changes within a plant but lacked adequate review of impacts on total air pollution levels should the changes be approved.”
A TCEQ spokesman faulted EPA’s decision, which comes six years after the state submitted it for federal approval.
By Robert, on August 31st, 2010
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By Robert, on August 31st, 2010
The Canadian economy grew at an annual rate of two per cent in the second quarter, down from 5.8 per cent in the first quarter.
Statistics Canada reported Tuesday that Canada’s gross domestic product expanded by 0.5 per cent in the March to June period, after increasing by 1.4 per cent in the first three months of the year.
It was the fourth consecutive quarterly expansion after the recession.
“What you see is what we’ll get for growth through the second half, with the economy expected to grow at a modest two per cent average pace in the next two quarters,” BMO economist Doug Porter said in reaction to the news.
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty put a positive spin on the modest showing, noting that the economy has created 400,000 new jobs since the recession ended in 2009.
“Today’s GDP numbers show that Canada’s economy is on the right track, ” he said. “[But] the global economic recovery remains fragile. That’s why creating jobs and protecting Canada’s economic advantage remains our government’s top priority.”
By Robert, on August 31st, 2010
Protesters from environmental group Greenpeace boarded a drilling rig operated by UK oil explorer Cairn Energy on Monday to try and stall development of what the oil industry hopes will become a major new producing center.
Greenpeace said four campaigners climbed aboard the Stena Don, a semi-submersible rig, which has been drilling the Alpha prospect in the Sigguk block, 175 km offshore Disko Island, West Greenland.
Cairn has said Greenland could have billions of barrels of reserves but the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has raised fears about the risks of offshore drilling.
Greenland’s harsh climactic conditions and remoteness would make capping a leak and cleaning up spilled oil especially difficult.
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