What Do the Headlines Have in Common

Revealed: British government's plan to play down Fukushima

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-plan-play-down-fukushima

Japan Utility Stays Atomic: Kepco Shareholders Vote Down Proposals to Curtail Nuclear Power Operations. The Wall Street Journal June 30 2011, B4.

“A majority of Kansai Electric Power Co. shareholders rejected proposals to exit or limit nuclear power…”

“Regulators Back Drilling in New York” The Wall Street Journal July 1 2011, p. A3

New York state regulators will recommend Friday that the use of hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas be allowed in much of the state, but remain banned in areas that supply drinking water to New York City and Syracuse officials said…But the report is likely to outrage critics who say that injecting millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals to break open shale, allowing gas to flow out, could contaminate aquifers and surface waters”

Emails expose BP's attempts to control research into impact of Gulf oil spill. The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/15/bp-control-science-gulf-oil-spill

 

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Fukushima children test positive for internal radiation exposure Traces of caesium-134 and 137 isotopes found in urine tests on 10 children in city near stricken nuclear power pant. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/30/fukushima-children-radiation-tests-caesium

Trace amounts of radioactive substances have been found in urine samples taken from children from Fukushima city, raising concerns that residents have been exposed internally to radiation from the stricken nuclear power plant 37 miles (60km) away. Tests were conducted in May on 10 children, aged between 6 and 16, by a Japanese civic group and Acro, a French body that measures radioactivity. All 10 tested positive for tiny amounts of caesium-134 and caesium-137.

Fracking and the Environment: Natural Gas Drilling, Hydraulic Fracturing and Water Contamination http://www.democracynow.org/2009/9/3/fracking_and_the_environment_natural_gasn

BP dispersants 'causing sickness.’ Jamail, Dahr. (2010, October 29). Al Jazeera. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2010/10/20101027132136220370.html