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San Francisco bans helmet cams after firefighters captured running over victim

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“The Associated Press reported on Monday that video from Battalion Chief Mark Johnson’s helmet camera shows a fire truck running over 16-year-old Ye Meng Yuan, who was lying on the ground following the crash. The discovery of the footage led Chief Joanne Hayes-White to expand a 2009 order banning cameras on department grounds to include helmet cameras, citing concerns over firefighters’ safety. ‘Why would anybody not want to know the truth?’ attorney Anthony Tarricone. told the AP. ‘What’s wrong with knowing what happened? What’s wrong with keeping people honest? That’s what the helmet cam did, in effect, in this case.'”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/20/san-francisco-bans-helmet-cams-after-they-capture-firefighters-running-over-asiana-crash-victim/

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Fukushima scientists brace for riskiest nuclear fuel clean-up yet

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“The operation, to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel beneath the plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4, could set off a catastrophe greater than any we have ever seen, independent experts warn. An operation of this scale, says plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company, has never been attempted before.  An uncontrolled leak of nuclear fuel could cause more radiation than the March 2011 disaster or the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe. Here’s what needs to be done: more than 1,300 used fuel rod assemblies, packing radiation 14,000 times the equivalent of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, need to carefully be removed from their cooling pool.”

http://rt.com/news/fukushima-fuel-cleanup-operation-522/

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300 Tons a Day of Radioactive Water From Fukushima Pours Into Ocean

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“Officials in Japan hid the fact that the Fukushima nuclear plant has been pouring hundreds of tons of nuclear waste water into the ocean every day and that a containment barrier has been breached.  There is no credibility from TEPCO or the Japanese government on the extent of the real disaster, its effects, the ultimate cleanup costs, or how many years fish in the area will be contaminated. In addition, contaminated fish may turn up anywhere within their normal swimming range with obvious implications.”

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/08/300-tons-day-of-nuclear-waste-from.html

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Fishermen still fighting Fukushima’s aftermath

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“The environment ministry recently announcement that 300 tonnes of contaminated groundwater from Fukushima Daiichi is still seeping over or around barriers into the Pacific every day, more than two years after it was struck by a tsunami in March 2011. Government officials said they suspected the leaks had started soon after the accident, which resulted in a nuclear meltdown. Unable to make a living from a sea poisoned by radiation, the town’s 70 fishermen earn money clearing tsunami debris; the only fish they catch are taken not to market, but to makeshift labs where they are tested for radiation from the plant, located just 12 miles to the north.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/09/i-havent-been-able-to-fish-since-the-tsunami-fishermen-still-fighting-fukushimas-aftermath/

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Tons of radioactive water pouring out of crippled Fukushima nuclear plant

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“Highly radioactive water from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is pouring out at a rate of 300 tons a day, officials said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered the government to step in and help in the clean-up. Tepco only recently admitted water had leaked at all. The leak from the plant 220 km (130 miles) northeast of Tokyo is enough to fill an Olympic swimming pool in a week. The water is spilling into the Pacific Ocean, but it was not immediately clear how much of a threat it poses. As early as January this year, Tepco found fish contaminated with high levels of radiation inside a port at the plant.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/07/tons-of-radioactive-water-pouring-out-of-crippled-fukushima-nuclear-plant/

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Japan nuclear body says radioactive water at Fukushima an ‘emergency’

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“Highly radioactive water seeping into the ocean from Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is creating an ’emergency’ that the operator is struggling to contain, an official from the country’s nuclear watchdog said on Monday. This contaminated groundwater has breached an underground barrier, is rising toward the surface and is exceeding legal limits of radioactive discharge, he told Reuters. Countermeasures planned by Tokyo Electric Power Co are only a temporary solution, he said. Tepco’s ‘sense of crisis is weak,’ Kinjo said. ‘This is why you can’t just leave it up to Tepco alone’ to grapple with the ongoing disaster.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/05/japan-nuclear-body-says-radioactive-water-at-fukushima-an-emergency/

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Police arrest more than 200 protesters for trespassing at Chevron plant

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“Police arrested more than 200 demonstrators for trespassing at Chevron Corp in the California city of Richmond on Saturday to mark the one-year anniversary of a massive refinery fire and to protest a proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The arrests came as a throng of sunflower-carrying picketers chanted, ‘Hey hey, ho ho, fossil fuels have got to go,’ as people of all ages walked onto Chevron’s property to draw attention to a growing movement against fossil fuel. The arrests included three people in wheelchairs and demonstrators as young as 18 years old. Media reports said most of those arrested were cited and released.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/04/police-arrest-more-than-200-protesters-for-trespassing-at-chevron-plant/

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Halliburton pleads guilty to destroying Gulf spill evidence

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“Halliburton Co has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday. The government said Halliburton’s guilty plea is the third by a company over the spill and requires the world’s second-largest oilfield services company to pay a maximum $200,000 statutory fine. Halliburton also agreed to three years of probation and to continue cooperating with the criminal probe into the April 20, 2010, explosion of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig. Houston-based Halliburton also made a separate, voluntary $55 million payment to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/26/us-gulf-spill-halliburton-idUSBRE96O1HF20130726

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Japan: Fukushima clean-up will cost $58 billion

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“The clean-up after the Fukushima nuclear disaster could cost five times more than estimated, far more than the 1 trillion yen the government has so far allocated, as Tokyo Electric Power said on Wednesday that steam had been seen again in a reactor building.  Earlier this month, the utility had reported spiking levels of possibly cancer-causing materials in soil from underneath the plant, but maintained that toxic groundwater was likely contained. On Monday it admitted its own study, completed days earlier, revealed the groundwater was leaking into the ocean, prompting criticism over the delay.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/24/japan-fukushima-clean-up-will-cost-58-billion/

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Safety Statistics Are Not to Be Ignored, Especially Not in Oil Transport

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“An oil spill is 34 times more likely with a railway accident compared to just the aging pipeline infrastructure. So why then are we relying more and more on rail transports? The answer is simple: there is simply too much uninformed opposition to building new pipelines and replace the aging infrastructure criss-crossing North America. But the fact of the matter is this: for every day that we delay implementing a ‘Casey Sensible Solution,’ we are in fact putting rural communities such as Lac Mégantic at risk from either rail disasters or spills from pipelines that have been around since the Eisenhower administration.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/cdd/safety-statistics-are-not-to-be-ignored-especially-not-in-oil-transport

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