WATERSHED Investigations

B.C. Doctors Flag Alarming Health Trends Near Fracking Sites Researchers met with the city of Dawson Creek in British Columbia to share insights about how fracking in the region is affecting public health.

- Cancers
- unexplained scarring on the lungs
- impaired fetal growth
- premature birth
- heart disease

Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites:

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Campaigners who thought they'd won the battle to prevent fracking in Lincolnshire dismayed to learn mayor Andrea Jenkyns is courting fracking firm, Egdon -

- vow to keep fighting to protect their homes from pollution:

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Yorkshire to decide fracking proposal and not the Government Secretary of State declines to call in Burniston fracking proposal River Ure in Yorkshire Proposals for fracking near Scarborough will now not be ‘called in’ by the Government and instead the decis…

In Yorkshire, a fracking firm tries to get round the ban on fracking by saying the 'proppant squeeze' they plan to use is not a form of fracking, so exempt from the ban.

Others beg to differ:

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Fracking firm denied more time to restore Lancashire site Cuadrilla has

In Lancashire they're still waiting for a fracking site to be cleaned up so it's safe to farm on, years after fracking was paused:

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British Geological Survey map showing areas of UK suitable for fracking

And Reform have pledged to open the UK for fracking if elected.

Below is a British Geological Survey map of areas in the UK suitable for fracking exploration 👇🏾

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The ‘Toxic Cocktail’ Brewing in Pennsylvania’s Waterways - Inside Climate News Pennsylvania is still cleaning up decades’ worth of coal mining pollution. Now it must also contend with millions of tons of fracking waste, some of it radioactive.

Fracking waste has a mix of chemicals from fracking fluid + others leached from underground.

Arsenic, lead, cancer-causing benzenes, radioactive radium can all be present.

It's being dumped in Pennsylvania landfills.

Mounting evidence says it's getting into rivers:

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HSE consults on classifying a type of PFAS emitted from Lancashire chemical factory as ‘possible carcinogen’ The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a consultation on classifying a PFAS chemical that is emitted to the environment from the AGC Chemicals factory near Blackpool as a “possible carcino...

The HSE may class the PFAS used by AGC's factory in Lancashire (EEA-NH4) as a possible carcinogen & reprotoxic substance. @watershed-i.bsky.social previously uncovered they're emitting 800kg per year into the River Wyre and it's in the soil around the plant.

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It looks like nature's engineers might finally catch a dam break!

Conservation groups joined state Rep. Mandy Lindsay, Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Sen. Cathy Kipp and Sen. Lisa Cutter to introduce a first-of-its-kind bill to protect #beavers on #PublicLands 🦫🦫

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This bill will support beavers proven role in building #drought and #wildfire resilience and is especially important as historically low snowpack heightens drought and wildfire danger across #Colorado.

“With the snowpack shrinking and fire seasons getting longer, it’s reckless to treat beavers like targets instead of allies,” said Samantha Miller, a senior carnivore campaigner at the Center for Biological Diversity.

After a Decade of Missteps, a Texas City Careens Toward a Water-Shortage Catastrophe - Inside Climate News Officials in Corpus Christi expect a “water emergency” within months, and to fully run out of water next year. That would halt jet fuel supplies to Texas airports, trigger a surge in gasoline prices a...

Without significant rainfall in Corpus Christi, TX, officials warn the city’s water supply could run out by year’s end—threatening jet fuel shipments to Texas airports and crude exports from one of the nation’s largest oil ports, with potential ripple effects across energy markets.

Countries can rewild borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

Countries can rewild land borders to deter invasions, says EU environment chief

- Jessika Roswall cites Poland and Finland, which have made border areas near Russia or its allies ‘more hostile’ to cross

#rewilding
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Whoever is behind Watershed Investigations is brilliant. Excellent investigative journalism that is sorely needed. Highly recommend following them.

Apparently, the one most people learned is very different than our politicians' take away

Buglife News: Love Your Pet, Not Pesticides: New Report Warns of Flea and Tick Treatment Threat to Rivers Read more of our latest news related to invertebrates, insects and bugs.

A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50

Ugh, another reason I can’t wait for the world to decarbonize asap.

rendering of a 5 storey building complex

rendering of community space

earth building, affordable, inclusive, baugruppe ... in Munich. TERRA VIVA bauimpuls.info

Never a truer word

Oh! Thank you, that's so kind and deeply appreciated 🙏 Watershed is formed of two journalists @leanahosea.bsky.social and @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social

Been explaining for years that US oil and gas production is very dirty (high methane emissions) and it can never meet the standards set by EU regs.

Now the oil industry is admitting the same. The lies work until they don't!

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

Emissions (grams of CO2 per kilowatt hour) from North Sea gas vs LNG imports. Source: Carbon Brief analysis

Factcheck: North Sea gas is not ‘four times cleaner’ than LNG imports | @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org #CBarchive

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How “miracle plant” spekboom is helping revive South Africa’s Eastern Cape Restoration of the unassuming spekboom shrub is bringing water, wildlife and livelihoods back to a drought-prone region.

Doc Ndyawe is always on alert in case poachers target the black rhinos that browse the thickets along the Great Fish River in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. But he worries more about another lurking danger: drought.

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I'm looking forward to reading the full text of the new Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill. It's at:

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Reform's pro fracking stance ignores public opposition. Being funded by Climate blind FF interests will undermine them.

Going after desalination is closer to nuclear war than anything else weve ever seen there is no world if this is done there is just no world left after the horrors this will unleash

Not many done in UK either because, so far, fracking has been exploratory at just a few sites. But I'm currently reading this survey of North American health studies compiled by US doctors. It's very useful:

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Unconventional Gas: Coal Seam Gas Risks What is coal seam gas? What are the risks? What is the difference between conventional natural gas, and unconventional natural gas like CSG? Find out more about the risks of coal seam gas (CSG), and t...

Here in Australia we are tackling the same issues. In Queensland there are 19,000 CSG wells.

There haven't been any health studies done as yet that I am aware of.

“CSIRO” report misleads on fracking risks A study purported to be from the CSIRO that showed that fracking was “safe for the environment” was actually overseen by the gas industry, and was based

""Australia Institute research shows that a study -- purported to be from the CSIRO -- that showed that fracking was “safe for the environment” was actually overseen by the gas industry, and was based on just six of Queensland’s 19,000 coal seam gas wells."

Trump’s pick for energy secretary linked to fracking in Australia’s Beetaloo basin Environmentalists say appointment of Liberty Energy’s Chris Wright highlights US interests ‘driving fracking’ in Northern Territory

The previous LNP Government also opened up the vast Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory to fracking

"“The opening up of the NT for fracking was never about Territorians – it’s always been about appeasing big American shale players.”