https://www.europesays.com/1970972/ Most Auckland beaches unsafe for swimming after heavy rain #after #atmospheric #auckland #aucklands #beaches #been #contaminated #country #for #have #heavy #most #NewZealand #rain #recent #river #swept #swimming #through #unsafe #wastewater #with
Water for ceremonial and #subsistence #gardens was also denied. The court publicly listed nearly 100 #sacredsprings with limits on how much water the tribe was entitled to use for #religious #ceremonies.
In total, the tribe had requested at least 96,074 acre-feet a year of water, and the Arizona #watermaster recommended awarding just 28,988 acre-feet, all of it from the same #depleted, #contaminated #aquifer and seasonal streams the Hopi already use. After four decades, they ended up in the same precarious position they’d started.
Finding deformed fish and #polluted water here is a normal occurrence. And dozens of Fort Chip residents have succumbed to a rare strain of bile duct #cancer.
In April, Chief Adam testified to the release of millions of litres of #toxic tailings waste in two separate incidents involving Imperial Oil’s Kearl mine. Just weeks later, Suncor reported it had released almost six million liters of #contaminated #water into a tributary of the Athabasca River.
Earlier, he had predicted his community would become #environmental #refugees.
https://therealnews.com/canada-fires-first-nations-indigenous-smoke-air-quality
Richmond is planning to build housing on a site that UC Berkeley's Dr Kristina Hill describes as a "world-class scary cornucopia of #chemicals, many of which will never degrade... It just seems to me on its face to be an injustice and, frankly, stupid to put housing on a #contaminated site."
But communities and regulators are pushing back!
Check out the full story from @kqednews 
https://www.kqed.org/science/1981077/state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development
