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Ms. Que Banh<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Akwesasne" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Akwesasne</a> is part of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Mohawk" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mohawk</a> Nation, one of the six nations of the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Haudenosaunee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Haudenosaunee</a> Confederacy. Its residents’ <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AncestralTerritory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AncestralTerritory</a>, which includes Barnhart Island, extends across the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Canada</a> - <a href="https://beige.party/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#USA</a> border, and includes parts of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ontario</a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Quebec</a> and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NewYork</a> state. For decades, factories surrounding the reserve dumped now-banned chemicals into the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StLawrenceRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#StLawrenceRiver</a>, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/contaminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#contaminating</a> the land and water. But Barnhart Island is upstream of the contamination — the breeze is still sweet and the water is clear. And soon, Akswesasne <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TribalGovernment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TribalGovernment</a> may sign a settlement agreement with the State of New York, ceding its title to the island forever. For the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LandDefenders" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#LandDefenders</a> who were arrested, reclaiming <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BarnhartIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BarnhartIsland</a> goes hand-in-hand with protecting what’s left of their territory that is still healthy enough for them to gather medicine, hunt, fish, conduct ceremonies and heal. They aren’t willing to sell their homeland — not for any price. Freelance <a href="https://beige.party/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#journalist</a> Brandi Morin and <a href="https://beige.party/tags/photojournalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#photojournalist</a> Ian Willms spent five days on the territory in June to document the fight for clean land. <a href="https://thenarwhal.ca/akwesasne-mohawk-monsanto-barnhart-island" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://thenarwhal.ca/akwesasne-mohawk-monsanto-barnhart-island</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Indigenous</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NativeLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#NativeLand</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Unceded" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Unceded</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Environmental</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ToxicWaste</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TurtleIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TurtleIsland</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CDNpoli</a>

Ms. Que BanhA <a href="https://beige.party/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mining</a> company has been <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fined" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fined</a> close to $221,000 for almost 30 instances of discharging waste into the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#environment</a> without authorization in southeastern <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BritishColumbia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BritishColumbia</a>.On Aug. 8, the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCMinistryOfEnvironment" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BCMinistryOfEnvironment</a> handed <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TeckCoal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#TeckCoal</a> Ltd. — now operating as <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ElkValleyResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ElkValleyResources</a> — two administrative <a href="https://beige.party/tags/penalties" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#penalties</a> based on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/WasteDisposal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#WasteDisposal</a> issues over two years at its Elkview operations near <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SparwoodBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#SparwoodBC</a>.This is not the first time the Elkview <a href="https://beige.party/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#coal</a> mining operations have been penalized for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/unauthorized" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#unauthorized</a> waste disposals. Two years ago, Teck Coal received a penalty of close to $200,000 for several discharges in 2020.Teck Coal has faced tens of millions of dollars in fines for <a href="https://beige.party/tags/contaminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#contaminating</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/waterways" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#waterways</a> in B.C. over the years. It is also now dealing with allegations of dumping harmful substances into waters frequented by fish in the province's southeastern region. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/EnvironmentCanada" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#EnvironmentCanada</a> laid five charges against the company in July, and they have not been tested in court. A court hearing in that matter is scheduled for Oct. 10.<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7297692" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7297692</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#BCpoli</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CDNpoli</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#pollution</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ecocide</a>

DoomsdaysCWAmerica’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radioactive</a> SecretOil-and-gas wells produce nearly a trillion gallons of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ToxicWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ToxicWaste</a> a year. An investigation shows how it could be making workers sick and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/contaminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contaminating</a> communities across America."Breathing in this stuff and ingesting it are the worst types of exposure. You are irradiating your tissues from the inside out.”by Justin Nobel"In a squat rig fitted with a 5,000-gallon tank, Peter crisscrosses the expanse of farms and woods near the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ohio</a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WestVirginia</a> / <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pennsylvania" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pennsylvania</a> border, the heart of a region that produces close to one-third of America’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NaturalGas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NaturalGas</a>. He hauls a salty substance called '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/brine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brine</a>,' a naturally occurring waste product that gushes out of America’s oil-and-gas wells to the tune of nearly 1 trillion gallons a year, enough to flood Manhattan, almost shin-high, every single day. At most wells, far more brine is produced than oil or gas, as much as 10 times more. It collects in tanks, and like an oil-and-gas garbage man, Peter picks it up and hauls it off to treatment plants or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InjectionWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InjectionWells</a>, where it’s disposed of by being shot back into the earth."One day in 2017, Peter pulled up to an injection well in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CambridgeOhio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CambridgeOhio</a>. A worker walked around his truck with a hand-held <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radiation</a> detector, he says, and told him he was carrying one of the 'hottest loads' he’d ever seen. It was the first time Peter had heard any mention of the brine being <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/radioactive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#radioactive</a>."The Earth’s crust is in fact peppered with radioactive elements that concentrate deep underground in oil-and-gas-bearing layers. This radioactivity is often pulled to the surface when oil and gas is extracted — carried largely in the brine."In the popular imagination, radioactivity conjures images of nuclear meltdowns, but radiation is emitted from many common natural substances, usually presenting a fairly minor risk. Many industry representatives like to say the radioactivity in brine is so insignificant as to be on par with what would be found in a banana or a granite countertop, so when Peter demanded his supervisor tell him what he was being exposed to, his concerns were brushed off; the liquid in his truck was no more radioactive than 'any room of your home,' he was told. But Peter wasn’t so sure."'A lot of guys are coming up with <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cancer</a>, or sores and skin lesions that take months to heal,' he says. Peter experiences regular headaches and nausea, numbness in his fingertips and face, and 'joint pain like fire.'"He says he wasn’t given any safety instructions on radioactivity, and while he is required to wear steel-toe boots, safety glasses, a hard hat, and clothes with a flash-resistant coating, he isn’t required to wear a respirator or a dosimeter to measure his radioactivity exposure — and the rest of the uniform hardly offers protection from brine. 'It’s all over your hands, and inside your boots, and on the cuticles of your toes, and any cuts you have — you’re soaked,' he says."Read more: <a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/america-s-radioactive-secret?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://getpocket.com/explore/item/america-s-radioactive-secret?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Secrecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Secrecy</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OilAndGasIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OilAndGasIndustry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Fracking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fracking</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Radium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Radium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ohio</a>

PhoenixSerenityIt's now 9 months since I tried contacting BC & Canada govts about abandoned <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FishFarm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FishFarm</a> hatchery site in <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/UnionBay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnionBay</a> on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/VancouverIsland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#VancouverIsland</a> owned by <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/MowiInternational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MowiInternational</a> for multiple <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#environmental</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/ecosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecosystems</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/violations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#violations</a> & irresponsible industry actions/lack thereof. There's <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#toxic</a> wastewater <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/contaminating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#contaminating</a> soil & fish bearing creek there. Almost no proper cleanup was done. It's a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/biohazard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biohazard</a> site & should be fully cleaned up. Abandoned for about a decade. Wifi & power still runs there, on public tax $.

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