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Don’t Look Down

Grist

Sometimes, only a thin layer of soil covers yawning craters where the ice has vanished, what Hasson calls “ghost ice wedges.” Combined with a $40,000 laser he dragged behind him on a plastic sled he’d nicknamed “The Coffin,” Hasson is able to link surface methane emissions to the ice disappearing underground. Sean McDermott / Grist.

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Where Does All The Radioactive Fracking Waste Go?

DeSmogBlog

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. But Railroad Commission reports, such as one 2003 inspection , indicate that the waste is not always making it into the salt cavern, and rather Lotus “is only using the entire facility plant and decon facility for storage.”.

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