Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest dam, is crumbling apart. Crews are rushing in to make repairs around the clock. Should they fail, millions of gallons of water will burst through and roar downstream on top of the homes of 200,000 Californians below. While this seems shocking, the potential for such a disaster exists all over […]
3 Plumbing Tips to Keep Your Plumbing Running Well in the New Year
The new year is here and for some homeowners that means it’s time to take their home up to a new level. Most of them think they need to knock down a wall or rip up the carpets to really improve their home. What if they could do a few minor jobs that would keep […]
Fukushima Forever: Food Safety and Government Failings
Originally published at the Daily Censored for Project Censored. On Saturday June 18, the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPO) which operates the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plants, released a new report admitting the plant was grossly unprepared for the disaster. The report states workers had to borrow air compressors, batteries, and cables from local contractors all […]
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Norma Fiorentino’s drinking water well was a time bomb. For weeks, workers in her small northeastern Pennsylvania town had been plumbing natural gas deposits from a drilling rig a few hundred yards away. They cracked the earth and pumped in fluids to force the gas out. Somehow, stray gas worked into tiny crevasses in the […]
Corruption & Unending Problems in Africa
Corruption and Unending Problems in Africa Africa is incontrovertibly blessed with an abundance of natural resources, especially land that is rich in all sorts of imaginable minerals. Hundreds and thousands of fertile tracts that are conducive for agriculture can be found nowhere else on the globe except in most African countries. Had these resources been […]