Coal Mining Causing Earthquakes
The most damaging earthquake in Australia’s history was caused by humans, new research says. The magnitude-5.6 quake that struck Newcastle, in New South Wales, on December 28, 1989, killed 13 people, injured 160, and caused 3.5 billion U.S. dollars worth of damage. [National Geographic]

The article goes on to talk about carbon sequestration [...]

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Posted on Sunday 7th January 2007 in Engineering, Politics, Science tagged , , , , , , , , , , , with no comments.

Another scheme to overcomplicate the charging of services in the name of promoting recycling is being discussed on the BBC News website: BBC NEWS | UK | Bugged bins to promote recycling.

This is wrong for many reasons.

The main one being that the worst materials to landfill, plastics and polystyrene packaging, weigh next to nothing, so [...]

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Posted on Tuesday 5th September 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged , , , , , , with no comments.

An article on the BBC NEWS states that Rubbish collection ‘may be taxed’:

The proposals could allow councils to charge residents for the amount of waste they produce, and other possibilities include charging less to greener households and those who separate their waste.

What they don’t seem to have considered is that this will just increase the [...]

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Posted on Friday 16th June 2006 in Engineering, Politics tagged , , , , , , with no comments.