Picture: This picture shows what strip mining really looks like and how it disfigures the environment.Summary: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are planning to renew the abandoned mines, landfills, and brownfields. For each project, the EPA will give 1 million dollars to each of these sites to protect people's health, the environment, and job creation. At each site, the project leaders will evaluate whether or not they can use wind, solar, biomass, or geothermal energy. These sites are all over the United States and some have been succesful in the past as well. Some of these sites are Superfund sites and are the hardest to renew because they have the most complex, uncontrolled, and hazardous waste. Brownfields are sites that are complicated by the amount of contaminants. This was started in September 2008 by the EPA and NREL and is being furthered.
Opinion: I think that this is a great way to reuse abandoned sites as energy powerplant area. Hopefully this plan will be carried out and not fall through because of funding or other problems. This plan will produce many stimulating oppurtunities as well, such as economy boosting, job creation, and of course, energy production. One aspect that I like about this plan is that are evaluating each of the sites for what specific energy source they sould use. It is troubling to see how these sites were originally formed through the stripmining process or fracking or whatever else companies did to the land.
Questions:
1. What are some contaminants spread to the air or water from mining?
2. What are some of the most environmentally friendly mining or drilling companies?
3. Where are some of these renewing sites?
4. What are your opinions on the way mining or drilling companies affect the land?
It is good that people are cleaning up these sites. This will make the country beautiful and it will stop letting harmful chemicals in to the environmental this makes me happy, but can we really afford to waste millions cleaning abandon mines with so much other bad stuff going on right now.
ReplyDelete1, the are different contaminates in different types of mines.for example many bad acids come from many mines, mercury is found in old gold mines, and coal dust is comes in coal mines
This is a really interesting way to help make our land look nice and clean up old areas of pollution. It's good to hear that people are still concerned with the appearance of our lands, but also worried about the pollution aspect of it also.
ReplyDelete4.)My opinion on how mining and drilling companies are affecting the land is that it is a disgrace to see how much of an impact that they can have. Also on how much pollution they really put into the earth. We need to cut back on mining and drilling into the land because it is ruining the earth.