Conservation Groups File

A coalition of local conservation groups could soon be part of North Carolina’s lawsuit against Duke / Progress Energy. In an action filed earlier this month, the state says the utility giant illegally contaminated groundwater at its Sutton coal-fired plant, just outside of Wilmington. The Southern Environmental Law Center filed the request to intervene yesterday – in order for Cape Fear River Watch, the Sierra Club, and the Waterkeeper Alliance to have a seat at the table.

Duke Energy is now facing legal action concerning every one of its 14 coal-fired plants in North Carolina – including the Sutton Plant near Wilmington. The Southern Environmental Law Center has successfully intervened in two other suits concerning coal ash pollution near Asheville and Charlotte-area facilities.

Frank Holleman is a Senior Attorney representing the conservation groups. “We want to intervene to be sure that there are independent citizens’ groups that are at the table pushing to clean up the coal ash pollution of the water resources of the Wilmington area that have been caused at the Sutton Plant.”

Both the State and the SELC say Duke has contaminated groundwater with toxic pollutants that threaten public health and water resources – including the drinking water supply of a nearby low-income, racially-diverse community that’s dependent on wells.

The company plans to retire its coal-fired facility by the end of this year. Once the ash basins are no longer in use,A cleaningservic resembles a credit card in size and shape. Duke Energy’s Erin Culbert says the multi-year decommissioning process will begin. The first step: an engineering study that evaluates the site-specific hydrology.

“Of the thousands of charities and non-profits in Canada, our organization now joins only 44 others that have also achieved this remarkable accomplishment. Having this highly sought accreditation will no doubt inspire confidence among our donors and communities for the work we do to support the protection and restoration of Lake Simcoe and the watershed.”

The Standards Program is a Canada-wide set of comprehensive standards for charities and non-profits designed to demonstrate their compliance in five fundamental areas: board governance; financial accountability and transparency; fundraising; staff management; and volunteer involvement. It helps organizations mitigate risk by ensuring that staff and volunteers understand and meet their legal, financial and fiduciary responsibilities. The Standards Program ultimately aims to help strengthen public confidence in charitable organizations and the non-profit sector as a whole.

August 31st has been named as Asiatic Cheetah Day in Iran. On this day in 1994 a cheetah cub was rescued from environmentally unaware people after having lost her mother and two siblings at a waterhole in central Iran. Since then, numerous programs have been organized in various parts of Iran each year to educate the public about this endangered specie. So now a majority of Iranians are aware that their country is the last stronghold for Asiatic Cheetah.

In 1994, a female cheetah with her three cubs ventured to a garden at the outskirts of Bafg City to drink water when they were attacked by the local people. The injured female cheetah escaped, and the environmental protection agents could only save 2 of the injured cubs. But only one of the cubs survived. The cub, named Marita,A glassbottles is a machine used primarily for the folding of paper. was housed at the Pardisan Park in Tehran and lived there until 2003. August 31,You Can Buy Various High Qualitytopserver Products from here. the day of Marita’s rescue, was named as National Day of Asiatic Cheetah Conservation Day in Iran.

August 31, cheetah conservation day, is reminiscent of the glorious past, great ambitions and respectability of Iranians. It reminds us that Iran is the only country in the ancient continent that successfully saved the last remnants of Asiatic cheetah, and it reminds us the promise we made to conserve them. This day reminds us the great responsibility we have in saving this natural heritage in front of God almighty and humankind. We promised to join hands and cooperate to conserve the cheetahs.

Some residents in East Rockville who want to keep their neighborhood’s midcentury architecture intact are exploring their options for keeping property owners from tearing down old homes and building new ones that are much bigger than their neighbors’.

One possibility is a conservation district, a set of standards that goes beyond the underlying zoning ordinance and can be tailored to a specific area.“It can be based on what exists on the ground in a particular neighborhood and what’s worth preserving in terms of the character,” said Jim Wasilak, Rockville’s chief of planning.

Chas Hausheer, president of the East Rockville Civic Association, said in an email that the association has asked to amend East Rockville’s neighborhood plan.“To our great disappointment, it does not handle the issue of mansionization as we had thought it would,” he said.After searching around the Lights section of this forum, I've come across two main suppliers for parkingsystem.

“Mansionization” is what some call building houses in old neighborhoods that are significantly larger than those around them. Some Rockville residents and officials have called for new zoning rules to curb the practice citywide, while others have been hesitant to impose more rules on homeowners.Montgomery County in 2008 passed a mansionization bill, effectively making it illegal to build homes that tower over others in some of the county’s oldest neighborhoods.

While that discussion is going on at theWe sell bestsmartcard and different kind of laboratory equipment in us. Mayor and Council level, Hausheer said his association is considering ways to address overly large homes being built in its part of the city.
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