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The process requires a huge amount of water, which is then pumped into massive toxic tailing ponds.
The tailings ponds are the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.
The tar sands consume more water than any other oil process, three to five barrels of water are taken, polluted and then returned into tailings ponds, the largest toxic impoundments on the planet.
SemCrude, just one of the licensees, in just one of their tailings ponds, dumps 250,000 tons of this toxic gunk every single day.
And the tailings ponds range in size up to 9,000 acres.
So this is one of the larger tailings ponds.
We're also designing coin ponds for the rich and affluent.
And at the same time, it tries to maintain its position above the magnet, and therefore, it creates those amazing-looking structures of channels and tiny little ponds of colorful water paint.
Then we also wanted to look at other ways of using land in addition to growing food and transforming landscape into much more productive uses, so that it could be used for storm water management, for example, by using surface lakes and retention ponds, that created neighborhood amenities, places of recreation, and actually helped to elevate adjacent property levels.
It lives in our oceans and in freshwater ponds.
But still, like, they would have six-month-long winters where the ponds would freeze over.
Other techniques, such as man-made coastal ponds commonly used for shrimp farming in Southeast Asia, create additional environmental problems.
Just like net pens, these ponds are prone to spreading pollution and disease.
Well, we know of warm little ponds.
I want to see fish ponds in parking lots and basements.
So they're all shitting each other's ponds, quite literally.
So, the ponds, the open bodies, are everywhere, right from Sri Lanka to Kashmir, and in other parts also.
There are no ponds, streams, rivers, lakes, nothing like that.
Here, they mix the salty mud with spring water and spread it out in shallow ponds, and as it evaporated, it turned into a spectacle of color.
So I'd go into the ponds and crawl around and pick them up with my toes, just pick them up with both feet.
The damaged reactors and spent-fuel ponds contain around ten times as much nuclear fuel as did the Chernobyl reactor that exploded in 1986.
At Fukushima, a perfect storm – a massive earthquake and tsunami, multiple vulnerable coastal reactors with spent-fuel ponds in the same buildings, inadequate barriers, loss of power, and back-up generators situated too low – may have seemed a remote possibility.
Fukushima has highlighted how vulnerable spent-fuel ponds are to direct damage or disruption of power, water, or pumps for cooling.
Each of the world’s 437 nuclear power reactors and associated spent-fuel ponds are effectively enormous pre-positioned radiological weapons, or “dirty bombs.”
Such outcomes are at least as plausible or likely – if not more so – than a massive earthquake and tsunami causing widespread damage to four Japanese nuclear reactors and their adjacent spent-fuel ponds.
Because aquaculture systems often operate on coastlines or near inland rivers or ponds, they tend to disrupt natural habitats, contribute to nitrogen pollution, and add undue pressure on feeder fish stocks.
They disparage hideous strip mines and toxic tailing ponds that even superstar marketers cannot “greenwash.”
The scale is unusual, but open-pit mines and tailing ponds are normal mining operations everywhere.
Another obvious condition is mandatory timetables for restoring strip mines and tailing ponds to their natural condition.
Liquid larvicides can be applied directly to water using backpack sprayers, and introducing fish into ponds, particularly in residential areas, can also help to eliminate larvae.