Jul 20, 2015 · The return of golf to the Olympics after a 112-year absence has sparked protests by environmentalists such as Marcello Mello, who argue the 2016 Games could have used one of …
Eduardo Paes, third left, and Brazil Olympic Committee President Carlos Nuzman, center, celebrate during a ceremony at the Olympic Golf Course in Rio de Janeiro, Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015. And yet, even as accusations of corruption and reports of a sewage-filled bay swirled around Paes’ domestic image, his international stock — especially in ...
Aug 13, 2016 · Among the many scandals plaguing the games is the situating of the Olympic golf course in a section of the city that overlaps with the Marapendi Environmental Protection Area, a coastal habitat ...
The 2016 Olympics were billed as “Green Games for a Blue Planet” during the bidding process, aimed at catalyzing the city’s transition into a 21st-century haven of sustainability both environmental and social.
Paes’ campaign was largely funded by the real estate developers from his old political stomping grounds in the Barra de Tijuca, one of the newest and most developed neighborhoods in Rio.
Advertisement. But for the Olympics, Brazilian officials promised, that would all change; they would capture the raw sewage, and treat it, and the Guanabara Bay — once designated as one of the seven natural wonders of the world — would be clean once again. A man washes himself in the polluted waters of Guanabara Bay.
In previous elections, Gabeira had success running as an explicitly pro-environmental candidate: In 1994, he was elected to Congress running on an “ecological and economical” platform, campaigning with recycled fliers and a bicycle.
Photo by Ali C. M. Watkins/Sentinel Colorado. The pits were then covered with earth to contain the toxins, according to the landfill website. Today, the site is a strange respite from suburbia that has gobbled up the plains plot-by-plot.
The plan aimed to contain the waste and thereby protect the environment and humans from exposure via inhalation, ingestion or absorption through the skin. Barrier walls above and below ground were built, along with a cap between the contaminated groundwater and what the polluters describe as clean creek water.
Rader, a longtime local, is most worried that residents like her could someday pump contaminated water from their private wells. She estimates that about 175 residents in her neighborhood and others nearby draw their water from aquifers just miles away from the site.
Unlike hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the injection wells flush fracking waste from oil and gas extraction deep into the earth. Injection wells are known to trigger earthquakes, geologists say, although there’s no definitive evidence that wells at this location could or couldn’t precipitate a temblor.
In the paper, Pivonka recommended that the EPA and the polluters try something new . The EPA recently heeded his suggestion that EPA stop injecting huge amounts of treated water north of the site. Water was treated for various chemicals except for 1,4 dioxane, and pumped north of the site until the early 2000s.
The environmental consequences of the city’s rapid development were swirling even stronger in the Ala Wai Canal. In 1983, a power outage disabled the city’s sewage pumps and officials simply dumped 2.5 million gallons of raw sewage into the Ala Wai Canal.
But there’s no argument that the primary motive behind the Ala Wai Canal was real estate development.
In 1956, the Yale Olympic crew trained on the Ala Wai on its way to the games in Melbourne, Australia. Hawaii State Archives: Ala Wai Canal between Ala Moana Blvd. and Kapiolani, 1957. But Waikiki was about to take off again, and this time even its biggest fan, Walter Dillingham, was taken aback.