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Lake Erie to benefit from closure of three coal-fired power stations
27 January 2012.
A couple of days back, I blogged about the environmental risks of reliance on coal-generated energy (link). In the US, under a court order, the Obama administration has cracked down on lung- and heart-damaging air pollution from power plants fired … Continue reading →
Wetland rehabilitation far from easy and not for the fainthearted…or ‘bankers’
27 January 2012.
A recent study has reached a conclusion that wetland ecologists have known for a long time, namely that it is very difficult to re-create, restore or rehabilitate a wetland that even closely resembles what nature put there in the first … Continue reading →
Indiana may continue to ignore eutrophication
27 January 2012.
Wilful ignorance of the long-term dangers of allowing an excess of nutrients into the world’s rivers, waterways and lakes is a major problem, the risks about which only a few countries and states and cities have acknowledged. Indiana does not … Continue reading →
Toxic spill sparks panic buying of bottled water in China
27 January 2012.
This week’s mining industry spill of a trace metal into a river in southern China sparked off a mass demand for bottled water! Pollution in China’s southern region of Guangxi sparked panic buying of bottled water this week after a … Continue reading →
The environmental risks of reliance on coal
24 January 2012.
Droplets has previously commented on the narrow-sightedness of reliance on coal as an energy source. Of course then came the incident in Japan and gave the nuclear fear-mongers more ammunition. Coal mining is also environmentally-dangerous, very dangerous in fact. In … Continue reading →
DH Environmental Consulting is committed to providing its clients with solutions to aquatic ecosystem and water-related environmental problems through a dedicated process of assessment, education and planning, supported by one of the widest ranging and most experienced backgrounds in aquatic ecology available from a single source in South Africa.
DH Environmental focuses on achieving a balance between environmental and developmental needs such that workable and sustainable design elements are identified and integrated early in the planning or assessment phases.
Our skills and abilities are based on many years of proven experience, this reducing the amount of time that we need to spend on finding a solution for you. Typically we can go straight to the heart of the problem without incurring expensive and time-consuming exploratory work.
DH Environmental maintains a research focus in order to continually provide guidelines and methods for aquatic ecosystem assessment and management in South Africa and elsewhere.
