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  1. Hmm, no rain yet, and yet... the rocks already sliding over at Mugu Rock.

    #VenturaCounty #rockslide #PCH

  2. Kick rocks!

    That’s what we started to do, attempting to use our feet to clear the west shoulder of Olmsted Rd near Hwy 68 / CA SR 68. Then we noticed the east shoulder and travel lanes were likewise strewn with many rocks! Don’t know what mishap left that mess, but we’re reporting to road cleanup crews : bikemonterey.org/where-to-repo.

    #RoadMaintenance #MontereyCounty #Rockslide #TrafficSafety #ActiveTransportation

  3. See updates to Bike Buzz for more on road maintenance, i.e., bikemonterey.org/bike-buzz-win.

    What to do when you come upon a rockslide (or other debris) that interferes with biking the shoulder of a road (and you normally bike the shoulder of that road, because motor vehicles travel at high speeds in the main travel lanes)?

    In California, if it’s a state highway, report it to California Department of Transportation / #Caltrans: csr.dot.ca.gov/.

    If not a state highway (not a maintenance responsibility of Caltrans), see where to report in Monterey County, : bikemonterey.org/where-to-repo.

    #RoadMaintenance #MontereyCounty #Rockslide #TrafficSafety #ActiveTransportation

  4. Experts working with the #FirstNation of #NaChoNyäkDun who have witnessed the fallout at #VictoriaGoldEagle mine near #Mayo, #Yukon, say systems on-site are so severely compromised that damage to the land & water is all but inevitable.

    What they describe is a system rendered mostly #inoperable, with each affected piece elevating #risks to the #environment — every day.

    On June 24, part of the Eagle #mine failed and a massive #RockSlide involving roughly 4 million tonnes of material cleaved off a large piece of the facility where #gold is extracted from ore using a chemical process called cyanide heap leach. Estimates put the amount of ore stacked on the heap leach pad — which functions as a giant industrial percolator — at nearly 4 times what was lost in the slide.

    With the #HeapLeach pad downed, experts say a #toxic soup of #SodiumCyanide & other #contaminants — up to 300,000 cubic metres of solution, according to the #YukonGovernment — was released in the initial slide. Since then, they say, more of it has been draining.

    The First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun has called the event "the region's most recent and potentially #catastrophic #mining failure."

    cbc.ca/news/canada/north/victo

    #Indigenous #NativeLand #Pollution #Ecocide #EnvironmentalCrimes #GoldMine #MiningIndustry #CorporateGreed #GreedKills #CDNpoli #AbolishIndustryLobbyists #Canada #MiningPollution #EcoJustice #Ecological #Arctic