Become a 1000000000. 00 industry that many in the region rely on. But there is also a flip side to this Winter Wonderland on the snow covered peaks ski resorts leave a large Carbon Footprint during high season the industry operates at full speed lifts run for hours as crowds queue to hit the slopes snow machines are needed to combat the effects of Global Warming and there is more of the same to come in australias style valley a project is underway to extend the ski area to neighboring pits to create europes largest glacier ski resort but the number of critics against the development is growing. Its tough going up here on pitstop glacier but the air increasingly thin. Right of fluid and his friends are trekking up to a Mountain Ridge to protest against plans to turn parts of one of the last pristine glaciers in austria into ski slopes. Rising could be the thing to skiing regions will be linked and a new one. For the new area alone will be about half the size of the spit skiing region th
People want to keep me employed. Thats the good thing about it. City workers also started recently manning public toilets around town try encourage their use. And here is a twist you dont see everywhere. A lot of cities have bags for cleaning you ing up your dogs out on the street, but how many also have needle disposal units as well . We are doing everything that we can from the cleaning point of view. Do we have antilitter law sns arent there laws about not going to the bathroom on the streets . All kinds of ordinances on the books, and different people try to enforce them, but at the end of the day, they end up in our courts and, you know, they are back on the streets. I feel Like Fighting a lose ing battle . Sometimes. But, again, it has to be done. Okay. So 3 million more. What is that going to mean for the streets of San Francisco . It means 18 more bodies out there cleaning up. The good news is they are going to be able to get out there and hit the neighborhoods and zero in on t
Reporter the man behind the coal plan, a prominent local developer. Were not building a coal distribution turn. Were building a multibody terminal. Reporter it will have coal coming through it. Thats not been determined. Reporter but his Company California capital and Investment Group still needs to build the new terminal, still needs cash and the coal deal would bring in 53 million. We have environmentalists coming through saying west oakland is already exposed to high rates of pollution. West oakland children have high rates of asthma. They dont want coal to be coming through here next and having them exposed to that. What do you say to that . I say we have a squa document. We went through a very long process. Reporter thats the California Environmental quality act this requires state and local authorities to identify significant environmental impacts. The document clearly articulates 660 mitigations that have to be met to support the bulk multi commodity terminal. Thats what we have
They had to be rescued. The fire is burning on the south side of Lake Berryessa near the boat dock. I believe we have someone on the phone with us who can give us some more information . Yes. Hello. My name is Susie Blankenship with cal fire. Hi. This is the allen martin. What can you tell us . I have it at 700 acres. Yes. I can confirm that the wildland fire is currently at 700 acres with zero percent containment. And this got started about 2 00, it was a vehicle fire that started this . It was a vehicle fire. I dont have information on how the vehicle sparked the wildland fire. But it was a vehicle accident. What can you tell me about evacuations in the area . Evacuations are in the mix canyon area for homeowners. And as you spoke of the campers in the canyon screen campground, they have been evacuated. I would assume here we are in the middle of summer those campgrounds have to be pretty packed. Well, i dont have the number of evacuations but i do know that that campground has been
People who were on that train for those 40 minutes they tell us was very stressful, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. Live in southwest, Jackie Bensen news4. More Live Team Coverage with derrick ward down at ninth and main avenue the wharf on the waterfront. An evacuation point there. Derrick, what are you seeing now . Reporter well, thing have sort of calmed down here nowhere near as i guess frenetic a scene up at the station and some of the station where is tg is. But i want you to look at the scene just a few minutes earlier. This is some video we shot when we first got here. This is at least one of those six people who were hospitalized that you just heard the gentleman talking about in jackies story. Now, we did see two people come out from an evacuation tunnel which is at this location shortly before that person was evacuated. They seemed to be okay and didnt appear to be in any sort of stress or anything like that. But, again, one person who appeared to be a firefi