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...Austria the deluge caused an estimated $3 billion in damage, transforming the Eferdinger basin, a valley dotted with vegetable farms, into a 20- sq.-mi. lake. Saxony bore the brunt in eastern Germany, where a television station broadcast footage of an elderly woman plunging more than 30 feet into the roiling floodwater when rescuers attempted to airlift her out of danger; she later died in the hospital. Dozens of patients in Dresden's hospitals, including a day-old, 1-lb. 8-oz. baby, had to be evacuated by car and helicopter. With the Elbe River rising to its highest level...
...Other parts of Europe were not so lucky, as torrential downpours sent floodwaters raging from the Baltic to the Black Sea, killing at least 100 people and causing billions of dollars' worth of damage to buildings, infrastructure and crops. In Austria, a 50-sq-km lake blanketed the Eferdinger Basin, an agricultural area west of Linz, and at least seven people died. In Germany, large tracts of Saxony and Bavaria - including much of Dresden - were submerged, with about a dozen people killed. And in Russia, flash floods and tornadoes along the Black Sea coast razed homes and businesses and killed...
Battle for the Basin...
Your item on extracting natural gas using coal-bed methane development in Wyoming's Powder River Basin, "Rocky Mountain Deep: The Next Drilling War" [NOTEBOOK, May 20], left some mistaken impressions. The Powder River Basin is not in the Rocky Mountains but is some distance from those scenic mountain peaks. And although the basin is home to wildlife, it is not exactly "pristine," having been a major energy-producing area for more than 20 years. Also, you implied that the impacts of drilling new methane wells are uniformly negative, overlooking the benefits of the clean, nonsaline water that is pumped...
...project indefinitely, Deputy Secretary of the Interior J. Steven Griles, a former energy lobbyist, asked the EPA to reconsider. The agency's final evaluation is expected this week. But there is another roadblock: the Interior Department's own board of appeals has ruled that three leases in the basin were granted illegally because the environmental impact of drilling for methane had not been properly studied. Interior officials tell TIME that the lease problem is "surmountable" and the objections are "resolvable." If so, Bush would finally have his energy jackpot. But the price would be steep--new fodder for critics...