Tuesday, April 23, 2013

23 April - View II


Why is it more acceptable to blow people up for profit? Where is the manhunt and outcry for those responsible?
Why is this not considered domestic terrorism? Thanks to the @[177486166274:274:Being Liberal] fan page for this image.

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Why is this not considered domestic terrorism? Thanks to the Being Liberal fan page for this image.

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Over six months ago Superstorm Sandy hit the waterfront area of Rockaway Beach of New York City. The community itself was devastated, and at the same time it faced some of the worst aftermath complications from the storm. Many people in the area spent months without electricity or hot water, and many local businesses suffered from looters.

One thing DiGiovanni does know, however, is that there are more dead dolphins washing up on shores around New York than there have been in decades prior. "In the last decade, we've gone from around 20 washing up to having 30 or 40 washing up," he said, never mind the excess of marine life struggling to survive in such fetid channels as the Gowanus Canal and East River.



BP plans seismic testing in 2014 - BP Exploration (Canada) Ltd. issued an expression of interest Monday for a two-year 3-D seismic acquisition and data-processing program.

The survey will be conducted between April and October 2014 and during a similar time frame the following year, said the expression of interest.

The seismic work will be done in an area about 230 to 370 kilometres southeast of Halifax, said the British-based company.

The 3-D surveys involve vessels towing air-gun source arrays, with outer vessels also towing streamers.

The survey area covers about 10,000 to 14,00 square kilometres in depths ranging from 100 metres to 3,500 metres. Read more about their murderous selves here: http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1124965-bp-plans-seismic-testing-in-2014
BP plans seismic testing in 2014 - BP Exploration (Canada) Ltd. issued an expression of interest Monday for a two-year 3-D seismic acquisition and data-processing program.

The survey will be conducted between April and October 2014 and during a similar time frame the following year, said the expression of interest.

The seismic work will be done in an area about 230 to 370 kilometres southeast of Halifax, said the British-based company.

The 3-D surveys involve vessels towing air-gun source arrays, with outer vessels also towing streamers.

The survey area covers about 10,000 to 14,00 square kilometres in depths ranging from 100 metres to 3,500 metres.  Read more about their murderous selves here:  http://thechronicleherald.ca/business/1124965-bp-plans-seismic-testing-in-2014
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Louisiana’s coastal marshes can be noisy places with insects buzzing and chirping constantly, but that’s no longer the case in some places.

“What happened after the Deepwater Horizon is when we came to marsh impacted by the oil, they were relatively silent,” said Linda Hooper-Bui, associate professor in the Department of Entomology at LSU.

Preliminary results from field work and lab experiments point to two oil components — naphthalene and methylnaphthlane — to be at least part of an explanation for large declines in insect populations within oiled or previously oiled areas of coastal marsh, she said.

“We have results, good information, that these are increasing and that this is an emerging problem,” Hooper-Bui said of the two compounds.

The mystery, is why the compounds are increasing, she said.

Eugene Turner, Boyd Professor in the LSU School of the Coast and Environment at LSU, said the two compounds are aromatics that should be venting into the atmosphere, but they’re not. Instead, some process is creating more of it in the soil than is being allowed to be released, he said.

In addition, Turner said, the problem is being found not just in areas that received the heaviest oiling,but in many areas that just received some oil.

Although preliminary results point to the two compounds as a good candidate for causing or contributing to the insect reduction in oiled areas, research continues, he said. He said researchers don’t know what’s breaking down to form the compounds, but they’re working on that now. Read more here: http://theadvocate.com/home/5782947-125/buzzing-of-insects-falls-silent

(Photo Credit:Ted Jackson, The Times-Picayune)
Louisiana’s coastal marshes can be noisy places with insects buzzing and chirping constantly, but that’s no longer the case in some places.

“What happened after the Deepwater Horizon is when we came to marsh impacted by the oil, they were relatively silent,” said Linda Hooper-Bui, associate professor in the Department of Entomology at LSU.

Preliminary results from field work and lab experiments point to two oil components — naphthalene and methylnaphthlane — to be at least part of an explanation for large declines in insect populations within oiled or previously oiled areas of coastal marsh, she said.

“We have results, good information, that these are increasing and that this is an emerging problem,” Hooper-Bui said of the two compounds.

The mystery, is why the compounds are increasing, she said.

Eugene Turner, Boyd Professor in the LSU School of the Coast and Environment at LSU, said the two compounds are aromatics that should be venting into the atmosphere, but they’re not. Instead, some process is creating more of it in the soil than is being allowed to be released, he said.

In addition, Turner said, the problem is being found not just in areas that received the heaviest oiling,but in many areas that just received some oil.

Although preliminary results point to the two compounds as a good candidate for causing or contributing to the insect reduction in oiled areas, research continues, he said. He said researchers don’t know what’s breaking down to form the compounds, but they’re working on that now.  Read more here:  http://theadvocate.com/home/5782947-125/buzzing-of-insects-falls-silent

(Photo Credit:Ted Jackson, The Times-Picayune)
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The news of the discussions came only days after the end of court proceedings in the first phase of the trial over claims brought by the federal government, Gulf Coast states and private parties affected by the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana.

While Halliburton is not the subject of direct federal actions, BP has tried to hold it and the rig’s owner, Transocean, partly responsible for damages. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/23/business/halliburton-seeks-a-deal-over-oil-spill.html?_r=0


Yeah, go figure.
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Concentrating the sun's ray onto solar photovoltaic (PV) modules requires walking the fine line between optimizing power output and not literally melting your very expensive super-high-efficiency solar cells. A team led by IBM Research seems to have found a way to push back the line.

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Not "Graphic", Not about factory farming, Not all about food, have a look :-)
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The barrier islands look very bad to me, but one must note they were in trouble before the spill due to coastal erosion. I have no doubt the spill has sped up the process. I have seen some of the smaller islands, that birds nest on, literally disappear in the past three years. The oil killed the marsh grass and the mangrove roots leaving the islands with nothing to hold them together and now some are completely gone.

As far as the amount of tar balls washing up on beaches — it varies from day to day. BP’s claims that the Gulf Coast is back to normal are simply not true.

How the oil is affecting people’s health is another issue, and as with the impact on wildlife, answering this question without scientific data is impossible.

I think anyone who professes to know what the long-term impact on the Gulf will be is not credible. It is too early to know if there will be a collapse of any of the species in the food chain, if the seafood is safe or not, and if people who lived close to the spill, or worked to clean it up, will suffer long term impacts.

Read more here:  http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/three_years_after_bp_disaster_the_gulf_coast_is_still_coping_with_the_aftermath_partner/
The barrier islands look very bad to me, but one must note they were in trouble before the spill due to coastal erosion. I have no doubt the spill has sped up the process. I have seen some of the smaller islands, that birds nest on, literally disappear in the past three years. The oil killed the marsh grass and the mangrove roots leaving the islands with nothing to hold them together and now some are completely gone.

As far as the amount of tar balls washing up on beaches — it varies from day to day. BP’s claims that the Gulf Coast is back to normal are simply not true.

How the oil is affecting people’s health is another issue, and as with the impact on wildlife, answering this question without scientific data is impossible.

I think anyone who professes to know what the long-term impact on the Gulf will be is not credible. It is too early to know if there will be a collapse of any of the species in the food chain, if the seafood is safe or not, and if people who lived close to the spill, or worked to clean it up, will suffer long term impacts.

Read more here: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/23/three_years_after_bp_disaster_the_gulf_coast_is_still_coping_with_the_aftermath_partner/
Some good news for a change.
GREAT NEWS! A court of appeals has just upheld the EPA’s veto of one of the country’s largest mountaintop removal mining permits, saving more than 2,000 acres of Appalachian lands from destruction http://ow.ly/klChh 

“Gratitude to all the lawyers and citizens who have given so tirelessly of their time and energies these past many years,” said Cindy Rank of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Her group was one of several local organizations that teamed up with Earthjustice attorneys to support EPA’s veto. The latest court victory deals a big blow to the highly destructive practice of blowing up mountaintops for coal, and will help protect the air and water of Appalachian communities.

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GREAT NEWS! A court of appeals has just upheld the EPA’s veto of one of the country’s largest mountaintop removal mining permits, saving more than 2,000 acres of Appalachian lands from destruction http://ow.ly/klChh

“Gratitude to all the lawyers and citizens who have given so tirelessly of their time and energies these past many years,” said Cindy Rank of the West Virginia Highlands Conservancy. Her group was one of several local organizations that teamed up with Earthjustice attorneys to support EPA’s veto. The latest court victory deals a big blow to the highly destructive practice of blowing up mountaintops for coal, and will help protect the air and water of Appalachian communities.


A "cocktail" of human-made "pressures" are threatening insect pollinators across the world, whose decline will have "profound environmental, human health and economic consequences," according to a new report released Monday by the Insect Pollinators Initiative.


A distinctive odour still wafts around a Cayuga resin plant more than two decades after the infamous facility shut down. “In the right weather, you can still smell it. I walk by all the time,” Walker said of the plant, which sits in a north-end residential area. She joined a grassroots battle against the plant when it was under scrutiny for pollution produced in the 1970s and ’80s, including a wildlife-killing solvent spill into nearby Pike Creek.

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