English: A wave power facility. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Proposed oil tanker routes to service the Northern Gateway Pipelines, and the tanker prohibition zone proposed by the federal Liberal Party. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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Soil
degradation has brought down more than one great civilization,
researchers from the University of Witwatersrand write in a new study,
warning the same fate could befall the modern world if measures are not
taken to preserve soil quality.
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Nearly
a quarter of deaths in developing countries including Nigeria and Ghana
are linked to pollution, the environmental organisations Green Cross
and Blacksmith Institute said on Tuesday in Zurich.
As bees vanish, food supply is threatened. Adam Chodak's story:
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"Even
the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods
at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a
series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout
researcher Christina Consolo told RT.
Fukushima operator TEPCO
wants to extract 400 tons worth of spent fuel rods stored in a pool at
the plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4. The removal would have to be done
manually from the top store of the damaged building in the
radiation-contaminated environment.
In the worst-case scenario,
a mishandled rod may go critical, resulting in an above-ground meltdown
releasing radioactive fallout with no way to stop it, said Consolo, who
is the founder and host of Nuked Radio. But leaving the things as they
are is not an option, because statistical risk of a similarly bad
outcome increases every day."
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Soil
degradation has brought down more than one great civilization,
researchers from the University of Witwatersrand write in a new study,
warning the same fate could befall the modern world if measures are not
taken to preserve soil quality.
Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.
Nearly
a quarter of deaths in developing countries including Nigeria and Ghana
are linked to pollution, the environmental organisations Green Cross
and Blacksmith Institute said on Tuesday in Zurich.
As bees vanish, food supply is threatened. Adam Chodak's story:
Real Coastal Warriors shared a link.
"Even the tiniest mistake during an operation to extract over 1,300 fuel rods at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome, fallout researcher Christina Consolo told RT.
Fukushima operator TEPCO wants to extract 400 tons worth of spent fuel rods stored in a pool at the plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4. The removal would have to be done manually from the top store of the damaged building in the radiation-contaminated environment.
In the worst-case scenario, a mishandled rod may go critical, resulting in an above-ground meltdown releasing radioactive fallout with no way to stop it, said Consolo, who is the founder and host of Nuked Radio. But leaving the things as they are is not an option, because statistical risk of a similarly bad outcome increases every day."
As
bad as this is, it is minor compared to the destruction of the planet’s
environment. Online information shows that the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem
is in crisis after the BP spill and use of Corexit, a dispersant used
to hide, not clean up, the spilled oil.
The Fukushima catastrophe has hardly begun. Yet already the
radioactive water pouring into the Pacific Ocean has made fish dangerous
to eat unless a person is willing to accept a higher risk of cancer.
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Quick:
What caused the 2010 blowout of BP’s Macondo well in the Gulf of
Mexico? Some might answer it was the failure of the blowout preventer
to slice through the drilling pipe and seal the well before explosive
gas could escape to the Deepwater
Horizon drilling rig. Others might say it was the failure of the cement
slurry to properly set and keep hydrocarbons from entering the
wellbore. But Donald Winter, a former secretary of the Navy and member
of the National Academy of Engineering, has a different answer. “The
blowout was precipitated by a decision,” he said in an interview with
Platts. “Not by a piece of hardware, but by the decision to proceed to
temporary abandonment in spite of the fact that the negative pressure
test had not been passed.” The human element has always been a factor
in the operation of oil and gas wells. But it has become perhaps the key
factor as deepwater drilling systems have grown more complex.
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Even
the National Institutes for Health knew those BP tarballs were filled
with killer flesh eating viruses... any questions? The Deepwater
Horizon Oil Spill was the largest oil spill in USA history releasing
approximately 4.9 million barrels of
crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Soon after the spill started, tar
balls and other forms of weathered oil appeared in large numbers on
beaches in Mississippi and Alabama. In this study, we analyzed tar balls
for total aerobic bacterial (TAB) counts and also for the presence of
Vibrio vulnificus, a human pathogen known to be abundant in the Gulf
Coast environment and capable of causing severe wound infections by
contact with contaminated surfaces. Our results showed that TAB counts
were significantly higher in tar balls than in sand and seawater
collected at the same location. In addition, V. vulnificus numbers were
10× higher in tar balls than in sand and up to 100× higher than in
seawater. Densities of V. vulnificus were higher than 10(5) colony
forming units/g of tar ball in all samples analyzed. Our data suggest
that tar balls can act as reservoirs for bacteria including human
pathogens. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22109669
( Here's a hummer. http://ncrenegade.com/editorial/the-gulf-ecosystem-is-being-decimated/ )
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BP
oil spill: The ‘horribly mutated’ creatures living in the Gulf. Fish,
shrimp, and crabs are missing eyes and suffering strange deformities,
according to a harrowing new report — yet the FDA insists the seafood’s
safe to eat.
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Experts
said they believe black gill disease, caused by a tiny parasite,
contributed to a die-off of white shrimp between August and October,
typically the prime catch season.
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BP
has launched a new website to counter critics and provide its own spin
on developments involving the April 2010 blowout of its Macondo well,
which caused the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drillship, the death
of 11 workers and an 87-day oil spill in
the Gulf of Mexico.BP has launched a new website to counter critics and
provide its own spin on developments involving the April 2010 blowout
of its Macondo well, which caused the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon
drillship, the death of 11 workers and an 87-day oil spill in the Gulf
of Mexico.
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Environmentalists
are pushing back against four prominent climate scientists who say the
green movement should embrace nuclear power plant construction to help
fight climate change.
Environmentalists
are pushing back against four prominent climate scientists who say the
green movement should embrace nuclear power plant
( And I say climate change alarmism is 'post normal science' i.e. b.s. on steroids )
Aerial view of fracking in Texas
www.flickr.com
Saw
these strange new human-made landscapes on my flight from Sacramento to
Houston. Not farming, not subdivisions, but many miles of rectangular
patches etched out of the earth, some with pools next to them, all with
roads to them. I doubt that people see these when driving on major roads
- I never...
Aerial view of fracking in Texas
www.flickr.com
Saw
these strange new human-made landscapes on my flight from Sacramento to
Houston. Not farming, not subdivisions, but many miles of rectangular
patches etched out of the earth, some with pools next to them, all with
roads to them. I doubt that people see these when driving on major roads
- I never...
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The
"major failure" of a pit at an Alberta coal mine has released one
billion litres of contaminated water into the Athabasca River.
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Pipelining tar sands oil presents special problems. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-brune/tar-sands-pipelines-spills_b_1628916.html http://truth-out.org/news/item/19175-the-big-push-putting-tar-sands-through-old-oil-pipelines
In most cases converting pipes already underground triggers minimal permitting. The federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, which oversees the regulation of interstate pipelines, and the State Department, which oversees pipes coming across Canada, do not require an environmental review or thorough permitting process, for conversions. Kuprewicz tells Truthout.org:"The process of converting either existing gas or conventional oil lines to tar sands does not trigger any kind of lengthy review. Some companies have figured that out. That's why they are trying to convert these older lines.""It's kind of a chess game going on," said Kuprewicz, whose consulting firm provides pipeline expertise to government agencies, the industry and other parties.
In some cases, lines are being converted with little research into the impact of the switch to dilbit. "Some of these companies are becoming masters of loopholes, instead of just stepping back and doing the right thing," Kuprewicz said.
If oil companies carry through on their proposals, a network of old gas and oil pipes converted to move tar-sands dilbit will dot maps through the United States. Many of the pipes were built in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
If completed, TransCanada's Energy East project would pump dilbit from Alberta to refineries in Eastern Canada. The dilbit would travel along 870 miles of new pipeline that connects to 1,864 miles of the older pipe.
Tar sands dilbit contains hydrogen sulfide, an element that has been shown to worsen external corrosion and cracks such as the ones found in the 42-inch pipe.
Dilbit can be harsher on pipes than conventional oil or natural gas, and it requires more pumping stations. Even when it's diluted with hydrocarbons, it can still be up to 70 times more viscous than conventional oil, generating higher friction and temperatures in a pipe. It contains more abrasive sand particles and up to 20 times more corrosive acid concentrations.Kuprewicz finds fault with a National Academy of Science conclusion in June that found tar-sands dilbit to be similar to heavy crude. "Someone didn't do their homework or isn't answering all the questions,"
http://www.treehugger.com/energy-disasters/mayflower-arkansas-residents-face-health-problems-after-exposure-tar-sands-oil.html
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The
brand new story below from ENENews is horrifying and shares more
information about what is now unfolding up and down the entire West
Coast of America and Canada.
.
This tiny thing on Google Maps
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