Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Huge Fish Kill Reported in Plaquemines Parish
September 15th, 2010Look at the photos. Via: Times-Picayune: Plaquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish floating atop the water. […]
Oil from BP Spill Pooled on Bottom; Oil Found as Far as 70 Miles from Site; Only Bacteria Seen Alive in Samples
September 13th, 2010Via: ABC News: Oil from the BP spill has not been completely cleared, but miles of it is sitting at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a study currently under way. Professor Samantha Joye of the Department of Marine Sciences at the University of Georgia, who is conducting a study on a […]
Monbiot: “I Was Wrong About Veganism”
September 7th, 2010Meat: A Benign Extravagance by Simon Fairlie Via: Guardian: This will not be an easy column to write. I am about to put down 1,200 words in support of a book that starts by attacking me and often returns to this sport. But it has persuaded me that I was wrong. More to the point, […]
Genetically Modified Salmon
September 7th, 2010Unlikely to escape… Unlikely. Via: Guardian: Last Friday, though, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) took a potentially dangerous step. The agency ruled that salmon whose genes have been altered so that they grow more rapidly than their wild counterparts are safe for human consumption. In so doing, the FDA opened the door for […]
Mafia Cash in on Lucrative EU Wind Farm Handouts – Especially in Sicily
September 7th, 2010“In Italy, for example, power from wind farms is sold at a guaranteed rate of €180 per kwh – the highest rate in the world.” I don’t know what the subsidy is, but it can’t be €180/kwh. (Please tell me it’s not €180/kwh.) I looked up the retail cost of electricity in Italy and it’s […]
Another Oil Rig Blows Up in Gulf of Mexico: Vermilion Bay 380
September 2nd, 2010Monitoring… Via: Washington Post: An offshore oil rig exploded Thursday in the Gulf of Mexico, injuring at least one worker, the U.S. Coast Guard said. All 13 people on board the Vermilion Oil Rig 380 have been accounted for, and the one who was injured is being transported to a hospital, Coast Guard Petty Officer […]
Discovery Channel Situation: Manifesto of James Jay Lee
September 1st, 2010Update: James Lee Killed By Police —End Update— It looks like he should have applied for a job at the White House: John Holdren, Obama’s Science Czar, Says: Forced Abortions and Mass Sterilization Needed to Save the Planet. I include incidents like this in False Flag Operations because they result in the state taking more […]
Tests Find Sickened Family Has 50.3 PPM of Corexit’s 2-Butoxyethanol in Swimming Pool
August 30th, 2010? ? ? ? ? Via: Florida Oil Spill Law: “Our heads are still swimming,” stated Barbara Schebler of Homosassa, Florida, who received word last Friday that test results on the water from her family’s swimming pool showed 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A used to break up and sink […]
Japanese Firm Builds Small Machine that Converts Plastic Back Into Oil
August 23rd, 2010If there’s electricity around… I know! How about converting U.S. aircraft carriers into massive trash barges to clean up the Pacific Trash Vortex. Those aircraft carriers run on nuclear power so there should be plenty of juice on board for turning that stuff back into oil. Just a bit more comedy on Cryptogon this morning… […]
U.S. Scientist Retracts Assurances Over Success of Gulf of Mexico Cleanup
August 21st, 2010Via: Guardian: White House claims that the worst of the BP oil spill was over were undermined yesterday when a senior government scientist said three-quarters of the oil was still in the Gulf environment and a research study detected a 22-mile plume of oil in the ocean depths. Bill Lehr, a senior scientist at the […]
