Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Gulf Loop Current Stalls Due to BP Incident?
August 4th, 2010Via: Pure Energy Systems News: Oceanographic satellite data now shows that as of July 28, the Loop Current in the Gulf of Mexico has stalled as a consequence of the BP oil spill disaster. This according to Dr. Gianluigi Zangari, an Italian theoretical physicist, and major complex and chaotic systems analyst at the Frascati National […]
Russian Wheat Harvest Down Sharply Due to Drought and Fires
August 4th, 2010Via: Kansas City Star: Drought and raging wildfires have destroyed one-fifth of the wheat crop in Russia and sent wheat prices soaring around the world. The fear that Russia, a major wheat producer, will have to cut exports by at least 30 percent is good news for U.S. farmers, who now are getting more money […]
China: Garbage Islands Threaten Three Gorges Dam
August 3rd, 2010Via: Reuters: Thousands of tons of garbage washed down by recent torrential rain are threatening to jam the locks of China’s massive Three Gorges Dam, and is in places so thick people can stand on it, state media said on Monday. Chen Lei, a senior official at the China Three Gorges Corporation, told the China […]
Big Picture Gallery: Cleaning Dalian Harbor
August 1st, 2010* shaking head * Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: The oil spill resulting from a pipeline explosion in the port city of Dalian on July 16th is being cleaned up by a small army of fisherman, locals, and government workers manning over 250 oil-skimming vessels and 8,000 fishing boats – much of the work […]
US-Canada Pipeline Leaks Oil Into Michigan River
July 28th, 2010Via: BBC: A pipeline carrying oil from the US state of Indiana to Ontario, Canada has spilled more than 800,000 gallons (3m litres) of oil into a creek which flows into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. A spokesman for the firm running the pipeline, Enbridge Energy Partners, said a malfunction had caused the leak. The […]
Tug Vessel Hits Abandoned Gas Well in Barataria Waterway
July 28th, 2010Via: WWLTV: The Coast Guard and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are maintaining a two mile safety perimeter around a damaged wellhead in the Barataria Waterway south of New Orleans. A mix of natural gas, contaminated water and light crude oil is spewing 100 feet in the air. According to the Coast Guard, the tug […]
David de Rothschild: Masonic Handshake in Sydney; Was His Skull and Bones Belt Buckle on Board?
July 27th, 2010David de Rothschild wears a skull and crossbones belt buckle (I guess it’s the Jolly Roger given his recent voyage on the high seas), and he gave a masonic handshake for the cameras in Sydney. Image: philly.com: Image: Richardson’s Monitor of Freemasonry by Jabez Richardson, page 30: Image: Outside: Can you feel the clean, green […]
Corexit: “People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally.”
July 26th, 2010Via: Democracy Now: Well, Corexit is one of a number of dispersants, that are toxic, that are used to atomize the oil and force it down the water column so that it’s invisible to the eye. In this case, these dispersants were used in massive quantities, almost two million gallons so far, to hide the […]
Big Picture Gallery: Oil Spill in Dalian, China
July 22nd, 2010Via: Big Picture: Five days ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours, destroying several structures – the cause of the explosion is under investigation. The damaged pipes released thousands of gallons of oil, which flowed […]
More than 700 Dead in Chinese Floods; “Various Disasters Hitting Many Regions”
July 21st, 2010Via: CNN: Torrential flooding across much of the nation has left 701 dead and hundreds missing, China’s vice minister of water resources said. At least 347 people are missing, Liu Ning told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday. Ninety-percent of the casualties were caused by mountain floods, mudslides and landslides triggered by heavy downpours. About 645,500 […]
