Archive for the 'Environment' Category
“Should BP Nuke Its Leaking Well?”
July 3rd, 2010Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result Via: Reuters: His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf […]
Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead
July 2nd, 2010At least they have some nice accommodations: Banned FEMA Formaldehyde Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster. Via: Business Insider: Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many […]
Independent Video and Images from Gulf of Mexico Disaster
July 1st, 2010Via: bpslick:
Alex to Become Hurricane as Swells Reach Gulf Spill
June 29th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: As officials and residents in Texas braced for a strike from Tropical Storm Alex’s most ferocious side, energy companies worked to evacuate offshore rigs. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour, was 355 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas, heading northwest at 12 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane […]
BP Worker Found Dead of “Natural Causes”
June 29th, 2010Via: nfwdailynews.com: A BP cleanup worker was found dead in his Village Inn room Sunday afternoon. The 48-year-old man’s identity has not been released. “There are no signs of foul play,” said Michele Nicholson, spokeswoman for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. “I don’t think there was anything suspicious about it.” A spokeswoman at Mobile’s Unified […]
Bill Clinton: Blow Up The Well
June 28th, 2010Via: CNN:
So Far, 400 Have Sought Medical Care After Visits to Escambia County Beaches
June 28th, 2010Via pnj.com: The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official. But the advisory was not lifted for Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Fort Pickens beach, immediately west of Pensacola Beach or Johnson Beach on […]
Monsanto Wins as Supreme Court Backs Alfalfa Seed Planting
June 22nd, 2010Via: Bloomberg: The U.S. Supreme Court, ruling in favor of Monsanto Co., overturned a judge’s ban on the planting of alfalfa seeds engineered to be resistant to the company’s Roundup herbicide. The 7-1 ruling shifts the focus of the environmental dispute to the Agriculture Department, which under today’s ruling now can consider allowing limited planting. […]
Oil Spill: The Situation Off Bon Secour
June 21st, 2010Via: Press Register:
Montana: Tornado Destroys Rimrock Auto Arena
June 21st, 2010The only reason I’m posting this is because you have to see the video. Via: AP: A tornado that ripped the roof off a sports arena in Billings, Mont., Sunday evening also tore through businesses, damaging a bar and a casino and leaving just the walls of an auto glass shop standing. The tornado struck […]
