Wednesday, November 06, 2013

6 Nov - The View

English: A wave power facility.English: A wave power facility. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Proposed oil tanker routes to service the Nort...Proposed oil tanker routes to service the Northern Gateway Pipelines, and the tanker prohibition zone proposed by the federal Liberal Party. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The world's first 1 megawatt wave power plant just switched online in Australia! http://bit.ly/19axxN3 — with Santos Martinez.
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.
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:

"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."

Reactor Designer: “It was a nuclear explosion” at Fukushima Unit 3; Plutonium scattered after blast — ABC: “There’s willful denial and lying going on here, even at the highest levels” (AUDIO)

http://enenews.com/reactor-designer-it-was-a-nuclear-explosion-at-fukushima-unit-3-plutonium-was-scattered-after-blast-abc-theres-willful-denial-and-lying-going-on-here-even-at-the-highest-levels

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.



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.


In case you missed it, a person can get vibrio vulnificus two ways: by eating infected seafood, usually raw oysters, or by being in infected waters, either salt water or brackish. It's also found in tarballs. Peter Albrecht spoke to a man whose father died from the disease.

WATCH HERE: http://wkrg.co/1gphbF5




eal Coastal Warriors

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
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.


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.

( Macondo Prospect is still leaking. The seabed has fissures. The well was drilled through a salt dome. )

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.





Big oil's wants to paint a picture of fracking as clean and safe.

This is what fracking really looks like.

Please SHARE if you agree people need to say the real face of fracking.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/amymyou/9431314171/
 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,"
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.
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Canada #3 RT These 10 Countries Are The Most Prosperous In The World http://flip.it/UIa5o




OTTAWA, Nov. 5, 2013 /CNW/ – An annual Nanos national survey released today by Commissionaires demonstrates overwhelming public support for veterans as they make the transition from military life to a civilian career.
For the second consecutive year, 94 per cent of those surveyed continue to believe that Canadians have an obligation to ensure our veterans find meaningful employment after they’ve finished their service in the Canadian Armed Forces.

“Canadians clearly feel strongly that vets deserve our support, during and after their military service,” noted Bill Sutherland, National Board Chair, Commissionaires. “We’ve been hiring vets since 1925, so we know just how highly skilled and talented they are.”


The survey also indicates that 72 per cent of Canadians believe that in the last five years, veterans have faced difficulties making the transition to civilian jobs. In fact, 54 per cent of respondents believe it is more difficult for today’s veterans to find civilian jobs than it was for veterans of the first and second world wars. As well, nearly 70 per cent of respondents believe that the skills of today’s veterans are relevant and transferable.

Finally, the survey revealed that 81 per cent of Canadians think first of veterans of the first and second world wars on Remembrance Day, rather than veterans of more recent conflicts.


“Veterans are veterans are veterans, regardless of when and where they served,” Sutherland continued. “All of them deserve our respect and our thanks. We have a responsibility to help all veterans find jobs after serving their country.”


http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2013/11/05/survey-shows-public-support-for-canadian-veterans/


CRUSHers, many of you responded to this call late last week. We have no way of knowing if it made a difference..... BUT on Thursday, Senators talked about the unprecedeted number of emails they'd received.... They talked in the Senate of having received a flood of "originally-crafted emails" (i.e., not copy-and-paste emails). Earlier today, a friend of mine talked with a Senator who said that Senators had received over 1,000 individually-written emails on the current issue and that fewer than 50 had been in favour of the Harpercon government's intention of whipping the vote. This is a big deal -- hardly anyone ever writes to a Senator!!

I'm not saying that the "over 1,000" emails came from CRUSH members. But I know that at least about 50 did. And maybe many of the other emails came from
people CRUSH members shared the message with.

Please give this one last push. If you haven't written to the Senators yet, please take a moment to do so. It doesn't have to be more than a sentence or two. And if you have already written, please share this link so that others might think of writing too.


Just tell the Senators that they are Senators, FFS, and that therefore they can't be fired (or whipped) by Stephen Harper! And tell them that Canadians are counting on them to be the final check on a PMO gone wild.


http://whoacanada.wordpress.com/2013/10/30/email-the-senate-tonight/

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/legion-calls-conservative-position-in-defending-veterans-lawsuit-reprehensible-226762061.html
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Emerging: CBS News admits an ethics violation in 60 Minutes' Benghazi report: http://mm4a.org/16EMGW2

Anyone with half a brain can see something wrong with this!


This tiny thing on Google Maps


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