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Re: Pollution
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Date: May 14, 2014, 12:02 am
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Oil and Gas Operations Are a ‘Death Sentence for Soil’
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 14, 2014, 12:14 am
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[move]Oil and Gas Operations Are a ‘Death Sentence for
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Amy Mall, Natural Resources Defense Council | May 5, 2014 9:45
am
Yesterday’s Denver Post has a very important story about the
toll of oil and gas
production
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on soil.
Soil sounds like a really boring topic. But, as the Soil Science
Society of America says: “soils sustain life.”
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plants that we eat” and that livestock eat; soil “filters and
purifies much of the water we drink;” “soils teem with
microorganisms that have given us many life-saving medications;”
and “protecting soil from erosion helps reduce the amount of
air-borne dust we breathe.”
According to the Post:
◦At least 716,982 gallons (45 percent) of the petroleum
chemicals spilled during the past decade have stayed in the
ground after initial cleanup—contaminating soil, sometimes
spreading into groundwater. >:(
◦Oil and gas drilling produces up to 500 tons of dirt from
every new well, some of it soaked with hydrocarbons and laced
with potentially toxic minerals and salts. >:(
◦Heavy trucks crush soil, “suffocating the delicate
subsurface ecosystems that traditionally made Colorado’s Front
Range suitable for farming.”
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These impacts from the tens of thousands of wells in Colorado
alone led a Colorado soil scientist to state that oil and gas
operations are ”like a death sentence for soil.”
The Post points out that no federal or state agency has ever
assessed the impact of the oil and gas boom on soil and on human
health.
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10 Most Toxic Ingredients Used In Coal, Oil and Gas Production
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 18, 2014, 10:18 pm
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10 Most Toxic Ingredients Used In Coal, Oil and Gas Production
:P
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Greenhouse Gas USA State Rankings
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 19, 2014, 7:36 pm
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The Green Mountain State has the LEAST GHG Emissions!
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How Planned Obsolescence HAS NOT GONE AWAY with the light
bulb...
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 22, 2014, 9:48 pm
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The Light Bulb Conspiracy
Planned Obsolescence is the deliberate shortening of product
life spans to guarantee consumer demand.
As a magazine for advertisers succinctly puts it: The article
that refuses to wear out is a tragedy of business
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and a tragedy
for the modern growth society which relies on an
ever-accelerating cycle of production, consumption and throwing
away.
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The Light Bulb Conspiracy combines investigative research and
rare archive footage to trace the untold story of Planned
Obsolescence, from its beginnings in the 1920s with a secret
cartel, set up expressly to limit the life span of light bulbs,
to present-day stories involving cutting edge electronics (such
as the iPod) and the growing spirit of resistance amongst
ordinary consumers.
This film travels to France, Germany, Spain and the US to find
witnesses of a business practice which has become the basis of
the modern economy, and brings back disquieting pictures from
Africa where discarded electronics are piling up in huge
cemeteries for electronic waste.
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Agelbert NOTE:EXCELLENT VIDEO! DON'T MISS THIS GEM!
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Re: Pollution
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 24, 2014, 1:46 pm
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'Tide is Turning' as Oregon Voters Overwhelmingly Approve Ban of
GE Crops
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Ronnie Cummins: "These victories make it clear to agribusiness
giants like Monsanto and Dow that the day has come when they can
no longer buy and lie their way to victory."
- Lauren McCauley, staff writer
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Re: Pollution
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 25, 2014, 12:28 am
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Where there is a will, there is a way.
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Pollution: Oxfam names major food firms as climate change
'accomplices'
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 25, 2014, 1:19 pm
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The food and beverage sector: Accomplices to the climate crisis
Oxfam names major food firms as climate change 'accomplices'
Oxfam, May 21, 2014
Climate change threatens the world's food and beverage industry
like few other sectors of business. It is a major risk to food
supply chains, to consumer demands and, ultimately, to
companies' future profitability.
The Big 10 food and beverage companies -- Associated British
Foods (ABF), Coca-Cola, Danone, General Mills, Kellogg, Mars,
Mondelez International, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever -- are
significant emitters of greenhouse gases (GHGs) across their
global operations.
If together they were a single country, these 10 famous
companies would be the 25th most polluting country in the world,
emitting more GHGs (263.7 million tons per annum) than Finland,
Sweden, Denmark, and Norway combined. They are not doing nearly
enough to cut their own carbon footprint.
But worse, they are failing to use their experience,
leadership, and power to transform their own industry and push
for the level of climate action the world needs. With a few
notable exceptions, the Big 10 are being silent accomplices to
this unfolding crisis. It is a serious charge because these
companies should be fully aware of the impact that climate
change is having on the planet's food system, given their
dominance and reach into it. Two companies in particular,
Kellogg and General Mills, are clear laggards among the Big 10.
Both companies are highly vulnerable to climate impacts but also
well positioned to lead the industry towards a more sustainable
future.
Climate change is contributing to storms, floods, drought, and
shifting weather patterns. These are causing crop failures, food
price spikes, and supply disruptions. The end result will be
more poverty and hunger. By 2050, there could be an extra 25
million malnourished children under the age of 5 because of
climate change, and 50 million more hungry people.
This is the human dimension of the climate change crisis that is
already unfolding. The poorest, most vulnerable people are being
hit first and worst. But all of us will be affected. In major
markets like the US and the UK, Oxfam calculates that climate
change will drive up the retail price of products like General
Mills' Kix cereal by up to 24 percent and Kellogg Corn Flakes by
as much as 44 percent over the next 15 years. Such retail price
hikes are the consequence of rising prices of commodities like
corn and rice, projected to double by 2030, with half the price
rise due to climate change.
For the full report:
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Re: Pollution
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 26, 2014, 7:38 pm
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Indians accused over “Devil’s Bend” killings go on trial 26 May
2014
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Police break up road blockade near Bagua, Peru, June 5th ©
Thomas Quirynen
Fifty-three people go on trial in Peru today, charged in
connection with violent clashes between indigenous protesters
and police five years ago that left thirty-three dead.
The violence erupted in June 2009 after more than 50 days of
nationwide protests led by Peru’s Amazon Indians over government
plans to strip the Indians of their rights, and open up the
Amazon to oil drilling and mining.
The clashes took place in Peru’s northern Amazon town of Bagua,
after police confronted indigenous protesters who had peacefully
blockaded a highway at a place known as “Devil’s Bend” for
almost two months.
Twenty-three police officers, five Indians and five civilians
were killed and more than 200 injured during the incident,
according to a report by Peru’s Ombudsman. Unofficial reports
have claimed the death toll was much higher.
Amongst those charged is Alberto Pizango, the president of
Peru’s Amazon Indian Organization AIDESEP. The prosecution has
called for Pizango to be imprisoned for life for “inciting
violence”.
Since the clashes, several of the government’s controversial
decrees have been repealed. In 2011, Peru’s President Ollanta
Humala approved a law designed to guarantee indigenous peoples’
right to free, prior and informed consent to any projects
affecting them and their lands.
However, since then the government has approved a controversial
expansion of the massive Camisea gas project, even though it
will penetrate deep into the territory of uncontacted Indians.
Peru’s government has been heavily criticized by both indigenous
people and families of the deceased police officers for its
failure to prevent the violence.
No police officers have yet been brought to trial. >:(
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Read Survival’s eyewitness report (download includes several
pictures :o) of the Bagua killings .here
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NOTE: contains
images some may find disturbing
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Re: Pollution
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 29, 2014, 9:41 pm
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Study Connects Monsanto’s Roundup to Fatal Kidney Disease
Epidemic :( >:(
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