There are two youtube video's to watch. One that shows what Enbridge did to hide the Oil in the creeks, the other shows the affects Oil pollution has on the human body.
Man who worked on the clean up exposes the deep Oil seeping into the aquafiers and down stream. video
Here is what is happening as a result of that spill - video
Another resident showing how bad the Oil is in the Kalamazoo River, where Enbridge says it did not go. video more here.
The lower reaches of the Mississippi River are being hit by record floods, as detailed on our In Focus photography blog. While there are thousands of news stories about what's happening, I found myself wanting basic knowledge about how the Mississippi works now. It's such a complex hybrid human-natural system with a deep and complex history that it's hard to know where to start.
While Humans vs. The Mississippi was most elegantly laid out in John McPhee's stunning story
"Atchafalaya," we found ourselves wishing for a simpler tech explainer (or companion piece). How is a levee built? What's a revetment? What does the crucial Old River Control Structure look like? This explainer is intended to delve into these issues.
What is the Mississippi River? It's not actually a silly question. The Mississippi no longer fits the definition a river as "a natural watercourse flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river." Rather, the waterway has been shaped in many ways, big and small, to suit human needs. While it maybe not be tamed, it's far from wild -- and understanding the floods that are expected to crest in Louisiana soon means understanding dams, levees, and control structures as much as rain, climate, and geography. From almost the moment in the early 18th century when the French started to build New Orleans, settlers built levees, and in so doing, entered into a complex geoclimactic relationship with about 41 percent of the United States.
The People vs U.S. Steel - video's of what is happening to what was one of the largest employers in Hamilton Ontario. A perfect example of what Soros calls the "Market Fundamentalism" or as others call it, monopoly.
Background here. Stelco is gone, and the few workers that were pushed out of the plant still march...while a bus load of scabs takes their jobs. Unless Harper does something about foreign ownership of Canada's factories, and labour force, these deals that mean nothing will continue.
Find out more by reading Linda McQuaig's - "The Trouble with Billionaires".
Chapter 8 might as well be talking about Hamilton. Every city in Canada can expect the same treatment. Be informed, then take some action, even if it is just writing to Stephen Harper. His web page talks out of both sides of his mouth.
The Greenbelt, and it's importance. A film by Dr. Gail Krantzberg
WE ARE A POLICE STATE. Secret laws to allow Police Brutality. Here is the link to the rule made in secret
G-20. If all the media coverage didn't convince you, the independent media that is posted on YouTube will.
Here is just one of hundreds of video testimonials.
More found here - search around the Youtube site and you will quickly see that while Police watched nobody did anything to stop the Black Bloc. Were they provocatures? But there were many many other brutal arrests that were unnessesary. If anything would make tempers flair it would be beating up an innocent protestor. Police questioned as agents of damage. Here.
The police seem to have forgotten that this is Canada, they need to act like they are in Canada. Trapping innocent people called "kettling" is a common proceedure. Innocent people are arrested, roughed up, insulted and bullied to scare them out of being on the streets.
everGREEN Conference Looks at Environmental Issues
March 17, 2009
A conference focusing on current environmental issues and the steps being taken to create a more sustainable future is being held in the McMaster University Student Centre on Friday, March 20 in CIBC Hall.
everGREEN is being organized by BioSphere, the environmental sub-committee of the McMaster University Biology Society, and will feature a keynote address from Rex Weyler, one of the founders of Greenpeace. A range of McMaster professors will also be presenting, including Gail Krantzberg, director of the Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy. Her presentation is at 12:30 p.m. and is titled: Sustainability, Green Chemistry and Corporate Stewardship.
The featured speaker was Rex Weyler co-founder of Greenpeace.
Check the Podcast section on the top right for recent audio.
ENVIRONMENT
MARTIN MITTELSTAEDT
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER
December 9, 2008
The tailings ponds storing waste water left over from the processing of Alberta tar sands oil are leaking an estimated 11 million litres of contaminated water every day, according to a new report.
The figure, one of the first publicly available on the scale of the seepage from tailing ponds that dot the landscape in Northern Alberta, is being released today in a report by Environmental Defence, a Toronto-based conservation advocacy group.
The leakage amount would fill Toronto's Rogers Centre stadium 2½ times every year and is based on information provided in environmental impact statements that companies submit to the Alberta government.
Although the province maintains that measures are in place to prevent the seepage from entering shallow groundwater and rivers, the report concludes that there is a "significant loss of contaminated water into the environment."
pulled from - Globe and Mail
What's new? The Tar Sands do pollute the Great Lakes. Maybe Obama's speech on stopping Dirty Oil will become the reality. That is the only way the madness of "dirty Oil" and all the environmental disaster that is the result will stop. See side-bar for links
Three years ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Gail Krantzberg. linkWhat she had to say still applies today and really helps us to understand what we are doing to the lakes.
Your in your 70's and struggling on an old age pension, but then something happens and you find youself a single parent raising 3 school age kids. What do you do to survive?
Autosprawl - noun. - the intersection and symbiosis of automobiles, sprawl, and corporate interests.
Free public transit - the beginning of the end of autosprawl.
Now that global warming awareness has hit the mainstream somewhat, the oil/auto/coal axis needs to divert us into "solutions" that do not threaten their investment and profit.
This shows how the police plant protestors into activists demonstrations just to justify police violence. Three men posing as protestors, holding rocks were exposed. Thanks to independent media, we get to see the real story here.
New report from IPCC says carbon pollution up 70% in last 30 years. Check the map link to see how Hamilton will be affected.
US temperatures 'could rise 10 degrees' by 2080
NewScientist.com news service
The team’s study shows how temperatures could rise drastically by 2085 (left), as compared to 1993 (right); areas in violet show temperatures of 26°C (79°F); green 30°C (86°F); yellow 34°C (93°F); red 38°C (100°F); dark purple 42°C (108°F) Average summer temperatures in the eastern US could soar by 5.5°C (10°F) by 2080, if human emissions continue to grow at their current rate of 2% a year, according to a new model. Leonard Druyan and colleagues at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, US, analysed past weather patterns to determine how well commonly-used climate models performed when replicating this past weather.
A few weeeks ago the Crown made an offer on one of their land claims. The welland canal flood lands. They offered 26 million on roughly 2400 acres of land that was flooded around the 1830's. The Haudenosaunee Negotiators put a working group together to look at this offer, break it down so to speak, and get it ready for community consultation. Some time frames have been established to bring this information together, and representatives of the confederacy, band council, lands research office staff and the Haudenosaunee research team are working together preparing written hand outs, web pages, phone lines, community meetings and other mechanisms to ensure that all of the people have an opportunity to voice their concerns over this offer. No one has accepted nor rejected the offer and no one is going to without full consultation of the community. The next step is getting it out to community.
July 28 - 2011 - just about 5pm and the stink is rolling into my apartment. Doesn't matter about the air filtered air-conditioners in the window... even shut tight the stink of foul metal and bad eggs is in my bed room making it hard to breath.
July 23 2011- about 10pm - another blue grey plume of stink hits the air.... chough, choke...wonder what this stuff is doing to the workers, or does it just go out the stacks for us in Hamilton to choke on.
Thursday April 7th 2011
Here we go again, first smoggy day and I cannot breath inside my apartment. It is orange and stinks of meta. The Canadian weather quality index says moderate 25 - and up. I start being sick at 20.
The City and the Province should make days with a moderate index, from their "own" web sites, tell business practices like Mittel to stop adding pollution to the air. Killing people to make money isn't worth it is it.
On the Ontario Ministry of Environments web site you can see the wave of thick yellow coming and the predicted sites will just move this stink east.
Poverty Issues
A $950.00 per person dinner for the Liberals, is more than a single person of welfare gets to live on each Month.
OCAP was there fightng for the rights and letting us know that the Liberals are no better than the Conservatives were.
Tony Clarke's new book - Tar Sands Showdown interview
Yes the Tar Sands do pollute the Great Lakes read here to find out more.
90% of Canadians want Poverty to End and their Government to act.- from CCPA www.policyalternatives.ca.
Size Matters: Canada’s Ecological Footprint, By Income, is the first Canadian study to link national income and consumption patterns with global warming.
My presentation today is exactly 20 years after my 23 June 1988 testimony to Congress, which alerted the public that global warming was underway. There are striking similarities between then and now, but one big difference.
Jim Hansen.
Currently Jim Hansen was arrested for protesting more Coal Plants along with Darly Hanna....
