You may be interested in
http://proamlib.blogspot.com/2011/01/strange-things-in-arkansas-dead-birds.html
I find the global map to be particularly revealing....
Barry
On Jun 27, 2011, at 11:37 PM, D and N wrote:
Yes. The Oil Sands. Canada is going down fast, especially now that
Harper is here for another 4 years. But the protests have not let up
on Oil Sands. Fewer countries want this dirty oil, and despite talk
of further development, this is a no-brainer when it comes to high
cost of extraction and waste. Just one tailings pond incident which
resulted in dozens of dead ducks went a surprising long way.
Government can't keep subsidizing it, and interest rates are rising.
Natural gas extraction, unfortunately, isn't as heavily subsidized
because exploration is no longer a factor.
I'm hoping, for US citizens' sake, for all life affected, that
sustainables, renewables take off so fast because they have to, that
fracking won't grow worse.
The NY Times article almost mirrors something we were watching on
Nat Geo, except they failed to mention, Darryl points out, that the
food sources for Caribou are shifting because of global warming.
That they want to cull the wolves is disgusting. It's not just about
the caribou. This would merely add to the near one million creatures
already being snared. I had the following letter published in the
Victoria Times Colonist recently regarding leghold traps:
http://savethewolf.net/leghold-traps/
Why are leghold traps still legal?
By
Admin
– April 21, 2011Posted in: Featured Stories
By Natalia Kuzmyn, Times Colonist April 20, 2011 [ Story &
Credit all go to Times Colonist ]
Re: “Wolf trap snares dog in Sechelt,” April 15. Leghold Traps
Must it take a pet or human walking into a leghold trap to make the
public aware of the legal placement of these cruel objects?
Why are body-gripping traps still legal in Canada? They torture or
kill about a million wild creatures annually. Trappers and
legislators alike seem oblivious to the pain and anguish experienced
by any victims.
Wolves are the scapegoats for industry-altered grazing grounds of
their natural prey. Rural planning for new housing encroaches on
woodland borders the deer prefer. It’s a sad reflection on society
and on government wildlife protection management skills. These
animals are a gift with territorial rights; they play an important
role in nature, and dying for human purposes isn’t it.
The Association for Protection of FurBearing Animals seem alone in
calling for an outright ban on trapping. They deserve our support in
such endeavours.
Natalia Kuzmyn Oak Bay
© Copyright (c) The Victoria Times Colonist
On 6/27/2011 7:10 PM, Ray Harrell wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/28/science/28caribou.html?hpw
REH
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Our community’s land is on the list for this stuff. What do you
not understand about the U.S. Supreme Court essentially banning
class action suits?
REH
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] On Behalf Of D and N
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Subject: [Futurework] more frackin' hell
One thing I didn't realize when I last posted something on fracking
was the number of environmental safety exemptions the industry has
enjoyed since Dick Cheney and his Bush puppet passed a bill in
2005. Or else I forgot, and, just having seen the scary documentary
called "Gasland", I was so outraged and deeply saddened to
rediscover this slow-eco-terrorist industry had managed to get the
bill passed. The other terrifying thing is of course just how much
of America has been fracked and how little is left to frack.
A well is good for 18 frackings; as of 2010 they may have gone
through 40 trillion gallons of water just for drilling and
processing. Each well requiring hundreds of trips by tank trucks of
various kinds. I'm not sure how much water has been polluted, but
it looks like almost half. "Processed" water alone covers the
land's former green space. The air above these natural gas wells is
full of pollutants landing on the crop and pasture lands, and
little Jimmy will be eating the beef from the cows who drink the
polluted water and eat the toxic grass and breathe the toxic air.
There's not a road that exists in rural America, it seems, that
doesn't have a gas well on it now because the industry knows that
there's a natural gas sea under half the country.
Just how f'n stupid are these oil and gas suit-psychos? Then
there's the rest of the planet for not stopping them in their
tracks. But keeping up with the greed has become more than
tiresome, far too costly to combat, and most often an exercise in
futility. Way too many causes out there. It's high time Congress
and the Senate were served some of that post-fracking adjacently
situated drinking water they pretend is safe. Hey, just kidding!
They deserve so much more--really!
Don't we live in the most interesting times? seems too complacent
to do the trick any more.
Oh, did I mention polluting to destroy bio-life as the greatest
short-term career for everyone without a soul?
Natalia
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/06/fracking.html
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