Category Archives: environment

Deteriorating Narrative

2010-8-18 – 1:45 pm

BP applying a scientific approach to the disaster: “Fishermen hired by BP are still finding tar balls–and being instructed to hide their discoveries.”

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Levels of toxins rising rapidly

2010-8-14 – 7:03 am

Syncrude’s tailings pond is the largest, by volume of construction material, in the world, visible from space, full of sand and “dead water”, water containing carcinogenic hydrocarbons and toxic trace metals such as mercury, cadmium and arsenic.

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A Wind Farm at Waubra

2010-8-11 – 7:19 pm

To paraphrase Attila the Hayward, poisoning a continent is just a small drop in a very big world.

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Mr. Macondo from the BP Do Right Transition Team

2010-8-1 – 11:13 pm

What’s Good for BP is Good for BP

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Extinction of Pteropods

2010-7-19 – 1:38 pm

Goodbye to all the Chips of the Sea

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Co-Trustees?

2010-7-18 – 5:59 pm

As a trustee for coastal resources, NOAA protects and restores habitats injured by hazardous waste sites, oil spills and vessel groundings.

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BP Too Big To Scapegoat?

2010-7-14 – 8:54 am

There’s a certain commonality of the way oil companies had been operating in the Gulf. There certainly is, Oily. BAUAAE

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Honey, Does Fort Chipewyan Have a Chinese Restaurant?

2010-7-12 – 5:48 pm

In Fort Chipewyan, one hundred of the town’s 1,200 residents have died from rare cancers and auto-immune diseases since 2000.

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Guanabara Bay

2010-7-11 – 5:56 pm

Continuing to ignore the consequences

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Teshekpuk Safe For Now

2010-7-11 – 10:43 am

Just another The Arctic is Melting post, nothing to protect here citizen, just keep on singing those Niger Delta blues so fine

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