The Green Police Want Drones For Environmental Violations January 26, 2012 Print Version Source: Atlantic Wire Earlier this week, a story circulated about a drone hobbyist whose photos of a Dallas-area meat-packing plant dumping blood into a river got the feds to investigate the plant. Environmentalism seems to be a perfect use for the new [...]
Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Canadian public was in the dark January 15, 2012 Print Version Source: Montreal Gazette After the Fukushima nuclear accident, Canadian health officials assured a nervous public that virtually no radioactive fallout had drifted to Canada. But last March, a Health Canada monitoring station in Calgary detected an average of 8.18 [...]
Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout December 20, 2011 Print Version Source: Market Watch PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Possible Death Count. An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the [...]
Japan: Scientists Call for Dumping Radioactive Soil Into Sea December 5th, 2011 Via: Asahi: Scientists have proposed dumping soil contaminated by radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster into the deep sea, an idea certain to meet opposition both at home and abroad. A group led by Isao Tanihata, a professor at Osaka University’s Research [...]
Mystery Radiation Detected ‘Across Europe’ November 12th, 2011 Via: ABC News: The hunt is on for the source of low level radiation detected in the atmosphere “across Europe” over the past weeks, nuclear officials said today. Trace amounts of iodine-131, a type of radiation created during the operation of nuclear reactors or in the detonation [...]
Japanese Debris to Start Hitting Western U.S. and Canada THIS WEEK November 11, 2011 Print Version Source: Washington’s Blog Japanese Debris to Hit Western U.S. and Canada I noted in June that debris from carried out to sea in the Japanese tsunami would hit the Western U.S. and Canada within a year or so, and [...]
BP Gets Approval to Resume Drilling in Gulf of Mexico October 22, 2011 Print Version Source: BBC BP has won approval to resume drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, 18 months after a well blowout killed 11 workers and caused an environmental disaster. Regulators approved plans for drilling to depths of up to 6,000ft about [...]
Japan: Plutonium Discovered 28 Miles from Damaged Fukushima Nuclear Plant October 11th, 2011 Via: Wall Street Journal: Trace amounts of plutonium were found as far as 28 miles from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant, the first time that the dangerous element released from the accident was found outside of the immediate area of the [...]
Diane Castle http://blackoilredblood.com/2011/09/is-this-a-literal-bp-cover-up/ The tar balls that washed up all across the Gulf Coast post Hurricane Lee are confirmed matches for the Louisiana crude that spewed from the ocean floor after the Deepwater Horizon disaster. What’s more, a study by Auburn University revealed this week that the the oil has barely degraded over the course [...]
Fukushima Fallout Reached California Waters September 22, 2011 Print Version Source: ABC News Samples gathered between March 16 and March 26 showed abnormally high levels of radioactive elements. The radioactive fallout from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant accident has spread as far as California waters, according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley. March disaster [...]
Washington Post: Obama Green Jobs Cost $5 Million Each September 16, 2011 Print Version Source: Business And Media Institute The Washington Post might be a day late and $38 billion short, but it’s being honest about Barack Obama’s failed green jobs program. According to the Post, the “$38.6 billion loan guarantee program” has created just [...]
GE Dumps Offshore Wind-Power Plans AFTER Collecting $125 Million In Stimulus From Taxpayers For Wind Projects September 14, 2011 Print Version Source: Daily Bail Best friends Obama and Immelt applaud as GE screws taxpayers once again. Source – Gateway Pundit GE was awarded 44 contracts totaling over $46,000,000 and 44 grants totaling more than$79,000,000 from the Obama-Pelosi $757 billion [...]
FEMA and Your ‘Federal Family’ September 1st, 2011 Via: Palm Beach Post: Don’t think of it as the federal government but as your “federal family.” In a Category 4 torrent of official communications during the approach and aftermath of Hurricane Irene, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has repeatedly used the phrase “federal family” when [...]
Hurricane Irene 2011: New York City’s Catastrophe That Wasn’t August 29, 2011 Print Version Source: Huffington Post NEW YORK — The approach of Hurricane Irene prompted an extraordinary response from New York City officials: they shut down the city’s sprawling public transportation network, set up 81 emergency shelters and ordered the first-ever mandatory evacuation [...]
Get Real: Hurricane Irene Should Be Renamed “Hurricane Hype” By Patrick Michaels | Forbes – Fri, Aug 26, 2011 Get Real: Hurricane Irene Should Be Renamed “Hurricane Hype” Over the years the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has employed the world’s best experts on Atlantic tropical cyclones, from “Dr. Bob” Simpson, to the mediagenic Neil Frank and [...]
