For each barrel of oil produced from the tar sands, between two and 4.5 barrels of water is needed. The waste sand and water contain naphtha and paraffin, which are used in the extraction process, and oil leftovers like benzene, naphthenic acid and polyaromatic hydrocarbon, among others. Chemicals found in the tailing ponds are known to cause liver problems and brain hemorrhaging in mammals, and deformities and death in birds.
December 31, 2007 What the Tar Sands Need Processing requires (…)
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Tar Sands Processing requires massive inputs of water, energy, land, labour
7 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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Scientists on Svalbard eye underground CO2 storage
5 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe university on Svalbard is preparing to test out a possible underground storage facility for carbon dioxide in Longyearbyen, in hopes of making the area "CO2-neutral."
Ole Magnus Rapp Aftenposten’s reporter First published: 04 Jan 2008, 16:26
This fall students and construction workers have drilled 855 meters down in Longyearbyen, and found a thick layer of slate, under which lies a layer of porous sand. "The drilling tests are being analyzed and all indications are that here are (…) -
Chinese gov’t underscores traffic safety amid thick fog
22 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Chinese gov’t underscores traffic safety amid thick fog
www.chinaview.cn
2007-12-22 15:42:40 BEIJING, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) — China’s central government called for local governments to ensure traffic safety as thick fog continues to plague major parts of the country, according to a circular released on Friday by the General Office of the State Council.
The circular called for related organizations to cooperate in the work of weather monitoring and to take effective measures to (…) -
ROSALIE BERTELL: Health&Environmental Costs of Militarism
22 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Rosalie Bertell, Ph.D., GNSH Presented in Barcelona, Thursday, 24 June, 2004
Abstract: There has been a fundamental change in the nature of war and militarism since World War I, and this change has escalated out of control since World War II. The use of toxic gas as a weapon, poisoning of water ways or air, and using chemicals in warfare broke the taboo against widespread and indiscriminative killing of non-combatants,.
This trend escalated during WW II through carpet bombings, the (…) -
BALI Farce - climate racist, climate terrorist, climate criminal US, Oz & Canada threaten Terracide
17 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
The US and its climate racist, climate terrorist, climate criminal allies Australia and Canada are seriously threatening the World, and particular the Developing World and mega-delta Developing countries such as Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Burma, Nigeria, Egypt, India and Pakistan (see: “Climate Criminals & Climate genocide. Anglo-Celtia threatens final Bengal Holocaust”: ).
The Bali Climate Change Conference has ended in a FARCE due to the US veto of greenhouse gas (…) -
Acidic Seas May Kill 98% of World’s Reefs by 2050
16 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Commondreams, December 14, 2007
reprinted from The Guardian/UK
by Ian Sample
The majority of the world’s coral reefs are in danger of being killed off by rising levels of greenhouse gases, scientists warned yesterday. Researchers from Britain, the US and Australia, working with teams from the UN and the World Bank, voiced their concerns after a study revealed 98% of the world’s reef habitats are likely to become too acidic for corals to grow by 2050.
The loss of big coral reefs would (…) -
Global Warming - a bunch of hot air
12 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
Press Release from Science & Environmental Policy Project 10 December 2007
Contact: Dr S Fred Singer, President, SEPP singer@SEPP.org 703-920-2744 Climate warming is naturally caused and shows no human influence: Carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant.
Climate scientists at the University of Rochester, the University of Alabama, and the University of Virginia report that observed patterns of temperature changes (‘fingerprints’) over the last thirty years are not in accord with what (…) -
How Canadians and the Environment will be treated when Shell Oil takes control of Northern BC
5 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe following is a video on how the Irish were treated when Shell made its way through Ireland. This is exactly how Canadians will be treated when Shell’s Coal-Bed Methane Project begins operation in Northern BC.
Blood and oil in Ireland - “We hear about a looming energy shortage and we see high fuels prices. The media talks endlessly about global warming, but when do we hear about what goes on ‘behind the scenes’ of oil and gas extraction projects?
“Shell Oil, one of the most notorious (…) -
inconvenient Peace Prize
27 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
THIS YEAR’S Nobel Peace Prize justly rewards the thousands of scientists of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These scientists are engaged in excellent, painstaking work that establishes exactly what the world should expect from climate change.
The other award winner, former US vice president Al Gore, has spent much more time telling us what to fear. While the IPCC’s estimates and conclusions are grounded in careful study, Gore doesn’t seem to be similarly (…) -
GEOINGENIERY : Ocean ‘Fertilization’ is dangerous
14 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
NO AFP on BELLACIAO please, they don’t want... Bellaciao
Commondreams From AFP, November 13, 2007 World Body Warns Over Ocean ‘Fertilization’ To Fix Climate Change http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/13/5193/print/