Archive for the 'Pollution' Category

(Youtube) – This is the aerial video Exxon does not want people to see of the Arkansas tar sands oil spill. Tens of thousands of gallons of oil have flooded some of the streets and yards of Mayflower, Arkansas. The Exxon tar sands oil spill is small taste of what we would see if the Keystone XL Pipeline is approved. The media is largely being kept away from this spill. In the video you can see that Exxon’s plan to clean it up consists mostly of hoses and paper towels. Read the rest of this entry »

(DeSmogBlog) – Arkansas’ Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has contracted out the “independent analysis of the cleanup” of the ExxonMobil Pegasus tar sands pipeline spill to Witt O’Brien’s, a firm with a history of oil spill cover-ups, a DeSmogBlog investigation reveals. Read the rest of this entry »

(CBSNews) – July 2011 – Next week marks the anniversary of the beginning of the BP oil disaster. It should have been a wake-up call for the industry and the federal government. Instead, spills, leaks and explosions still happen every day.

A six month CBS News investigation found that spills of crude oil and toxic chemicals last year alone were three times the amount of the Exxon Valdez spill.

CBS News chief investigative correspondent Armen Keteyian discovered, federal officials have no idea how big the problem has become. Video Link Here

UPDATE: Since publication of this story this morning, yet another oil spill has come across the wire – a CP Rail spill from a derailment in northern Ontario – raising the total of spills this past week to SIX.

(CommonSenseCanada) – It’s been another appallingly bad week for proponents of pipeline safety and new oil infrastructure. If the industry’s woeful historical record – from the Exxon Valdez to BP’s Gulf of Mexico catastrophe to Enbridge’s trashing of the Kalamazoo – isn’t enough to turn people off of new pipelines and tanker routes, this slew of recent spills should seal the deal. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (TarSandsBlockade) – Dispatches From Exxon’s Spill Zone, Day 2 – Read More Here

Also: (InsideClimateNews) – InsideClimate News Reporter Threatened With Arrest at Ark. Oil Spill Site – Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Thousands of gallons of oil have spilled from a pipeline in Texas, the third accident of its kind in only a week. Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – The FAA announced a temporary no-fly zone would be enacted indefinitely over the Arkansas oil spill. With word that an Exxon employee was controlling the airspace, though, speculation pointed to the idea the oil company was trying to keep the media away. Read the rest of this entry »

(BeforeItsNews) – I had hoped that this heartbreaking story of the 500 nearly dead sea lions that washed ashore in California was going to take a turn for the better; however, that is not the case. Read the rest of this entry »

(Youtube) – Published on Apr 1, 2013 by NibiruMagick2012 – Radioactive Reality (01 April 2013) Arkansas Nuclear One death and Oil Spill – Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – A mysterious wave of animal deaths that kicked off at the start of 2011 is picking back up in China, where tens of thousands of farm animals and wildlife have turned up dead in the communist country’s waterways in recent weeks. According to reports, the mass die-offs have affected mainly rivers and tributaries around the densely-populated Shanghai region, and the death count thus far includes tens of thousands of pigs, roughly 1,000 ducks, and at least five black swans. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (HuffPost) – Ducks Near Arkansas Oil Spill Found Dead After ExxonMobil Pipeline Rupture (PHOTO) – Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Arkansas Nuclear One Reactor and ExxonMobil Pipeline Both Suffer Major Accidents

The Arkansas Nuclear One nuclear reactor – operated by Entergy – suffered an accident yesterday which killed one and injured 8 workers. Read the rest of this entry »

(OceanNRG) – “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan told Al Jazeera. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.” Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and CoastalSciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Last summer, a rural area of southeastern Louisiana known as Assumption Parish was changed forever following the unexpected formation of a giant sinkhole that suddenly appeared one day out of nowhere. This mysterious sinkhole, which was later dubbed the “Great Louisiana Sinkhole,” has been gradually gaining in size now for about seven months, and it appears to be picking up speed, having reportedly swallowed up an entire acre of land in just one day, and three acres of land in under a week. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common joint disorder. Unlike the autoimmune form of arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis is due to wear and tear on a joint and, the NIH says, is just a “normal result of aging.” Read the rest of this entry »

(RussiaToday) – Volunteers and workers cleaning up the devastated regions flooded by Hurricane Sandy are facing dangerous mold and asbestos contamination, which could cause illness and litigation if they do not properly protect themselves. Read the rest of this entry »

(IND) – An unidentified chemical used in fracking in the United States has triggered concern after it emerged it can cause kidney and liver damage.

A subsidiary of Nabors Industries Ltd pumped a mixture of chemicals identified only as “EXP-F0173-11″ into half a dozen oil wells in rural Karnes County, Texas, in July. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – The cleanup technique used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually made the spilled oil more than 50 times more toxic than doing nothing, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico. The findings were published in the journal Environmental Pollution. Read the rest of this entry »

(ENENews) – An oil and gas rig off the coast of Louisiana was hit by an explosion and fire this morning, leaving at least two crew members missing and possibly as many as 15, Coast Guard officials said.

Eleven other crew members were flown to hospitals, and four of them are listed in critical condition. Read the rest of this entry »

(CommonSenseShow) – It’s been labeled the worst environmental disaster in world history, and rightfully so, because the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is like the nightmarish gift that keeps on giving.  The April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deep Water Horizon Explosion will soon be back in the news again. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – The global petroleum industry has long been the antagonist for environmental and animal-rights advocates. But more recently, “Big Oil” has emerged as a literal threat to democracy for its vast political influence and ability to contrive wars for profit. A report released last month by the National Wildlife Federation exposed to what extent the oil industry, along with coal, affect electionsin America. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyMail) – Furious villagers in eastern China are demanding the closure of a new stone quarry after it turned their river completely white.

Residents in Aodi, Zhejiang province, say the river is now so heavily polluted that they can’t use it for drinking water for their livestock, nor are they able to water their crops. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – A new 4 mile long oil slick has been spotted near the site of the BP Gulf Oil Spill Macondo well. Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyMail) – This wall of foam sparked widespread panic among locals as it rushed along a river in southern China.

The mass of soapy suds blanketed the water in Xintang, in China’s Guangdong province, leading to evacuations along the banks of the river. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – The fracking industry is secretly dumping trillions of gallons toxic waste with all kinds of pollutants from all kinds of sources into wells during and after drilling. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – After a decade long cover up by the media, scientists and officials the government finally admits WTC toxins caused 50 different types of cancers. Read the rest of this entry »

(Newsvine) – The official BP story of the Gulf Oilspill Disaster (dubbed BPGOD) is one incredible fairy tale that would not pass simple logic tests. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Several decades ago, the Dupont logo had the following text attached: “Better living through chemistry.” Since then, many of us have come to realize we are living worse in a toxic environment that includes chemically polluted air, water, food, so called “medicine,” and now even clothing. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – Government officials and the media continue playing dumb as the ‘mystery’ sink-hole grows ‘more mysterious’ as sinkhole continues to expand swallowing a boat and a tree. Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – You’ve probably read countless articles about the horrendous quality of tap water and its numerous contaminants that attack your biology and have been tied to a multitude of health ailments. It is very rare, however, that you can actually see just how terribly polluted your tap water truly is. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalSociety) – You’ve probably read countless articles about the horrendous quality of tap water and its numerous contaminants that attack your biology and have been tied to a multitude of health ailments. It is very rare, however, that you can actually see just how terribly polluted your tap water truly is. Read the rest of this entry »

(ZeroHedge) – Chevron’s Richmond refinery, the largest refinery in California, is under a Level 3 Hazardous Material extreme immediate warning following an explosion. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – An ongoing series of earthquakes in Texas – where earthquakes usually don’t happen – have all been discovered to have occurred near natural gas fracking sites. Read the rest of this entry »

(EarthFirst) – As anti-fracking momentum grows nationwide with word being spread the practice permanently destroys water sheds PA activists shutdown a planned operation. Read the rest of this entry »

(ActivistPost) – An Ecuadorian had ordered Chevron to pay $19 billion for environmental damages in what is being dubbed the Amazon’s Chernobyl. Read the rest of this entry »

(Wired) – Taking a page out of the tobacco industry playbook research claiming fracking is safe is revealed to have done by scientists paid off by the Natural Gas industry. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – It is well known that many people are sensitive to electromagnetic pollution. Wi-fi gives them headaches. Being near high-voltage power lines can bring on migraines. Using a cell phone unleashes similar symptoms. Until recently, there was no medically-understood mechanism by which electromagnetic waves could be sensed by humans. But now, thanks to some fascinating science summarized here, that mystery may be closer to being solved. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Groundbreaking new science reveals that the harmful effects of exposure to synthetic chemicals are passed from generation to generation via “epigenetics,” causing measurable damage to future generations even if those offspring are never exposed to the original chemical. The phenomenon of “Epigenetic Transgenerational Inheritance” (ETI) has now been demonstrated in live animals, and if the implications of this research are fully understood, it would force human civilization to radically rethink its widespread use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture, medicine, food, construction materials, personal care products and elsewhere. Read the rest of this entry »

(RealNews) – BP, government leaders, and other oil executives covered up a secret blowout in the Caspian Sea two years before the Gulf spill caused by the same reason.

BBC investigative reporter and Guardian reporter Greg Palast reveals shocking details about a secret blowout that BP covered up which occurred on the Central Azeri platform of the coast of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea two years prior to the Deepwater Horizon Blowout. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – A man who is now a paraplegic and who is also going blind has filed a lawsuit against British Petroleum (BP) and its related companies; Halliburton; Transocean; NALCO; ConocoPhilips and several other companies involved with the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the suit, BP officials lied about the safety of Corexit, an oil dispersant sprayed throughout the Gulf, which resulted in serious and permanent injuries for a dive team that helped with cleanup efforts. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – A former BP engineer has been charged with destroying 200-plus text messages about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including one concluding that the undersea gusher was far worse than reported at the time.

Kurt Mix faces two counts of intentionally destroying evidence requested by authorities, federal prosecutors announced Tuesday. The charges mark the first criminal case brought in conjunction with the 2010 blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, which spewed nearly 5 million barrels of crude into the sea. Read More Here

(RussiaToday) – Friday marked the two year anniversary of America’s worst oil spill. British Petroleum was behind the disaster that took two months to maintain yet also spawned side-effects that caused a downward spiral in the economy, tourism and wildlife still to this day. In recent ads, images of green grass and beautiful water have been advertised in an attempt to lure people to the US Gulf coast. But is everything back to normal? Abby Martin takes a closer look at spill two years later. Read the rest of this entry »

The Gulf Ecosystem Is Being Decimated

(WashingtonsBlog) – The BP oil spill started on April 20, 2010. We’ve previously warned that the BP oil spill could severely damage the Gulf ecosystem.

Since then, there are numerous signs that the worst-case scenario may be playing out: Read the rest of this entry »

(Fair) – This week on CounterSpin: You’ve heard the gas industry PR—their ads are all over television and public radio. And the message—that gas drilling is a safe, affordable path to energy independence—is being echoed by some pundits. Anti-fracking activists sure think otherwise, and they’re challenging the media-industry line. We’ll talk about this with Brendan deMelle of DeSmog Blog.

Also on CounterSpin today, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow has a new book taking a critical look at U.S. military power. But how critical? And what lessons can we draw about exactly what kind of critique the corporate media will allow? Author and peace activist David Swanson will join us to talk about that. Read the rest of this entry »

(HigginsBlog) – Despite evidence linking it to cancer, radiation, earthquakes, and neurotoxins the feds are backtracking on plans to review hydraulic fracturing of natural gas.

There is widespread and well documented evidence that fracking destroys water supplies by permanently polluting them with radioactive substances and other toxic chemicals. Read the rest of this entry »

Which Means that It’s Something In the Environment

(WashingtonsBlog) – We’ve extensively documented that toxic chemicals in our food, water and air our causing an epidemic of obesity … even in 6 month old infants. – Read the rest of this entry »

* Chevron halts output after navy spots oil stains

* Regulator ANP allows Chevron to stop production

* Spill in November led to $11.1 billion civil suit (Recasts to add court decision, production halt)

(Reuters) – A Brazilian court on Saturday barred 17 executives from Chevron and Transocean from leaving Brazil, pending criminal charges related to a high-profile oil spill last November.

A federal judge in Rio de Janeiro state granted a request from prosecutors who are pressing for charges against both firms, a spokesman for prosecutor Eduardo Oliveira said in a phone interview. George Buck, who heads Chevron’s Brazil unit, and the other 16 executives must turn in their passports to the police within 24 hours, the spokesman said. Read the rest of this entry »

(12160) – A new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking.

(FederalJack) – WHAT: Funeral service and procession for Gulf of Mexico, recently murdered by BP, Transocean and Halliburton under suspicious circumstances. Several government agencies appear to have been accomplices after the fact. Signs and costumes are requested in honor of the deceased, who is survived by her ailing siblings, Mississippi River and Caribbean Sea. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNewsTV) – The Health Ranger exposes “false environmentalism” in this 10-minute mini-documentary, revealing five legitimate ways you can save the environment. Covered in this video are genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the pharmaceutical pollution of our world, synthetic chemicals that damage the environment, the hoax of carbon taxes and much more. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalSociety) – The EPA announced that it has completed the first part of its study on dioxin, after more than 25 years of stonewalling.

Dioxin is the most caustic man-made chemical known.  Dioxin is a general term for hundreds of chemicals that are produced in industrial processes that use chlorine and burning. Disturbingly, it has a half-life of 100+ years when it is leached into soil or embedded in water systems. Dioxin was the most harmful component in Agent Orange (the recipe for Agent Orange is 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T herbicides). Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (ENENews) – Report: “High level radiation cloud” detected passing over New Zealand city — Peaks reached an “incredible” 1.89 microSv/h – Read More Here

Also: (Telegraph) – Mandatory Smart Meters Not Going Ahead in the UK – Read More Here

(WashingtonsBlog) - Illinois Nuclear Plant Vents Tritium

Exelon nuclear power company – the largest nuclear operator in the U.S. – issued a press release today stating:

Operators at Byron Generating Station declared an Unusual Event at 10:18 a.m.CT, due to the loss of offsite power and Unit 2 coming offline. Read the rest of this entry »