En liste over de 10 mest truede floder findes på The Independent, 140405.
300306, The Guardian, Julian Borger: "Pentagon block on move for safer water" EPA USAs miljøstyrelse har undersøgt stoffet trichloroethylene, der anvendes til affedtning af metaldele. Rapporten(2001) viste, at det var farligere end hidtil formodet. Men Pentagon, som har 1400 baser og værksteder, der er forurenet med stoffet blokerer for skrappere regler for anvendelsen.
160910, Center for Constitutional Rights rundskrivelse, Fighting Mountaintop Removal - ... Mountaintop removal involves blasting the entire top off mountains to uncover coal seams buried deep in the earth. The process is deeply destructive to the environment, and is also wreaking havoc on the health, property, and livelihood of the people who live in the lush Appalachian mountain valleys.
100710. US court rejects halt to drilling. A US appeals court in New Orleans, Louisiana, has rejected a bid by the federal government to stop offshore deepwater oil exploration. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/07/2010793461173536.html
100710, Hundreds Of Fishermen Missing Checks From BP. Jeffrey Briet represents more than 500 fishermen, and he said the payment system he set up with BP required his clients to be paid every 30 days. Now that process has suddenly changed without warning, Briet said. http://www.wdsu.com/news/24178322/detail.html
Residents outraged: BP dumping oily waste in Gulf landfills: After BP crews scoop up the oil off Gulf beaches, the waste is transported to Mississippi's Pecan Grove landfill. Even workers' protective suits, gloves, shovels, rakes and anything else that touches oil is buried there. http://rawstory,com/rs/2010/0709/bp-dumping-oil-waste-gulf-landfills/
juli 2010
Tar halls hit Texas as BP oil spill cost soars: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0706/tar-balls-hit-texas-bp-oil-spill-cost-soars/
BP asks oil spill partners to pay $400m: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jul/05/bp-asks-oil-spill-partners-for-400m-dollars
070710, WSWS - Tom Eley, Censorship and cover-up in the Gulf oil disaster. The Obama administration has intensified its cover-up of the BP oil disaster. On July 1 it issued an order barring the public and the news media from coming within 65 feet of clean-up operations without permission from the Coast Guard. ... Journalists who "willfully" defy the White House order could be prosecuted as Class D felons and face up to five years in prison and a $40,000 fine. Exceptions to the ban will be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Coast Guard captain of the Port of New Orleans ... The real concern the White House has is that clean-up workers might reveal something about the dangerous conditions under which they work and the real scale of the environmental devastation - defying a gag order imposed by BP. An unknown number of these workers - likely hundreds, perhaps thousands- have become sick from exposure to oil and toxic dispersants and may well face a lifetime of chronic ailments. ... the announcement that BP would finance a $20 billion settlement fund. .... In reality, the deal was a boon to BP, effectively placing a cap over its major liabilities - for a disaster whose total costs will be reckoned in the hundreds of billions of dollars. ... Feinberg has already declared that the fund will be off limits to the majority of those affected by he blowout - people in the tourism industry, fishermen who operate on a cash basis, Gulf coast homeowners whose property values will plunge. ... BP and its supplier Nalco, have even refused to reveal to scientists the chemical composition of Corexit, the dispersant that has been dumped by the hundreds of thousands of gallons into the Gulf to break up the oil, because, they say, it is a trade secret. BP simply defied an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) order issued one month ago, to cease use of Corexit pending further testing. Obama decided not to pursue the matter. ... The Gulf disaster requires a mass response. It is first of all necessary to bring together the best scientists and engineers in the world, give them full and unfettered access to all information related to the disaster, and place them in charge of hundreds of thousands of well-trained, well-equipped and well-paid workers.
150710, rawstory. Expert suspects BP has ulterior motive behind oil well cap. ... Oil Industry expert Bob Cavnar isn't buying the official story. He told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday that the repeated missteps cast doubt on BP's explanation for why the cap was necessary in the first place. "I don't understand this whole operation," Cavnar stated. "Sunday was the first time I heard the words 'well integrity test'. There's never been any discussion about this in their public disclosure or in anything else that I've seen. ... So I'm completely confused as to why they're taking this risk of damaging the well further. ... They didn't have all these steps worked out." They shouldn't be doing this at all," he suggested. "They should be continuing with the relief well to get this thing killed.' Cavnar believes that BP's true goal is to make it harder to measure the flow of oil from the damaged well, because under the Clean Water Aet, it will be liable for civil penalties of up to $4300 for every barrel spilled. "While they have every incentive to get the well killed, BP also has every incentive to not capture 100% of the well flow until they do,"
040810, Democracy Now, Environmental Activist Jerry Cope on "The Crime of the Century: What BP and US Government Don't Want You to Know" [interview]
050810, guardian, Suzanne Goldenberg, Gulf oil spill: White House accused of spinning report. While the flow of oil into the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, experts claim up to 75% of it is still in the water. .... Recent reports seem to say that about 75% of the oil is taken care of and that is just not true," said John Kessler, of Texas A&M University, who led a National Science Foundation on-site study of the spill. The fact is that 50% to 75% of the material that came out of the well is still in the water. It's just in a dissolved or dispersed form." ... Like other scientists, she said the report failed to explain how it reached its estimates on he amount of oil that was biodegraded naturally, or dispersed with chemicals. ... Even the White House's own estimates still left a spill five times the size of that from the Exxon Valdez, she said, with long-term consequences that would be unknown for years to come. .... However, such nuances were overshadowed by the White House, which staged a high-profile event on Wednesday to announce that the well had stopped flowing, and that the consequences of the spill were not as catastrophic as once feared. ... "Even if there is not a drop of oil out there, and it had truly magically vanished, it would still be an environmental disaster caused by the toxic shock of the release of 5m barrels of oil."
Orla Jordal, 2005
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