The Wild Side News (www.wildsidenews.com), hosted by Sidney Wildesmith expands into its video premier with the Wild Side News Update. What’s happened to the bees this spring (2008)? Answer: It’s gotten worse than last year. So what’s causing the mysterious disappearance of a third of all of the bees? They’re disappearing. Sidney Wildesmith makes the case that the new inseciticides which utilize neonicotinoids are the cause, and it’s time we speak the truth loud and clear. To listen to the Wild Side News 24/7 go to www.wildsidenews.com where you’ll find the most comprehensive series of programs, featuring the world’s leading voices about nature and the envirnment. And visit the Wild Side News Update in the months ahead, here on YouTube.
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Scientists monitoring the spill with the European Space Agency Envisat radar satellite stated that oil had reached the Loop Current, which flows clockwise around the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida and becomes the Gulf Stream. The scientists warn that because the Loop Current is a very intense deep ocean current, its turbulent waters will accelerate the mixing of the oil and water. Ruoying He of North Carolina State University, head of the Ocean Observing and Monitoring Group, said if the oil reached the Gulf Stream, then south Florida, including the Keys, would likely be affected. On May 19, NOAA acknowledged that a small portion of the oil slick has reached the Loop Current. On June 3, a computer model showed that oil would likely reach the Loop Current and travel to Atlantic Seaboard beaches by July. Changes in weather as well as the Loop Current itself could affect the outcome, but the maximum possible speed would be 100 miles (160 km) per day. The main stream would likely stay 50 to 60 miles (80 to 100 km) offshore, but pockets of oil could reach the coast. Whether oil comes ashore farther north depends on local winds, but the Gulf Stream moves away from the coast southeast of Charleston, South Carolina, at the Charleston Bump. Few tar balls would be likely to reach the Carolinas, and significant environmental damage appeared very unlikely because oil would be heavily diluted.
James H. Cowan, a biological oceanographer at Louisiana State University, said a hurricane could result in oil reaching farther inland, even affecting rice and sugar cane crops. A hurricane could also delay actions that would lead to a permanent solution, and it could spread the oil further or deeper in the ocean. Jeff Masters, founder of Weather Underground, indicated that a hurricane’s passage over a sandy beach might help in the cleanup efforts, such as what happened during Hurricane Henri’s passage over the Ixtoc I spill area; however, it would likely not have such a beneficial effect in marshlands and rocky beaches. Additionally, Masters pointed out the possibility of more widespread damage to coastal areas, airborne oil droplets immersed in hurricane winds, and a chance that the oil spill may cause explosive deepening of hurricanes in the Gulf.
Wildlife and environmental groups accused BP of holding back information about the extent and impact of the growing slick, and urged the White House to order a more direct federal government role in the spill response. In prepared testimony for a congressional committee, National Wildlife Federation President Larry Schweiger said BP had failed to disclose results from its tests of chemical dispersants used on the spill, and that BP had tried to withhold video showing the true magnitude of the leak. On May 19, 2010, BP established a live feed of the oil spill after hearings in Congress accused the company of withholding data from the ocean floor and blocking efforts by independent scientists to come up with estimates for the amount of crude flowing into the Gulf each day. On May 20, 2010 United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar indicated that the U.S. government would verify how much oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and United States Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asked for the results of tests looking for traces of oil and dispersant chemicals in the waters of the gulf.
Journalists attempting to document the impact of the oil spill have been repeatedly refused access to public areas by BP and its contractors, local law enforcement, the Coast Guard and government officials. Scientists have also complained about prevention of access to information controlled by BP and government sources. Airplanes carrying photojournalists have been prevented from flying over areas of the gulf to document the scope of the disaster. BP states that it has been their policy to allow the media and other parties as much access as possible, however reporters and photographers continue to claim that they have been blocked from covering some aspects of the spill.
full lis tof blog at http://bbccrazydave.blogspot.com yep if some other company was making this kind of mess the environment agency would probably be fining them for polution, get the project manager on them Jane Davidson (who I found out today is the environment minister nolonger Carwyn Jones)
Super nice guy at reception of Enviro-Can but no real contact with an aware civil servant yet. They should realize it freaks out more people that have seen/documented it happening by not monitoring it or explaining it. This after a certain point adds to hysteria and then that makes them/enviro canada complicit to causing folks to worry. Canadians own that agency last I heard, you see we are all very wealthy it’s just the keys to success only go out to the highest bidders, the rest get debt and feel wealthy. Google RADARSAT2 you paid for it!
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DON’T BELEIVE ME READ ABOUT KURT VONNEGUT’s BROTHER, I met Kurt V in the 90’s on a film set and he was a pretty pesimistic guy towards the planet (set of All the kings men, unreleased TV Vonnegut theatre):
I wanted to see if the high paid university civil workers had any thoughts on cloud seeding in Canadian airspace, what I got was a refferal to the commercial Weather network channel. If it is just sodium chloride & or calcium chloride basically sea salt & calcium those in charge of our enviroment should be able to allay some of the more ominous public impressions of this spraying stuff.
They told me to check weather channel, is it Taboo or are the guys and gals there too busy to look outside?
Quality of audio is as bad as their answers unfortunatly. They work for you and if this is occuring they owe it to warn us so kids are not breathing it when it falls with rain.
4. Dr RUSSEL NORMAN (Co-Leader—Green) to the Minister for the Environment: Is he concerned that dirty dairying in New Zealand is now gaining international notoriety, as stated in Rural News on 29 August; if so, does he agree with comments in Rural News on 2 September that the recently outlined National Policy Statement for freshwater management demonstrates an abject failure in leadership?
Hon TREVOR MALLARD (Minister for the Environment) : No.
Dr Russel Norman: Has the Minister read the Environment Waikato report, out yesterday, that says that water quality has deteriorated over the last decade—the years of this Government—and now more than 75 percent of waterways tested are unsafe even for stock to drink from, and how can a rapidly worsening water quality in the Waikato be anything other than an abject failure in leadership?
Hon TREVOR MALLARD: Only the summary.
Dr Russel Norman: Has the Minister read the tourism industry election manifesto, also issued yesterday, that lists improving New Zealands environmental performance as one of the six Government priorities if we are to protect $8.3 billion of tourist income, and does he believe that the 70 percent of Waikato rivers that are unsafe for humans to swim in, due to faecal contamination, are actually 100 percent pure and tourists are going to flock to swim amongst the cow faeces and urine?
Hon TREVOR MALLARD: To the first part of the question, only the summary, and to the second part of the question, if the member had read other media he would have seen that this Government has recently invested over $300 million in that very problem. We would have thought we would have praise for that, rather than running down the tourism industry the way that that member has.
Tim Groser: Is the Minister aware of the long-term consequences for the New Zealand economy of undermining the New Zealand dairy industry, and is he also aware that the carbon footprint of the New Zealand dairy industry is considerably better than in any other major dairying country?
May 27 (Bloomberg) — Scott West, head of intelligence and investigations at the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, talks with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker about the BP Plc oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and BP’s past safety violations.
West retired from the Environmental Protection Agency after, he says, the government pulled the plug on his investigation into negligence by BP in Alaska in 2006. (Source: Bloomberg)
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http://bbccrazydave.blogspot.com for a full list of blogs. Well if we are going to see a whole lot of water wheels on our rivers then they are going to have to find a better system for stopping the water or at least make the barricade higher than any flash floods rise to??? Eh engineer dudes. I bet someone out there has a brilliant idea as to how to make one, or are already in use somewhere on this planet. So shall we have a world wide competition for a design that can be implimented anywhere??? forward the question to your government.