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  • THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT- GUJARAT- India
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Handling of KATRINA in U.S. has become the model for the ruling class in India.The developments minus human face in the socalled golden age! of Globalisation and liberisation has brought miseries after miseries of the people and opening the gate of all out privatisation of service sectors. The recent man made flood in Surat of Gujarat of India can be an eye opener.
    THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT- GUJARAT
    The danger of second flood is lurking. First it was the district of (…)

  • An Environmental Disaster Emerges on Lebanon Coast
    28 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    An Environmental Disaster Emerges on Lebanon Coast Published on Monday, August 28, 2006 by the San Francisco Chronicle by Christopher Allbritton Tons of heavy fuel oil, spilled into the sea during the battle with Israel, foul Lebanon — may reach Syria, Turkey
    The sand along the public beach in south Beirut is blackened and stained. The sea, normally a rich azure, is a noxious yellowish green. The water reeks of petroleum. All the fish are dead; there is not a single bird in the sky. (…)

  • Remembering Katrina and the Need for Climate Justice
    28 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The lie was that we were ready and that everything was working as a team." - Michael Brown, ex-Director of FEMA
    Silver Springs, MD - On Saturday afternoon, August 26, 2006, a rally was held at the site of the main headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA), a federal agency, at 1305 East-West Highway with its intersection with Colesville Ave, just north of the District of Columbia line. The event was cosponsored by the U.S. Climate Emergency Council (…)

  • Global warming alarmists aren’t upset enough
    26 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Global warming alarmists aren’t upset enough
    Friday, August 25, 2006 Richard Lasker
    Lasker is the director of Brabant Research Inc. in Bent Mountain.
    I recently learned from the "Captains of Industry," specifically Stanley Lewandowski, Intermountain Rural Electric Association’s general manager, that those who believe that global warming is a man-made occurrence are "alarmists."
    What I guess this means is that pointing out an observational scientific situation that counters industrial (…)

  • Idaho’s Off-Road Uproar. A bill promises to preserve the wilderness — for gearheads
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Carole King, CAROLE KING is a singer, songwriter and longtime conservation activist.
    WHILE OUR attention is on other parts of the world, an insidious movement is underway at home to privatize nationally owned land. Its proponents are using federal "quid pro quo" bills, which typically include just enough wilderness designation to get a buy-in from selected conservation groups. Roughly 250,000 acres have been privatized through such legislation since 2000.
    One such bill is the proposed (…)

  • H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan
    15 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    H5N1 Bird Flu in Michigan Recombinomics Commentary August 14, 2006
    White House press secretary Tony Snow has announce a press conference of H5N1 in mute swans in Michigan. His comments indicated it was low pathogenic avian influenza and is likely to have strong relationship to the H5N1 detected in Manitoba last August. The H5N1 was part of an expanded surveillance program across southern Canada. H5 was detected across Canada and was found in 24% of young mallards tested in British (…)

  • Death of America Looms as Catastrophic Events Plunge Nation Towards Ecocide
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Death of America Looms as Catastrophic Events Plunge Nation Towards Ecocide By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers
    Today, and as it continues the fight for its very survival on the battlefields of the World, the United States is facing one of the greatest ecological catastrophes in recorded human history.
    To the greatest paradox about the catastrophic events ravaging America are that though they have been forewarned about, by the United States Military, the American (…)

  • Nuclear plants fined £2m each for leaks
    11 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The operators of two nuclear facilities have each been fined £2 million over radioactive spillages.
    The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority was penalised over an incident at Dounreay in Caithness.
    And BNG Sellafield was fined for a radioactive leak at its Thorp reprocessing plant in Cumbria.
    The fines were imposed by the Nuclear Decommission Authority (NDA) and will be deducted from the fee the quango pays to the operators.
    In September last year 266 litres of hazardous, dissolved (…)

  • Planet of the Indoor People
    10 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Saletan
    Have you heard the news? Scientists have found a planet that can support life. Parts of its atmosphere are too hot for year-round habitation, its gases impede breathing and surface conditions are sometimes fatal. But by constructing a network of sealed facilities, tunnels and vehicles, humans could survive on this planet for decades, and perhaps even centuries.
    The planet is called Earth.
    If you’ve seen this planet lately, you know what’s going on: record-shattering (…)

  • ENVIRONMENT: 100 Million Trees for Venezuela
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Humberto Márquez *
    CARACAS, Jul 27 (Tierramérica) - Venezuela has launched a five-year reforestation project for Orinoco headwaters and tributary rivers in which more than 900 conservation committees and students from more than 100 schools will help plant 100 million trees in a 150,000-hectare area.
    "Campesinos who used to clear land for crops or cow pasture are now turning to agroforestry, which is more profitable and better for the local environment," Miguel Rodríguez, vice minister (…)