Archive for the 'Environment' Category
Australia’s Largest Ever Export Deal: Coal to China
February 8th, 2010Via: ABC:
Queensland billionaire Clive Palmer has signed a deal to sell millions of tonnes of coal to China in what’s believed to be Australia’s largest export contract.
Mr Palmer says the $69 billion, 20-year offtake deal was signed last Friday with China Power International.
Another $8.6 billion agreement was signed with the Metallurgical Corporation of China to [...]
Audi 2010 Green Car Super Bowl Commercial
February 8th, 2010City of L.A. Wants Construction of New Buildings to Include Catchment Systems to Handle Toxic Runoff During Rain Storms
February 2nd, 2010What is happening to the millions of people who are breathing the air that’s carrying all the pollutants that are winding up in the toxic runoff?
This is the Los Angeles Times from 2002:
A report by a Washington, D.C., environmental group says that children in California are at greater risk of contracting cancer from inhaling toxic [...]
Genetically Modified Forest Planned for U.S. Southeast
February 1st, 2010Via: Scientific American:
Genetic engineering is coming to the forests.
While the practice of splicing foreign DNA into food crops has become common in corn and soy, few companies or researchers have dared to apply genetic engineering to plants that provide an essential strut of the U.S. economy, trees.
But that will soon change. Two industry giants, International [...]
Quadrennial Defense Review: Melee Mode, Cyberwar, More Killer Robots, Environmental Catastrophes
February 1st, 2010Via: CNN:
The Pentagon will no longer shape the U.S. military to fight two major conventional wars at once, but rather prepare for numerous conflicts and not all in the same style, according to a draft of a new strategic outlook the Pentagon is announcing on Monday.
The new mantra for military planners will replace the almost [...]
Formaldehyde-Laced Death Trailers to Haiti!?
January 29th, 2010Children in Katrina Trailers May Face Lifelong Ailments
FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed
Via: AP:
The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea denounced by some as a crass and self-serving attempt to dump inferior American products [...]
No Climategate Prosecutions
January 26th, 2010Via: Bishop Hill:
However, when the Climategate emails were released I noticed several email from Mike Hulme predating 2005, which appeared to contradict the earlier assertion that all such emails had been lost. Intrigued, I wrote to the Information Commissioner asking that this be investigated and today I had my response.
First off, I was told that [...]
Chavez: U.S. Weapon Test Caused Haiti Earthquake
January 22nd, 2010If you know of better sources for this information, please send them over.
UPDATE: Hugo Chavez Did Not Accuse the U.S. of Causing the Haitian Earthquake
It turned out that the dodgy sources for the Chavez thing lived up to their reputations.
Via: The Anti Press:
On January 19, Spanish newspaper ABC, a newspaper of record in Spain, published [...]
Royal Navy Flotilla Withdrawn to Cut Costs, Weeks Before Haiti Disaster; First Gap in Cover in Caribbean Since 17th Century
January 21st, 2010See: PENTAGON DISASTER RELIEF EXERCISE FOR HAITI WENT LIVE AFTER EARTHQUAKE HIT
Via: Times Online:
A Royal Navy flotilla that might have provided relief in the first hours after the Haitian earthquake was withdrawn weeks before the disaster because of budget constraints, the Ministry of Defence said last night.
Naval sources told The Times that the unpublicised cut [...]
Florida: Record Cold Killed Millions of Fish
January 20th, 2010Via: Miami Herald:
Everywhere he steered his skiff last week, Pete Frezza saw dead fish.
From Ponce de Leon Bay on the Southwest Coast down across Florida Bay to Lower Matecumbe in the Florida Keys — day after day, dead fish. Floating in the marina at Flamingo in Everglades National Park alone he counted more than 400 [...]
