by eKos
Welcome to the eKos Earthship, your one-stop-shop for green diaries and series. As an added bonus, today's Earthship hosts Edition #7 of Laughing Planet's This week in climate change. All hands on deck! Hoist the cyber sails. We launch with climate news, announcements, today's eco-diary roundup, and our environmental video of the day. BTW, follow us on Twitter! and tweet us above with the #ekos tag! Tonight's Commander is boatsie
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010
BP Caught Lying About The Oil Spill Estimate!
by slinkerwink
This report by Bloomberg basically confirms what we've known all along---BP was lying about the original oil estimate from the start. They knew the oil estimate could possibly be higher than the 1,000 barrels a day, and this is precisely why we've needed an independent official estimate of the oil spill----and we still don't have that estimate. May 26 (Bloomberg) -- A BP Plc document shows the company’s well in the Gulf of Mexico may be leaking about 14,000 barrels of oil a day, more than publicly estimated, U.S. Representative Edward Markey said today. The internal BP document from April 27 put a high estimate for the leak at 14,266 barrels a day, Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said today at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing. At the time, BP was saying publicly that its well was leaking 1,000 barrels a day, Markey said. Please read for more information about the BP internal document below the jump, and the excellent work that Representative Markey (D-MA) has done on this issue:
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This report by Bloomberg basically confirms what we've known all along---BP was lying about the original oil estimate from the start. They knew the oil estimate could possibly be higher than the 1,000 barrels a day, and this is precisely why we've needed an independent official estimate of the oil spill----and we still don't have that estimate. May 26 (Bloomberg) -- A BP Plc document shows the company’s well in the Gulf of Mexico may be leaking about 14,000 barrels of oil a day, more than publicly estimated, U.S. Representative Edward Markey said today. The internal BP document from April 27 put a high estimate for the leak at 14,266 barrels a day, Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, said today at a House Natural Resources Committee hearing. At the time, BP was saying publicly that its well was leaking 1,000 barrels a day, Markey said. Please read for more information about the BP internal document below the jump, and the excellent work that Representative Markey (D-MA) has done on this issue:
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EcoAdvocates: Where the Buffalo Don't Yet Roam
by Meteor Blades
"The buffalo are disappearing rapidly, but not faster than I desire. I regard the destruction of such game as Indians subsist upon as facilitating the policy of the Government, of destroying their hunting habits, coercing them on reservations, and compelling them to begin to adopt the habits of civilization." – Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, Testimony to Congress, 1874 The Wasichus [white men] did not kill them to eat, they killed them for the metal that makes them crazy, and they took only the hides to sell. Sometimes they did not even take the hides, only the tongues. You can see that the men who did this were crazy. Sometimes they did not even take the tongues; they just killed and killed because they liked to do that. When we hunted bison, we killed only what we needed. And when there was nothing left but heaps of bones, the Wasichus came and gathered up even the bones and sold them." – Lakota shaman Black Elk in Black Elk Speaks, 1932 By 1870, the great herds of buffalo, or American Bison, that had in the 1500s roamed everywhere except present-day New England, were limited to 11 Western states and territories. There were still millions of them, perhaps 40 million. The massive slaughter that began in earnest in 1874 ended nine years later. By 1890, only 500 bison remained, and the devastated, decimated tribes who had depended on them were confined to reservations. Today, there are around 400,000 fenced bison in commercial herds, most of them genetically intermixed with cattle breeds and sold for meat domestically and abroad. But over the past 23 years, there has been a movement to repopulate the lightly populated areas of the West with vast new herds of genetically pure bison. That idea began with Deborah Epstein Popper and Frank J. Popper in a 1987 article in Planning, The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust.
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"The buffalo are disappearing rapidly, but not faster than I desire. I regard the destruction of such game as Indians subsist upon as facilitating the policy of the Government, of destroying their hunting habits, coercing them on reservations, and compelling them to begin to adopt the habits of civilization." – Secretary of the Interior Columbus Delano, Testimony to Congress, 1874 The Wasichus [white men] did not kill them to eat, they killed them for the metal that makes them crazy, and they took only the hides to sell. Sometimes they did not even take the hides, only the tongues. You can see that the men who did this were crazy. Sometimes they did not even take the tongues; they just killed and killed because they liked to do that. When we hunted bison, we killed only what we needed. And when there was nothing left but heaps of bones, the Wasichus came and gathered up even the bones and sold them." – Lakota shaman Black Elk in Black Elk Speaks, 1932 By 1870, the great herds of buffalo, or American Bison, that had in the 1500s roamed everywhere except present-day New England, were limited to 11 Western states and territories. There were still millions of them, perhaps 40 million. The massive slaughter that began in earnest in 1874 ended nine years later. By 1890, only 500 bison remained, and the devastated, decimated tribes who had depended on them were confined to reservations. Today, there are around 400,000 fenced bison in commercial herds, most of them genetically intermixed with cattle breeds and sold for meat domestically and abroad. But over the past 23 years, there has been a movement to repopulate the lightly populated areas of the West with vast new herds of genetically pure bison. That idea began with Deborah Epstein Popper and Frank J. Popper in a 1987 article in Planning, The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust.
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Another Oil Spill in Alaska
by Quite Contrary
Perhaps the MSM would have picked this up if it weren't for the Mother of All Oil Spills in the Gulf. http://www.adn.com/... Alyeska 'may have dropped ball,' official says The trans-Alaska pipeline remained shut down today as responders took a cautious approach to cleaning up thousands of barrels of crude oil that spilled into a containment area at a pump station. Investigators from six state and federal agencies have arrived or are on their way to the pump station near Delta Junction to investigate the accident there...
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Perhaps the MSM would have picked this up if it weren't for the Mother of All Oil Spills in the Gulf. http://www.adn.com/... Alyeska 'may have dropped ball,' official says The trans-Alaska pipeline remained shut down today as responders took a cautious approach to cleaning up thousands of barrels of crude oil that spilled into a containment area at a pump station. Investigators from six state and federal agencies have arrived or are on their way to the pump station near Delta Junction to investigate the accident there...
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This is not the candy store of the oil and gas kingdom...
by zapus
Obama's Interior Secretary delivers a scorcher on Lamborn (Idiot R-CO) No matter what you think of Ken Salazar (he's taken a somewhat undeserved beating on this site, IMO), this was a sweet truth laid on a Repug nit-wit from Colorado Springs... See this and more below the fold...
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Obama's Interior Secretary delivers a scorcher on Lamborn (Idiot R-CO) No matter what you think of Ken Salazar (he's taken a somewhat undeserved beating on this site, IMO), this was a sweet truth laid on a Repug nit-wit from Colorado Springs... See this and more below the fold...
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“Greening” Fisheries Could Calm Troubled Waters
by BorderJumpers
Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
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Cross posted from Worldwatch Institute's Nourishing the Planet.
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A U.S. success story in bicycling: Davis, CA
by pat of butter in a sea of grits
How do we improve the ability to bicycle in the United States? I thought I'd share some information from a success story, Davis, California, the first (and one of only three) U.S. cities to have earned a Platinum Level award from the League of American Bicyclists. The other two are Boulder and Portland.
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How do we improve the ability to bicycle in the United States? I thought I'd share some information from a success story, Davis, California, the first (and one of only three) U.S. cities to have earned a Platinum Level award from the League of American Bicyclists. The other two are Boulder and Portland.
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Nalco: Profiting from the Gulf environmental catastrophe
by Eclectablog
Ahh, Nalco. Such a truly wonderful chemical company you are. Making over $100 MILLION PER QUARTER in profits. And such a caring, environmentally and socially-conscious company, too. Why, they only sold $40 MILLION worth of dispersants in one month. Heck that's nuthin'...
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Ahh, Nalco. Such a truly wonderful chemical company you are. Making over $100 MILLION PER QUARTER in profits. And such a caring, environmentally and socially-conscious company, too. Why, they only sold $40 MILLION worth of dispersants in one month. Heck that's nuthin'...
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Climate Skeptics Win Debate at Oxford
by pragprogress
Last week, members of the historic Oxford Union Society, "the world’s premier debating society", held a debate on climate change policy, with skeptics carrying the day by a vote of 135 to 110. Some may argue that the debate was a bit "stacked" given that it was sponsored by the Science and Public Policy Institute, an organization whose mission statement includes the following: The Institute urges critical appraisal of legislative "climate fixes" for their social, political, and economic and security costs, along with their relative utility or futility. Proposals demanding prodigious economic or political sacrifices for the sake of negligible climatic benefits should be rejected in favor of policies to address graver, more immediate concerns about which something constructive can actually be done.
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Last week, members of the historic Oxford Union Society, "the world’s premier debating society", held a debate on climate change policy, with skeptics carrying the day by a vote of 135 to 110. Some may argue that the debate was a bit "stacked" given that it was sponsored by the Science and Public Policy Institute, an organization whose mission statement includes the following: The Institute urges critical appraisal of legislative "climate fixes" for their social, political, and economic and security costs, along with their relative utility or futility. Proposals demanding prodigious economic or political sacrifices for the sake of negligible climatic benefits should be rejected in favor of policies to address graver, more immediate concerns about which something constructive can actually be done.
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To Pres. Obama & Members of Congress Given the Gulf Environmental Emergency - Please Nationalize BP!
by Democrats Ramshield
This action diary asks you to write to the your members of Congress to request that they immediately take action given the environmental emergency in the Gulf to nationalize British Petroleum and to conduct a full and fair investigation, which would bring all culpable parties to justice. Effects of Oil on Wildlife & Habitat Oil has the potential to persist in the environment long after a spill event and has been detected in sediment 30 years after a spill. From The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore Along Gulf After BP Oil Spill The diary contains video which gives a quick informed overview including reporters during a White House briefing asking why doesn't the government move immediately to nationalize BP? Let's understand that doing nothing will cost the Obama administration the next election.
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This action diary asks you to write to the your members of Congress to request that they immediately take action given the environmental emergency in the Gulf to nationalize British Petroleum and to conduct a full and fair investigation, which would bring all culpable parties to justice. Effects of Oil on Wildlife & Habitat Oil has the potential to persist in the environment long after a spill event and has been detected in sediment 30 years after a spill. From The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Dead Dolphins Wash Ashore Along Gulf After BP Oil Spill The diary contains video which gives a quick informed overview including reporters during a White House briefing asking why doesn't the government move immediately to nationalize BP? Let's understand that doing nothing will cost the Obama administration the next election.
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