http://www.fourwinds10.net 2013-05-19T05:19:59+01:00 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365613414 April 6, 2013 Another large oil spill occurred this week, this time in the Houston Bayou. For the third time in a week there was an oil spill in the United States. The most recent spill happened 20 miles outside of Houston.  According to a DOW Jones Newswire: “On April 3, about 700 barrels were found to have leaked from the West Colombia pipeline because of an unknown cause, with up to 60 of those barrels emerging in the bayou, Shell spokeswoman Kim Windon said. The pipeline had been shut down and isolated on March 29 after alarms alerted the company that oil may have leaked from the line. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365611336 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365604832 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365523815 Published on Apr 6, 2013 Exxon had already partially destroyed this wetland, so they decided to power-wash diluted bitumen spilled in other areas to this area, via storm drains. The level of security - private security and police, as well as Exxon's no fly zone, make it clear that secrecy was at least one of their motives in moving it here. We went in anyway to show everyone that even the world's largest corporation does not own the truth and cannot buy silence. VIEW HERE http://www.youtube. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365521681 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365521343 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365441794 April 7, 2013 Friday marks one week since an ExxonMobil pipeline burst in the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, spilling thousands of barrels of toxic tar sands. Town residents say they are being kept in the dark over compensation and the cleanup by Exxon. April 7 Members of Pipeliners Union 798 told Mayflower residents that negligence on the part of ExxonMobile is to blame for the recent oil spill during a meeting with homeowners on Saturday. "The companies like ExxonMobile, they don't want to spend the money to fix these old lines. Fifty percent of the lines in the United States were built in the 50s and 60s and they're worn out," CBS affiliate THV 11 cites union member Danny Hendrix as saying. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1365439934 April 7, 2013 Exxon pipeline heavy crude oil spill in Mayflower, Arkansas. (photo: 350.org National security demands secrecy in the heart of Arkansas ithin a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, ExxonMobil was in charge of the clean-up, the U.S. government had established a no-fly zone over the area, some 40 residents were starting their second week of evacuation, ExxonMobil was threatening to arrest reporters trying to cover the spill, and several homeowners had filed a class action lawsuit seeking damages from the world's second-most-profitable corporation, which had helped keep the pipeline secret from terrorists. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1364954848 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1364954166 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1364907673 April 1, 2013 Despite the fact that dead dolphins and manatees are STILL showing up in droves along BOTH coasts of Florida, experts have been advised that they are NOT ALLOWED to discuss their findings due to the ongoing court cases involving BP. Since I am not beholden to BP nor to corrupt politicians nor to whomever may seek to silence the truth, I'll come right out and say it: BP, you're pure EVIL and you MUST and WILL be held accountable for your crimes in the Gulf of Mexico and the mass death that you are spreading around the world via corexit poisoning and the disastrous oil spill. Will nothing less than all out war against these corporate criminals be required to make sure BP faces extinction before the rest of us? Since the BP Oil Spill in 2010, we have learned that 893 marine mammals have been found stranded along the northern Gulf Coast alone. We've also learned that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has called this an "Unusual Mortality Event." Is this somehow NOT the fault of BP? Politicians from the Gulf Coast are also dying mysteriously as many believe this disaster ties into the Louisiana sinkhole and a potential future 'event' along the New Madrid as shared in the video below. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1364865651 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1364062207 March 22, 2013 A massive gas spill has swamped a port in Honolulu after crews loaded aviation fuel onto a $45 million yacht belonging to Google co-founder Larry Page and dozens of gallons leaked out. Emergency services rushed to the Kewalo Basin, where Page's 193-ft vessel is docked, as a gaseous stench spread across the port. While Page has to foot the bill for the non-toxic clean up, it was fellow billionaire Larry Ellison who had to endure the stink as his super-yacht was docked just downwind from the spill.   Culprit: A yacht belonging to Larry Page was responsible for a massive fuel spill in Kewalo Basin 'I think its coincidental that they both were involved in this mishap. One being the source, the other being in the plume, so to speak,' Capt. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1363349158 March 13, 2013 Keystone pipeline: U.S. pays foxes to assess henhouse as delicious o it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact statement issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That's the report that assured people tar sands oil was going to be developed no matter what, and anyway, climate change wouldn't hurt the pipeline. And it turns out that at least one of the several oil-friendly corporate authors was apparently paid by Trans-Canada, the corporate applicant for - and the owner of - the Keystone pipeline. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1363276256 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1363189019 March 12, 2013   NARAHA, Japan (AP) — Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs — and perhaps most worrying — radioactive waste due to the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant looms as a threat for the region. So far, disposal of debris from the disasters is turning out to have been anything but clean. Workers often lacking property oversight, training or proper equipment have dumped contaminated waste with scant regard for regulations or safety, as organized crime has infiltrated the cleanup process. Researchers are only beginning to analyze environmental samples for potential health implications from the various toxins swirled in the petri dish of the disaster zone — including dioxins, benzene, cadmium and organic waste-related, said Shoji F. Nakayama of the government-affiliated National Institute for Environmental Studies. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1363104757 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1363016708 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1362152384 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1361899268 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1361472293 Feb. 21, 2013 ESSAY OF THE WEEK Fracking Our Farms: A Tale of Five Farming Families Their names are Carol, Steve & Jackie, Susan, Marilyn & Robert, and Christine. They share a bond. Two bonds, actually: They all own, or owned, farms. And those farms, along with their own health and the health of their farm animals, have all been ruined by fracking. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1360855576 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1360425061 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1358437672 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1357404706 Jan. 4, 2013 Excerpts from Alaska Dispatch: Sean Churchfield, incident commander and operations manager for Royal Dutch Shell Alaska, offered few details on the overall condition of the Kulluk and had no update on the vessel’s hull. During Wednesday’s short press briefing, officials said the fuel tanks were intact, but that a tank in a “void space” that was “sucking and blowing” and could be cause for concern. Whether or not ballast tanks aboard the Kulluk have been breached remains unknown as of Thursday. Excerpts from Anchorage Daily News: At a news conference Thursday, Churchfield also said that electrical generators on the Kulluk are wrecked, but declined to say how that would affect future salvage efforts. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1355763557 Dec. 13, 2012 CBS News has learned that BP is set to embark Thursday on the fifth day of a little-known subsea mission under Coast Guard supervision to look for any new oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The BP oil rig exploded in 2010, killing 11 workers and sending a total estimated 206 million gallons of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for three months before it was capped. In September, a new oil sheen was spotted about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. Tests confirmed the oil came from the infamous Macondo well underneath the Deepwater Horizon. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1355362063 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1355244837 Dec. 10, 2012 Extremely powerful. Please pass it on. This is a template for taking action, abiding by conscious awareness of our inherent rights as sovereign human beings. – Zen VIEW HERE http://www. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1355150858 Dec. 8, 2012 Thousands of previously unread emails will be presented to court in February 2013 BP claim they always provided full disclosure on worst oil spill in history, new information seems to show otherwise Documents that will be presented to court in February appear to show that BP knew about the massive scale of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil blowout weeks earlier than previously stated. BP have always claimed that they only realized the true size of the oil spill months after the disaster, and that they had always provided full disclosure to federal authorities, Congress and the public. Now attorneys for a former BP engineer, who is accused of deleting text messages relating to the incident, plan to reveal thousands of previously unread documents they say will exonerate their client, but not the oil company.   Underestimated: Oil gushed unabated for for three months during the 2010 disaster. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1354551865 Dec. 1, 2012 (NaturalNews) The cleanup technique used by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico actually made the spilled oil more than 50 times more toxic than doing nothing, according to a study conducted by researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico. The findings were published in the journal Environmental Pollution. Over the course of three months, 4.9 million barrels of oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico (although some scientists believe that the spill is likely ongoing to this day). text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1354551533 Dec. 1, 2012 Many fracking operations take place on food producing farms. (photo: Onearth) n a Brooklyn winery on a sultry July evening, an elegant crowd sips rosé and nibbles trout plucked from the gin-clear streams of upstate New York. The diners are here, with their checkbooks, to support a group called Chefs for the Marcellus, which works to protect the food shed upon which hundreds of regional farm-to-fork restaurants depend. The food shed is coincident with the Marcellus Shale, a geologic formation that arcs northeast from West Virginia through Pennsylvania and into New York State. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1354383637 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1354291016 Nov. 29, 2012 Uli Seit for The New York Times Workers this week replacing pumps at the Bay Park sewage-treatment plant in East Rockaway, N.Y., on Long Island, that were damaged by Hurricane Sandy. More Photos » EAST ROCKAWAY, N. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1354196433 Nov. 28, 2012 Right now, the tar sands, a toxic oil reserve almost the size of Saudi Arabia's but over 3 times as dangerous for climate change, sits landlocked in Northern Canada. People power has twice blocked new pipelines into this poison, but now we have a bigger challenge. A new trade deal, negotiated in secret with China, could allow China's companies to take over the tar sands and sue the Canadian government if it hampers their exploitation with environmental or health laws. Canada's right-wing Prime Minister is an oil-man with a history of climate-denial, and he's using this tactic to bypass democracy, with potentially devastating consequences for the planet. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1353086229 nOV. 13, 2012 San Diegans could face 6 years in prison and fines of $100,000 dollars a day for washing their car in the driveway or failing to pick up dog poop under new EPA-mandated environmental regulations related to water quality. Although residents of the city are forced to drink toxic waste in their water supply in the form of sodium fluoride, measures imposed as a consequence of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Water Act would turn the most mundane of activities into a criminal offense. “California’s latest experiment in faith-based policymaking is being unleashed today on the San Diego public, as regional water-quality officials begin hearings on new regulations that seem crafted to turn most owners of a car, house or dog into criminals within a decade or so. We wish we were exaggerating,” reports the North County Times. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1352745570 Nov. 10, 201 (NaturalNews) Embattled with several feet of flood waters in some areas, persistent power outages, and rot and decay throughout tattered streets, many areas of New York and New Jersey that were hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy are also now suffering the consequences of a massive influx of toxic waste, sewage, and chemicals in the storm's aftermath, according to reports. When the flood waters began to rise, so did all sorts of industrial pollution, sewage discharge, and other toxins that have been accumulating for years in waterways, soils, and old industry sites. Chemicals and pollutants that otherwise would have flowed out into the harbor or ocean ended up backing up into residential neighborhoods, busy streets, subway depots and elsewhere, where they now seriously threaten public health. "Normally, sewer overflows are just discharged into waterways and humans that generate the sewage can avoid the consequences by avoiding the water," said John Lipscomb of Riverkeeper, a clean water advocacy group, concerning the issue. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1351010896 Oct. 22, 2012 Recent data released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show that as many as 197 different sites across 37 states registered violations to federal drinking water statutes due to contamination from coal ash produced by power plants nearby. Coal ash impoundment sites, called wet ash ponds, in some cases contained contaminant levels so toxic that in an event of a pond’s overflowing, the result would be a loss of human life. Nearby lakes and rivers, which are used by energy companies as a water source for cooling towers, are likewise heavily polluted. The process of coal-burning in more than 430 different power plants across the US creates more than 140 million tons of ash per year–carrying toxins such as arsenic, lead and mercury which can settle in public areas and water supplies. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1350756728 Oct. 18, 2012 >> Updated Here: Oil Spill Expert: I remain skeptical they found source of BP crude in Gulf << Title: ROVs investigate possible sheen source Source: US Government Date: October 18, 2012 Remote operated vehicles deployed from the offshore construction vessel Skandi Neptune collected oil samples on Wednesday from the underwater site of the Deepwater Horizon incident to determine the source of a surface sheen discovered last month. The samples were taken after the ROV video showed apparent oil globules leaking from the containment dome at approximately 15 globules per minute, which is estimated to be less than 100 gallons per day. In 2010, the 40‐foot‐tall containment dome was used as part of an attempt to capture oil and allow it to flow through a pipe to a barge on the surface. This technique was not successful and the equipment was moved away from the well head and riser pipe, and set in its current position approximately 500 meters from the original Macondo well head. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1350668423 Oct. 18, 2012 Title: About 565,000 pounds of oiled material from Deepwater Horizon stirred up by Hurricane Isaac Source: Times-Picayune Author: Jeff Adelson Date: October 17, 2012 [...] While the uncovered tar has been a problem for the island’s tourism industry, the spill and the remaining submerged oil has been a problem for shrimpers and crabbers in the community. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1349446853 Oct. 4, 2012 Title: Oil sheen mysteriously appears off Louisiana’s Gulf Coast Source: CNN Author: AnneClaire Stapleton Contributing Date: 2:57 PM EDT, Thu October 4, 2012 An oil sheen about four miles long has appeared in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the worst oil spill in U.S. history, a Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday. It was not immediately clear where the oil is coming from, said Petty Officer 3rd Class Ryan Tippets. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1349107098 Sept. 29, 2012   Wall of bubbles sparked panic in China's Guangdong province as it swept along a river Suds are thought to have been created when a chemical was swept into the river by heavy rainfall Officials in Xintang said the mass of foam was 'harmless' This wall of foam sparked widespread panic among locals as it rushed along a river in southern China. The mass of soapy suds blanketed the water in Xintang, in China's Guangdong province, leading to evacuations along the banks of the river. But officials have now said the only threat posed by the foam - thought to have been caused by chemicals washed into the river - was the possibility of 'one or two dead fish' lurking in the bubbles. (SCROLL DOWN) * * * * * * *     River of bubbles: The mass of foam sparked panic along the banks of the river in Xintang     'Panic': A local man is dwarfed by the mass of suds floating down a river in southern China The bizarre scene is thought to have been caused after heavy rainfall washed a non-toxic chemical deodorant from a household rubbish tip into the river. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1347639041 Sept. 10, 2012 It is the last thing the residents of Chongqing would have expected to see. But the Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday. The waterway where the Yangtze met the Jialin River provided a fascinating contrast as the red started to filter into the other river.   Meeting point: A ship sails across the junction of the polluted Yangtze River (left) and the Jialin River in Chongqing, China, yesterday   Shock: The Yangtze river, which runs through the city in south-western China, turned a bright shade of orange-red yesterday    Dirty/clean: A ship sails across the junction of the Yangtze River and the Jialin River at the exact spot where the dyed river starts to bleed into the Jialin In the thick of it: A fisherman goes about his daily business While officials investigate the cause of the colouring, one fisherman went about his daily business as if nothing had happened. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1346515897 Sept. 1, 2012 The Obama administration today gave Shell Oil the initial approval to begin controversial and dangerous oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, despite the fact that a critical oil-spill containment vessel is still awaiting certification in Bellingham, Wash. Until now, the Arctic Ocean has largely been off limits to offshore drilling. Shell Oil is expected to begin the initial phases of exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea as soon as it can get its drillship in place, in the heart of habitat critical to the survival of polar bears. “By opening the Arctic to offshore oil drilling, President Obama has made a monumental mistake that puts human life, wildlife and the environment in terrible danger. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1346258413 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1345914134 Aug. 23, 2012 COMMENT:  As the severity of this disaster increases, conversely to that, there will be less and less reporting, until finally the entire area will be cordoned off by the military, not unlike the aftermath of the Hurricane Andrew in Florida. If the people in that area do not leave, now, they will all be brought out in body bags. ---Rod Remelin   *********  Sinkhole drillers halt to insert pipe casing Group asks residents to keep odor, health log  [.. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1345571771 Aug. 19, 2012 Read: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/epa-requiring-85m-upgrades-industrial-plants-cut-haze-montana This is complete nonsense!* Haze is not caused solely in MT. You would have to clean up the entire world also and we know that ain't gonna happen.   A good start would be to drag out the fire hoses in all our Federal Parks and Wilderness areas. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1345214091 Aug. 14, 2012 University seismologist sheds light on mystery sinkhole and related rights abuses. Gas bubbles, 1000s of recent quakes and giant sinkhole ‘quite possibly’ have same source: oil and gas industry environmental modifications On Monday, as officials warned an explosion is possible from gas in Louisiana’s sinkhole area where radioactive waste has been pumped into a cavern and the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) authorized drilling a new well in the danger sinkhole zone, a seismologist told the Examiner that seismic activity exists in that zone and that fossil fuel industries’ environmental modifications (ENMODs) causing the gas bubbles, giant sinkhole and thousands of quakes resulting in the State of Emergency, is a “real possibility.” Video: 8/12/2012 EMERGENCY!! 10+ SALT DOME GAS STORAGE AREAs NEAR BY SINK HOLE (Note caption explanation about mixing butane and air.) Reported diagnostic tests from federal, state and local officials and industry pinpoint no source of the sinkhole or gas bubbling bayous, but seismologist Dr. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1345047399 text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1343841884 July 31, 2012 Fracking is facilitating an oil and gas boom in the Buckeye State, and Ohioans have reason to be shaken up about the issue. Between the spring of 2011 and early 2012, a fracking waste injection well known as Northstar 1 caused more than a dozen minor earthquakes near Youngstown, Ohio, including one 4.0 magnitude earthquake that was felt for miles. A Truthout investigation has revealed that Ohio regulators permitted Northstar 1 operators to raise its maximum injection pressure twice, once shortly before and once again after the well caused two initial earthquakes on March 17, 2011. The injection well had the highest pressure of any well in the state, but the well operator was not required to conduct seismic testing before drilling and operating the well. text/html 1970-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://www.fourwinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/environment/pollution/news.php?q=1342882856 CAIRNS, Australia, Jul 18 2012 (IPS) - The world’s largest and best protected coral reef will be doomed by Australia’s unprecedented scale of planned coal and gas development, experts say. The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest reef system, with 3,000 reefs running 2,300 km along most of the state of Queensland’s coast. Credit: Nickj/CC BY 3.0 This threat to the Great Barrier Reef is so serious that UNESCO recently announced it may downgrade the reef’s prestigious designation as a World Heritage Site to a “World Heritage Site in Danger”. “That would be a big blow to our tourism industry, which generates nearly six billion dollars a year and employs over 50,000 people,” said Terry Hughes, director of the Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University in Australia on the last day of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) here in Cairns, Australia.