Enviromental Vandals
Published on Jan 11, 2013 Some of the world's largest energy giants are moving into eastern Australia and investing billions of dollars to exploit coal seam gas reserves so vast they could rewrite the world's energy map.Despite generating massive amounts of revenue and creating thousands of new jobs, they are being met by a groundswell of public protest and a rising chorus of concern about the long-term impacts of coal seam gas extraction on the nation's health, environment and land.
Coal seam gas has the potential to make Australia an energy superpower,
but at what price?
How To Make Your Own Disaster
Australian Santos responsible for this,just to add to their track record.
The report by British, American, Indonesian and Australian scientists, including UC Berkeley's Michael Manga, professor of earth and planetary sciences, was published this week in the academic journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Lusi, already more than seven square kilometers (2.5 square miles) in extent, is still flowing at 100,000 cubic meters per day, enough to fill 53 Olympic swimming pools or submerge a football field under 610 feet of mud, the depth of a 61-story building.
Davies published research in January 2007 that argued that the drilling was most likely to blame for the eruption of Lusi on May 29, 2006. Manga subsequently published findings pointing a finger at drilling rather than an earthquake.Read more here
Published on Nov 12, 2012
This Sinkhole is HUGE and collapsing, enviromental corparate greed responsible for the destruction of communities,enviroment and social well
Information Sourced from www.examiner.com
Shaw Environmental, the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' lead private contractor for the Bayou Corne "sinkhole" collapsing salt dome disaster, has received a Notice of Violation from California Department of Public Health for failing to properly collect and record radiation data for the Navy in California.
Shaw Environmental, the Navy's lead private contractor in California, has received a Notice of Violation from the state's Department of Public Health for failure to properly collect and record radiation data on Treasure Island.
The East Bay Express obtained the radiation data from a public records request.
The Navy data obtained by the Express shows measurements taken in former residential areas of the island revealed pockets of alarmingly high radiation levels.
Author, writer, and human rights advocate Deborah Dupre' explains her journey~ spending favorite days in childhood in the Bayou Corne area, to work now trying to protect health and well-being of residents there amid the deteriorating sinkhole over the collapsing Napoleonville salt dome.
Her extensive knowledge about the BP catastrophe (and sickness and coverups that followed) is discussed in her book, "Vampire of Macondo."
We are seeing the same coverup and lies with the sinkhole. NO TECHNOLOGY is available to fix this. Alicia Heilig speaks about firsthand experience with tremors, smells, bubbles and missing animals in Bayou Corne. She lives 2 miles away.
Nuked Radio #80 BP & Sinkhole LIES: Deborah Dupre' Examiner.com
"That's a surprisingly high measurement," physicist Steve Fetter of University of Maryland School of Public Health said, responding to the disclosure of the highest yet surface radiation reading measured on Treasure Island — 0.08 rem/hr. (Rem/hr is a dose rate of biological effects of being exposed to radiation.)
Despite the newly released radiation data, much is still "unreported" at Treasure Island
"For example, very little information has been publicly released on the eight hundred-plus truckloads of radiologically contaminated soil that were shipped off the island in recent years," the Express reports.
The new data raises questions about whether former residents were exposed to high amounts of radiation and whether soil can be sufficiently cleaned for a massive "eco-friendly" housing and commercial development planned for the former Navy base on Treasure Island.
Navy officials have repeatedly downplayed radiation exposure risks to current and former Treasure Island residents, according to the Express.
Shaw Group boasts on its website that it is a Fortune 500 company with 25,000 employees around the world.
"Shaw serves the energy, chemicals, environmental, infrastructure and emergency response industries," it says.
This new Treasure Island data also raises questions about the increasing disaster occurring in Louisiana's Assumption Parish and radiation exposure of residents there where the Shaw Group leads the disaster research and reporting.
The Louisiana Department of Natural Resources contracted Shaw Environmental as its lead team to research and provide the state with expertise on the Bayou Corne "sinkhole" where a 1-mile by 3-mile salt dome is collapsing and dangerous radiation levels have been released for approximately five months.
(Watch the video on the left of this page, "Nuked Radio #80 BP & Sinkhole LIES: Deborah Dupré.)
Louisiana state officials said in late November that they were investigating how Texas Brine Co. LLC, an oil and gas service company with an allegedly failed storage cavern in the salt dome, managed naturally occurring radioactive material (NORM) there and whether it illegally disposed of the "non-dangerous" material in the 1990s under Bayou Corne and Grand Bayou communities.
Those two communities are above the Napoleonville Salt Dome.
NORM is a common petrochemical industrial complex waste problem potentially negatively impacting the human right to health. It creates wastes that industry has often dumped improperly - in water, on land, by burning and in "accidents" - to avoid storing it illegally.
Oil and gas drilling processes can concentrate naturally occurring radioactive isotopes underground at various levels, sometimes posing health threats, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Brine production, such as in Texas Brine's operations, are included in those that can concentrate NORM. Some oil and gas service companies are contracted to store NORM for oil and gas companies.
As early as August, a non-government group, Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN), began urging Bayou Corne area residents to use a record log.
A veteran radiation expert, Stanley Waligora, has said Louisiana environmental officials were “in denial” over hazards posed by elevated radium levels at the collapsing salt dome "sinkhole" area.
Radiation levels in the Bayou Corne area are fifteen times higher than the state limit, a "worst nightmare coming true" in Assumption Parish, according to environmental attorney Stuart Smith.
The NORM standard had been above 20 micro-rems per hour. That standard was then raised to 50 micro-rems per hour.
Raising the acceptable limit of poisonous materials so it can be reported as "safe" is a standard operating procedure in protection agencies. The same raising of safe limits has also occurred in relation to the BP oil catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico that began in April 2010.
Information Sourced from www.examiner.com
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