(Side note~ I updated the “Eat Cake” blog–)
Warrior Publications has this up on the racist rant of *cough* Ethical Oil, a pro-oil group.
Al Gore said in this article “there’s no such thing as ethical oil”….
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Neil Young sings Mother Earth
What a stirring, beautiful song. (Now THIS is what I’m talking about when I talk about music stirring the soul!) (hat tip to Global News Canada)
Thank you to Neil Young for making this available. The video is just stunning…how beautiful the untouched Earth is when left alone…and how quickly it is destroyed by thoughtlessness and lack of vision of the future…
Young isn’t asking for any contributions, but I’m sure this song will be available for download. If you’re able, please support him and this effort. We are all connected.
The State of the Union
Briefly, I shut off the TV after the President stated that natural gas extraction (fracking) should be pursued…if done cleanly…….(echos of “clean coal” and his push for nuclear renaissance before Fukushima)
I am not willing to sacrifice clean water and good health for the $$ gains for energy companies. My children deserve to have clean water, clean air, and soil suitable for growing healthy, organic food.
Even IF one could extract the gas without using horrible chemicals that poison water supplies…what about the earthquakes associated with fracking? What about the numerous sink holes appearing….are they, too, associated with fracking? I suspect so.
And Fred Klonsky captured my thoughts on his opening remarks on education. Three words: Don’t Patronize Me.
It appeared at one point that President Obama was going to listen to us…but I no longer have that opinion.
(As a side note~ someone just called into the radio station and said they spotted the first robins of Spring. Woot!! We’re all a little weather weary here. Yes, I’m whining…so sue me…even those of us who love winter have our limit…)
Mi’kmaq Warriors begin tour
Mi’kmaq Warriors will begin a speaking tour on the environmental protests against fracking, but also pipelines and tar sands.
“We are all being systematically displaced within our own traditional territories,” Patles explained. “Once they destroy our territories and these resource companies are gone, we will be the ones left with destroyed land and poisoned water.”
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Again, we have the disaster capitalism…take the resources without even paying for them, and then leave poisoned land and water. And no, I don’t think the Mi’kmaq would take money even if it were offered to them. Their spirituality cannot be bought…and the Earth is seen as connected to the Creator…
You can’t buy clean air, clean water, nor clean land after it’s been poisoned. This point seems to always be lost on politicians and energy companies who couldn’t care less what happens to people after the fact…
West Virginia toxin spill: it ain’t over…
Dispatches from the underclass has a post up with an interview of a West Virginia mom concerned about the water and the effects on her children.
As she brings up, they are already dealing with toxins from the coal industry (mercury, lead, arsenic), and now this….their water is brown.
The scene from JAWS comes to mind where they tell everyone that it’s safe to go back into the water…um-hmmm….
And the sad thing, besides endangering these folks’ health and not knowing what this chemical does to people…is that West Virginia is one of the most beautiful states I’ve ever been in. The mountains are sooo gorgeous.
Young: Tar Sands are Canada’s Hiroshima **edited
Neil Young is finishing up his “Honor the Treaties” concerts in Canada. He compared what is happening to Hiroshima, which irked a few people.
He is being compared to Jenny McCarthy, whom has spoken out on vaccines causing autism.
McCarthy, a former model/actress, vehemently claims childhood vaccinations cause autism and other disabilities, despite those claims having been disproven by rigorous scientific research.
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…disproven by rigorous scientific research….
bwahahahahahahahaha *snort*
Well, as I posted recently, scientific research has a few flaws in it that the vaccine apologists, as Dr. Cutler refers to them, choose to ignore.
I hope that Neil Young considers being compared to Jenny McCarthy a compliment, because I do….much as I do when I’m called a bitch for speaking up for myself or others…
People who diminish others have little facts to back their claims up…that’s why they attack the person instead of the person’s arguments. Ad hominem.
**edited to add: I just wanted to say that Global News pushes vaccines. They had article after article on scaring people into getting vaccination, and that the flu season was horrible, and that they were running out of vaccines. Very lopsided reporting.
Indiana and the West Virginia spill
Update: Indiana actually noticed that there was a chemical spill upriver! /just a little sarcasm, folks
Reading this, though, Indiana just seems….passive. Cincinnati is taking a proactive stance in shutting off the water intake.
And, I have to wonder as I’m reading this, how will they separate the West Virginia chemicals from the toxins already in the Ohio River? Will they be able to tell which are our chemicals and which are Freedom Industries? /just a little snarky
Meanwhile, Louisville, Kentucky is business as usual. I just shake my head at the laissez-faire attitude “we will treat the water and make it smell and taste good.” WTH?
I want water that is free of chemicals, not just “taste good”. Charcoal is fine for removing impurities, but it doesn’t remove everything.
I found a couple of websites advocating bamboo charcoal for water filtration here and here. I haven’t tried these, but they do look promising…and since bamboo is sustainable, all the better. Finally, there this site on a primitive charcoal filter.
Reverse osmosis is supposed to remove much more–but it also removes needed minerals. Some sites suggest putting a high quality salt (that hasn’t had the minerals removed as they do with sodium chloride, or table salt) back in as a way to counteract it.
I had a tough time finding much information that wasn’t a company website, but this was the best one to explain what reverse osmosis removes.
Geoengineering: Insane and Delusional
A report here on Al Gore speaking out on geoengineering. I totally agree. The Earth is a magnificent living, breathing, organism that can take care of herself quite well, thank you, without any *help* from us.
What we need to do is put on our big adult pants and scale down the polluting. It means stop giving industry the right to pollute what belongs to all of us. Well, that’s not accurate, either, because it doesn’t really *belong* to us, but rather, we are borrowing it while we are here.
It’s not ours to do with as we please, but a gift to be cherished and given back….what a wonderful humble idea…
…meanwhile, that 15 MILLION pounds of toxins into Indiana waterways keeps flashing in my head….
Ohio River and the West Virginia spill
So…the spill in West Virginia in the Elk River has gone into the Ohio River and is headed our way…so I went looking to see how the authorities are dealing with it…
I found that the Cincinnati folk are right on this–
When I looked for Indiana authorities’ action on it…nothing. No surprise there. The Indiana Dept. of Environmental (MIS-) Management allows businesses three years between inspections. West Virginia could happen here. (and probably already has, but without nary a peep from anyone who knows about it.)
But I did find this disturbing report. Indiana is guilty of dumping 15 MILLION pounds of toxins into the waterways. Good Grief!
Here’s yet another disturbing report of BP once again poisoning a body of water from the Whiting, Indiana, refinery…you know, the petcoke we’ve talked about. This time, it’s our wonderful Lake Michigan they’re dumping mercury into….where is the media coverage here? *crickets*
If you don’t think two pounds of mercury sounds like a lot, keep in mind it only take a thermometer of mercury to poison a 20-acre lake.
(Of course, I take exception to this article ignoring amalgams as sources of mercury along with vaccines. And ignoring GMO’s as impacts on the gut, allowing heavy metal poisoning.)
…and it’s not just the water they’re poisoning…
Young speaking out on Canadian Tar Sands
Neil Young is trading pointed remarks with the Canadian government over the tar sands oil.
Good for him. I’m glad someone with some media attention is speaking out for the indigenous.
Eagle 
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