I invite the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers to suck nuts after being subjected to yet another propaganda saturated commercial featuring a little old lady in a hardhat telling us how safe the oil sands are because they don't use water from a site but bring and recycle their own, topped off with something about CO2. As if the evil global power which is the petroleum industry can be disguised behind some simpering aged housewife in a plastic hat. But the most irksome (criminal?) omission had to be the fact that recycling water over and over through highly toxic (with the option to become radioactive) drilling muds, increases the concentration of poison within the water which then seeps through the soil into the underlying groundwater contaminating drinking water (not to mention the surrounding ecosystem) aided by surfactants. This has been confirmed by the rare cancers tearing through a village of 1000 individuals whose environment is saturated with poisons from upstream oil sands. Alberta government acknowledged increase in cancer rates but said that there was nothing to worry about and we should all wait and see what happens in the next 5-10 years. WTF??? Bottom line is a village downstream of the Alberta oil sands (operating since the late 60's) has been riddled with a 30% increase in a variety of at least 5 different cancers which have all been scientifically linked to chemicals from oil and tar sands, and the government (who just happens to make it's money on oil) says there is nothing to be worried about. Whew!
Below is a video put together by environmentalists wanting to warn others of this destruction.
Visit http://www.dirtyoilsands.org/blog/article/the_other_oil_disaster_cancer_and_canadas_tar_sands/ for one doctors account of the cover up of oil sand cancers.
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Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 8, 2010
BP and the American government still lying through their teeth
BP and the government are telling Gulf Coast residents that the threat of ecological catastrophe, unleashed by BP criminal actions, will fade away now that the cement on the seal is holding. They claim that "[their] cleanup activities are still substantial".
This of course is a load of so much toxic sludge and just as impossible to swallow for anyone who isn't being paid of by BP. First off, the substantial cleanup activities, boasted by these paragons of virtue, consisted of dumping millions of gallons of even deadlier chemicals directly into the Gulf of Mexico so that the oil would be out of sight. Secondly, unless we've fallen into an alternate reality where the laws of time and space don't apply, then closing the barn door after the horse is out is still an exercise in futility; so considering that the mixture of crude and CorExit (the aforementioned deadly dispersant) is considerably more toxic than either one is by itself, chances are the environmental disaster will not fade. In fact, thanks to nifty natural processes like Biomagnification and Bioaccumulation these toxins will travel on up through the food chain, increasing in toxicity along the way, until it reaches your dinner table.
But the government releases a report stating that magical microbes, which can digest trace amounts of crude on the sea floor, managed to eat a substantial portion of 5 million barrels of crude contaminated with millions of gallons of harsh detergents; not only did these tiny organisms survive this toxic bath, according to the white house scientists (who said cigarettes and cancer aren't connected and global warming doesn't exist) say they're thriving on it.
*cough* *cough* Bullshit!
How is the destruction of life in the ocean "not as serious as previously thought"?
Apparently the government and BP officials have been to busy destroying evidence to investigate any of it; hundreds of thousands of dead marine animals is pretty bloody serious, and seems like a warning that things aren't right with the world.
Seems the authorities are reading their own press.
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/08/08/bp-oilspill-concerns.html
This of course is a load of so much toxic sludge and just as impossible to swallow for anyone who isn't being paid of by BP. First off, the substantial cleanup activities, boasted by these paragons of virtue, consisted of dumping millions of gallons of even deadlier chemicals directly into the Gulf of Mexico so that the oil would be out of sight. Secondly, unless we've fallen into an alternate reality where the laws of time and space don't apply, then closing the barn door after the horse is out is still an exercise in futility; so considering that the mixture of crude and CorExit (the aforementioned deadly dispersant) is considerably more toxic than either one is by itself, chances are the environmental disaster will not fade. In fact, thanks to nifty natural processes like Biomagnification and Bioaccumulation these toxins will travel on up through the food chain, increasing in toxicity along the way, until it reaches your dinner table.
But the government releases a report stating that magical microbes, which can digest trace amounts of crude on the sea floor, managed to eat a substantial portion of 5 million barrels of crude contaminated with millions of gallons of harsh detergents; not only did these tiny organisms survive this toxic bath, according to the white house scientists (who said cigarettes and cancer aren't connected and global warming doesn't exist) say they're thriving on it.
*cough* *cough* Bullshit!
How is the destruction of life in the ocean "not as serious as previously thought"?
Apparently the government and BP officials have been to busy destroying evidence to investigate any of it; hundreds of thousands of dead marine animals is pretty bloody serious, and seems like a warning that things aren't right with the world.
Seems the authorities are reading their own press.
http://www.cbc.ca/money/story/2010/08/08/bp-oilspill-concerns.html
What BP and the government don't want you to see
A collection of photos that BP doesn't want people to see which shows just why the Constitution has been suspended and there is now a no-fly zone over the BP Gulf Oil Spill.
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/07/11/bp-gulf-oil-spill-photos-show-bp-real-reason-constitution-suspended/
http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/07/11/bp-gulf-oil-spill-photos-show-bp-real-reason-constitution-suspended/
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