Energy East Would Put Drinking Water for Five Million Canadians at Risk | The Energy Mix. Drinking water supplies for more than five million Canadians could be at risk if TransCanada Corporation builds its controversial Energy East pipeline, according to a report last week by Environmental Defence, Transition Initiative Kenora, and the Council of Canadians. “From Manitoba to New Brunswick, nearly 3,000 lakes, rivers, streams, and aquifers, which are relied upon by millions of Canadians as sources of clean drinking water, would be at risk of oil spills,” the report states.
“Just one pipeline rupture in any one of these vulnerable locations could contaminate drinking water sources for years to come.” With the massive pipeline expected to carry 1.1 million barrels of diluted bitumen per day, “even a short duration spill has the potential to release large quantities of crude oil into the environment and cause substantial harm,” the authors note.
“Crude oil spilled into the environment is rarely fully recovered,” and “Energy East would not just carry conventional crude oil. (119) Oil Exploration: What are the top five facts everyone should know about oil exploration. Maxum. GENOCIDE IN LIBYA? NATO INVASION UNDER WAY? ITS THE OIL, STUPID. - Conscious Being Alliance. Libya is a country of approximately six million people, having a huge geographical area but low population density. Claims that Gaddafi has uplifted his people over the course of his 40- year dictatorship are questionable. Supporters claim that poverty is low and enemies claim that poverty is high throughout the country. However, in Tripoli in September 2009 there were the obvious signs of capitalism: overcrowding, traffic, poverty, pollution and destruction of nature. There was also an element of fear visible in people's faces. It is completely hypocritical of citizens of the United States to speak of the outrage of 'poverty' abroad when that poverty is so often the result of US militarization, unjust trade, and plundering entities like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.
Further, some of the worst poverty in the world can be found in US cities like Gary, Indiana and on Native American reservations like Pine Ridge. And Now, the Gaddafi Genocide "Gaddafi's Genocide! " Gas Dirtier Than Coal By Dr Gideon Polya. Gas Dirtier Than Coal By Dr Gideon Polya 20 March, 2011Countercurrents.org The current global Gas Boom, Gas Rush and Gasland perversion is enabled by corporate greed, lobbying and the lie that “gas is clean”. Methane (CH4) is a major greenhouse gas (GHG) that on a 100 year time scale has a relative global warming potential (GWP) that is 25 times that of carbon dioxide (CO2).
However a re-assessment by US scientists that takes atmospheric aerosol responses to CH4 into account has found that on a 20 year time scale CH4 is 105 times worse than CO2 as a GHG. Recent data from the US EPA indicates that the industrial leakage of CH4 in the US is 3.3%. Using this information it can be estimated that gas burning for power can be much dirtier GHG-wise than coal burning. The key technical quote from Shindell et al. (2009) provides an estimate that the GWP of CH4 relative to CO2 on a 20 year time scale is 79 (without aerosol effects) and 105 (with aerosol effects considered): “Fig.2. 107.75y = 275. China to be biggest oil consumer by 2030 | beyondbrics | News and views on emerging markets from the Financial Times. Big Oil.