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Posted by: AGelbert
« on: September 13, 2023, 02:07:03 pm »



September 12, 2023 by Mike Schuler

A photo of the capesize bulk carrier Gingo
taken from an Atomflot icebreaker.

First Capesize Bulk Carrier and Non Ice-Class Tanker Transit the Northern Sea Route to China

The bulk carrier Gingo has become the first capesize ship to sail the Northern Sea Route, according to Russian media reports. Separately, a non ice-strengthened tanker is currently conducting a transit—marking another first.


The Gingo departed the Port of Murmansk on a 13-day eastbound voyage to China carrying 164,600 metric tons of iron ore concentrate, marking the largest single cargo to be transported via the NSR. The ship was assisted by two Atomflot icebreakers.

Ship traffic along the Russian-controlled Northern Sea Route is increasing due to warmer winters and longer navigation seasons, with Russia even looking to conduct year-round navigation through the route.

According to Russia’s Minister for the Development of the Russian Far East and Arctic, freight traffic along the NSR has increased from 4 million tonnes in 2014 to 34 million tonnes in 2022, having become a major transport corridor for the export of oil, LNG, mineral fertilizers, metals and other products. Russia is looking to increase the capacity of the NSR to up to to 100 million tonnes by 2026 and 200 million tonnes by 2030.

In a separate but related event, a report today from High North News indicates that Russia has sent a non-ice class Aframax oil tanker, the Leonid Loza, on a voyage through the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to Ningbo, China, as Russia seeks to boost crude oil shipments to China. The report said the voyage marks the first time a conventional oil tanker will use the Arctic route, calling it a “watershed” moment for shipping through the Arctic.

“Even in this day and age, a fully-laden crude oil tanker is probably the last type of ship that should be sent through the #NorthernSeaRoute without any ice-strengthening,” Aker Arctic wrote in a post published to “X”. Aker Arctic is a leading builder of icebreakers.

https://gcaptain.com/first-capesize-bulk-carrier-and-non-ice-class-tanker-transit-the-northern-sea-route-to-china/

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: April 26, 2023, 01:10:33 pm »

December 30, 2022

SNIPPET:
Air pollutants include gases and particulate matter, or microscopic solids or liquid droplets. Pollutant gases include nitrogen dioxide and black carbon, which are derived mostly from the burning of fossil fuel, and ozone, which results from pollutants emitted from cars, power plants, refineries, and chemical plants.

Full article: 


February 23, 2023

Researchers identify a hot spot in the Mississippi-Ohio River Valley
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: April 19, 2023, 01:30:43 pm »

MedicineNet

Murez HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, April 19, 2023

Do You Live in One of America's Worst Cities for Dirty Air 🤷‍♂️

SNIPPET:

The cleanest U.S. cities were Asheville-Marion-Brevard, N.C.; Bangor, Maine; Greenville-Kinston-Washington, N.C.; Lincoln-Beatrice, Neb.; Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, N.Y.; urban Honolulu, Hawaii, and Wilmington, N.C.

Read more:
https://www.medicinenet.com/americas_worst_cities_for_dirty_air/news.htm
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: February 28, 2023, 01:27:05 pm »



Feb 28 2023 By Andy Rowell

As local communities 🥵 suffer, 🐘 GOP and 😈 political right weaponize East Palestine disaster

SNIPPET:

Former President Trump flew into town to help stoke the flames of division and blame. Trump called the authority’s response to the disaster a “betrayal.” “You are not forgotten,” he added.

As Trump exploited the disaster, it is worth remembering that his administration gutted 100 federal safety laws, including weakening routine rail safety audits following accidents and throwing out minimum staffing levels on freight trains. It is hardly surprising the Democratic National Committee hit back saying Trump and his administration rolled back “transportation safety and environmental rules, including toxic chemical regulations."

Trump is not alone in trying to exploit the crisis. The right-wing media, “has seized on this moment to launch baseless conspiracies about why the government’s response has been so poor,” reports the Guardian. “According to them, the Biden administration has abandoned East Palestine because the people living there are white, poor and working class.”

Controversial Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson has been at the forefront of trying to use the race card. He said, “East Palestine is overwhelmingly white and it’s politically conservative.”

Playing the racial culture wars card in East Palestine is a diversionary tactic about what really caused this disaster. As Greg Sargent notes in the Washington Post, the derailment is about “profit-driven rail companies underinvesting in safety” and “lobbyists weakening rail regulation."

The bottom line, as I wrote earlier this month, is that America’s railroads are broken. The system is broken, potentially putting tens of millions of Americans at ☠️ risk, no matter their color. There are a staggering 1,000 train derailments each year in America. It is estimated that some 25 million Americans live within one mile of rail lines that carry toxic crude oil or chemicals. The number of households within blast distance if a 💣 train 💥 explodes is even greater.

Read more:
https://priceofoil.org/2023/02/28/as-local-communities-suffer-gop-and-political-right-weaponize-east-palestine-disaster/

Lion News

Posted on 2/27/2023 by Roseanne Bottone and Roger Marks

EPA Orders Railroad to Cleanup Derailment Site and Pay for It

Appendix B of EPA’s order is a photograph that shows a bird’s eye view of the de-railed tank cars, including the eleven hazmat tank cars. A label on each car indicates the contents, including for the five cars carrying vinyl chloride.

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: February 13, 2023, 12:37:27 pm »

"Get The Hell Out Of There" - Ohio's Apocalyptic Chemical Disaster ☠️ Rages On 😵

MONDAY, FEB 13, 2023 - 09:26 AM  by 'BlueApples'

SNIPPETS:


The ongoing crisis in East Palestine represents an environmental and humanitarian disaster that hasn’t been seen in the United States in recent memory. The scenes from East Palestine look as if they’re taken straight out of a horror film depicting nuclear winter. ... ...

Following the controlled burn, local authorities received multiple concerning reports from residents outside of the mile-long radius of the evacuation area conveying that the emergency posed by the disaster was far from over. One local farmer reported the sudden deaths of many of the animals on the premises of his farm, Park Dairy. The farmer, Taylor Holzer, also works with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources as a registered foxkeeper. Following the disbursement of chemical agents into the air from the controlled burn, many of the foxes on Holzer’s farm experienced fatal effects from the air quality surrounding the area.

“Out of nowhere, he [a fox] just started coughing really hard, just shut down,” Holzer recalled to local media outlet WKBN 27 News. “This is not how a fox should act. He is very weak, limp. His eyes are very watery and weepy. Smoke and chemicals from the train, that’s the only thing that can cause it, because it doesn’t just happen out of nowhere,” he added.


“The ☠️ chemicals that we’re being told are safe in the air, that’s definitely not safe for the animals…or people.”


Holzer’s concerns were echoed by reports from other residents who described similar conditions near their own properties. One of those residents was Katlyn Schwarzwaelder, the operator of a local dog kennel in nearby Darlington, Pennsylvania. The catastrophe caused her to leave her home despite the fact that it lies more than 10 miles away from the site of the controlled burn. After fleeing to Boardman, Ohio, 15 miles away from the derailment, Schwarzwaelder stated she received multiple reports of dead chickens, fish, and other animals from friends and acquaintances. One affected resident told Schwarzwaelder that they let their 2-year old dog out to use the bathroom only for it never to return. When they embarked upon a search for their missing pet, they found it dead in their yard.

Full article with more video: 👀
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: January 18, 2023, 07:08:52 pm »

🙄

EcoWatch

January 13, 2023 Edited by Chris McDermott

The Traditional ‘Imperial Lawn’ Is Dead — Long Live the 🌲🌳🌴 Trees

Americans are well known for their evenly clipped, bright green lawns. But rather than being beneficial, these manicured greenspaces are actually detrimental to the environment.

In the U.S., more than 40 million acres of land is covered in some form of lawn, reported Insider. These lawns have the ability to act as carbon sinks that absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, but the substantial carbon cost of lawn maintenance often counteracts the benefits, making lawns climate change contributors, reported Princeton University.

Read more:
https://www.ecowatch.com/lawns-trees-natural-biodiversity.html
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: January 07, 2023, 12:22:40 pm »

The Crucial Years

January 7, 2023 By BILL MCKIBBEN

Turn off the 🦕☠️ gas
Turn on the ⚡🔌 magnets

SNIPPET:

I have been arguing for some time now that we’ve reached the point in human history where we should stop setting stuff on fire: coal, oil, biomass, or in this case the “natural gas” that’s found on cookstoves across the country. The most important reason is because all that 🦖 combustion is ☠️ cooking the planet 🥵—but a new study published this week reminded us all of another huge virtue. It found that 13% of childhood asthma in the country can be attributed to kids living in houses with 🦕 gas stoves. That’s 650,000 kids—20 Fenway Parks worth of wheezing young people.



It’s like having 🦖 car exhaust in a home,” Brady Seals, a co-author of the research, told the Washington Post. “And we know that children are some of the people spending the most time at home, along with the elderly.”

This isn’t the first study to come up with similar findings. Earlier efforts found that children in households with gas stoves were 42% more likely to come down with asthma. And of course the effect is magnified in poorer households, which are smaller and less likely to be equipped with adequate ventilation.

All in all, living in a house with a gas range is a risk factor equivalent to living in a house with secondhand cigarette smoke.

Full article:
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/turn-off-the-gas

   
AGelbert COMMENT: Excellent article, Bill!

Although the transition to 100% Renewable Energy sources is not taking place at the speed required to avert immense climate havoc and millions of human deaths, never mind all the mammalian vertebrate species the fossil fuelers and their bought and paid for politicians are dooming to extinction, I think we will get there much sooner than the hydrocarbon hellspawn expect. Here is a quote from around 2016 of a great journalist from Truthout (who sadly died recently of a heart attack) that encapsules the fact that, though we supporters of a 100% Transition to Renewable Energy have caring, reason, logic and common sense on our side, the Polluter Ideology (SEE: Social Darwinism), not just their polluting modus operandi, continues to be an existential threat to all of us.
Quote
"There is a terrible desperation to the increasingly pathetic rationalizations from the climate denial camp. This comes as no surprise if you take the long view; every single undone paradigm in history has died kicking and screaming, and our current petroleum paradigm is no different. The trick here is trying to figure out how we all make it to the new paradigm without dying right along with the old one, kicking, screaming or otherwise." - William Rivers Pitt

Posted by: AGelbert
« on: December 30, 2022, 02:16:08 pm »



December 29, 2022 By Mike Schuler


Posted by: AGelbert
« on: December 20, 2022, 12:33:26 pm »



December 19, 2022


Here’s Why 32,000+ Abandoned & Orphaned Offshore Wells Litter the Outer Continental Shelf

SNIPPET:

In all, it’s estimated that the Taylor Energy spill has released up to 140 million gallons of oil to date.

Not all stories of abandoned and orphaned offshore wells are like Taylor Energy’s. Some have been decommissioned the right way, while others are long forgotten and pose unknown environmental and marine life risks. Inadequate records and limited monitoring have made it challenging to accurately track the number of abandoned wells and whether they’ve been adequately plugged.

According to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, however, more than 32,000 of the 55,000 offshore wells across the 10.9-million-acre Outer Continental Shelf are abandoned or orphaned.

But why? How can tens of thousands of oil wells sit out in the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific Oceans without demanding further attention or accountability?

Offshore wells are abandoned when they do not produce enough to offset operating costs. Some wells never produce at all. Some “dry up,” their accessible reserves exhausted based on current extraction methods. Some of these wells are temporarily abandoned, with the idea or promise that the owner will return to attempt extraction sometime in the future. Yet, the average length of time since the 3,364 “temporarily” abandoned wells in the Outer Continental Shelf were last drilled is 38 years.

Wells are considered orphaned when they have no owner. Offshore oil wells are often orphaned if the companies that own and operate them go bankrupt or close their doors for any other reason. With no known owner, orphaned wells present significant challenges when it comes to shutting in and decommissioning them.

Full article:


https://gcaptain.com/heres-why-32000-abandoned-orphaned-offshore-wells-litter-the-outer-continental-shelf

Agelbert NOTE: Only in the good old United States of Petroleum can a pollution contaminated site, irresponsibly abandonded without plugging and cleanup by profit over planet oil loving greedballs, be affectionately called an "Orphaned" Oil and Gas Well. Friends, if YOU made that kind of a mess in your yard, the authorities would have a hazmat team sent there quickly, followed by the police charging you with unlawful contamination. The wells spewing methane and other (even MORE toxic - i.e. Cancer causing) contaminants were 🦕 IRRESPONSIBLY 😈 ABANDONED, not "orphaned" by an "unfortunate" bit of Hydrocarbon Business "bad luck". It is absolutely breathtaking how the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn keep getting a free pass from the media for in-our-faces toxic pollution dumping on we-the-people.
"Orphaned " Oil and Gas Well❓❓❓

Other euphemisms worthy of Orwell that we have all been subjected to:

😠 ☠️ Highly toxic fisson reactor Uranium fuel 👉   "Enriched" Uranium

😠 ☠️ Abortion 👉 "Reproductive Right"

😠 ☠️ 🦕 "Natural" Gas 👉 "Bridge Fuel"


😠 😈 Greed is Good, 🦍 Might is Right, Losers Finish Last, It doesn't matter how you play the game, but whether you Win or Lose (etc. you get the morally bankrupt Social Darwinist Ideology Idea) 👉 🦖 "Evolutionary Advantage" of "Apex Predators"

AND all this time you actually believed the BIG LIE that "it was the Communists, not the Capitalists", that had the GOAL of CORRUPTING the Language. Now you know better.

Social Darwinist Business as Usual Destruction
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: November 19, 2022, 07:47:24 pm »


Nov 17 2022 By Emma Cotton

Common Eastern Bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) in a squash flower. Photo courtesy of Kent McFarland

Vermont’s 1st comprehensive bee assessment finds 70 new species — and 55 that need more protection

SNIPPET:
Land use changes are also projected to affect bee populations positively and negatively.

Some changes create more open space and encourage a higher diversity of flowering plants, which is important for some generalist bees, Hardy said. Then again, those changes are likely to encourage deer populations to grow.

“These deer are browsing, preferentially, on native flowering plants and shrubs, which is potentially a stressor on plant populations, which has negative implications for specialist bees especially, and other pollinating insects in general,” he said.

More than half of Vermont bees — primarily wild — have been spending time on farmed crops, scientists found. They’ve been found on raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, apples, tomatillos, chestnuts, ground cherries, chives, oregano and potatoes.

Full article:
 https://vtdigger.org/2022/11/17/vermonts-1st-comprehensive-bee-assessment-finds-70-new-species-and-55-that-need-more-protection/
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 20, 2022, 12:06:23 pm »

 
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October 20, 2022

📢 California Study Finds Gas Stoves Leak 🦕☠️ Benzene Into Homes Even When Turned Off
 

🦕 Methane gas-burning appliances leak ☠️ carcinogenic benzene into homes even when those appliances are turned off, a study published today in Environmental Science and Technology found. The study also found gas appliances and infrastructure in California (including outdoor pipelines) leak an estimated 4 tons, or more, of benzene into the atmosphere every year, as much benzene as 60,000 cars. Even with gas stoves turned off, the researchers discovered, they continued to leak at least 12 hazardous air pollutants, including "🦖 BTEX" chemicals (​​benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene), of which the most hazardous is benzene, which is linked to cancers including leukemia and other blood disorders.

The risk posed by the carcinogen increases linearly with a person's exposure;  “There’s no safe level of ☠️ benzene,” Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician and public health professor at Boston College, told the AP. "Simply opening the windows or turning on a range hood while the stove is on” will not eliminate the risk, Kelsey Bilsback of PSE Healthy Energy, told the New York Times.

🦕 Methane, the main ingredient in so-called "🦕 natural gas", traps more than 80 times 😵 more heat in the atmosphere than CO2 over a 20-year timespan; buildings are the source of approximately 13% of U.S. climate pollution, mostly from methane gas burned in ovens, water heaters, and furnaces.

While the methane gas industry has 😈💰 lobbied against state and local efforts to encourage building electrification, the study's findings dovetail with those from a similar study in Massachusetts, as well as numerous previous studies finding increased levels of indoor air pollution in homes with gas stoves, and significant methane emissions from gas stoves. (New York Times $, AP, The Hill, NBC)

Read more:
 https://climatenexus.org/hot-news/
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 10, 2022, 11:55:50 am »


October 9, 2022 By Shaun Robinson

Lake Carmi advocates ask for more funding, treatment options, as algae blooms 🚩 continue

An algae bloom is visible near the shore of Lake Carmi in early September 2022. Photo courtesy of John Costa

SNIPPETS:

Advocates for improving the water quality of Lake Carmi want state officials to provide more money for cleanup efforts directed at the troubled Franklin County body of water, following yet another summer marked by pervasive cyanobacteria blooms.

They’re also calling for a feasibility study of implementing an alum treatment — using aluminum sulfate to reduce the amount of phosphorus in the water — in the lake, saying it could be the best next step toward curbing the continuing release of that nutrient. ... ...

Lake Carmi advocates have pointed to an intense cyanobacteria bloom in July that spanned the entire 1,375-acre body of water  as a source of frustration for local property owners. Evans said in an interview in late September that he had not been able to get into the water from the dock on his lakeside property since before the end of June. 🥺

The blooms this summer have “of course” had a detrimental effect on tourism around the lake as well, according to Dave Bennion, chair of the selectboard in Franklin, where the lake is located. It is northwest of Enosburgh, just a few miles from the U.S.-Canada border.

“None of us see the conditions this summer as acceptable,” Moore said in an interview. “And I agree with Rob Evans and the Franklin Watershed Committee that we need to take another look at our approach and think about what comes next.” ... ...

Moore said even if the board does not increase the “lake in crisis” funding, specifically, it may still fund water quality projects at Lake Carmi in other parts of the clean water budget. Moore said she expects that funding for the UVM monitoring platform will likely be included.

But what’s next is still unclear, according to Sen. Randy Brock, R-Franklin. Brock said he knows that “time is of the essence” when it comes to cleaning up Lake Carmi, but he does not think the state has yet shown what new steps it would take that justify more money.

Moore said she understands that concern.

“I don't know that there is a clear next step at this moment,” she said. “There isn't a playbook for this work, other than we know we ultimately have to turn off the spigot of phosphorus coming into the lake.

Evans said one improvement he did see over the summer was that the state’s $1 million aeration system, which is designed to pump oxygen into the lake, ran with few or no interruptions for the first time since it was installed four summers ago. 

The system had been plagued by malfunctions in its first three summers of operation, and data shows that its starts and stops may have actually made blooms worse.

But cyanobacteria blooms were still a clear issue this summer even with the aeration system running at its best, Evans said, leading him and other advocates to conclude there’s a need for one or more new solutions at the lake, such as an alum treatment.

Moore said data shows that the aeration system has been effective at keeping the water close to the lake bottom oxygen-rich, which is what prevents the release of phosphorus that feeds blooms of noxious cyanobacteria, known more commonly as blue-green algae.

“I think what we're learning, though, is that the aeration system is insufficient to do that shore-to-shore, across the lake,” she said. “Any weakness in oxygenation is resulting in phosphorus being mobilized in those areas.”

Oliver Pierson, manager of the state’s Lakes and Ponds Program, said he agrees it may be time to consider an alum treatment at Lake Carmi, noting this summer’s conditions came after the state met its 2021 target for reducing phosphorus coming into the lake from external sources, such as agricultural activity in the surrounding watershed.

In water, aluminum sulfate — or alum — can bind with phosphorus, preventing the nutrient from becoming a source of algae growth. Pierson said that several years ago, an alum treatment would not have been realistic at Lake Carmi because there was still too much phosphorus entering the lake’s watershed from external sources.

Full article:
https://vtdigger.org/2022/10/09/lake-carmi-advocates-ask-for-more-funding-treatment-options-as-algae-blooms-continue/
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: October 07, 2022, 12:05:20 pm »

Latest 🎍 Natural Health News

By ANH-USA On 10/06/20220 From Environmental Health News 🕯️

A child walks near her home on the Navajo Nation in an area contaminated by past uranium mining. The community has long raised concerns about the physical and mental health impacts associated with living near uranium waste. (Credit: Autumn Spanne)

Pollution and our Mental Health

A guide to the emerging science on how air and water pollution impact our brains.

An under-researched field exploring the intersection of pollution and mental health is gaining momentum as evidence mounts that environmental pollutants damage every organ in our bodies—including our brains.

This guide explores the emerging science, and offers solutions aimed at better supporting mental health in the face of these environmental challenges.

According to the American Lung Association’s 2021 State of the Air report, about four 😟 in 10 U.S. residents live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution. But what counts as “unhealthy” is based only on how pollution affects physical, not mental, health.

View of U.S. Steel Edgar Thompson Works in Braddock, PA., a major source of air and climate pollution in the region. (Credit: Njaimeh Njie)

Scientists have known for a long time that air pollution damages the lungs, leading to conditions like asthma and lung cancer, and that it can damage the heart as well. Only much later, researchers discovered that air pollution also causes changes in the brain that increase the risks of mental illness, dementia, Alzheimer’s, and learning problems. Even small increases in air pollution have been linked to depression and anxiety. 🤦‍♂️

A large 2019 study of people in Denmark and the U.S. found people exposed to high levels of air pollution are much more likely to suffer from a psychiatric illness such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or personality disorder.

Recent research indicates that childhood exposure to air pollution can negatively impact our mental health as adults, and links sudden increases in air pollution with more emergency room visits for mental illness among children.


Read the full article.
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: September 21, 2022, 01:42:45 pm »



September 20, 2022 by Mike Schuler

🚩 Brink of Catastrophe: The Netherlands Pledges Additional Funds for FSO Safer Rescue Effort

July 15, 2020 shows a close up view of FSO Safer 🦕 oil tanker anchored off the marine terminal of Ras Isa, Yemen June 17, 2020. Picture taken June 17, 2020. Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies via REUTERS

The Netherlands’ Government says it is pledging an additional $7.5 million to the UN for the salvage of the floating oil storage tanker FSO Safer in the Red Sea off Yemen’s coast.

The abandoned tanker, which is an advanced state of decay, is holding over a million barrels of oil and threatens an environmental and humanitarian catastrophe should it break apart or 💥 explode, potentially resulting in an oil spll four times the amount of the Exxon Valdez incident in one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.

The United Nations and environmental groups have been calling attention to the threat for years, but inadequate funding and politics has prevented an operation to remove oil from the stricken vessel. The United Nations has been hosting a fund raising effort seeking to raise $80 million for the emergency operation, but was last reported to be about $12 million short.

To help close the funding gap, the government of the Netherlands says it will release an additional 7.5 million euros, on top of an initial 7.5 million euros announced last May, that will allow the recovery efforts to begin.

“Normally, as minister, it’s my job to deal with the repercussions of disasters. But in this instance we have a chance to prevent a disaster. The Safer is a ticking timebomb. We need swift action,” said Netherlands’ Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation, Liesje Schreinemacher. “It’s encouraging that so many countries have pledged their financial support. Thanks in part to the Netherlands’ contribution we now have the necessary funds to start salvaging the vessel. Obviously, all the other parties will have to follow through on their pledges as well. The Netherlands stands ready to help the UN start this operation as soon as possible.”

According to the UN, the FSO Safer, originally built in 1976, is holding 1.14 million barrels of light crude oil and moored 4.8 nautical miles off the coast of Hodeidah, Yemen. Operations have been suspended since 2015 following the state of the war in Yemen, causing the structural integrity of the vessel to significantly deteriorate.

The UN is leading the FSO Safer rescue effort, which would involve an initial four-month emergency salvage operation that will involve transferring oil from the vessel to another temporary vessel. This would be a long-term replacement vessel with 18 months.

The Netherlands, as you be aware, is home to some of the world’s leading salvage companies.

In March, Yemen’s Houthi movement signed an agreement with the UN that would allow the transfer of oil from the ship.

An oil spill from the vessel would not only result in environmental and coastal impacts, but also cut off food, fuel and life-saving supplies to Yemen where 17 million people are already in need food aid. The local fishing industry would also be devastated by an oil spill, threatening fish stocks and hundreds of thousands of jobs. The cost of cleanup alone would be $20 billion, according to the UN.

“Beyond the human suffering and environmental damage, such an accident would also seriously disrupt international shipping – including the port of Rotterdam – and with it, global commerce,” said Minister Schreinemacher.

https://gcaptain.com/brink-of-catastrophe-the-netherlands-pledges-additional-funds-for-fso-safer-rescue-effort/

And now a word from our "loyal servants" , the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn:


 
Posted by: AGelbert
« on: September 04, 2022, 01:24:23 pm »


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Economic Damage Of Carbon Pollution 3.6x Greater Than Current Gov. Estimates — Study: The costs of carbon pollution borne by society is far higher than the amount the government uses when calculating the costs and benefits of new regulations, a study in Nature finds. Each ton of CO2 pollution, according to the study, imposes $185 of damage — that's more than triple the amount currently used by the federal government. “The bottom line is that our results show that when you fully update the social cost of carbon methodology to the state of the science, it suggests that the existing estimates that are in use by the federal government are vastly underestimating the harm,” Kevin Rennert, a co-author of the paper and research fellow at Resources for the Future, told the Washington Post. Making policy based on a social cost of carbon 3.6 times greater than the current $51 estimate means the economic benefits of actions and policies to slash carbon pollution increase substantially. “It suggests there are many more actions we can take to curb carbon emissions that are going to be on the table that were not on the table before,” Stanford economist Marshall Burke, told the AP.  Grist
AGelbert Note: The part unstated in the above reality based HYDROCARBON FUELS USE POLLUTION COST is the MENS REA of those (i.e. 😈🦕🦖🐍) who corrupted the US Government to low ball the environmental damage from THEIR PRODUCT so THEY could POCKET that 2/3 COST not counted .

As anyone that can subtract, AND ADD, can clearly see, corrupting our government to give 🦖 Polluter Government Welfare Queens the "subsidy" SWAG we-the-people PAY for isn't enough for the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn; THEY want us to believe THEIR PRODUCT "is wonderful" so THEY can dodge ALL LIABILITY for the DAMAGE THEY DO 24/7.

All the evidence points to a carefully PRE-PLANNED, and subsequently methodically executed, CONSPIRACY to PROFIT from hydrocarbon FUELS CAUSED POLLUTION. That is the reason the legal term, "Mens rea", applies 100% here.

You need your head examined if you don't think the fossil fuelers "don't know" they can't profit from their products if the actual environment degrading, human health depleting, life span shortening damage hydrocarbon based fuels CAUSE becomes public knowledge. THEY KNEW THAT.

THAT'S WHY they have corrupted our government officials for at least 50 years, and throughout that time, funded MASSIVELY mendacious propaganda campaigns (SEE: "National Security requires Oil Subsidies", ""Fossil Fuels help the poor", " is concerned for the welfare of the people", Hydrocarbon Industry "loyal servants") to we-the-people, 24/7, about the "benefits to our standard of living" they "provide" for the specific Orwellian purpose of obscuring the COST we are subjected to so THEY can profit from our health depleting ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

There is another legal term that applies here that you should remember every time a bought and paid for mouthpiece for the hydrocarbon industry pushes the BIG LIE that "they were only complying with public policy as laid down in the law":
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"There is a nice legal concept called estoppel. If you argue that you didn't kill the Major in the library with the Ming vase because you were in bed with his wife, you are estopped from pleading self-defence. In the same way, polluters are estopped from arguing that they were only complying with public policy as laid down in the law, because 🦕🦖🐍 they spent tens of millions shaping those policies and laws to their advantage." James Wimberley