Love the column… M from Texas (see we’re not all bad) :~)

This earth day thing, corporations seem to be exempt with full support and backing of the military, Unified Command…

Courtesy of Amadou et Mariam, Je Pense a Toi. peace.

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Alaska has the right idea: Let’s just take it one step farther and nationalize the American oil companies, like most countries have already done with their own oil indistries. Then we can all live like Kuwaiti’s!

Minus the sand in everything. And the fundamentalism. And the camels.

LOL. The desert is encroaching in AZ, the fundamentalists are already here, camels to follow. yip yipee yayo. Viva pemex petroleos mexicanos! [I jest]

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Corporate world is not even attempting to create containers that are acceptably ‘green’ and the government, both in US and Canada are not pushing the issue with them. Corporations are not being held responsible. We all pay for garbage disposal through our taxes which means we continue to pay for the disposal of corporate trash.

Oh you’ve got that right. Toronto’s hurf durf Mayor Miller levied 5¢ [tax I call it] for each bag at grocery stores. Instead of demanding bag manufacturers produce one that decays quickly. I’ve been letting him know how uncreative he is.

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That short history of pouch K Alaska was great. When’s that book coming out???

An oil tankers front falls off and spills 20,000 litres of crude oil into the the sea near Australia in the 90′s. An actor plays a member of the senate [John Clarke] and actor interviewer [Brian Dawe]… LOL.

I would be interested in seeing your cites for these figures. I am not saying
that they are not accurate, I just have not found them myself after an admittedly superficial effort.

Full confession, I am an exploration geologist whose job it is to find potential mines. We do not have much influence over the ultimate outcome of any given project, yet we try to be responsible and identify prospects according to how they can be responsibly developed. I have already posted complaints about how the pebble mine had been planned. No one listens to us per se.

I am opposed to the pebble mine proposal because it entails impoundment of an existing watershed and thus is fraught with danger for any failure of the containment. If it were up to me, the containment scheme would have to be isolated from current watersheds and that is expensive. Such is life.

I’ll look to see if you respond.

I thought he meant the little girl on the Flintstones! ; )

Yeah. Hear tell that the proposal to build a large mine exploiting these deposits is controversial. Only a huge mine, benefiting from economies of scale, is economically possible at Pebble due to the low-grade character of the ore. Feasibility studies (detailed mine construction and operation plans) and applications for permits by Pebble Mines Corp. are being deferred until the Pebble East deposit is fully delineated. Pebble West would probably be mined from an open pit. The geology and mining characteristics of Pebble West are well understood. The pit would be up to two miles (3 km) wide and several thousand feet deep and may generate up to 2.5 billion tons of waste material. Two artificial lakes would be created in order to store the discharge chemicals and waste. The largest of the dams enclosing these lakes would be 740 feet (230 m) tall and 4.3 miles (6.9 km) long. Or so I’m told.

(On Wikipedia.)

“Pebbles”?
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