Around the beginning of this month, two oil pipelines in Alaska burst within just one week, spilling their sludgy contents across the tundra. At the end of last week, the EPA announced that it would open a criminal investigation into one of these spills.
This morning, the discovery of yet another Alaska oil pipeline spill was announced. Amount of the spill – not yet known. Cleanup has begun, including the trucking of contaminated snow to a “disposal facility”.
Even with these spills, the push by Big Oil to get permission to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge continues. My favorite little piece of PR is an editorial in the Attleboro Sun Chronicle this morning, entitled, Pipeline fine addition to polar bear habitat.
you do not get it. they can slide on the pipeline for fun, and it provides a good source of metal for their polar-bear speartips.
the media has no time for oil spills, so sorry, green man. they have a holiday season to promote right now. big bucks to be spent on worthless junk manufactured with slave labor and with a high carbon footprint.
maybe in 2010 there will be time to discuss the oil spill issue. don’t count on it though. seriously, last week i saw a panel of pundents actually snickering at the suggestion of any meaningful movement on global warming. they thought it was a joke. really, they had a more serious disscusion about tiger woods’ infidelity than they had about the environment and the green movement.
you would think creating a green power industry would get these money handlers on board, with goverment aid and with the need for jobs, there has got to be a dollar to be made. that’s the only thing that will get the ball rolling forward. money.
there’s no money made cleaning up the mess, though. oil spills don’t sweep themselves under the rug. it’s like prying teeth to get them to even fess up to the problem at all. last year the nearly naked women in oil didn’t get any press, what’s the answer? angelina jolie covered in oil on the red carpet with brad pitt in a oil soaked baby seal costume?
green man, can you work on that for us? what we really need is something that would not go un-noticed, short of anything illegal or immoral. never mind the immoral acts of the opposition. any suggestions?
Oh it goes WAY beyond oil spills:
http://www.counterpunch.org/farago12212009.html
Humanity is too stupid to live on this planet any longer, so the earth will rid itself of us slowly and painfully, then more intensely, chaotically, unpredictably, with a ramping up of the problems to our survival advancing on every front. Really bad storms, unbelievably hot and dry conditions for far too long a period for us to adapt to, torrential downpours that swamp any prospect of growing anything, swirling our own pollution in with our once potable water supplies, we’re looking at conditions getting completely unbearable for us (like the way we made conditions for countless extinct species up til now). Key species like bees may disappear so that we can’t even grow food, and others, like mosquitoes, flies and rats, may multiply to overwhelming proportions and wreak havoc on us in the form of disease (for which our medical sector will be totally unprepared). Wait til the on-going sea level rise gets to the point where BILLIONS of people living on the coastlines of the world have to move (to where?). The worlds poor and struggling won’t just stand by and watch without some reaction – especially here, where access to firearms is easy (ie. we’ll be killing ourselves as well).
Keep your eyes open – it’s gonna get ugly.