Environment

Environmental related posts.

Fracking FAQ: The science and technology behind the natural gas boom

No Fracing

Full article can be found here on Grist …. “Fracking”: It sounds more like a comic-book exclamation (kapow! boom! frack!) than a controversial method for extracting natural gas and oil from rock deep underground. By turns demonized as a catastrophic environmental threat and glorified as a therapy for our foreign oil addiction, fracking has become […]

Troubling news about drastically declining world fish stocks

Overfishing

Here are some of the recent headlines: Northeast, two other US fishing areas declared disasters – Reuters Commerce secretary declares Alaska salmon disaster – Seattle Times Call to freeze fishing in Europe to replenish stocks – BBC ‘Profound’ decline in fish stocks shown in UK records – BBC Study: 40 Mediterranean fish species could vanish – […]

Peak Oil is Here, but don’t worry, there is still plenty of oil, we just can’t afford it (Video)

Peak Oil

Peak oil is here, there is no doubt about it. But the industry (and our politicians) say there is plenty of fossil fuels still, termed “UN-conventional oil”, or “UN-conventional fossil fuels”. So what does that mean exactly. Well UN-conventional oil is simply oil and gas reserves that we extract using UN-conventional methods from UN-conventional sources, such […]

The day the world went mad

Satellite image of Arctic sea ice

The title of this post says it all. And I can’t take credit for saying it, this was taken from this article in the Guardian, by George Monbiot. The real truth is, we went mad way before this date, but this is a great symbol for how we have really lost track of what is […]

ANSWER: Why is the WORLD so Apathetic Toward Climate Change?

Global Warming - Scorched Earth

Bill Mckibben says it best in his article Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math: Since all of us are in some way the beneficiaries of cheap fossil fuel, tackling climate change has been like trying to build a movement against yourself. Well it really is that simple. Of course there are lots of climate change deniers out […]

Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math

Canadian Tar Sands - Alberta

Bill Mckibben has a way with words, and this article on RollingStone.com is no different. Below are a few quotes taken from the article, but I definatley recommend you follow this link and read the entire article. …here are some hard numbers about climate change: June broke or tied 3,215 high-temperature records across the United […]

Tar Sands Oil Extraction – The Dirty Truth (Video)

From the makes of this video:

Environmental devastation of the land, water, and air – the largest industrial energy project in the world is extracting crude oil from bitumen found beneath the pristine boreal forest of Alberta, Canada. Effecting a land mass equivalent in size to Florida or England, Both industry and government are putting money before the health and security of its people and the environment.

Tar sands take 3 barrels of water to process every barrel of oil extracted. Ninety percent of this water becomes so toxic that it must be stored in tailing ponds. Unfortunately these ponds regularly leach pollution into the third largest watershed in the world.

Water depletion, exploitation, privatization and contamination has become one of the most important issues facing humanity this century. Check out my other video on water issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMmpg35Bym0 and see my other videos to learn about the dark side of fossil fuels.

To learn more about tar sands, be sure to check out the featured film sources listed below. Find out more about what you can do and how to support the film makers.

 

Crude Sacrifice
http://www.crudesacrifice.com/

 

Dirty Oil (available to watch online)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jA_BBGuCs20

 

Downstream — (available to watch online)
http://www.babelgum.com/3015242/downstream.html

 

H2Oil
http://h2oildoc.com/home/

 

Petropolis
http://www.petropolis-film.com/

 

Check out a new promising technology to eliminate tailing ponds:
http://www.gizmag.com/ionic-liquids-used-to-process-tar-sands/18214/

 

Tar sands development can be minimized by blocking development of pipelines, such as Keystone XL, that carry the sludge of this incredibly polluting energy project. Tell Canada to clean up this mess and join with Bill McKibben and Josh Fox and let your voice be heard.