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Sierra Club Statement on Gulf Coast Tar Sands Pipeline Houston, TX – TransCanada announced today the startup of the Gulf Coast Tar Sands Pipeline between Cushing, OK and the Gulf Coast of Texas....
Posted: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 1:11pm PST
California Household Water Usage Is Miniscule Compared To Enhanced Oil Recovery By Steam Enhanced Oil Recovery is good to the last drop, and it's also Wellbore Welfare.
California water isn't in the rivers, so where is it? Reminds me of a question back in the 1990's - Where did all thee trees go? Too late. But there's a connection. Industry once blamed job loss on environmentalists. Like it was Earth First! or the Sierra Club, or the League of Conservation Voters that came in and stole all the trees. Trees connect the Earth to Sky. The trees are gone. What happens when the rock...
Posted: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 12:55pm PST
Oceanographer Capt. Don Walsh to Open 11th annual San Francisco Ocean Film Fest The San Francisco International Ocean Film Festival (SFIOFF) will dive into its 11th annual celebration of the world’s oceans on Wednesday, March 5 with esteemed guest Dr. Don Walsh. Dr. Walsh will participate in the opening night celebration at Aquarium of the Bay and the adjacent Bay Theater by leading an inspiring discussion, appropriately titled: "Our Ocean - The Explorers and the Story Tellers". The SFIOFF will dock at San Francisco’s Bay Theatre for five days of ocean-themed films and ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 22, 2014 12:15pm PST
Caltrans to Remove Bird-killing Nets at Highway Project, Vows to Use Safer Methods SAN FRANCISCO— Conservation groups reached a settlement agreement on January 16 with the California Department of Transportation to remove netting from bridge overpasses at a highway-widening project in Petaluma, Calif., which trapped, killed and injured scores of cliff swallows and other migratory birds last spring. Caltrans will remove the deadly exclusionary netting from the Petaluma River Bridge and Lakeville Highway Overpass along Highway 101, and instead use hard surface or flexible exc...
Posted: Fri, Jan 17, 2014 2:19pm PST
Safe Drinking Water Act Sole Source Aquifer Protection Program in California Overdrafting and aquifer depletion, also occurs in oil and gas fields, and unassociated gas fields, as a result of oil and gas industry water use in both the production and disposal of wastes in 'exempt aquifers' or portions of basin and sub-basin aquifers (exempted under the SDWA). Contaminants migrate and 'exempt aquifers' water pumping is not tallied. If the aquifer is used for waste disposal then monitor wells may be tested if public water wells are present in the area. Unconstrained aqui...
Posted: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 12:20pm PST
Statewide Fracking Environmental Impacts Report Comments Due The very real potential for cumulative impacts under the 'protected water' and 'aquifer exemptions' clause, added to the SB 4 Well Stimulation Regulations, by Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources DOGGR, after close of comments, Dec. 24, 2013 can be viewed as a lease-held lock down on future water resources of the North State and Northern Coastal Region. Anywhere in the State, where there exists a remote groundwater basin or sub-basin aquifer in close proximity to Natural Gas leases ...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 2:50pm PST
Dear Governor Brown: On Fracking, It’s Time to Get Your Head Out of the Clouds As I boarded my plane from Los Angeles to the Bay Area the other week, I did a double take when I walked by a guy that looked an awful lot like California Governor Jerry Brown. Turns out it was him, which is ironic since earlier that week I had been following the governor around Los Angeles berating him for his support of fracking....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 1:46pm PST
San Francisco Supervisors Urge Halt to Fracking in California SAN FRANCISCO— The San Francisco Board of Supervisors on December 14 approved a measure urging a halt to hydraulic fracturing in California because of fracking’s threats to the state’s air, water and efforts to fight dangerous climate change....
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 12:44pm PST
The Irradiated Sailors of Fukushima The Irradiated Sailors of Fukushima...
Posted: Wed, Jan 15, 2014 3:19am PST
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SHUTDOWNS 2013 Announcements of US nuclear power plant permanent shutdowns in 2013 came seemingly in a flurry.
Crystal River in Florida on February 13. Kewaunee in Wisconsin on May 4. San Onofre in Southern California on June 13. And Vermont Yankee in the Green Mountain State on August 27....
Posted: Mon, Jan 13, 2014 3:55pm PST
$350 million available to North Coast, Central Coast and San Francisco Bay The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality, and Flood Protection Act of 2014, SB 42 authored by Senator Lois Wolk, addresses California water woes in ways that strive protect the rights of and needs of people and their health and safety throughout the State. SB 42 is a Capital budget language equivalent, of numerous concerns related to the December 24, 2013 addition of clarification language to SB 4. In it's own way, SB 42 addresses, among current neglected impacts, potential cumulative impacts i...
Posted: Fri, Jan 10, 2014 1:34pm PST
EPA Begins Requiring California Companies to Report Fracking Discharges in Federal Waters SAN FRANCISCO— The Environmental Protection Agency today established a new requirement for oil and gas operations off the Southern California coast to publicly report chemicals dumped directly into the ocean from offshore fracking operations. The notice, formally published today, announces the changes as part of a new permit for water pollution discharges from offshore oil and gas operations in federal waters off California. The reporting requirement will become effective March 1....
Posted: Thu, Jan 9, 2014 10:23am PST
Fukushima: Who Profits from a Cover-up? Fukushima: Who Profits from a Cover-up?...
Posted: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 6:48pm PST
Frac ALERT for Coastal and Northern California Basin Aquifers Two weeks ago, and with just 7-9 days left to make comments, - Clarification language was added by DOGGR that an aquifer deemed exempt under the U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act is not protected water. Much of this comes from the Underground Injection Program, basically left out of the 'new' fracking regulations. Except, that is, as it benefits the industry, with clarification of remote aquifer exemptions to assist extractive industrial surface leases by alter-legal claims on subsurface water rig...
Posted: Tue, Jan 7, 2014 2:22pm PST
Atomic Fracking in New Mexico, Colorado The over-exploitation of Oil and Gas here at home, is not about “America's Resources For America". It is a kind of sinister 'new world order' of technology driven tactical diplomacy. One might call it more accurately a Right Wing Energy Plan For Destabilization of Key States throughout the world. As the U.S. and Canada production rises, some oil producing countries could face the threat of becoming "failed states" as their leadership grapples with greater pressure for economic and political r...
Posted: Sat, Jan 4, 2014 2:27pm PST
Natural Desalination would bring new rivers of fresh water to California - Ending Droughts Natural Desalination/ Not Desalination = eliminating all issues with traditional Desalination by using RO and natures forces to desalinate ocean water and convey it to shore and near zero cost and energy...
Posted: Mon, Dec 23, 2013 10:06pm PST
Marin County’s Golden Opportunity to Protect Region’s Endangered Coho Salmon If we can recover salmon anywhere, it ought to be in wealthy, liberal Marin. Yet the county’s supervisors continue to approve development policies putting interests of a few property owners and developers above protecting our salmon....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 11:07pm PST
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Restores Local Control over Fracking (Pittsburgh) – “PennEnvironment applauds today’s decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that overturned sections of Pennsylvania’s controversial gas drilling law, known as Act 13. With this ruling, municipal governments will once again have the ability to determine when and where fracking occurs in their locality. This is crucial for protecting public health, our environment and our communities....
Posted: Fri, Dec 20, 2013 12:07pm PST
Federal Court Allows Destructive Willits Bypass Project to Move Forward SAN FRANCISCO— A federal judge ruled on December 19 that the California Department of Transportation’s environmental review and permits for the Willits Bypass were adequate and the agency can continue construction of a four-lane freeway around the community of Willits in Mendocino County. The disappointing ruling comes despite the fact that construction has destroyed and damaged sensitive wetlands, the headwaters of salmon-bearing streams, oak woodlands and endangered species habitats....
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2013 8:47pm PST
Call For Occupy and Anonymous to Defend People's Park From the 1% The University of California has hired San Francisco real estate mogul Robert J. Lalanne to redevelop People's Park. The UC's plans include the removal of many of the trees and plants. The UC will take total control of landscaping and gardening of People's Park, making it illegal for the public to participate in public gardening, ending 44 years of volunteer gardening. It is believed that initial steps to control the Park will occur over winter break, such as a primary wave of foliage remov...
Posted: Thu, Dec 19, 2013 6:39am PST
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