Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Monday, August 18, 2008
Meet me in St. Louis Louis, Meet me at the fair!cotton Candy goes solar.
If they’re going to dump that crap it may as well serve a porpoise!
DuPont make waders that ‘breath underwater’. Haven’t they done enough already?
Three amigos, three pesticides not friendly to Salmon!
Pass me the rake, I have a little something here I need to bag up!
Cap-and-trade-program. Who is paying for their profits?
Will liquid coal quench our thirst?
I’ll buy it from you, then sell it to you…what do you think?
Labels: Alaska, Dead zones, Dupont, Green for a Day., Salmon, cap and trade, carbon-trading market, coal to liquid
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EcOLinks
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Artur Chilingarov gets around. He’s the same guy that led the dive to plant the Russian flag under the North Pole last year.Now he’s seeing what is at the bottom of Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is said to be the deepest body of fresh water on the planet. It also
holds 20% of the entire earth’s fresh water. While the Russians are exploring and recording tectonic information and gathering archeological artifacts…yes, they will be doing a little oil and gas prospecting.
The last time the Russians ventured deep into the lake was 1977 when they went down to 4,600 ft. under the surface. This dive went to 5,500 feet.
To say it’s only taken a little more than 30 years to dive an additional 900 feet is probably unfair. After all the last time the U.S. sent a man to the moon was in 1972.
It makes me wonder what everyone has been doing for the last 30 years with their time. They promised us flying cars!
We haven’t been developing new forms of energy. We haven’t developed ways to sustain the oceans food sources. In fact there isn’t enough room to list all the things we haven’t done in the past 30 years.
The first earth day took place in 1970, when “Rising concern about the environmental crisis is sweeping the nation’s campuses with an intensity…” yeah, that worked out real well.
In 1973 We were handed the famous oil embargo in the United States. We were told then that the nation would be embarking on a full court press to develope new kinds of energy, clean energy. 
Cars would have to be built with greater gas miliage.
Instead we moved into the age of the Hummer. Bigger and bigger cars getting less and less gas miliage litter the landscape.
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Nearly 30 years after the Love Canal nightmare,
the U.S. Army was busy sinking $100 million dollars into housing being built atop a Weapons Dump in Alaska. This is a site so toxic and dangerous the construction workers even became ill while trying to get it built.
Is this the new home of the future?
I saw the home of the future at Disneyland when I was 6 years old. It was amazing to me. I couldn’t wait to see my mother swishing around the kitchen in her apron and pearls in a house just like that one. The future of things to come. I wanted to see her pilot her flying car to the store. I wanted to see the future as brightly as they promised me it would be.
They say Disney may build a “new” new home of the future. I say, “they may as well not disappoint anymore little girls.”
Things haven’t turned out the way anyone thought they would. what have we been doing for the last 30 years?
Time flies, but not in flying cars.
Photo Thanks: Love Cannal Avenue of Barrels, AEG Environmental Engineering Geologists
Disney Families
Labels: Alaska, Lake Baikal, Love Cannal, U.S. Army housing, Weapons Dump
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Russia goes to new deepths. The U.S. sinks deeper too.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
26 members of the 180-foot Alaska Ranger have been rescued from life boats. The Seattle based fishing boat started taking on water after losing control of its rudder This morning around 3a.m.
The boat was about 120 miles off Alaska.
Komo TV Seattle is reporting all 47 crew members abandoned ship and made it safely to life rafts. No injuries have been reported so far. The rafts are in 6 to 8 foot seas being pushed by approximately 25 knot winds which is said to be rough weather for life rafts, but it could be worse.
The boat was about 120 miles west of Dutch Harbor, Alaska. The boat is a catcher-processing vessel operated by the Fishing Company of Alaska.
The Alaska Ranger’s sister ship, the Alaska Warrior was nearby and is helping the Coast Guard in the rescue.
According to a report at NOAA, in 2001-2004 the Fishing Company of Alaska, through its agents, committed numerous violations, including: tampering with or destroying observer’s samples and equipment; failing to provide observers a safe work area; failing to notify observers prior to bringing fish aboard to allow sampling of the catch; failing to provide reasonable assistance to observers; and interfering with or biasing sampling procedure employed by observers.
The fine for these actions, which came in 2006, was $254,500.00 for violations of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The fishing vessel Alaska Juris’s 3 captains were also assessed a protion of that civil penalty. The charges were a result of a multiple-year investigation conducted by special agents in the Alaska division of NOAA Fisheries Service’s Office of Law Enforcement.
Read more about this here!
Read about a successful appeal by the Fishing Company of Alaska in relation to the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation Act here!
We wish the crew and rescue persons safety.
Photo: Alaskan Ranger, Yahoo news
Labels: Alaska, FV Alaska Ranger, Fishing Company of Alaska, Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, NOAA, Rescued, Ship sinking, marine mammals
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Alaska Ranger Sinking. 47 Crew Being Rescued Near Alaska.
