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- WTF Files: Week of August 22, 2011 More Oil Under the Bridge
- WTF NEWS ARCHIVE: Week of Sept 4, 2011
- WTF NEWS AUG 29, 2011: Spilling Oil, Trashing Space
- WTF News July 4: Exxon Fouls Another Econsystem
- WTF News: Flood and Tornados Week of May 3, 2011
- WTF News: Week of April 25
- WTF NEWS: Week of July 18 Backward Waterfalls and More Unreported Oil Spills
- WTF Update June 20: If We Can’t Plunder Your Jungle…
- WTF Update June 27: ExxonMobil Fouls the Yellowstone River
- WTF UPDATE Nov 28: LA Land Hurricane
- WTF UPDATE Week of 911: Bigger and Badder Floods
- WTF UPDATE Week of Nov 14, 2011: Disappearing Amphibians and Another Oil Spill
- WTF UPDATE Week of Sept 18: The Ice Goeth, Man
- WTF UPDATE Week of Sept 26: Superweeds from Monsanto
- WTF UPDATE: Aug 9, 2011: Orange Slime, Green Algae
- WTF UPDATE: July 11 More attacks on humans by jelly fish and oil companies
- WTF Update: June 17 Chesapeake Fined for Poisoning Water Supplies
- WTF Update: June 6 Disasters Happening and Waiting to Happen
- WTF UPDATE: Week of July 25, 2011
- WTF News Week of Jan 1, 2012
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WTF Update Week of Jan 30, 2012
Irukandji Coming To a Beach Near You • Taylor Energy Get Sued For 7 Year Leak • Mexican Drought Leaves 2 Million Without Water • Trucking Water Into Towns Near Austin • Tons of Toxic Metal Spill Into Chinese River Citizens
Chinese Seeking To Control Population Through Industrial Accidents?
China’s latest pollution scandal is a huge cadmium spill into the Longjiang River near the city of Hechi. After tons of the poisonous substance (found among other places in car batteries) were released, company and environmental officials delayed reporting the disaster for two weeks. The delay allowed citizens downstream to use the water for cooking and drinking, exposing them to a serious poison that causes kidney failure and or bone decay. The area has been the scene of repeated chemical spills, but authorities say that excessive government regulations would cost jobs.
Although it somewhat unfair to characterize billions of people in a single statement, we are nevertheless comfortable stating that the industrial classes of China really don’t give a rats ass who they poison or kill. There are so many others standing by.
 (above) Chinese Workers Fix Contaminated River With Chemicals
Hill Country Texas Towns Out of H20
Even the proximity to Rick Perry’s magical thinking resources in nearby Austin hasn’t helped Spicewood Beach and adjacent towns. The area has run so low on water that it is now trucked in four times a day. The drought – now somewhat alleviated in some parts of the state – was the worst ever, cost the state billions of dollars in livestock and agricultural losses. Spicewood Beach is one of thirteen public water systems across Texas that is are expected to run out of water in less than six months.
A pathetic Travis-ty of a lake
Mexico’s Worst Drought Ever is Killing the Marijuana Harvest – Now Are You Worried?
Yes, we know that weather patterns are cyclical, but stupidity seems to be a steady linear upward march. But how long can the so-called climate skeptics continue to pretend we are experiencing normal cycles when every continent is hosting “worst ever” drought and flood events every year? One of the planets worst current climate events is an extended drought that has virtually wiped out corn and bean harvests and even hurt the marijuana yield. Nearly 2 million cattle have died.
I should not have listened to Senor Perry!
Taylor Energy Finally Sued For Seven Year Leak Coverup
We understand that the oil companies’ new, even better, we’ll never have another leak technology has got things completely under control, and yet we remain confused about the Taylor Energy Co. wells that have been leaking in the Gulf since 2004. Now, they are being sued by Waterkeeper Alliance and other environmental agencies for being lyin’ scumbags.*
Approximately 7 years ago, one of Taylor’s platforms was damaged by Hurricane Ivan, along with 28 wells located 11 miles off the Louisiana Coast. Although not as popular as Katrina, Ivan generated waves up to 100 feet high, which caused an underwater mudslide. The platform was thrown 700 yards away from its original location.
Oil has been bubbling to the surface ever since, as documented by SkyTruth and SouthWings.
Irukandji jellyfish move into Turkish coastal waters and threaten swimmers in Queensland
Ahmet Nuri Tarkan, president of Muğla University’s Fisheries Department, warns that a species of potentially lethal jellyfish is moving into Turkey’s coastal waters. Because he doesn’t watch Fox News or listen to internationally respected climatologists such as John Shimkus, Tarkan attributes the invasion migration to global warming.
Read this story in the Turkish Daily News
And just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, the sometimes deadly Irukandji things are blanketing the seas off Pilbara in Queensland, Australia.
 Swim at your own risk “I’ve never seen anything like it before, it looked like a blanket of jellyfish that kept on going, ” said a local fisherman.
This species is much smaller than your garden variety Portuguese Person-O-War** but their sting is far more dangerous and sometimes deadly.
Irukandji are present in the North West all year round, although they are more predominant from November through to April.
CatMap IS YOUR INTERNATIONAL JELLYFISH INVASION HEADQUARTERS! VISIT OUR JELLYFISH REPORT.
* The actual suit is worded differently.
** Formerly: Man-O-War
The Catastrophe News You Somehow Missed: Weekend WTF Update Jan 28, 2012
BP Coverup Exposed • Dimock PA fracked out of drinking water • Climate Report from NASA’s James Hansen • Palm Springs Sinks As Golf Courses Suck Up the Water • Monsanto and Dow Team Up to Profit From the Mutant Lifeforms They Created
Palm Spring Sinks as Golf Courses Suck Up the Aquifers
Oh, Noooooo! Parts of the Coachella Valley have sunk more than a foot in a decade as groundwater was sucked up to feed a thirsty economy. Over a hundred twenty golf courses and rampant development are sucking up the water faster than it replenishes.
Be sure to read the quote from the whiny golf course manager.
Read the Associated Press story.
NASA’s James Hansen and Other Scientists Have More Bad News About Climate Change
The short version: The Hansen and his collaborators conclude that extreme heats waves, such as last summer in Texas and Oklahoma and Moscow in 2010, are becoming much more frequent (we knew that). Although these guys are contradicting prominent climate scientists such as James Inhofe and Rick Perry, they seem pretty confident.
Read the story at New Climate Dice at Columbia.edu
Monsanto and Dow Cement Their Holy Alliance With Pesticide Pact
It’s like Mephistopheles had a twin brother and named him Dow. Having initiated the super weed and super pest nightmare scenario predicted by scientists, Dow and Monsanto have levered the disaster into a way to sell more pesticide. Trust us: these guys make the oil companies look like Mary Poppins.
Read the story at Mother Jones.
Wow! Who Knew? BP Covered Up The Rate of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
An ongoing lawsuit has exposed an April 2010 e-mail in which BP told a whopper about the amount of oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico.*
Story from the Times-Picayune.
Can’t Get Drinking Water in Dimock PA.
 No water today folks We’re not sure if the town is a candidate for a Toxic Apocalypse site yet, but the people of Dimock PA have run out of water due to methane gas extraction activities that contaminated 18 area drinking water wells.** Cabot Oil and Gas Corp was banned from drilling in a 9-square-mile area around the village in 2010. The EPA was going to truck in water, but they changed their mind. Not today, Boy.
Story at Huffington Post
Today’s Quiz: After battling the EPA for decades, the fine citizens whom run First Energy are closing six coal plants that have been spewing mercury and carbon dioxide into the air and water and killing fish by the millions.
Here’s the question: are they taking this step because they see how wrong they have been, or because government regulations finally made it unprofitable to operate the dinosaurs?
* Since BP has now been given permission to drill again, we can assume the government has determined this serial spilling oil outfit has been rehabilitated. We bet they even promised.
** Cabot Oil & Gas Corp says the area was already contaminated. It’s just a coincidence that the problems began after the fracking began. Note in the comments Huffington Post blog comments how several people point out that methane isn’t poisonous. But it is flammable, init?
Slaughterhouse dumping pig blood is exposed by private drone camera
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Red river of blood shown on drone camera images. No problem, it all ends up in the Gulf of Mexico, where it doesn’t hurt anything but shrimp.
While the pollution aspects of this story stand on their own, we also direct your attention to CatMap’s exclusive 2020 Foresight Prophecy Service, which predicts conditions on the planet in the year 2020. In earlier postings, we have focused on drones as a technology that will be a game changer across the board in the near future, but we now note that the pacer is faster than we ever anticipated. |
Any story that combines drones and bio-waste pollution makes our day, but this one is over the top. As reported by Fox affiliate KDFW-TV** Jan 20, a criminal investigation was launched into a bright red river of pig’s blood flowing out of Columbia Packing Company in suburban Dallas. The underground pipe was dumping the blood into Cedar Creek, which in turn empties into the Trinity River.
However, no one seems to have noticed this swine flue*** leakage until a local drone hobbyist launched his UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) and began photographing the landscape below****. Once he reported the blood red ribbon flowing through a quiet south Dallas neighborhood to the Dallas County Health Department, the authorities served a search warrant on the slaughterhouse. There they discovered that there was indeed a secret underground pipe and that it did indeed contain the life fluids of recently deceased swine. It turns out, even Texans get pissed off about toxic bio-waste flowing through the ‘hood. Does it seem like maybe someone might have known about the problem before the drone discovered it?*****
In response to the criminal investigation now underway, Columbia Packing Company issued a statement saying they were “surprised”. Surprised? Some nefarious third party obviously snuck into the facilities and buried that pipe…perhaps a schoolboy prank. However, it is fair to note the company was cited and suspended in 2008 and 2009 for inhumane slaughtering practices. A local alderman thought there might be some issues, but this is Texas land of free market forces so powerful that even J.R. Ewing would take a step back.
The plant remains open while the Dallas County Health Department, the EPA, USDA, Texas Parks and Wildlife and various prosecutors conduct investigations. Where the pig blood is currently being directed has not been reported. Perhaps they will build pig blood impoundments similar to those they use to store coal and aluminum smelting waste.
Speaking of swine, the USDA – under your radar but not ours – is proposing that the poultry industry be given more leeway for self-inspection******. They’ve certainly proven themselves great corporate citizens so far, so let’s allow the Fox to inspect the hen house and save some taxpayer money. Every dollar spent on food safety might be better spent on oil and agriculture subsidies.
We say: If you can’t trust a meat packer, who can you trust?
* A lot of things aren’t kosher in Texas general and Dallas in particular, but we need another website for that. Maybe the presidential candidate Mr. Perry can proclaim a prayer weekend to improve environmental oversight.
** Our original source for this story was Fox News 4 Dallas, a local affiliates. Most local FOX stations are not as evil as the Murdoch Misinformation Monster3.
***Yes, that is a pun.
****Although the drone owner (”droner” among hobbyists) is evidently keeping a low profile, the drone itself seems to be a cross between a military Predator and those RC airplanes the men fly at the forest preserve fields.
*****We predict that drones will discover a lot of problems once they really begin to proliferate.
*****But only until they need glasses. |
Farmer Tests Find High Levels of Radioactive Cesium, Contradicting Government
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Farmer’s tests produce glowing results
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In effort to reassure consumers that rice crops near Onami, Japan were not affected by that problem with the Fukushima meltdown last year, the government sent officials to test for contamination. No problem: go ahead and feed it to your kids, or other people’s kids.
But an increasingly skeptical citizenry no longer believes the Japanese government, which has systematically unreported, lied and covered up health hazards from the spectacular 2011 tripe threat quake/tsunami/meltdown. Local farmers instead conducted tests for themselves, revealing unsafe levels of radioactive cesium in area crops. This was only the latest in a series of government efforts for hide the true effects of radioactivity in Fukushima Prefecture. Another incident in July 2011 involved contaminated beef.
The government says it is attempting to contain the negative economic impact of the disaster. In large part, they mean limit the payouts to farmers who have lost their livelihoods. In other words, the government is lying to the people for their own good, but the people are too stupid to understand. Similarly, the “downwinders” in the American West were too not advised of the effects of the nuclear testing conducted in their neighborhood. This saved the “low use segment” of the population from having to move. |
Largest Oil Spill In Ohio History Happens in a Media Vacuum
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Did you hear about the big pipeline leak in Ohio? That’s strange. How about these mishaps?
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As the politicos play footsie over the Keystone XL pipe, another pipeline blew a gasket in Ohio. Sunoco Logisitics* spilled about 120,000 gallons of gasoline in in Wellington Ohio this week, but it didn’t seem to resonate with the national news media. As gas spewed from a 30 in gash in the pipe. Seventy residents were evacuated from the area due to the high levels of toxic chemicals in the gasoline. Lorain County Emergency Services Director Tom Kelley described the event as follows:
“I never have seen anything like I saw that evening. It was 200 feet of gasoline — that wide, flowing through a field and coming out of the ground three or four feet into the air. Gasoline was literally 3 to 5 feet deep in places. If that would have got in the Black River, which is only three-quarters a mile north of that — Oberlin gets its water from that — this would have been an environmental catastrophe that we never would have been able to stop.”
A major environmental disaster was averted this time, but by the fast response of the local fire department and not necessarily the pipeline pimps. If a fire source had come near the spill, the whole neighborhood would have gone up instantly. And of course, there is the small problem of seventy people who can’t go home. The cause of the breach can’t be determined at present because toxic fumes in the area have prevented the company from inspecting the line.
The pipeline was built in 1952 and last inspected by the intrusive nanny state officials in 2007. Sunoco has been told to fix the pipeline or else the government might file more paperwork. You better watch out Sunoco Logistics.
A large section of the Kalamazoo River remains unusable after a million gallon spill of heavy crude in 2010. Last year, a hundred miles south of Loraine, “natural gas” pipeline exploded in Morgan county, injuring two people. TransCanada, the company angling to build the Keystone XL across the U.S. , had 12 spills last year on another section of its pipelines. Do you see a pattern yet**?
* Logistics is another dumb corporate word designed to sound like something better than it is. In this case, it’s a pipeline. In most cases it’s a truck.
**If you’re just too tired or unmotivated to see the pattern, here it is: When you drill or dig for oil or “natural” gas, transport it and burn it in ever increasing quantities, you are going to continue to have major environmental disasters on a regular basis. |
Washington County Ohio Experiences Four Small Earthquakes for the First Time in History
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It’s Not Just Youngstown What’s Shakin’.
Some drinking water pollution trouble in Wyoming
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Most geo scientists not on the payroll of petro pimps think wastewater injection can cause quakes and gee whiz scientists who are on the payroll of petro pimps say it’s impossible. A disparity in world views, yes?
It’s not that the four recent quakes in Southeast Ohio caused damage or injury, it’s the fact that the area has never had an earthquake before. The only difference between before the quakes and now is that the area has been invaded by the natural gas drilling industry (natural gas is the happy word for methane), which is also bringing some environmental and social disruption to Pennsylvania, New York State, Colorado and Wyoming. Specifically, and consistent with identical events elsewhere in fracking country, these regions host wastewater brine injection wells, which shoot chemical back underground where they can’t do any harm…that can be directly observed**. There are four in the area, which is just north of the Ohio-West Virginia state line.
More than 1.3 million barrels of brine (a barrel = 42 gallons) were injected into those wells during the first nine months of 2011. One had an epicenter about 500 feet from one of the injection wells. Coincidence or conspiracy?
The quakes, which ranged from 2.0 to 3.1, were large enough to feel but not to hurt anyone. So they are only a problems for sissies and the CatastropheMap Editorial Board.
The reason they are a problem for us is that we connect them to other earthquake swarm events in disparate locations such Arkansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, West Virginia and England.
In the face of steady industry denials that there is a relationship between the fracking process and increased seismic activity, geo scientists explain quite clearly what happens: When the slime is injected underground, it lubricates the shale rock formations, allowing them to move more easily against each other. So most geo scientists not on the payroll of petro pimps think wastewater injection can cause quakes and gee whiz scientists who are on the payroll of petro pimps say it’s impossible. A disparity in world views, yes?
And if you think that us puny humans can’t or haven’t caused earthquakes, allow us to help you reconsider.
* Wastewater is nasty stuff that has as little to do with “water” as “natural” gas has to do with nature.
** We don’t believe that all wastewater injection wells cause earthquakes…at least not right away. Geo scientists say that the stuff migrates over time, so cause and effect may be delayed. |
Glyphosate (RoundUp) Resistant Weeds Found In Alberta
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Don’t worry, we’ll just develop more powerful herbicides.
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As Predicted By Alarmist Liberal Scientists, Monsanto Resistant Weeds Are Invading Western Canada’s
After making surprise debuts in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska, Ontario and other key growing zones around the planet, another superweed has appeared in Canada’s western grain and canola belt. Monsanto Canada’s website confir
This particular weed is called kochia, and it has evolved in the same way that pigweed, waterhemp, horseweed and other mutant life forms have responded to Monsanto’s poison based agricultural model. Monsanto Canada’s website confirms the findings, although they phrase it differently. There also s a small difference in this story: this is the first time that the weeds have been found in non-GMO fields, meaning that the predicted contamination of farms who have chosen not to use the RoundUp method of scorched earth agriculture are now being affected. Your food supply and food prices are already being affected, but you are not paying attention, are you?
Monsanto has shoved GMO seeds down the throats of agriculture around the planet, despite warning by scientists that weeds and pests would evolve in more and more virulent forms. That’s what happening now.
Thing is, Monsanto convinced farmers they don’t have to waste time with tilling and old fashioned ideas like that. Just spray spray spray.
Visit CatMap for updates on the Monsanto global threat your food supply.
THIS JUST IN…
What? In mid-January 2012, Barak Obama has appointed the VP of Monsanto to the position of Sr. Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA. Obama is a peculiar type of socialist, we think.
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Drones In Civilian AirSpace, Drone Controversy in Arizona
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Keep your nose clean and don’t look up.
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Our 2020 Prophecies Are On the Fast Track To Hell
In late 2011, CatMap introduced 2020 Foresight Prophecy Service, a clairvoyant look at the world as it will be in the year 2020. The Prophecy Service included a section about drones, which will play a key part in the science fiction nightmare unfolding around us.
As if in confirmation, the drone news began picking up immediately in 2012 (the third year of the Beginning of the End Times decade). The mainstream story is the news that President Obama’s long term plan for the military includes reducing troops and increasing robots in the air. No brainer.
A couple of others are more under the radar. Inn the last week of 2011, the National Defense Authorization Act was signed the president last week establishes six national test sites that allows Reaper drones to fly through civilian air space. Among the sites is Hancock Field near Syracuse, where the program will be overseen by the Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing.
In Arizona, at least one citizen is upset that the county board is not being transparent about a plan to introduced Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Yavapai County. We don’t know who is right or wrong with regard to the local dispute. We do know that the process has begun and the results are inevitable.
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Drought Stricken Southern Chile Hit by Raging Wildfires
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The drought of summer 2012 in Southern Chile is consistent with insane globally.
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7% of Torres del Paine National Forest Destroyed
In the midst of an unusual drought in Southern Chile, over 56,000 acres of forests have been destroyed by wildfires. High winds have kept over 1,000 fire fighters from being able to control the blazes. The economic costs of the fires will run into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Scientist not on the Fox News / CoalOilGas payroll are becoming less and less shy about associating this and similar Latin American flood/drought/flood patterns with climate change. The past few years have seen drought in Northern Mexico, flood and mudslides in Brazil and Columbia, a record heat wave in Bolivia and record drought in Argentina. The patterns has been repeated around the globe. While no single even proves anything, the sum total of record breaking, unprecedented extreme weather disasters is impossible to ignore unless you are stupid or being paid to ignore it.
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