Michigan House Energy Policy Committee 10/4/18 Testimony
Key Points/References on 5G Associated Health Issues
Sharon Goldberg, MD
Documents about Wireless she talked about.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bmqEP0UXfjcJHWsytTAWstJmcvrBjZmUM1DII3LKuEs/edit
This one is new from September 9, 2020
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Update January 30, 2021 Adding VAERS
In the U.S., which relies almost exclusively on passive surveillance, the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) Check it out you might be shocked, at what you find.
September 5, 2020
Some information, we all should know.
Some old and some new.
The testing is still, noted as being sad and meaningless.
There is yet another Update on that one. I added it in September 7, 2020 Updates at the bottom.
Truly a heart breaking story.
A one-and-a-half year old Saudi boy, has died in Shaqra General Hospital after the stick used for the nasal swab, broke inside his nose.
There is no ”gold standard” for the Covid 19 test, meaning there is no purified isolation of Covid 19 to test against. That has been said, time and time again by many of us.
Then came the operation to get it out.
Had that swab, not been taken, odds are good that child would still be alive.
All operations come with a risk.
All he had was a fever. Kids get those from time to time.
If it were not for all the Covid panic, fear induced, insanity, this child would be alive.
They rushed, to the Covid testing, garbage and the child died.
Bless you Erin for finding this news story
https://www.healthnutnews.com/saudi-arabian-child-dies-after-covid-19-test-swab-breaks-in-his-nose/
Italian Parliament
This is one of the best speeches that the Italian Parliament has ever had. The courage of Sara Cunial is fantastic, all the Italian people is supporting her fight that coincides with our fight: the struggle of having a really free society based on transparent information and real power belongs to the people that exercise it within the Constitutional limits. These very limits that are being broken by the Government that is not working for the good of the people but rather for the interests of lobbies and the Deep State and other secret societies that are ruining the whole country. The words of this lady have to be spread all over the web, let’s fight back the tyranny all together we are unstoppable!
May 14, 2020
MP speaks in the Chamber
You can turn on the CC and in the setting have it changed to English.
It doesn’t translate perfect but good enough you get what she is saying.
“We have been spied on, subjugated, treated as criminals by a government that in two months has destroyed our fundamental, natural and constitutional rights. Parliament has been replaced by the various task forces, the media bombardment has been used to condition the minds of Italians, leveraging the fear of dying and censoring anyone who dares to raise their heads. Zingaretti, taking example from the Lombardy vaccination campaign that caused the disasters that we pay today, thought well to impose it also in Lazio, even though he knew that there is already extensive evidence that flu vaccinations lead to almost 40% more Covid cases for viral interference. As if we did not know that the coronavirus is a co-factor and therefore indicates other environmental criticalities, such as pollution, even the electromagnetic one: the antenna yards have never stopped, who knows why”. So the MEP Sara Cunial, former M5s now in the Mixed Group, speaking in the Chamber. He then adds: “All these dpcms are unconstitutional, they are the symbol of authoritarianism by the health-media regime mashed with the blood red of our rights. History does not forgive, and one day you will have to explain why you sacrificed Italy, selling off all our information. ( Ansa – CorriereTv ). Watch the video on Courier:
30 Aug 2020
Posted by: ECADF in News October 28, 2017
November 27, 2018
Posted by: ECADF in News May 5, 2017
Electronic Support for Public Health–Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (ESP:VAERS)
The Tedros Adhanom-Michelle Bachelet Conspiracy of Lies and Disinformation on Ethiopia EXPOSED
Michelle Bachelet is the former president of Chile (2006-2010)
Tedros Adhanom is a high level member of the terrorist group known as the Tigrean Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF).
https://ecadforum.com/2020/12/27/the-tedros-adhanom-michelle-bachelet-conspiracy-of-lies/amp/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499816-positive-covid-virus-contagious/
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499715-lockdown-anti-maskers-covid/
September 2, 2020
https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/07/30/shira-doron-covid-19-testing-types-accuracy
September 7, 2020 Updates
https://www.globalresearch.ca/australian-government-website-admits-covid-tests-unreliable/5723145
Australian Government’s Own Website Admits COVID Tests Are Totally Unreliable
11 August 2020
A new report has outlined that AstraZeneca has been granted protection from product liability claims regarding its COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
A report has revealed that AstraZeneca has been given protection from future product liability claims related to its COVID-19 vaccine candidate. According to a senior executive who spoke to Reuters, the company has made this arrangement with most of the countries where it has formed supply agreements.
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A Vaccine commercial From Government also Autopsy reports.
Good on Sky News for getting this out there.
Here is an update
This is appalling. Billions of us have said many things. And if we want to stand up for our rights then, that is what we do. We have the right to be free.
Hello World Australians need our help.
Anyone have any brilliant ideas?
This could be everyone, on the planet, if we don’t all stand up for our freedoms.
Are there no world leaders who can stand against this kind of tyranny?
Oh right many of them are doing the very same thing.
This is what insanity looks like.
The Police should be ashamed of themselves. Talk about going after, extremely petty garbage.
They are now stalking people online as well. Only abusive people do things like that.
So the police are now abusive stalkers.
Maybe they and Andrews should be flushing themselves down the toilet.
They all should feel small enough, to fit in right nice.
And what did this offending post that warranted this heavy-handed raid say? What was its treasonous message? Simply: “Anyone from Ballarat please join us in our fight for freedom and human rights!”
Maybe everyone should open their windows and scream those exact same words.
Lets say, how about at Midnight, when the witching hour hits, as this is nothing more then a witch hunt. It would echo through the streets right nice. Just a thought. Everything sounds better at night. We are still allowed to think, are we not? Or is that right gone too?
Video included They also have a number of other reports of things going on down under. At lease someone out there, is taking notice of what is happening. A few others also took note She made it around the world.
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/499726-victoria-police-arrest-pregnant-woman-lockdown/
They want to steal their children. Some one at WHO thought that was a great idea. I remember him saying just that. Take the kids or whoever from their homes. What a sick thing to say. Is Andrews and company really daft enough to follow that lead? The fellow from WHO should be fired of course. I did have a video of that one, but of course, like many things, was removed. If anyone has that, please do put it in the commemt section.
They want to force and experimental drug into them. One that could kill them or maim them for life.
Not sure how long this will be there for. Odds are good Youtube will remove it, like they have many other videos. That censorship is a big thing now. They have to hide the truth.
Can’t dare let anyone insight, freedom seekers. Obviously Andrews is a bit off and should be in a psychiatric hospital. Mentally ill people, make rash mistakes you know.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JuxFdvfKPE&feature=youtu.be
I think I have to agree with that report. Masks do make people stupider.
Be brave people you have over a 99 percent chance of not dying, from this so called virus. Throw down those masks. They don’t help anyway.
The war we have, is the war against WE the people.
https://rense.com/general37/char.htm
Dr Theresa Tam advises WHO She is just a tad bit nuts too. This is just so daft. I can’t believe anyone, would say anything so stupid. I bet she wears a mask like all the time. See Australia, Canada has daft people too. Please never take her advise. But if you need to giggle this is the report to check out. To funny. Ignore the fake numbers and enjoy the show.,
“Public Enemy #1”, but, when 5G goes live everywhere, the symptoms of its toxicity can mimic COVID. Here’s a link to a paper on the topic:
“5G Technology and Induction of Corona Virus in Skin Cells”
https://scienceintegritydigest.files.wordpress.com/2020/07/fioranelli.pdf
Is 5G in your area or being installed in your area, while everyone is in or was in lock down? Some places are not yet on the map.
5G Map You have to zoom in a lot, to get to all the towers
Canada knew about the dangers as early as 2012
Received: 5 February 2020 / Revised: 3 March 2020 / Accepted: 5 March 2020 / Published: 11 March 2020
https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/21/6/1915/htm
THE BIOINITIATIVE REPORT 2012
They have a number of studies
By Robert F. Kennedy, Chairman and Dafna Tachover, Director, Stop 5G Project, Children’s Health Defense
May 30, 2019, 05:55 ET
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOGGUM1M508
This is just a very small amount of information.
This is a the tip of the iceberg, into the dangers of wireless.
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There are billions of us and very few of them.
One voice, can turn into a million voices, a million voices, can turn in billions of voices.
Let your voice be heard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqNszeb0KQY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4fUr9yNI7k
This is very detailed. It covers a lot of the protest. Do watch this one for the speeches etc.
Streamed live on Aug 29, 2020
They had a great turnout. Power to the people.
Now for Laws.
Just because any government, makes a law, does not mean it is a good law? It does not mean it is true justice. When they give themselves, dictator powers, that is a sign of a problem. Those Laws are not to protect you, they are to control you. Those laws are a violation, of your human rights.
If it takes away your rights, it is a bad law.
If you are forced, to put something into your body, you do not want , it is a violation of your health freedom.
If you are forced, to put any radioactive materials, into your body, would that be a violation of your rights?
If you are force, to inject toxic materials into your body, is that a violation of your rights? Absolutely.
It is wrong on every level. Remember those, who make the laws work for you.
Many hold shares, in drug companies?
Many get money at election time, from drug companies, tech companies and many others that make money on this so called virus.. I call that bribery.
Have any of them, been offered a million dollar or more a year job, after they leave Government? That to, is bribery you know. Give us what we want and you get that job.
That one is all to common. They don’t have to hide their money off shore or in a Swiss bank account, the money is in, the job they will get. That happens all to often.
They make money, by forcing bad/unjust, laws on you and get that dream job that pays millions a year.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/yJskaoYOXWcV/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/lDF0xBFpzKCY/
What would happen, if everyone deleted all the tracking apps? Would they notice? For sure they would notice. Is there a way to remove GPS off your phone?
How much is it costing you to be tracked, everywhere you go?
You are the one paying, so they can track you.
You are also helping to make tech companies make a fortune.
You help them get richer. Over the years you have been lulled into this.
Or should I say conned.
If you don’t have your Cell Phone with you, they can’t track, everywhere you go. I don’t know, maybe turn it off and leave it a drawer somewhere. Leave it in your garbage bin maybe. Without those Cell Phones, they cannot track you. Cell Phones are one of their main tools, they use against people.
You are also paying for the vaccines, they want to force on you, Via your tax dollars.
You are paying to get arrested or fined, if you don’t comply Via your tax dollars.
You are paying for the idiots/fanatics, making all the new Laws, Via you tax dollars.
You pay for Everything, they do to you, Via your tax dollars.
They are using your money, to torture you.
Yes what they are doing to everyone world wide is torture. It is Brain Washing. It is killing people. People are not dieing, form the so called virus, but from all the side effects of what they are doing.
They use to say tech, would make our lives easier.
Is tech making your life easier or is it helping to remove your rights and freedoms?
5G will give them even, more power over you.
Tech, as we know it today is killing people and making many very sick.
Yes it sure is making things easier.
By the way in case anyone missed it, your Cell Phone can kill you.
It emits radiation. You know what Radiation is Right?
Everything that is wireless, emits Radiation.
Just a reminder
From the The University of Melbourne
“The truth about mobile phone and wireless radiation: what we know, what we need to find out, and what you can do now” Presented by Dr Devra Davis,
Check your phone to see how much Radiation it emits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwyDCHf5iCY
https://www.bitchute.com/video/QxKviqDeYmpE/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/jirXvqBkZRr4/
Kennedy in Berlin August 29, 2020
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=307975787161550&extid=S3588UX1vblRZEbZ
Live London Trafalgar Square! August 2020 FREEDOM
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2462118800748171&extid=vhzKUeuBaYrubbMy
Thanks to William. He left two other videos in the comments as well.
Please share all of this with your friends, families or anyone for that matter.
I do this with the sole purpose, of sharing the truth they want to hide.
The censorship, is outrageous.
For all I know when you click on a link it may have been removed. That has happened many many times I have noticed.
They are stealing our freedom of speech too.
Social media, is playing a large roll in that.
People, Doctors included have been silenced.
They have even been demonized or lost their jobs.
That is Standard Operating Procedure.
That has been done, many times over the years, on many fronts.
So if they are portrayed in that light, they were probably telling the truth. That is a very old technique.
The other technique is FEAR. The have used that one a point of ridiculousness. Instill mass fear and add a lot of lies. Brainwash the masses into submission.
The main stream media, helps with all of that on a massive scale. They actually had people, afraid of flushing, their bloody toilets. People were taking their pets to the vet, to have them, put down out of fear the animals might spread the so called virus and the list goes on and on. All propaganda to promote their agenda. All FEAR mongering and all lies.
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The actual cause of death in the cases investigated was pneumonia, but in about 50% of the cases venous thrombosis in the legs was also present, which can lead to fatal pulmonary embolism. In some cases, the kidneys and heart muscle were also affected. Professor Püschel therefore recommends the preventive administration of blood-thinning medication in cases of serious Covid disease.
Regarding thromboses and pulmonary embolisms, Professor Püschel emphasized – as other experts have done before – that a “lockdown” with quarantine at home is “exactly the wrong measure”, as the lack of exercise additionally promotes thromboses. US specialists have also warned of this risk, after unexpected thromboses occurred even in Covid-negative persons.
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In the case of the vaccine from the University of Oxford, all six rhesus monkeys fell ill with Covid19 in animal experiments despite being vaccinated and were equally infectious as the unvaccinated monkeys. Nevertheless, the vaccine was continued into the test phase with humans. The project leader explained, however, that the corona virus had already become so rare in the population that the clinical trial was 50% unlikely to yield a result.
In the case of Moderna‘s novel RNA vaccine, which was unusually tested directly in humans, 20% of the participants in the high-dose group had a “severe side effect“, although Moderna only allowed very healthy people to participate in the trial.
One of the Moderna participants was then presented and interviewed as a “hero” by CNN. However, it was agreed not to mention that the participant fainted after the vaccination and became “as sick as never before in his life“. Several experts also criticized that Moderna had not sufficiently disclosed its clinical data.
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The Swedish government has apologised for the inadequate protection of nursing patients and announced an investigation. Many media tried to portray this as an alleged “failure of the no-lockdown strategy”, even though nursing homes need targeted protection and do not benefit from a social lockdown.
Incidentally, however, even overall mortality in Sweden remained below the strong seasonal flu epidemics of the last thirty years.
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Operations: According to an article in the British Journal of Surgery, around 28 million operations were cancelled or postponed worldwide during 12 weeks because of corona measures, including many cancer operations.
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AstraZeneca is preparing to produce two billion doses of the still untested Oxford vaccine.
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I have to insert a couple of things here.
AstraZeneca connection to Bill Gates
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has contributed $750 million towards the manufacturing and distribution a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by Oxford University.)
The Oxford University vaccine is made from a genetically engineered virus that causes the common cold in chimpanzees and is known as ChAdOx1 nCoV-19.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.globalresearch.ca/covid-19-australia-scott-morrison-plans-make-vaccine-mandatory/5721657
US billionaires saw a $434 billion increase in wealth through “Corona”.
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New York’s largest hospital association has announced an investigation into the use of invasive ventilators. In April it became known that US clinics receive high premiums if they admit Covid-19 patients and connect them to ventilators, although experts warned long ago of the dangers of invasive ventilation. A New York nurse spoke of a “mass murder“.
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Corona COVID-19 mortality rate to be very low, around 0.01%, and much lower than the WHO’s (World Health Organization) claimed mortality rate of 3.4%:
For the rest and there is much more. Be sure to check it out.
https://coronawhistleblower.org/info/
Moderna and Phizer and one from China
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C32nODeOkGA
If you like to read, this is a great book to get into.
I made it to about page 98 last night, so far it is very well written and very informative.
You can also listen to it. So if reading is not you thing just put your feet up, relax and hit the play button.
Murder By Injection https://archive.org/details/MurderByInjection.EustaceMullins/mode/2up
Thank you to the one who sent it to me.
I think it is perfect as is.
https://www.afro.who.int/health-topics/polio
Indian doctors blame the Gates campaign for a devastating vaccine-strain polio epidemic that paralyzed 496,000 children between 2000 and 2017.
In 2017, the Indian Government dialed back Gates’ vaccine regimen and evicted Gates and his cronies from the NAB. Polio paralysis rates dropped precipitously.
In 2017, the World Health Organization reluctantly admitted that the global polio explosion is predominantly vaccine strain, meaning it is coming from Gates’ Vaccine Program.
The most frightening epidemics in Congo, the Philippines, and Afghanistan are all linked to Gates’ vaccines.
By 2018, ¾ of global polio cases were from Gates’ vaccines.
Bill Gates Faces Trial in India for Illegally Testing Tribal Children with Vaccines
Gates-funded Program to Begin Tests on Biometric ID Vaccination Records in Africa
The biometric digital identity platform Trust Stamp, which claims to “evolve as you evolve,” is to be introduced in “low-income, remote communities” in West Africa as part of a partnership between the Bill Gates-supported GAVI vaccine alliance and Mastercard.
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https://www.drrobertyoung.com/post/dr-robert-o-young-speaks-out-about-covid-other-matters
People who work at Call Centers get sick. One of the problems are symptoms just like Covid 19. Wireless was the cause of their problems.
They get many other problems as well. Depression, Anger Management problems, well it is a long list. Anything wireless can make your blood thicker. The longer you are exposed the more things that go wrong health wise.
Robert Yonng’s explanations seems to apply to wireless and the vaccines as well.
This is an example of what can happen.
“Two children have dropped dead in Simcoe County Schools since Wi-Fi was installed”
This has a lot of the side effects of vaccines. You may have to look up what most of them are. Some are very terrifying. Most people do not know what the dangers are. All they ever hear is, they are safe.
Read the Fine Print, Part Two—Nearly 400 Adverse Reactions Listed in Vaccine Package Inserts
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/read-the-fine-print-part-two-nearly-400-adverse-reactions-listed-in-vaccine-package-inserts/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=3dc3da13-6652-4e93-bbb9-2d6ae56cb8dc
Vasculitis is caused by a few vaccines. (The flu ones being some of them. These ones can cause blood clots– Afluria, Engerix-B,
Fluarix, Fluzone, Havrix, MMR-II, Recombivax, Twinrix)
Vasculitis Also known as: angiitis, arteritis
Symptoms
The signs and symptoms of vasculitis vary greatly based on the type of condition and they often result from reduced blood flow
Some of the generally noted symptoms include:
• Fever
• Headache
• Fatigue
• Weight loss
• Aches and pains in the body
• Night sweating
• Rashes in the affected part
• Problems related to nerves such as numbness in the affected part
Causes
The exact cause for vasculitis is not known, but the following factors are said to influence the onset of the condition:
• Genetic makeup of the patient
• Immune system disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and lupus
• Certain infections, for example, hepatitis B and C
• Cancers of the blood
• Reactions to certain drugs
• Smoking
Prevention
• Not all types of vasculitis can be prevented, for example, vasculitis resulting from autoimmune diseases.
• Vasculitis resulting from infections or allergies can be prevented by avoiding the contact with allergen.
Complications
• Formation of blood clots which affects blood flow
• Aneurysm or weakening and bulging of the blood vessels
• Organ and tissue damage from reduced or restricted blood flow
• Loss of vision or blindness
• Increased risk of infections such as pneumonia
They never mention that vaccines can cause blood clots. Then again when you look up any of the illnesses in the 400 Adverse Reactions story you never find any of them being caused by vaccines.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2003
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August 25, 2020
There is no ”gold standard” for the Covid 19 test, meaning there is no purified isolation of Covid 19 to test against.
COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to “diagnose” Sars-Cov-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose. There are a number of links in the report to also look up.
Faith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Was Not They used PCR That certainly did not go well.
To read the story yo may have to enter your e-mail address and a pass word then they will let you read the entire story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/health/22whoop.html
He did not know at that time, that all the tests, were meaningless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTU5HXyd9gE&t=399s
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4bwTCk5pOiup/
There is more on Covid testing in this post. Again the finding are, it is useless.
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Bless all those, who are out there Protesting and fighting for the safety of Children. If anyone has any links to other protests, please put them in the Comment section.
The 40 percent rise in missing children is quite disturbing. That is due to the Lock downs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaR7XjD-9TQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tShIUS9gC-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejWbTKzJt9Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKNV3WrU5iM
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July 9, 2019
If you were not flooded, be sure to contact the Quebec Government and let them know. They have created quite a mess.
This should not have been implemented until there was a Public Inquiry. Some homes may have been flooded, due to Dam Mismanagement.
In Quebec and Ontario Thousands of people are calling for a Public Inquiry. Municipalities included.
July 8, 2019
Mistakes were made is an understatement
People were anxious about the potential fallout from the map the Quebec government released last month delineating a zone d’intervention spéciale (ZIS) which, as determined by aerial photography and satellite images, had experienced flooding in 2017 and 2019. But the results did not reflect the reality, resulting in hundreds of West Island homes which had never experienced flooding being included in the ZIS. For the rest of the story Go Here
July 4, 2019
It’s very arbitrary,” said David Mapp, a Dorval resident.
“It feels like they didn’t respect the contour lines. Our shoreline is definitely a lot further from our house and it doesn’t make any sense, really.”
The map now puts 813 municipalities and thousands of homes in flood zones. For the rest of the story Go Here
July 4, 2019
Quebec’s new flood maps identify large areas of residential property as being at potential risk, creating huge ramifications for property values, insurance and rebuilding plans in those zones.
There area number of Video’s included One with good advice For the Story Go Here
July 6, 2019
Beaconsfield mayor George Bourelle asked the province to amend the draft order to excludes his City from the ZIS, “since no building in Beaconsfield was flooded in 2017 and 2019.” For the rest of the Story Go Here
There is more about this from the Last Post Check the comments there as well. There is also a link to the Map.
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July 8, 2019
Here are some of the News articles about the Ottawa River Flooding.
May 24, 2019
The City of Ottawa has been in a state of emergency since April 25.
City of Ottawa officials on Friday pushed for an independent investigation of the Ottawa River floods during a closed meeting of a provincial task force collecting intelligence on the bloated waterway
City asks for outside flood review during Ontario closed-door meeting Go Here for the rest of the story
The City of Ottawa has been in a state of emergency since April 25.
May 1, 2019
In Quyon, a nervous vigil is being held next to the town dike Go Here
The reasoning behind the dry river bed. defies logic. It was not always handled that way. History from people that live there, tells a whole other story.
May 14, 2019
Floods here, dry riverbed upstream — momentum grows for review of dam controls on Ottawa Go Here
Again The reasoning behind the dry river bed. defies logic.
May 11, 2017
High and dry — the maddening story of the upper Ottawa River Go Here
New potential Flood Zones in Quebec. Map
Date of creation of the Map: June 10, 2019
To see the Map Go Here It takes a long time to Load Be Patient. Apparently many of the places on that map were never flooded at all.
Quebec issues moratorium forbidding construction in high-risk flood zones. Go Here
April 24, 2019
Is $200,000 a fair buyout price for a house in a Quebec flood zone?
“Responsibility is shared between a large number of actors,” says one flood-management expert, “but the responsibilities are ambiguous enough that it’s very difficult to hold any one party accountable.” Go here for the rest of the Report
New Flood Map meeting in Campells Bay Listen to some of the Problems With the Map Go Here
If you have any other News links or other Important information, Please Leave them in the comment section below.
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July 4, 2019
A picture is worth a Thousand Words
Some News updates as well.
I was asked by someone if I could do a page just for Photos and Stories about the damages to lake Ontario, due to the flooding.
In the comments you cannot upload pictures but if you use the address from the address bar you can.
Faceblook for example if you click on the picture in a comment and new window will come up for the picture. Just copy and paste the http link, from the address bar, into the comment section below and the pictures will come up.
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If you want to leave a comment and do not want others to read it All comments are monitored by the admins. So if you have questions. Ask If you have any ideas. State them.
There are two choices state I want this publish or I don’t want this published Put either one at the first of your comment. The world will see those comments, if you want them Published,
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A few of the Newer things , News wise.
July 1,2019
July 1, 2019
A must red article below
The Information below is a bit older. I think it is important. It shows the people involved. It states, what they want to do, to improve shipping.
Here they are looking to gather Information as well.
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June 29, 2019
Photo Compliments of the Ottawa Citizen
This meeting was yesterday June 28, 2019
13 WHAM ABC
They did not answer the Question
Who benefits from the high water?
The Ottawa River did not flood as it has in 2017 and 2019 Until Plan 2014 was implemented. They had less snow in 2017 and 2019 then they had in 2008. If the Ottawa River was gong to flood it would have flooded in 2008. Less snow fall more flooding. This would apply to most of the Ottawa River right up to the Northern regions. Go Here
On News reports it was said because of so much snow, there was a flood. Then they add rain. Well when one lie is told ,another lie just might follow.
What is needed is a complete and honest statistics, all the way down the line. Weather wise for at least 25 years, like the statistics above. Not averages, real numbers. Averages mean nothing. Averages are just a way to manipulate the numbers. 100 people make $100 a week, averages out to the average person make $100 a week. Change that to 98 people make $100 a week and two make $10,000 a week. Boy does that change the average pay for a week. So averages mean nothing. Real numbers do.
Add to that, guess what, the snow melts every winter, It comes it goes. It snows a bit more and some melts. Every winter it does that. That is not a new thing.
When you have a full bath tub and keep adding more water it will flow over if you don’t pull the plug. They keep Lake Ontario levels to high. They don’t pull the plug in time to stop the over flow, under Plan 2014. Had they lowered the levels in the Lake maybe all the flooding along the Ottawa River might not have happened. I guess they could not pull the plug Due to Plan 2014. Can’t let go both at the same time. Those along the Ottawa River want a Public Inquiry. They want answers. There is a connection between Lake Ontario and the Ottawa River. The only change over the years is Plan 2014.
Add to that a lot of Dams are operated by a computer from Head Quarters in the Toronto area. So people in the Toronto area, run the dams ,from hundreds of miles away. This came to light in 2002 after two people were killed. Nothing like that ever happened,,when the locals ran the dam.
How many dams are run using a computer from hundreds of miles away?
A few Videos of the Ottawa River Flooding
May 2019 Westmeath
April 2019 Ottawa
April 2019 Constance Bay
Mean while Up stream From all of that. There is about 80Km of extremely low water levels. About 6 feet low. The picture below was taken in May 2019. It had been low for some time.
There is a dam below the low level and one above.
Above that low water is a small Place called Mattawa
Everything there was fine until the dam operators decided to dump two feet of water from behind the dam a bit up river from them. They were not given much notice. So due to that they flooded. Considering down river was low the water could have been let out slower.
This is all Climate Change you understand. This is what some news agencies kept saying.
There is a video in the link below, It also talks about the 2 feet of water dumped on them.
That is just a bit of insight of things that happened.
No wonder there are a lot of Questions.
Now back to Lake Ontario
They are breaking the terms of the 1909 Treaty. Everyone can read that for themselves.
Part One From June 28, 2019
June 28, 2019
Photo Compliments of the Weather Network.
This is about the (IJC) International Joint Commission and Plan 2014
I will attempt to provide the information necessary,, so everyone can understand, how all of this works. I will also provide News stories and Youtube videos documenting some of the flooding that has occurred.
A Picture is worth a thousand words. Their story needs to be told. Seems the International media is not reporting this.
Many smaller local medias are. To date they have been doing a great job.
Plan 2014 was implemented in January of 2017.
Great Interview This explains Plan 2014 extremely well Go Here
IJC did not listen to the Minority Report Go Here
The IJC knew the plan would cause flooding.
Under the old plan this type of flooding did not happen.
Now when you see the videos and pictures, try to imagine the shorelines went out much farther then what you are seeing.
The flooding started in May.
Do check the dates on everything. The videos and news reports will not be in sequence.
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There is a lot of destruction to the Eco-systems. Wild life Habitat is being destroyed. There were Environmentalist that wanted this plan. They wanted 64,000 acres of more wetland.
13,613 have signed. So far.
Both Canadians and Americans can sign this petition.
This is just a small look at what is happening along Lake Ontario.
The damage is wide spread and ongoing.
Please share this this.
These people need help to have Plan 2014 Repealed and go back to the old plan.
Youtube has a lot on the 2019 flooding. Check it out.
They are attempting to chalk a lot of it up to climate change.
There have been other years, when there was a lot more snow, so that does not apply.
If anyone has other news reports or links to photos, please add them in the comment section. That would be appreciated.
All comments are moderated. So your comment will be there after approval. that Keeps the Hate comments out. I have had a lot of those.
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There is a lot of information about this product. It is something everyone world wide should know about. For years we have been told it was safe. Turns out it is not so safe after all. It is making people sick. It is doing a great deal of damage to the health of animals and in many cases they die. Many products have been tested and found to have Glyphosate in them.Glyphosate is in Round Up. It kills bacteria in our digestive system. That should be of great concern to everyone. That bacteria is important to keep animal lives healthy that includes you. If that bacteria is destroyed animal life becomes sick. Humans, cats, dogs, chickens, cattle, sheep, pigs or any other animals that consume Glyphosate in their food. I have found it is in a lot of foods. I will post a list of some of the ones I have found. Round up is also used to ripen crops faster, so in those foods there would also be Glyphosate.
Finally some one stood up against this and won. The amount has changed and he will not receive that amount if any, as Bayer has filed for an appeal. Due to this court case a lot of things were brought to light. Monsanto knew that Round Up causes cancer.
Bayer’s stock slumped more than 10 percent in trading Monday, three days after a California jury awarded $289 million to a former groundskeeper who said the popular weedkiller Roundup gave him terminal cancer. Go Here for the rest of the Story.
There are other court cases pending against Bayer. Litzenburg said his firm is representing 2,000 people in their claims against Monsanto, and that there are probably 5,000 cases across the country.
When all is said and done there may be many more.
Now back to what you need to know about Round Up
Start here and listen to this fellow. He explains how it works rather well. Take the time. Everyone needs to know this. What you don’t know might kill you or someone you love. It might even kill your beloved pets.
Dr. Thierry Vrain, former genetic engineer and soil biologist with Agriculture Canada, spoke with us today about his concerns with genetically engineered crops (GMOs) and more importantly, the use of Glyphosate (RoundUp). Dr. Vrain’s background in the field of genetic engineering (for 30 years), makes him an expert on this gene technology. He explained how a cell is genetically engineered and what happens after this random insertion process through a gene gun and how it can have unknown effects. Since leaving Agriculture Canada 12 years ago, he has learned much more about the process of genetic engineering and the BT process (insect resistant) and the HT (herbicide resistant) crops that make up about 500 million acres. His primary concern at this time is the widespread use of Glyphosate which is a powerful herbicide, mineral chelator and a patented antibiotic. Dr. Vrain stated when speaking about Glyphosate: “It’s almost as if the entire population of North American is on a low-grade antibiotic diet day in day out from birth, everyday, so this is the reality.”
Here are a few links to check out.
I would call this the short list.
Every wonder why you pets get sick? Before you buy dog or cat food check the ingredients. Look for GMO’s for one.Soy, Corn, Beets, Grains in general. Look for anything that may have been sprayed with Round Up. Sugar is in many pet foods, Not sure why, as it is bad for pets on it’s own…….Lots of products for pets have sugar in them.
The most vulnerable, your baby could be getting it in their food.
Best advice Make your own baby food as much as possible.
It is simple to do. Buy a blender. Buy food you are sure has not been sprayed with Round Up.
Cook, Blend, then add a bit of milk to it just before feeding it to you little one.
Make sure the milk is organic. Don’t want milk from cows fed with anything that has been sprayed with Round Up.
The same would apply to any meat you fed you little one.
That is what I would do. Not a big deal to make your own.
No additives necessary.
They should test many other products, that are made as well.
That is it for today. That is just the tip of the iceberg.
Be sure to share. I want everyone safe.
So this is going to be a short story for the time being but I will be adding to it.
Some o you have noticed the Osprey nests I posted about earlier.
They give you a gimps into different worlds.
I will also add a few more on this post for everyone to view.
Some are good some you have to wonder about.
First of course is a bit on plastic.
Scary stuff Right
It should scare you.
Guess who is responsible for all that plastic.
Oh yes people are.
Nest time you want to drop that hunk of garbage, maybe you will think about it twice.
I mean really how hard is it to put in a garbage container or re-cycling bin. If you are out on a picnic, hunting, fishing or whatever, the very least you can do is take the garbage home, with you and throw it in the trash where it belongs. Really is it that complicated of a thing to do. The life you maybe saving is your own. Think about it for a while.
Lakes, rivers, forests, oceans etc., are not garbage dumps.
When you go out for a walk take a good look around and you will see garbage almost everywhere you go.
And everyone’s Excuse is what exactly???????????????????????
I don’t know about you, but I am fed up up with litter bugs.
I just want to smack them up the side of the head.
Broken glass can cut children, pets, wild life and do great harm.
Hey if they picked it up instead of braking it maybe it would cut the cost of medical bills fro those who get cut, cut vet costs for fixing the damage it does to your pets.
The wild life of course do not have the luxury of either or.
Also in the majority of places it is a crime to litter.
You can get a pretty hefty fine in some places.
The crime against wild is even worse.
Our garbage kills wild life.
Talk about animal abuse.
In the wild those poor creatures suffer because of lazy humans.
So to all the lazy humans get your act together.
There is no excuse to drop your trash anywhere, but in a garbage bin.
Your trash is killing us all.
We only have one planet to live on so we all have to take care of it.
No exceptions to that rule, let me tell you.
Some day if someone give you a piece of their mind don’t be surprised.
It could be one of many, who are fed up with your littering ways.
Live cams list
http://www.viewbirds.com/#osprey
Garbage on the nest.
Why should birds have to put up with this.
People pick up your garbage.
Teach your kids not to litter.
Don’t blame the operators of the site for all the plastic in the nest.
Other people are responsible for it all.
The trash cannot be removed as it would disturb the birds so it has to be left there. Even if they did clean it up the Osprey’s would just go out and find even more plastic anyway. Now wouldn’t they?
Ospreys and other birds just love garbage.
Then again garbage also affects other wild life as well.
It is killing them too.
A clean nest is much nicer to watch. I wonder why that is?
http://unavitaverde.net/osprey-webcam/
Or this one is nice to watch too
http://www.ospreys.org.uk/webcam/
Now that you have taken a look at those two
How about this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D41rO7mL6zM
Be sure to watch all three parts. Thee may be some swearing in the above video.
Then again you might start to swear too. I did.
The one below is heart breaking. This type of thing also happens in your own back yard. You just don’t notice. It happens everywhere in the world. It can happen even to smaller birds. How blind are some people I have to wonder.
Here too is heart breaking
What a horrid way to die if not removed.
Just imagine
Some People are doing their best to help the birds all over the world and the wildlife to survive.
Become part of the solution.
They build nests for the birds, set up cams, so we can enjoy watching them grow and learn how they live in the wild.
Some do so much to help,
They cannot stop the people, who toss all their trash however.
We can all help with that.
Maybe we all could do a little something, to help all those people, who take the time to help those majestic creatures.
I do why can’t you?
One person can make a difference. Just imagine if we all did a little something.
If everyone does a little then as a whole we can accomplish great things.
If anyone has any sites, birds or other wise, filled with trash or good trash stories please do leave them in the comment section.
I know everyone must have a few garbage stories.
There is after all so much of it out there.
It is everywhere you look.
The above is a follow up to the one below.
Lets all work on cleaning up the planet of this plastic night mare.
Then there is all the other pollution that is dumped into our waters.
I have other pollution stories in the Pollution section to the right.
That pollution is also killing our wild life and us.
This is far from any other story I have ever posted
For anyone, who wants a real reality show, thee are the ones to watch,
I am only going to talk about few here, but there many around the world.
Each is an Island unto itself.
No two nests or sites are the same.
The Osprey itself is also and Island unto itself.
Summer is here and the children are out of school.
There are a few places I will recommend for their viewing as they are monitored.
Of course, even with that precautions should be taken.
Never tell your exact location or what school they go to,
parents guide your children in this so they stay safe.
We all know what online things can lead to.
Boulder County in Colorado.
It is well monitored. The Mods are terrific.
They had a tragedy a while back and lost three chicks.
Of course in Mother Nature that happens so it is not always pleasant.
The survival of these Magnetic Birds is not 100%.
It is much less then that and from, web site to web site the numbers vary.
http://www.bouldercounty.org/os/openspace/pages/ospreycamera.aspx
At this site it a youtube player so you can scroll back for 4 hours which it rather nice.
The early morning view is colorful and dynamic with a mixture of colour and beauty.
They have a night cam to see the family even after dark.
Charlo Montana
http://explore.org/live-cams/player/charlo-montana-osprey-nest
Amazing view.
This nest was originally intend for Owl Research.
The Ospreys now have ownership of that nest.
It is now monitored
There a magnificent sunsets
There is not a night vision cam
You just can’t be that view under the full moon.
The cam is fixed and does not zoom.
You do have the opportunity, to see other birds and animals in Charlo.
They to Use the youtube player that goes back 4 hours.
Exshaw Alberta
Exshaw has 2 chicks that have hatched.
This is a bit more of a close up cam although you can see some of the view, off in the distance..
It has a youtube player that goes back 4 hours and the time stamp at the top is handy for finding one particular moment in time.
This is very interesting couple to watch.
A favorite of mine.
This couple is unusual.
Last year the couple lost all their eggs due to another intruding Osprey.
This year has to date been a better year for them.
This site is also monitored.
The mods do not answer questions pertaining to the birds themselves.
SO
For valuable information about the Osprey.
You of course should read up on Ospreys
The mods do not always have time to inform you of things.
Some sites they just monitor bad behavior.
Yes you can be banned from sites if you behave inappropriately.
So at each site be kind, courteous and well mannered.
Dyfi Osprey Project
has amassed a great deal of information.
http://www.dyfiospreyproject.com/ospreys
They have made it simple to get all the facts under the 100 Osprey Facts
on the left of the page along with other vital information though out the site.
They also have Live streaming cams.
They have been researching Ospreys for some time.
I highly recommend this site to get to know Osprey information.
Loch of Lowes
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/wildlife-webcams/loch-of-lowes/
This site has a real time setup.
You are always in the moment.
The have a cam op from time to zoom in and out.
They have some valuable information as well.
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/545416/24-years-row-lady-osprey-fails-show-2015/
Bitumen spill effects unknown: draft federal government report
Bob Weber, The Canadian Press
February 2, 2015
The federal government has been trying to hide legitimate concerns about the consequences of oilsands pipelines by keeping under wraps a report on the possible environmental threats such projects pose, critics say.
“We are being sold a bill of goods by this government,” said New Democrat environment critic Megan Leslie.
“If this report has been around since 2013 and not been released, then it makes me think they must be trying to hide something.”
The unpublished report on environmental threats from oil and bitumen pipelines says little is known about the potential toxic effects of oilsands products in oceans, lakes or rivers.
“In particular, research on the toxicology of bitumen is lacking,” says the draft report, commissioned in response to concerns raised at the Northern Gateway pipeline hearings.
The document comes as Canada debates pipeline proposals for moving large amounts of diluted bitumen from Alberta’s oilsands to refineries and ports on both coasts and into the United States. It was obtained by Greenpeace under freedom-of-information legislation.
A spokesman for the department of Fisheries and Oceans said a more complete, peer-reviewed version of the report will be published in the coming months.
But Canadians need that information now, said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace. He said the fact the Harper Tories approved Northern Gateway in spite of important knowledge gaps shows a dangerous lack of caution.
“The fact they’re saying full speed ahead even though they know it’s a lot more dangerous than they’ve been letting on publicly should be a cause for concern,” he said. “It throws into question the regulatory approvals process, when they withhold this kind of information.”
An early draft of the report lays out 10 specific “knowledge gaps” about bitumen and the various substances used to dilute it when it’s pumped through pipelines.
“Very little information is available on the physical and chemical characteristics of oilsands-related products following a spill into water,” it says. “Research on the biological effects of oilsands-related products on aquatic organisms is lacking.”
“A better understanding of the fate and behaviour of these products is critical for assessing the potential risk to aquatic organisms.”
More research is needed on what happens to heavy metals in bitumen in a spill. There is a “lack of information” on how condensate — a lighter hydrocarbon used to dilute bitumen — behaves in water.
The understanding of how chemicals in bitumen would interact with fish should be improved, the report says. Specific research in different water bodies is needed.
The impact of sunlight, which can make some chemicals in bitumen vastly more harmful, is also unknown. The combined effect of bitumen and dispersants — chemical agents used to break up oil spilled in water — hasn’t been studied.
The draft finds that Orimulsion, a Venezuelan product about two-thirds bitumen and one-third water, is “highly toxic to fish” — 300 times more toxic to embryos than heavy fuel oil.
The 61-page draft includes 14 pages of references to peer-reviewed academic studies as well as government and industry publications. They date from 1976 to 2013 and include articles from a wide variety of scientific journals.
The government spokesman said funding has already been provided for five research projects on possible bitumen effects on fish and shellfish.
One new federal report, released Jan. 14, echoes many of the concerns from the unreleased review. It concluded little can be said about how bitumen changes as it weathers, how it interacts with sediments or whether it would float or sink.
“Research regarding how bitumen products will further biodegrade in the environment is insufficient,” it concludes. Source
July 25, 2010 The pipeline carries diluted bitumen (dilbit), a heavy crude oil from Canada’s Athabasca oil sands to the United States. They estimated the spill to be in excess of 1 million US gallons. For more details go to the Source
For more information check the link below.
Kalamazoo River spill
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There is a total of 47 missing. They are still looking for the remains of 5 who died.
MONTREAL — Victims of the Quebec railway disaster have launched further legal action against companies linked to the derailment that obliterated their town — and one lawyer insists the multimillion-dollar cascade has only begun.
The family of a Lac-Megantic man killed in the fiery crash filed a wrongful-death lawsuit Monday in a U.S. court against rail and petroleum firms connected to the oil-filled tankers that slammed into the town.
Their lawyer, Peter Flowers, told The Canadian Press he expects to present many additional, individual lawsuits like this one before the end of the week.
“We expect 15 to 20 at least over the next couple of days,” Flowers, of Chicago-based Meyers & Flowers, said in a phone interview Tuesday.
“We’ll be asking for millions of dollars for every one of these folks.”
Word of the looming lawsuits surfaced as Lac-Megantic’s mayor announced Tuesday that her municipality has threatened to sue the railway operator at the centre of the derailment — Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Inc. — for $4 million.
Colette Roy-Laroche alleges that MMA has failed to cover the costs of the post-disaster cleanup, forcing the town to write the cheques itself.
Companies connected to the derailment may also face another hurdle in the future: a motion presented last week in a Quebec court seeking permission to file a class-action lawsuit over the crash.
The derailment in the town of 6,000 set off several massive blasts, wiped out part of the downtown core and is presumed to have killed 47 people.
On Wednesday alone, Flowers expects to set in motion as many as five additional wrongful-death lawsuits at the Cook County courthouse in Illinois.
His first suit, launched Monday, was initiated by the family of Jean-Guy Veilleux, who was killed in the runaway-train disaster. The Quebec coroner’s office publicly identified Veilleux, 32, on Tuesday as one of the victims.
Plaintiff Annick Roy is seeking damages from 10 defendants, including MMA, its major stockholder Rail World Inc., top rail executive Edward Burkhardt and several American petroleum companies. Roy is identified as the administrator of Veilleux’s estate as well as the guardian of the estate belonging to their daughter, who is a minor.
“On July 6, 2013, plaintiff’s decedent Jean-Guy Veilleux was present in downtown Lac-Megantic near the site of the derailment and was consumed by the fire and explosion,” reads the court document, filed in the Cook County courthouse.
The suit pegs the overall damages sought at more than $200,000, but Flowers maintains this is just a base amount and insists the eventual target sum will be far higher.
“All I can say is it will be millions of dollars,” he said. “This is a horrible tragedy.”
Calls placed Tuesday to most of the defendants listed in the lawsuit were not immediately returned.
The suit, which calls for a trial by jury, alleges that the railway and petroleum companies named had a duty to operate their businesses in a “safe manner and to take reasonable measures to avoid exposing the public to the dangers associated with the transport of crude oil to refineries.”
Roy also alleges in the suit that the defendants were negligent for transporting crude oil in the flawed DOT-111 tanker cars, which have been known to rupture during derailments. The document highlights how there has been a considerable increase in oil-by-rail transport in recent years.
Flaws in the DOT-111 tanker have been noted as far back as a 1991 safety study.
“There’s been problems with these tankers and how they protect what’s inside of them — for years,” Flowers said.
“There’s been demands made for years that these companies redesign these tankers to make them safe and they haven’t done that and, as a result of that, I think they are absolutely involved in the responsibility for what happened here.”
Other defendants named in the lawsuit include firms in the U.S. petroleum industry: World Fuel Services Corp., Western Petroleum Company, Petroleum Transport Solutions, Dakota Plains Transloading, Dakota Petroleum Transport Solutions, Dakota Plains Marketing and DPSTS.
Burkhardt, president of Illinois-based Rail World and chairman of MMA, was the only individual listed in the suit.
The document notes Burkhardt’s work as president, CEO and chairman of Wisconsin Central Transportation Corporation. It alleges that the company reduced crew sizes under his leadership as a means to cut costs — a measure that also allegedly increased the accident rate.
The lawsuit mentions how Wisconsin Central was involved in a 1996 fuel-filled tanker derailment in Weyauwega, Wis., while Burkhardt was at the head of the company. The subsequent explosions from the crash forced more than 1,700 people from their homes.
The document also cites a 2009 derailment of tankers filled with highly flammable ethanol in Cherry Valley, Ill., a crash that involved a different company.
In 2011, the family affected by the Cherry Valley derailment received a $36.2-million settlement from Canadian National Railway. One member of the family was killed, another lost her baby and two others suffered burns in the incident.
Flowers said the Cherry Valley agreement, part of which was reached before trial, is “representative of what is considered fair and reasonable in the United States for things like this that happen.”
Back in Lac-Megantic, the mayor said MMA has not yet paid any of the workers it hired to clean up the crude oil that leaked from the dozens of tanker cars.
Roy-Laroche said the town has had to pay MMA’s suppliers $4 million after some workers threatened to walk off the job.
She urged the company to start assuming its responsibilities.
‘It strikes me it’s not asking a lot, given the circumstances,” she said.
“We’re asking MMA to behave like a proper corporate citizen.”
Paul McCartney paid tribute to victims of the Lac-Megantic tragedy Tuesday night, offering free concert tickets and dedicating a song to survivors at a concert.
Luci Tremblay said 1,000 tickets had been set aside for Lac-Megantic residents, with about 900 taking up the offer. About 10 buses were also donated in the Lac-Megantic area to bring them to the show.
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The promoter also collected $65,000 in donations at a Bruno Mars concert on July 8, and set that to the town to help out. For the rest of the story go HERE
Let is Be is the song Paul Dedicated
Update July 25 2013
Lac-Mégantic derailment investigators search railway’s offices
Lac-Mégantic calls on railway to reimburse millions of dollars
Update July 30 2013
Lac-Mégantic still waiting for rail company to pay up
MM&A owes $7.8 million to the town to date.
Update July 31 2013
Montreal, Maine & Atlantic responds to Lac-Mégantic lawyer
A rather sad response I must say.
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August 15 2013 Update
Lac-Mégantic disaster railway can no longer operate in Canada
Lac-Mégantic rail disaster company MM&A files for bankruptcy
August 19 2013 Update
Railway may be sold. Also
The Canadian Transportation Agency announced late Friday that it would extend MM&A’s certificate of operation until Oct. 1. A decision earlier in the week to suspend its right to operate was reversed because the federal regulator determined that the railway had sufficient liability insurance to operate in the short-term. For the entire story go HERE
Quebec coroner’s office updates [French only]
The below page is dedicated to all those who perished.
Information on how to donate to the victims of this horrific disaster. They will need all the help they can get.
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Najaf: A toxic “health catastrophe” – US weapons blamed for Iraq’s birth defects
Canada: Aboriginal children were used in government experiments
July 22, 2013
The Iraq war may be over, but it’s legacy continues to haunt residents in cities all across the country. In an exclusive report, Lucy Kafanov travelled to the city of Najaf where locals say that a health epidemic quietly rages beneath the surface. Birth defects and cancer rates are soaring in Najaf, but few outside of the city are aware of the scale of the catastrophe. American and British forces allegedly used depleted uranium rounds and other toxic weapons during the war, which some Iraqi scientists believe is to blame for the rising cancer and birth defect rates in Najaf. While no one knows exactly what’s making these Iraqi children ill, anecdotal evidence shows that a crisis does exist. High levels of congenital heart defects, malformed limbs and other defects have been documented in the city of Fallujah, but as Lucy Kafanov reports, the crisis could be far more widespread than previously thought.
This is an ongoing problem with DU as noted in the link below.
In 1979, depleted uranium (DU) particles escaped from the National Lead Industries factory near Albany, N.Y.,which was manufacturing DU weapons for the U.S military. The particles traveled 26 miles and were discovered in a laboratory filter by Dr. Leonard Dietz, a nuclear physicist. This discovery led to a shut down of the factory in 1980, for releasing morethan 0.85 pounds of DU dust into the atmosphere every month, and involved a cleanup of contaminated properties costing over 100 million dollars.
Imagine a far worse scenario. Terrorists acquire a million pounds of the deadly dust and scatter it in populated areas throughout the U.S. Hundreds of children report symptoms. Many acquire cancer and leukemia, suffering an early and painful death. Huge increases in severe birth defects are reported. Oncologists are overwhelmed. Soccer fields, sand lots and parks, traditional play areas for kids, are no longer safe. People lose their most basic freedom, the ability to go outside and safely breathe. Sounds worse than 9/11? Welcome to Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dr. Jawad Al-Ali (55), director of the Oncology Center at the largest hospital in Basra, Iraq stated, at a recent ( 2003) conference in Japan:
“Two strange phenomena have come about in Basra which I have never seen before. The first is double and triple cancers in one patient. For example, leukemia and cancer of the stomach. We had one patient with 2 cancers – one in his stomach and kidney. Months later, primary cancer was developing in his other kidney–he had three different cancer types. The second is the clustering of cancer in families. We have 58 families here with more than one person affected by cancer. Dr Yasin, a general Surgeon here has two uncles, a sister and cousin affected with cancer. Dr Mazen, another specialist, has six family members suffering from cancer. My wife has nine members of her family with cancer”.
“Children in particular are susceptible to DU poisoning. They have a much higher absorption rate as their blood is being used to build and nourish their bones and they have a lot of soft tissues. Bone cancer and leukemia used to be diseases affecting them the most, however, cancer of the lymph system which can develop anywhere on the body, and has rarely been seen before the age of 12 is now also common.”,
“We were accused of spreading propaganda for Saddam before the war. When I have gone to do talks I have had people accuse me of being pro-Saddam. Sometimes I feel afraid to even talk. Regime people have been stealing my data and calling it their own, and using it for their own agendas. The Kuwaitis banned me from entering Kuwait – we were accused of being Saddam supporters.”
John Hanchette, a journalism professor at St. Bonaventure University, and one of the founding editors of USA TODAY related the following to DU researcher Leuren Moret. He stated that he had prepared news breaking stories about the effects of DU on Gulf War soldiers and Iraqi citizens, but that each time he was ready to publish, he received a phone call from the Pentagon asking him not to print the story. He has since been replaced as editor of USA TODAY.
Dr. Keith Baverstock, The World Health Organization’s chief expert on radiation and health for 11 years and author of an unpublished study has charged that his report ” on the cancer risk to civilians in Iraq from breathing uranium contaminated dust ” was also deliberately suppressed.
The information released by the U.S. Dept. of Defense is not reliable, according to some sources even within the military.
In 1997, while citing experiments, by others, in which 84 percent of dogs exposed to inhaled uranium died of cancer of the lungs, Dr. Asaf Durakovic, then Professor of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Georgetown University in Washington was quoted as saying,
“The [US government’s] Veterans Administration asked me to lie about the risks of incorporating depleted uranium in the human body.”
At that time Dr. Durakovic was a colonel in the U.S. Army. He has since left the military, to found the Uranium Medical Research Center, a privately funded organization with headquarters in Canada.
PFC Stuart Grainger of 23 Army Division, 34th Platoon. (Names and numbers have been changed) was diagnosed with cancer several after returning from Iraq. Seven other men in the Platoon also have malignancies.
Doug Rokke, U.S. Army contractor who headed a clean-up of depleted uranium after the first Gulf War states:,
“Depleted uranium is a crime against God and humanity.”
Rokke’s own crew, a hundred employees, was devastated by exposure to the fine dust. He stated:
“When we went to the Gulf, we were all really healthy,”
After performing clean-up operations in the desert (mistakenly without protective gear), 30 members of his staff died, and most others”including Rokke himself”developed serious health problems. Rokke now has reactive airway disease, neurological damage, cataracts, and kidney problems.
”We warned the Department of Defense in 1991 after the Gulf War. Their arrogance is beyond comprehension.
Yet the D.O.D still insists such ingestion is “not sufficient to make troops seriously ill in most cases.”
Then why did it make the clean up crew seriously or terminally ill in nearly all cases?
Marion Falk, a retired chemical physicist who built nuclear bombs for more than 20 years at Lawrence Livermore Lab, was asked if he thought that DU weapons operate in a similar manner as a dirty bomb.
“That’s exactly what they are. They fit the description of a dirty bomb in every way.”
According to Falk, more than 30 percent of the DU fired from the cannons of U.S. tanks is reduced to particles one-tenth of a micron (one millionth of a meter) in size or smaller on impact. “The larger the bang” the greater the amount of DU that is dispersed into the atmosphere, Falk said. With the larger missiles and bombs, nearly 100 percent of the DU is reduced to radioactive dust particles of the “micron size” or smaller, he said.
When asked if the main purpose for using it was for destroying things and killing people, Falk was more specific:
“I would say that it is the perfect weapon for killing lots of people.”
When a DU round or bomb strikes a hard target, most of its kinetic energy is converted to heat ” sufficient heat to ignite the DU. From 40% to 70% of the DU is converted to extremely fine dust particles of ceramic uranium oxide (primarily dioxide, though other formulations also occur). Over 60% of these particles are smaller than 5 microns in diameter, about the same size as the cigarette ash particles in cigarette smoke and therefore respirable.
Because conditions are so chaotic in Iraq, the medical infrastructure has been greatly compromised. In terms of both cancer and birth defects due to DU, only a small fraction of the cases are being reported.
Doctors in southern Iraq are making comparisons to the birth defects that followed the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in WWII. They have numerous photos of infants born without brains, with their internal organs outside their bodies, without sexual organs, without spines, and the list of deformities goes on an on. Such birth defects were extremely rare in Iraq prior to the large scale use of DU. Weapons. Now they are commonplace. In hospitals across Iraq, the mothers are no longer asking, “Doctor, is it a boy or girl?” but rather, “Doctor, is it normal?” The photos are horrendous, they can be viewed on the following website
Ross B. Mirkarimi, a spokesman at The Arms Control Research Centre stated:
“Unborn children of the region are being asked to pay the highest price, the integrity of their DNA.”
Prior to her death from leukemia in Sept. 2004, Nuha Al Radi , an accomplished Iraqi artist and author of the “Baghdad Diaries” wrote:
“Everyone seems to be dying of cancer. Every day one hears about another acquaintance or friend of a friend dying. How many more die in hospitals that one does not know? Apparently, over thirty percent of Iraqis have cancer, and there are lots of kids with leukemia.”
“The depleted uranium left by the U.S. bombing campaign has turned Iraq into a cancer-infested country. For hundreds of years to come, the effects of the uranium will continue to wreak havoc on Iraq and its surrounding areas.”
This excerpt in her diary was written in 1993, after Gulf War I (Approximately 300 tons of DU ordinance, mostly in desert areas) but before Operation Iraqi Freedom, (Est. 1,700 tons with much more near major population centers). So, it’s 5-6 times worse now than it was when she wrote than diary entry!! Estimates of the percentage of D.U. which was ‘aerosolized’ into fine uranium oxide dust are approximately 30-40%. That works out to over one million pounds of dust scattered throughout Iraq.
As a special advisor to the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the Iraqi Ministry of Health, Dr. Ahmad Hardan has documented the effects of DU in Iraq between 1991 and 2002.
“American forces admit to using over 300 tons of DU weapons in 1991. The actual figure is closer to 800. This has caused a health crisis that has affected almost a third of a million people. As if that was not enough, America went on and used 200 tons more in Bagdad alone during the recent invasion.
I don”t know about other parts of Iraq, it will take me years to document that.
”In Basra, it took us two years to obtain conclusive proof of what DU does, but we now know what to look for and the results are terrifying.”
By far the most devastating effect is on unborn children. Nothing can prepare anyone for the sight of hundreds of preserved fetuses ” scarcely human in appearance. Iraq is now seeing babies with terribly foreshortened limbs, with their intestines outside their bodies, with huge bulging tumors where their eyes should be, or with a single eye-like Cyclops, or without eyes, or without limbs, and even without heads. Significantly, some of the defects are almost unknown outside textbooks showing the babies born near A-bomb test sites in the Pacific.
Dr. Hardan also states:
“I arranged for a delegation from Japan’s Hiroshima Hospital to come and share their expertise in the radiological diseases we
Are likely to face over time. The delegation told me the Americans had objected and they decided not to come. Similarly, a world famous German cancer specialist agreed to come, only to be told later that he would not be given permission to enter Iraq.”
Not only are we poisoning the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, but we are making a concerted effort to keep out specialists from other countries who can help. The U.S. Military doesn”t want the rest of the world to find out what we have done.
Such relatively swift development of cancers has been reported by doctors in hospitals treating civilians following NATO bombing with DU in Yugoslavia in 1998-1999 and the US military invasion of Iraq using DU for the first time in 1991. Medical experts report that this phenomenon of multiple malignancies from unrelated causes has been unknown until now and is a new syndrome associated with internal DU exposure.
Just 467 US personnel were wounded in the three-week Persian Gulf War in 1990-1991. Out of 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are dead, and by 2000 there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. This astounding number of disabled vets means that a decade later, 56 percent of those soldiers who served in the first Gulf War now have medical problems.
Although not reported in the mainstream American press, a recent Tokyo tribunal, guided by the principles of International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law, found President George W. Bush guilty of war crimes. On March 14, 2004, Nao Shimoyachi, reported in The Japan Times that President Bush was found guilty “for attacking civilians with indiscriminate weapons and other arms,”and the “tribunal also issued recommendations for banning Depleted Uranium shells and other weapons that indiscriminately harm people.” Although this was a “Citizen’s Court” having no legal authority, the participants were sincere in their determination that international laws have been violated and a war crimes conviction is warranted.
Troops involved in actual combat are not the only servicemen reporting symptoms. Four soldiers from a New York Army National Guard company serving in Iraq are among several members of the same company, the 442nd Military Police, who say they have been battling persistent physical ailments that began last summer in the Iraqi town of Samawah.
“I got sick instantly in June,” said Staff Sgt. Ray Ramos, a Brooklyn housing cop. “My health kept going downhill with daily headaches, constant numbness in my hands and rashes on my stomach.”
Dr. Asaf Durakovic, UMRC founder, and nuclear medicine expert examined and tested nine soldiers from the company says that four “almost certainly” inhaled radioactive dust from exploded American shells manufactured with depleted uranium. Laboratory tests revealed traces of two manmade forms of uranium in urine samples from four of the soldiers.
If so, the men – Sgt. Hector Vega, Sgt. Ray Ramos, Sgt. Agustin Matos and Cpl. Anthony Yonnone – are the first confirmed cases of inhaled depleted uranium exposure from the current Iraq conflict.
The 442nd, made up for the most part of New York cops, firefighters and correction officers, is based in Orangeburg, Rockland County. Dispatched to Iraq in Easter of 2003, the unit’s members had been providing guard duty for convoys, running jails and training Iraqi police. The entire company is due to return home later this month.
“These are amazing results, especially since these soldiers were military police not exposed to the heat of battle,” said Dr. Asaf Duracovic, who examined the G.I.s and performed the testing.
In a group of eight U.S. led Coalition servicemen whose babies were born without eyes, seven are known to have been directly exposed to DU dust. In a much group (250 soldiers) exposed during the first Gulf war, 67% of the children conceived after the war had birth defects.
Dr. Durakovic’s UMRC research team also conducted a three-week field trip to Iraq in October of 2003. It collected about 100 samples of substances such as soil, civilian urine and the tissue from the corpses of Iraqi soldiers in 10 cities, including Baghdad, Basra and Najaf. Durakovic said preliminary tests show that the air, soil and water samples contained “hundreds to thousands of times” the normal levels of radiation.
“This high level of contamination is because much more depleted uranium was used this year than in (the Gulf War of) 1991,” Durakovic told The Japan Times.
“They are hampering efforts to prove the connection between Depleted Uranium and the illness,” Durakovic said
“They do not want to admit that they committed war crimes” by using weapons that kill indiscriminately, which are banned under international law.”
(NOTE ABOUT DR. DURAKOVIC; First, he was warned to stop his work, then he was fired from his position, then his house was ransacked, and he has also reported receiving death threats. Evidently the U.S. D.O.D is very keen on censoring DU whistle-blowers!)
Dr. Durakovic, UMRC research associates Patricia Horan and Leonard Dietz, published a unique study in the August 2002 issue of Military Medicine Medical Journal. The study is believed to be the first to look at inhaled DU among Gulf War veterans, using the ultrasensitive technique of thermal ionization mass spectrometry, which enabled them to easily distinguish between natural uranium and DU. The study, which examined British, Canadian and U.S. veterans, all suffering typical Gulf War Syndrome ailments, found that, nine years after the war, 14 of 27 veterans studied had DU in their urine. DU also was found in the lung and bone of a deceased Gulf War veteran. That no governmental study has been done on inhaled DU “amounts to a massive malpractice,” Dietz said in an interview.
The Japanese began studying DU effects in the southern Iraq in the summer of 2003. They had a Geiger counter which they watched go off the scale on many occasions. During their visit,a local hospital was treating upwards of 600 children per day, many of which suffered symptoms of internal poisoning by radiation. 600 children per day? How many of these children will get cancer and suffer and early and painful death?
“Ingested DU particles can cause up to 1,000 times the damage of an X-ray”, said Mary Olson, a nuclear waste specialist and biologist at the Nuclear Information and Resource Service in Washington D.C.
It is this difference in particle size as well as the dust’s crystalline structure that make the presence of DU dust in the environment such an extreme hazard, and which differentiates its properties from that of the natural uranium dust that is ubiquitous and to which we all are exposed every day, which seldom reaches such a small size. This point is being stressed, as comparing DU particles to much larger natural ones is misleading.
The U.S. Military and its supporters regularly quote a Rand Corp. Study which uses the natural uranium inhaled by miners.
Particles smaller than 10 microns can access the innermost recesses of lung tissue where they become permanently lodged. Furthermore, if the substance is relatively insoluble, such as the ceramic DU-oxide dust produced from burning DU, it will remain in place for decades, dissolving very slowly into the bloodstream and lymphatic fluids through the course of time. Studies have identified DU in the urine of Gulf War veterans nine years after that conflict, testifying to the permanence of ceramic DU-oxide in the lungs. Thus the effects are far different from natural uranium dust, whose coarse particles are almost entirely excreted by the body within 24 hours.
The military is aware of DU’s harmful effects on the human genetic code. A 2001 study of DU’s effect on DNA done by Dr. Alexandra C. Miller for the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Md., indicates that DU’s chemical instability causes 1 million times more genetic damage than would be expected from its radiation effect alone.
Studies have shown that inhaled nano-particles are far more toxic than micro-sized particles of the same basic chemical composition. British toxicopathologist Vyvyan Howard has reported that the increased toxicity of the nano-particle is due to its size.
For example, when mice were exposed to virus-size particles of Teflon (0.13 microns) in a University of Rochester study, there were no ill effects. But when mice were exposed to nano-particles of Teflon for 15 minutes, nearly all the mice died within 4 hours.
“Exposure pathways for depleted uranium can be through the skin, by inhalation, and ingestion,” writes Lauren Moret, another DU researcher. “Nano-particles have high mobility and can easily enter the body. Inhalation of nano-particles of depleted uranium is the most hazardous exposure, because the particles pass through the lung-blood barrier directly into the blood.
“When inhaled through the nose, nano-particles can cross the olfactory bulb directly into the brain through the blood brain barrier, where they migrate all through the brain,” she wrote. “Many Gulf era soldiers exposed to depleted uranium have been diagnosed with brain tumors, brain damage and impaired thought processes. Uranium can interfere with the mitochondria, which provide energy for the nerve processes, and transmittal of the nerve signal across synapses in the brain.
Based on dissolution and excretion rate data, it is possible to approximate the amount of DU initially inhaled by these veterans. For the handful of veterans studied, this amount averaged 0.34 milligrams. Knowing the specific activity (radiation rate) for DU allows one to determine that the total radiation (alpha, beta and gamma) occurring from DU and its radioactive decay products within their bodies comes to about 26 radiation events every second, or 800 million events each year. At .34 milligrams per dose, there are over 10 trillion doses floating around Iraq and Afghanistan.
How many additional deaths are we talking about? In the aftermath of the first Gulf War, the UK Atomic Energy Authority came up with estimates for the potential effects of the DU contamination left by the conflict. It calculated that “this could cause “500,000 potential deaths”. This was “a theoretical figure”, it stressed, that indicated “a significant problem”.
The AEA’s calculation was made in a confidential memo to the privatized munitions company, Royal Ordnance, dated 30 April 1991. The high number of potential deaths was dismissed as “very far from realistic” by a British defense minister, Lord Gilbert. “Since the rounds were fired in the desert, many miles from the nearest village, it is highly unlikely that the local population would have been exposed to any significant amount of respirable oxide,” he said. These remarks were made prior to the more recent invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq, where DU munitions were used on a larger scale in and near many of the most populated areas. If the amount of DU ordinance used in the first Gulf War was sufficient to cause 500,000 potential deaths, (had it been used near the populated areas), then what of the nearly six times that amount used in operation Iraqi Freedom, which was used in and near the major towns and cities? Extrapolating the U.K. AEA estimate with this amount gives a figure of potentially 3 million extra deaths from inhaling DU dust in Iraq alone, not including Afghanistan. This is about 11% of Iraq’s total population of 27 million. Dan Bishop, Ph.d chemist for IDUST feels that this estimate may be low, if the long life of DU dust is considered. In Afghanistan, the concentration in some areas is greater than Iraq.
What can an otherwise healthy person expect when inhaling the deadly dust? Captain Terry Riordon was a member of the Canadian Armed Forces serving in Gulf War I. He passed away in April 1999 at age 45. Terry left Canada a very fit man who did cross-country skiing and ran in marathons. On his return only two months later he could barely walk.
He returned to Canada in February 1991 with documented loss of motor control, chronic fatigue, respiratory difficulties, chest pain, difficulty breathing, sleep problems, short-term memory loss, testicle pain, body pains, aching bones, diarrhea, and depression. After his death, depleted uranium contamination was discovered in his lungs and bones. For eight years he suffered his innumerable ailments and struggled with the military bureaucracy and the system to get proper diagnosis and treatment. He had arranged, upon his death, to bequeath his body to the UMRC. Through his gift, the UMRC was able to obtain conclusive evidence that inhaling fine particles of depleted uranium dust completely destroyed his heath. How many Terry Riordans are out there among the troops being exposed, not to mention Iraqi and Afghan civilians?
Inhaling the dust will not kill large numbers of Iraqi and Afghan civilians right away, any more than it did Captain Riordan. Rather, what we will see is vast numbers of people who are chronically and severely ill, having their life spans drastically shortened, many with multiple cancers.
Melissa Sterry, another sick veteran, served for six months at a supply base in Kuwait during the winter of 1991-92. Part of her job with the National Guard’s Combat Equipment Company “A” was to clean out tanks and other armored vehicles that had been used during the war, preparing them for storage.
She said she swept out the armored vehicles, cleaning up dust, sand and debris, sometimes being ordered to help bury contaminated parts. In a telephone interview, she stated that after researching depleted uranium she chose not to take the military’s test because she could not trust the results. It is alarming that Melissa was stationed in Kuwait, not Iraq. Cleaning out tanks with DU dust was enough to make her ill.
In, 2003, the Christian Science Monitor sent reporters to Iraq to investigate long-term effects of depleted uranium. Staff writer Scott Peterson saw children playing on top of a burnt-out tank near a vegetable stand on the outskirts of Baghdad, a tank that had been destroyed by armor-piercing shells coated with depleted uranium. Wearing his mask and protective clothing, he pointed his Geiger counter toward the tank. It registered 1,000 times the normal background radiation. If the troops were on a mission of mercy to bring democracy to Iraq, wouldn”t keeping children away from such dangers be the top priority?
The laws of war prohibit the use of weapons that have deadly and inhumane effects beyond the field of battle. Nor can weapons be legally deployed in war when they are known to remain active, or cause harm after the war concludes. It is no surprise that the Japanese Court found President Bush guilty of war crimes.
Dr. Alim Yacoub of Basra University conducted an epidemiological study into incidences of malignancies in children under fifteen years old, in the Basra area (an area bombed with DU during the first Gulf War). They found over the 1990 to 1999 period, there was a 242% rise. That was before the recent invasion.
In Kosovo, similar spikes in cancer and birth defects were noticed by numerous international experts, although the quantity of DU weapons used was only a small fraction of what was used in Iraq.
FIELD STUDY RESULTS FROM AFGHANISTAN
Verifiable statistics for Iraq will remain elusive for some time, but widespread field studies in Afghanistan point to the existence of a large scale public health disaster. In May of 2002, the UMRC (Uranium Medical Research Center) sent a field team to interview and examine residents and internally displaced people in Afghanistan. The UMRC field team began by first identifying several hundred people suffering from illnesses and medical conditions displaying clinical symptoms which are considered to be characteristic of radiation exposure. To investigate the possibility that the symptoms were due to radiation sickness, the UMRC team collected urine specimens and soil samples, transporting them to an independent research lab in England.
UMRC’s Field Team found Afghan civilians with acute symptoms of radiation poisoning, along with chronic symptoms of internal uranium contamination, including congenital problems in newborns. Local civilians reported large, dense dust clouds and smoke plumes rising from the point of impact, an acrid smell, followed by burning of the nasal passages, throat and upper respiratory tract. Subjects in all locations presented identical symptom profiles and chronologies. The victims reported symptoms including pain in the cervical column, upper shoulders and basal area of the skull, lower back/kidney pain, joint and muscle weakness, sleeping difficulties, headaches, memory problems and disorientation.
Two additional scientific study teams were sent to Afghanistan. The first arrived in June 2002, concentrating on the Jalalabad region. The second arrived four months later, broadening the study to include the capital Kabul, which has a population of nearly 3.5 million people. The city itself contains the highest recorded number of fixed targets during Operation Enduring Freedom. For the study’s purposes, the vicinity of three major bomb sites were examined. It was predicted that signatures of depleted or enriched uranium would be found in the urine and soil samples taken during the research. The team was unprepared for the shock of its findings, which indicated in both Jalalabad and Kabul, DU was causing the high levels of illness. Tests taken from a number of Jalalabad subjects showed concentrations 400% to 2000% above that for normal populations, amounts which have not been recorded in civilian studies before.
Those in Kabul who were directly exposed to US-British precision bombing showed extreme signs of contamination, consistent with uranium exposure. These included pains in joints, back/kidney pain, muscle weakness, memory problems and confusion and disorientation. Those exposed to the bombing report symptoms of flu-type illnesses, bleeding, runny noses and blood-stained mucous. How many of these people will suffer a painful and early death from cancer? Even the study team itself complained of similar symptoms during their stay. Most of these symptoms last for days or months.
In August of 2002, UMRC completed its preliminary analysis of the results from Nangarhar. Without exception, every person donating urine specimens tested positive for uranium contamination. The specific results indicated an astoundingly high level of contamination; concentrations were 100 to 400 times greater than those of the Gulf War Veterans tested in 1999. A researcher reported. “We took both soil and biological samples, and found considerable presence in urine samples of radioactivity; the heavy concentration astonished us. They were beyond our wildest imagination.”
In the fall of 2002, the UMRC field team went back to Afghanistan for a broader survey, and revealed a potentially larger exposure than initially anticipated. Approximately 30% of those interviewed in the affected areas displayed symptoms of radiation sickness. New born babies were among those displaying symptoms, with village elders reporting that over 25% of the infants were inexplicably ill.
How widespread and extensive is the exposure? A quote from the UMRC field report reads:
“The UMRC field team was shocked by the breadth of public health impacts coincident with the bombing. Without exception, at every bombsite investigated, people are ill. A significant portion of the civilian population presents symptoms consistent with internal contamination by uranium.”
In Afghanistan, unlike Iraq, UMRC lab results indicated high concentrations of NON-DEPLETED URANIUM, with the concentrations being much higher than in DU victims from Iraq. Afghanistan was used as a testing ground for a new generation of “bunker buster” bombs containing high concentrations of other uranium alloys.
“A significant portion of the civilian population”? It appears that by going after a handful of terrorists in Afghanistan we have poisoned a huge number of innocent civilians, with a disproportionate number of them being children.
The military has found depleted uranium in the urine of some soldiers but contends it was not enough to make them seriously ill in most cases. Critics have asked for more sensitive, more expensive testing.
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According to an October 2004 Dispatch from the Italian Military Health Observatory, a total of 109 Italian soldiers have died thus far due to exposure to depleted uranium. A spokesman at the Military Health Observatory, Domenico Leggiero, states “The total of 109 casualties exceeds the total number of persons dying as a consequence of road accidents. Anyone denying the significance of such data is purely acting out of ill faith, and the truth is that our soldiers are dying out there due to a lack of adequate protection against depleted uranium”. Members of the Observatory have petitioned for an urgent hearing “in order to study effective prevention and safeguard measures aimed at reducing the death-toll amongst our serving soldiers”.
There were only 3,000 Italian soldiers sent to Iraq, and they were there for a short time. The number of 109 represents about 3.6% of the total. If the same percentage of Iraqis get a similar exposure, that would amount to 936,000. As Iraqis are permanently living in the same contaminated environment, their percentage will be higher.
The Pentagon/DoD have interfered with UMRC’s ability to have its studies published by managing, a progressive and persistent misinformation program in the press against UMRC, and through the use of its control of science research grants to refute UMRC’s scientific findings and destroy the reputation of UMRC’s scientific staff, physicians and laboratories. UMRC is the first independent research organization to find Depleted Uranium in the bodies of US, UK and Canadian Gulf War I veterans and has subsequently, following Operation Iraqi Freedom, found Depleted Uranium in the water, soils and atmosphere of Iraq as well as biological samples donated by Iraqi civilians. Yet the first thing that comes up on Internet searches are these supposed “studies repeatedly showing DU to be harmless.” The technique is to approach the story as a debate between government and independent experts in which public interest is stimulated by polarizing the issues rather than telling the scientific and medical truth. The issues are systematically confused and misinformed by government, UN regulatory agencies (WHO, UNEP, IAEA, CDC, DOE, etc) and defense sector (military and the weapons developers and manufacturers).
Dr. Yuko Fujita, an assistant professor at Keio University, Japan who examined the effects of radioactivity in Iraq from May to June, 2003, said : “I doubt that Iraq is fabricating data because in fact there are many children suffering from leukemia in hospitals,” Fujita said. “As a result of the Iraq war, the situation will be desperate in some five to 10 years.”
The March 14, 2004 Tokyo Citizen’s Tribunal that “convicted” President Bush gave the following summation regarding DU weapons: (This court was a citizen’s court with no binding legal authority)
1. Their use has indiscriminate effects;
2. Their use is out of proportion with the pursuit of military objectives;
3. Their use adversely affects the environment in a widespread, long term and severe manner;
4. Their use causes superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering.
Two years ago, President Bush withdrew the United States as a signatory to the International Criminal Court’s statute, which has been ratified by all other Western democracies. The White House actually seeks to immunize U.S. leaders from war crimes prosecutions entirely. It has also demanded express immunity from ICC prosecution for American nationals.
CONCLUSIONS:
If terrorists succeeded in spreading something throughout the U.S. that ended up causing hundreds of thousands of cancer cases and birth defects over a period of many years, they would be guilty of a crime against humanity that far surpasses the Sept. 11th attacks in scope and severity. Although not deliberate, with our military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have done just that. If the physical environment is so unsafe and unhealthy that one cannot safely breath, then the outer trappings of democracy have little meaning. At least under Saddam, the Iraqi people could stay healthy and conceive normal children. Few Americans are aware that in getting rid of Saddam, we left something much worse in his place. Source
Recent
New historical research says hungry aboriginal children and adults were once used as unwitting subjects in nutritional experiments by the Canadian government.
By: Andrew Livingstone News reporter, Bob Weber The Canadian Press,
July 16 2013
Aboriginal children were deliberately starved in the 1940s and ’50s by government researchers in the name of science.
Milk rations were halved for years at residential schools across the country.
Essential vitamins were kept from people who needed them.
Dental services were withheld because gum health was a measuring tool for scientists and dental care would distort research.
For over a decade, aboriginal children and adults were unknowingly subjected to nutritional experiments by Canadian government bureaucrats.
This disturbing look into government policy toward aboriginals after World War II comes to light in recently published historical research.
When Canadian researchers went to a number of northern Manitoba reserves in 1942 they found rampant malnourishment. But instead of recommending increased federal support to improve the health of hundreds of aboriginals suffering from a collapsing fur trade and already limited government aid, they decided against it. Nutritionally deprived aboriginals would be the perfect test subjects, researchers thought.
The details come from Ian Mosby, a post-doctorate at the University of Guelph, whose research focused on one of the most horrific aspects of government policy toward aboriginals during a time when rules for research on humans were just being adopted by the scientific community.
Researching the development of health policy for a different research project, Mosby uncovered “vague references to studies conducted on ‘Indians’ ” and began to investigate.
Government documents eventually revealed a long-standing, government-run experiment that came to span the entire country and involved at least 1,300 aboriginals, most of them children.
These experiments aren’t surprising to Justice Murray Sinclair, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The commission became aware of the experiments during their collection of documents relating to the treatment and abuse of native children at residential schools across Canada from the 1870s to the 1990s.
It’s a disturbing piece of research, he said, and the experiments are entrenched with the racism of the time.
“This discovery, it’s indicative of the attitude toward aboriginals,” Sinclair said. “They thought aboriginals shouldn’t be consulted and their consent shouldn’t be asked for. They looked at it as a right to do what they wanted then.”
In the research paper, published in May, Mosby wrote, “the experiment seems to have been driven, at least in part, by the nutrition experts’ desire to test their theories on a ready-made ‘laboratory’ populated with already malnourished human experimental subjects.”
Researchers visited The Pas and Norway House in northern Manitoba in 1942 and found a demoralized population marked by, in their words, “shiftlessness, indolence, improvidence and inertia.”
They decided that isolated, dependent, hungry people would be ideal subjects for tests on the effects of different diets.
“In the 1940s, there were a lot of questions about what are human requirements for vitamins,” Mosby said. “Malnourished aboriginal people became viewed as possible means of testing these theories.”
These experiments are “abhorrent and completely unacceptable,” said Andrea Richer, spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister Bernard Valcourt.
The first experiment began in 1942 on 300 Norway House Cree. Of that group, 125 were selected to receive vitamin supplements, which were withheld from the rest.
At the time, researchers calculated the local people were living on less than 1,500 calories a day. Normal, healthy adults generally require at least 2,000.
In 1947, plans were developed for research on about 1,000 hungry aboriginal children in six residential schools in Port Alberni, B.C., Kenora, Ont., Schubenacadie, N.S., and Lethbridge, Alta.
One school for two years deliberately held milk rations to less than half the recommended amount to get a ‘baseline’ reading for when the allowance was increased. At another school, children were divided into one group that received vitamin, iron and iodine supplements and one that didn’t.
One school depressed levels of vitamin B1 to create another baseline before levels were boosted.
And, so that all the results could be properly measured, one school was allowed none of those supplements.
The experiments, repugnant today, would probably have been considered ethically dubious even at the time, said Mosby.
“I think they really did think they were helping people. Whether they thought they were helping the people that were actually involved in the studies — that’s a different question. Source
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Update July 19 2013
Update July 30 2013
Aboriginal nutritional experiments had Ottawa’s approval
Update July 31 2013
Aboriginal Canadians were not only subjected to nutritional experiments by the federal government in the 1940s and 1950s but were also used as medical test subjects, says the chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
In an interview with CBC Radio’s All Points West on Tuesday, Justice Murray Sinclair told host Jo-Ann Roberts that commission staff has “seen the documents that relate to the experiments that were conducted in residential schools.”
Other documents related to experimentation in aboriginal communities outside of residential schools have not yet been obtained, Sinclair said.
“We do know that there were research initiatives that were conducted with regard to medicines that were used ultimately to treat the Canadian population. Some of those medicines were tested in aboriginal communities and residential schools before they were utilized publicly.”
Sinclair said some of those medicines developed were then withheld from the same aboriginal children they were originally tested on.
“Some of those medicines which we know were able to work in the general population, we also have discovered were withheld from children in residential schools, and we’re trying to find the documents which explain that too,” Sinclair said.
CBC News has not seen the documents in the possession of the commission.
Recent revelations that the Canadian government used at least 1,300 aboriginal children attending residential schools in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario and Nova Scotia as test subjects have prompted further calls from aboriginal groups to pressure the federal government to turn over all archival documents related to residential schools.
“Our government recognizes that the relationship between Canada and First Nations has helped shape the country we know today,” Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt’s director of communications Jason MacDonald said Wednesday in a statement.
“While we cannot undo the past, we can learn from it and ensure that those dark chapters are not repeated.”
MacDonald said that is why the Conservative government apologized for the residential school policy and “that is why we continue to focus on the work of reconciliation, on improving living conditions for First Nations, and on creating economic opportunities for First Nation communities.”
The commission, according to Sinclair, is in possession of the documents used by historian Ian Mosby to show that the Canadian government conducted nutritional experiments on malnourished aboriginal children and adults attending residential schools during and after the Second World War.
However, the commission has not been able to obtain documents “related to experimentation that went on in aboriginal communities outside of the residential school setting.”
“We haven’t seen those documents,” the chair of the commission told CBC News.
Valcourt’s office has said they have turned over 900 documents related to this to the work by the commission.
In January, an Ontario Court ordered the Canadian government to turn over all residential school archival documents to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and while the federal government has expressed a willingness to comply, Sinclair said “we haven’t seen the documents start to flow yet.”
The worry now, said Sinclair, is that even with the best of intentions Ottawa may not have the resources to provide all these archival documents in a timely manner.
“It’s a question of capacity and whether they have sufficient resources and time to be able to get them to us before our mandate as a commission expires on July 1, 2014.”
Sinclair said that if the federal government is unable to turn over all of the documents from Library and Archives Canada before the commission’s mandate expires next summer, the commission may have to turn to the courts once more.
Many of the documents are said to reside with departments outside of Aboriginal Affairs, such as the Health Department.
But a final report without all the documents would not be a “truthful” report, according to Sinclair.
“The report itself, in our view, only complies with the mandate if we are able to write a full and complete history of residential schools and in order to do that, we need those documents,” the chair of the commission told CBC News.
The residential schools system, which ran from the 1870s until the 1990s, removed about 150,000 aboriginal children from their families and sent them to church-run schools under a deliberate policy of “civilizing” First Nations.
Many students were physically, mentally and sexually abused. Some committed suicide. Mortality rates reached 50 per cent at some schools.
In the 1990s, thousands of victims sued the churches that ran the schools and the Canadian government.
The $1.9-billion settlement of that suit in 2007 prompted an apology from Prime Minister Stephen Harper followed by the creation of the commission in 2008. Source
August 19 2013 Update
For the rest of the story go HERE
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47 are missing and are presumed to have perished.
They still have to be very careful. Oil has spilled into the sewer systems etc. and could be ignited if they are not cautious. Recovery of some will take some time due to this problem. They also think that maybe some of the victims may never be found, as their bodies may been vaporized by the extreme fire that engulfed the area.
These reports are not in order of dates.
They are in order of what happened, sort of, time line wise.
So if things seem a bit mixed up do not be surprised.
There is a lot of information on this, so for many of the reports I will just give Quotes of what seems, to be most important parts.
Links to all the reports are provided so you can read more, if you wish and also check out all the other reports at the sites as well. There are many. Each site has numerous reports.
The Engineer/Conductor parked the train in Nantes and went to a hotel for the night.
It all began with the train engine catching fire in Nantes late Friday night, July 5 2013. At about 11:30 p.m. the fire department was called. Some one passing by, saw the fire and called it in.
The Train involved in the disaster:
Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which is owned by Rail World Inc
July 8 2013
NANTES, Que. – The fire chief of this town just outside Lac-Mégantic has angrily denied the suggestion from the owners of the freight train that exploded Saturday that his firefighters played a part in the disaster.
In an interview Monday, Patrick Lambert told the National Post that his men extinguished an engine fire aboard the oil-laden train late Friday night and left the train in the care of two representatives of the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway.
The train, hauling 72 tanker cars filled with crude oil, was parked on the tracks just outside Nantes awaiting a crew change when a passerby reported a fire at about 11:30 p.m. Friday.
Mr. Lambert said he had two fire engines and 12 firefighters at the scene within 17 minutes. They shut down the lead engine to battle the fire, as dictated by the fire department’s and the railway’s protocols, he said.
“That’s the only way we could put the fire out,” he said.
The department had advised MMA’s supervisor in Farnham, Que., of the fire, and two employees who had been in Lac-Mégantic arrived as the blaze was being battled.
Mr. Lambert said it was the fourth such fire on an MMA locomotive in the past eight years. In this case the cause was “a mechanical rupture, either a fuel line or an oil line ruptured,” he said.
It did not take long to extinguish the fire, and at 12:15 a.m. Saturday, the firefighters left.
The MMA employees “inspected the train with us,” he said. “MMA told the leading fire officer that everything was okay, the fire was out, everything was secure, you guys can leave.”
The locomotive’s power remained shut off, and the fire officer advised the railway employees that it could not be moved until the ruptured line was repaired.
“When we left, there was a police officer and two employees of MMA [at the scene],” he said.
Sometime within the next hour, the unmanned train started rolling down the tracks toward Lac-Mégantic, about 12 kilometres away. It is downhill all the way, with an average grade of 6% between Nantes and Lac-Mégantic.
Preliminary data recovered from the locomotive’s data recorder indicate the train was travelling at 101 kilometres per hour when it derailed in the heart of downtown at about 1:15 a.m., Transportation Safety Board investigator in charge, Donald Ross, said in an interview Monday.
Normally the speed limit for a train passing through the town is 16 kilometres-an-hour.
The train jumped the tracks at a curve, and the resulting explosions and inferno destroyed half the downtown. Five bodies have been recovered so far, and police say 40 people are missing.
On Sunday, MMA issued a statement saying the shutdown of the locomotive while it was parked in Nantes “may have resulted in the release of air brakes on the locomotive that was holding the train in place.”
Mr. Lambert said that makes no sense.
“They’re pointing a finger. They’re saying the train left because we shut the engine down, which released the brakes,” he said. “I don’t see how. There’s a train parked there right now and the engine is stopped. So do I have to go down to Mégantic and evacuate the whole city because that train is going to leave?”
He said he is familiar with trains from the factory where he works, and shutting down the locomotive should leave the air brakes engaged as a default.
“I don’t understand how they can say, ‘You guys shut the engine off. That’s what released the brakes.’ It doesn’t work that way. It should be the opposite. MMA did not reinvent the brake system.”
MMA officials were not immediately available for comment.
The train’s three locomotives and 72 cars would have also been equipped with hand brakes, which are engaged manually with a wheel on each car. Mr. Ross told reporters Sunday that investigators will focus on the train’s brakes to learn how the train broke free.
“Certainly the manner in which the train was secured, both air brakes and hand brakes, we’ll be looking very strongly at that,” he said.
Mr. Lambert said he thinks it is unlikely someone would have sabotaged the train between the time his men left and when it began rolling toward Lac-Mégantic.
“I can’t see anyone doing that,” he said, saying that the remote location is hardly on terrorists’ radar.
“When people ask where I come from, I say, ‘Do you know where the pavement stops? OK, well you keep going for another hour.’”
A more likely explanation is some sort of mechanical failure. Source
Also in this report”
Lambert also said his department has put out four locomotive fires, for the company, over the past nine years. For entire story go HERE
This was not the first time an engine caught fire.
When the fire department left there were Two MMA employee’s and a Police officer still at the site of the train. Firefighters from Nantes put out the flames and left the train in the care of the MMA crew at 12:15 a.m.
Nantes is uphill and West of Lac-Mégantic. Approximately 7 k to 13 k between the two. All the news reports vary on this fact.
Preliminary data recovered from the locomotive’s data recorder indicate the train was travelling at 101 kilometres per hour when it derailed in the heart of downtown at about 1:15 a.m., Transportation Safety Board investigator in charge, Donald Ross, said in an interview Monday.
Normally the speed limit for a train passing through the town is 16 kilometres-an-hour.
Just after 1 a.m. approximately 1 hour after the fire department left the crew, the run away train hit.
This video has the beginning shortly after the train hit and some from latter
Shocking new Lac-Mégantic explosion video emerges
The downtown core lays in ruins as fire fighters continue to water smoldering rubble Sunday, July 7, 2013 in Lac-Mégantic,, Quebec after a train derailed ignited tanker cars carrying crude oil.
For more Photos go HERE
There are two ways to shut down a train engine: There’s an emergency lever on the outside of the locomotive that anyone wandering by could access. Or, there are a number of levers and buttons inside the unlocked cabin. For entire story go HERE
Anyone walking about could turn off the engine or even worse steal the train to go for a joy ride. Now if you left your car outside a store, in downtown Toronto, with your doors unlocked, the engine running and it was stolen, what would the insurance company say I wonder?
Normally, the train would be secured by hand and air brakes.
Joe McGonigle, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic’s vice-president of marketing, confirmed the fire department showed up after the first engineer tied up and went to a local hotel. Someone later reported a fire.
“We know that one of our employees from our engineering department showed up at the same time, to assist the fire department. Exactly what they did is being investigated, so the engineer wasn’t the last man to touch that train, we know that, but we’re not sure what happened,” McGonigle said. For the entire story go HERE
One has to ask was the train ever left alone, unsupervised?
There were apparently 5 engines and 72 tanker cars. All toll.
Some of the tanker cars also came uncoupled and were latter retrieved.
The train cars carrying crude oil that remained attached to the train engine sit in the train tracks about 10 kilometres north-west of Lac-Mégantic, which is 100 kilometres east of Sherbrooke on Sunday, July 7, 2013. A train carrying crude oil derailed and exploded in the heart of the small town on Saturday. Photograph by: Dario Ayala , The Gazette
MONTREAL — At a time when train shipments of crude oil are expected to skyrocket in Canada, the federal government is cutting funding for Transport Canada, the country’s transportation regulator, by almost 30 per cent, down to $1.5 billion, according to government spending estimates for 2012-13 and 2013-14.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the company whose 72-car train derailed and exploded in Lac-Mégantic, has spilled hazardous materials seven times since 2000. For entire story go HERE
The train involved in the Lac-Mégantic accident was carrying 72 tankers filled with thousands of litres of fuel each.
Approximately 230,000 barrels of oil are transported by rail in North America every day, according to the Railway Association of Canada.
The RAC estimates that 99.99 per cent all “dangerous goods” rail shipments reach their destination without any spills caused by accidents or derailments.
There were 588 train derailments in Canada in 2011 alone, according to the Canada Safety Council. For entire story go HERE
Where the Oil came from
Some of the oil shipped by rail in Canada is not coming from the oil sands, but from the Bakken shale gas formation, a currently booming 520,000-square-kilometre oil and natural gas deposit in North Dakota and Montana, which produces more than 700,000 barrels of oil daily.
The light crude oil on board the Maine, Montreal and Atlantic Railway train that exploded in Lac-Mégantic was en-route from the Bakken reserves to an Irving Oil refinery in Saint John, N.B., the company said on Sunday. July 7 2013 For entire story go HERE
A derailed train carrying a shipment of crude oil that exploded in Lac-Mégantic, Que. killing at least five people was destined for a Saint John, N.B. refinery.
Irving Oil, the company that owns the Saint John refinery, issued a statement after confirming the shipment was bound for its facility.
In recent years, much of the oil that comes from the western provinces and is processed at the Saint John refinery is delivered by train. For entire story go HERE
Someone should ask the owners, what type of security, if any, is at the rail yard, where the train was parked. To date it seems there have been no reports on if anyone was there to watch over a train engine that was left running with 72 tanks of oil behind it.
A passer by saw the fire and reported it to the fire department, not some one at the rail yard working there. Could it be no one, was there at all, when the fire in the engine started?
Edward A. Burkhardt is President of Rail World, Inc., of Chicago, Illinois, a railroad management and consulting company he formed in 1999. He also serves as President of Rail World Holdings LLC, which holds railway investments worldwide.
Could one of them perhaps be in your country?
Om June 11 2013
MMA also had another accident in Frontenac just east of Lac-Mégantic. A 13 000 litre diesel spill
The report below is from 2007
May 29, 2007
The Canada Safety Council is calling Canada’s rail system a disaster waiting to happen, and it blames deregulation for the mess.
The council’s Emile Therien told CTV News that one possible result could be the “major evacuation of a major urban area … and all the attendant cost that goes along with that.”
To ward that off, “CSC strongly urges the government to reinstitute the authority of Transport Canada,” said the council’s report, obtained Monday by CTV News.
The CSC said the move to deregulation “allows rail companies to regulate themselves, removing the federal government’s ability to protect Canadians and their environment, and allowing the industry to hide critical safety information from the public.”
B.C. New Democrat MP Peter Julian added his voice to the criticism.
“Since self-managed safety was put into place, it has been a disaster for Canadians. Lives have been lost; we’ve seen environmental devastation,” he said.
Safety Management Systems (SMS) came into force in 1999 after the Liberal government of the day amended the Railway Safety Act.
The policy change ended the oversight role of Transport Canada.
“CSC believes that SMS allows rail companies to regulate themselves, removing the federal government’s ability to protect Canadians and their environment, and allowing the industry to hide critical safety information from the public,” the report said.
CTV’s W-FIVE has reported on serious problems within Canada’s rail system, including a large jump in derailments in 2005.
The CSC report noted W-FIVE’s finding that in 2005, there were 103 main-track derailments for one “major rail company” in 2005 — an average of one every 3.5 days. The report termed that “a truly dismal safety record.” W-FIVE named CN Rail as the company in its report.
One such incident was the derailment near Lake Wabamun, Alta., which led to the spill of oil and wood preservatives into the popular recreational lake.
Two days later, another CN train derailed over the Cheakamus River just outside Squamish, B.C., dumping more than 40,000 litres of caustic soda.
And in 2006, a derailment in B.C. left two train crew members dead.
Industry reaction
However, the industry argues that one year doesn’t tell the story.
Cliff MacKay of the Railway Association of Canada agrees there was a spate of incidents in 2005, but argue many were linked to extraordinary factors like weather events and labour disruptions.
“But if you look at the numbers overall, the numbers have been progressively improving,” he said.
CN Rail, which has seen some of the worst incidents, rejected the CSC report outright.
“They didn’t do their homework,” said spokesperson Mark Hallman, adding it was based on a “faulty, biased” report by W-FIVE.
The CSC report is one of many that will end up on the desk of Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon.
“If there was not a problem … we would not have the panel struck by the minister to really look into safety in the railroad industry,” Therien said on CTV’s Canada AM.
The government isn’t planning to look at any changes to rail safety until the end of 2008. The safety council said the problem is urgent and action is needed now.
Therien is calling on Transport Canada to get involved again as the railway regulator.
“They’ve got to become effective to get back into that particular game,” he said Tuesday.
“The railroads cannot be allowed to review or vet the safety standards, which are really established by Transport Canada,” he said.
With a report from CTV’s Graham Richardson Source
A few Question we all should think about.
Was this disaster in Quebec preventable?
Are there people/security watching over rail yards?
Is the equipment used safe and well maintained?
Are all employees well trained?
Are owners/operators putting profit before safety?
Do you think deregulation has made rail ways more dangerous?
Information on how to donate to the victims of this horrific disaster. They will need all the help they can get.
Saskatchewan mayors worry about rail lines
Saskatoon mayor calls for rail lines to be moved
Rail emergencies raise concern over Sudbury tracks
Manitoba town wants to know what rail cars are carrying
The owner is attempting to blame the fire department for the disaster as they shut down the engine to put out the fire in Nantes. He said this during the video interview with CBC.
MMA, which is headquartered in Chicago, has a long history of accidents in Canada, according to Transportation Safety Board data, which shows 129 accidents, including 77 derailments — some of them minor — since 2003. For entire story and video of interview go HERE
To Edward A. Burkhardt I am sorry to say, but your people were left at the scene of the fire, to take care of things, after the fire department left. It was the companies responsibility to make sure the train was secure. It is the companies job to make sure all their trains are safe and secure at all times.
A new questions. What other cargo, was on the train other then oil?
How much diesel was present? I am thinking the train was being hauled by diesel engines. Diesel is more volatile then crude oil. Five engines would need a great deal to operate. Could be that is what sparked the explosions? What caused the fire in the lead engine?
Engines can have a fuel capacity of 2,900 gallons as noted HERE
Or in this type of engine fuel capacity 1,800 gallons noted HERE
Both of those engines are from Rail Wold Inc
Rail World Inc, ownes MMA. Odds are they supply the engines for MMA.
Multiply either or by 5 and you have a whole lot of flammable fuel.
Add to that if the engines that went off the track hit a car, truck or whatever, it would make it even more problematic.
July 10 2013 Report
Burkhardt said Tuesday he hadn’t gone to the stricken community before because company representatives, including president Robert Grindrod, were already there.
Grindrod acknowledged the company likely shares some of the blame for the catastrophe.
“But we can’t say how much blame. Typically major events like this are a combination of factors and we don’t know what all the factors are yet.”
He said there was nothing unusual about having a train sitting unattended as it was when a small fire broke out requiring the intervention of the Nantes fire department. The derailment in Lac-Megantic happened shortly afterward. For entire story go HERE
Lac Megantic explosion: Ottawa approved having only one engineer on ill-fated train
By Les Whittington Ottawa Bureau reporter, Liam Casey GTA, Jessica McDiarmid News reporter, Bruce Campion-Smith Parliament Hill,
OTTAWA—The rail company whose 73-car train devastated a Quebec town when it derailed convinced the federal government last year that it could safely operate trains with only one engineer on board, officials disclosed Tuesday.
Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA) got the green light from Transport Canada for the reduced staffing in 2012.
“They had to meet with Transport Canada and demonstrate to us that they could do it safely,” said Luc Bourdon, director general of rail safety in Transport Canada. For entire story go HERE
What happens if the engineer gets sick, hurt, dies or passes out for some reason? In those events, who drives the train? No one.
The more I find the less impressed I am.
There seems to be a lot of pencil pushers, making stupid decisions.
In the name of profit no less.
A select few in the US who care. I am actually shocked the press even covered this.
Update July 12 2013
A few interviews audio only. Valuable information on brakes, safety procedures etc..
Not against the rules. Well it should be against the rules.
Update July 13 2013
Here is a video taken less, then two days after the tragedy.
Apparently this train was parked up on a hill just above Lac-Mégantic, It sat there for a couple of days, running, doors unlocked, unattended. Someone was angry it was left there like the one that that destroyed the town and caused the deaths of so many.
I do believe they complained to the authorities and had the train moved. The train left late on the July 8th.
They were not sure where it went. The video was posted July 7.
I took two captures that show the MMA on the side of the green lead engine and the brick red car just behind it.
Lead Engine
Brick Red Car behind Lead Engine
The first Video also shows Lac-Mégantic, to the left of the tracks.
Lac-Mégantic at a distance, from the tracks, where train is parked
The Video will have all of the above photos in it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGg0tW8PgTc
Update July 12 2013
Apparently this is an engine that made it threw
The Transportation Safety Board authorities examine the locomotive from which the derailed tanker cars detached. Source
Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers guard the main locomotive involved in a July 6 fatal train derailment and explosion in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, Tuesday, July 9, 2013. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jacques Boissinot) Source
I have not been able to find anything else out, about the 5 Engines.
Canada Transportation Safety Board
July 15 2013 Updates
Lac-Megantic residents seeking permission for class-action lawsuit
Lac Megantic: Railway’s history of cost-cutting A freight train derailment and explosion in Wisconsin in 1996 foreshadowed the Quebec inferno.
July 17 Update
Former MMA employee quit company over safety concerns
A former Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Rail employee quit the company in 2007. He says he warned to company and American politicians that a disaster like the Lac Megantic accident would happen if they switched to one-man only operations. To listen to the interview go HERE
Reporters get a close up view of the after math.
July 18 2013 Update
Lac Megantic explosion: Railroads prepare for Transport Canada rule changes
CN and CP tighten safety rules after Lac-Mégantic disaster
Railway involved in Lac-Mégantic disaster lays off 19
Size of Lac Megantic oil spill remains a company secret
Update July 19 2013
Lac-Mégantic investigators seek urgent rail safety review
MMA train in minor derailment in Quebec Montreal, Maine & Atlantic, the company involved in the Lac-Mégantic disaster, experienced a minor derailment Thursday in Farnham, Que.
Quebec coroner’s office updates [French only]
The below page is dedicated to all those who perished.
In Memory of those who perished in Lac-Mégantic
All new Updates will be at the link below
Canada: Railway Disaster in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec Part 2
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Oct 9, 2012
Some farmers in eastern Ontario are receiving hay from Western Canada today, but many say the amount likely won’t have much of an impact after this year’s drought.
The first delivery of 30 bales of hay from Western Canada arrived in Cobden, Ont., northwest of Ottawa, as part of the assistance program called Hay East.
The Mennonite Disaster Service is organizing the deliveries, which are coming via train. They said over the coming weeks, they will ship 200 bales of donated hay from the West to Eastern Ontario farmers.
The 200 bales are far less than what more than 130 farmers in the area say they need — more than 13,000 bales.
The Ontario Federation of Agriculture has also estimated farmers in the province need 50,000 bales of hay from the west to make up for the amount of hay they have lost.
“There’s no way we can meet all the demand, no way at all,” said Hay East chairman Glenn Buck.
Buck said donations were not as high as he had hoped and shipping the hay to the east has been expensive.
“With the cost of transportation, to get it to the various parts of Ontario where it’s needed, we can only deal right now with donated hay,” said Buck.
At Ron McCoy’s organic dairy farm in Cobden, the hay supply is dwindling.
McCoy was happy to hear he’d be getting fifteen donated bales this week. But considering he has 60 cows to feed, the delivery won’t be enough.
“It’s really just a drop in the bucket…in terms of how much everybody needs. Fifteen bales will probably last me about fifteen days,” said McCoy.
The drought forced McCoy to cull some of his cattle herd. But on the heels of Thanksgiving weekend, he appreciates the gesture.
“It just makes you feel grateful and thankful when farmers work together and help each other out,” he said. Source
Aug 30, 2012
Prairie farmers could be sending hay to Ontario farmers to help them through the summer drought, a decade after 110,000 tonnes were sent by easterners to help their western counterparts.
Volunteers have been touring Ontario farmland to find the hardest hit by the unusually dry conditions. They are looking to help them out by bringing hay East, instead of sending these farmers.
“At some point, the cost of hay makes feeding the animals ludicrous, so you’re throwing money down the drain,” said Glenn Buck, chairman of Ontario’s Mennonite Disaster Service.
Buck said money does not help farmers buy hay. The transfer of hay itself is more logical and makes more financial sense.
In 2002, for example, farmers in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan were hit by a devastating drought. But in Ontario, crops were plentiful, so hay was sent to western farmers.
Buck received a phone call from a farmer who used to live in eastern Ontario, but has moved to Western Canada. That farmer said he had excess hay and wanted to help those struggling in Ontario.
Wyatt McWilliams, who owns a farm in Navan, on the eastern outskirts of Ottawa, sent hay West 10 years ago along with his father.
Now, he says the possibility of hay donations from prairie farmers is a heartening proposition.
“Fellow farmers are always trying to help each other,” he said.
“Hay West was the Canadian spirit. A lot of people got behind the initiative and helped out. We certainly appreciate any help we can get because it’s going to be a long winter.”
A meeting was held Wednesday to help co-ordinate shipping costs and how hay would be distributed.
The Hay East campaign is currently in the “investigation” phase, Buck said.
He added the transportation will most likely be using trains and it is still unknown where and how much hay will be transported to the East.
The Ontario Mennonite Disaster Service also said it has been contacted by organizers of a Farm Aid concert for Sept. 16.
More financial help could come via that avenue, as well. Source
Under Jean Chrétien In 2002
August 11, 2002
Prince Edward Islanders taking part in the campaign to get hay to drought-stricken western livestock are optimistic they can get the feed shipped out.
CN Rail has agreed to put on box cars in Moncton, N.B.; Truro, N.S.’ and Quebec City to ship hay west early next week.
P.E.I. officials are trying to arrange to get the hay across the Confederation Bridge. Dozens of farmers and ordinary Islanders have said they will donate money to help defer transportation costs.
In total, rail companies are freeing up nearly 200 cars to bring the hay to the West. The federal government has chipped in $150,000 to the Hay West campaign for the short-term, as well as freeing up money for drought-assistance.
On Friday, Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief announced that $10 million will be released immediately and will be used to fund water supply projects in drought-stricken areas in Canada.
But all that may not be enough. Thousands of donated bales of hay won’t feed the million of animals on the prairies. So producers are selling off cattle at rock-bottom prices.
Elaine Boon is trying to give away her prized Arabian horses. She says she can’t afford to feed them and nobody wants to buy them. If someone could take them off her hands, it beats the other option. “If they don’t have feed they’re going to the slaughterhouse,” she said.
It’s all taking a toll financially, and emotionally. Drought-related stress in Alberta has led to calls for a province-wide hotline for farmers.
“Emotional issues, financial issues, farm business issues, drought issues, we need to focus information about all that into one location and disperse it from there,” said Rod Scarlett of Wild Rose Agricultural Producers.
There is a hotline in Saskatchewan and the phones won’t stop ringing. “There can be an impact on relationships. So that’s a factor that falls into place. In addition to that, it’s a look towards what the future holds. People are looking for an alternative source of income job-wise, whether it be training, those sorts of things,” said Ken Imhoff of the Saskatchewan Farm Stress Line.
Big industries are worried about the effect of the drought as well.
Canada’s beer-makers depend on Western barley. This year, the crop is stunted and there’s not much of it.
It’s possible brewers may have to import huge amounts of barley from around the world to make Canadian beer.
The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is touring the Prairies next week, hoping to help governments come up with a disaster plan.
There’s also a Farm Aid benefit concert planned for Thanksgiving weekend. Source
Seems the Western Farmers have forgotten, what the Eastern Farmers did for them. Shame on them. Shame on the Harper Government, for doing little to nothing, to help the Eastern Farmers in their time of need.
Recent
August 1 2012
Enbridge won’t be allowed to resume oil transmission in its leaky Wisconsin pipeline until it can prove it’s safe, according to a U.S. government order.
The pipeline, which carries Canadian crude oil to refineries in the Chicago area, ruptured on Friday and spilled about 1,200 barrels (190,000 litres) onto farmland, forcing the evacuation of two homes and threatening a drinking-water source four kilometres away.
“Accidents like the one in Wisconsin are absolutely unacceptable,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement Tuesday.
“I will soon meet with Enbridge’s leadership team and they will need to demonstrate why they should be allowed to continue to operate this Wisconsin pipeline without either a significant overhaul or a complete replacement.”
The U.S. Transportation Department’s pipeline-safety agency issued what’s called a corrective action order on Monday, in which it finds a subsidiary of Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. would risk “life, property and the environment” if it restarted the pipeline without “immediate corrective action.”
The order notes that the 750-kilometre-long segment of pipe that ruptured has had problems before, notably in 2007, when 1,500 barrels of oil spilled in Atwood, Wis. Following that leak, tests by Enbridge found “multiple crack anomalies” in the piping.
“The history of failures on respondent’s Lakehead Pipeline system,… defects originally discovered during construction, and the 2007 failure indicate that respondent’s integrity management program may be inadequate,” the order states.
Before Enbridge can resume using the pipeline to transport oil, it must submit a written plan for U.S. government approval. The company has also been ordered to conduct testing on the burst segment, reduce operating pressure in the pipeline by 20 per cent, and come up with a plan for long-term monitoring of the pipe, among other conditions.
In a statement Tuesday, the company said that “it is not unusual” for the U.S. government to issue these kinds of orders, and that it has already begun work toward satisfying several of the conditions.
Enbridge, which operates one of the world’s largest pipeline networks for the transmission of oil and gas, has suffered hundreds of leaks over the last decade. A 2010 rupture in Michigan spilled more than three million litres of heavy crude into the Kalamazoo River, prompting $3.7 million in fines, $800 million in cleanup costs, and a strong rebuke from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board.
Such problems undergird critics’ opposition to the company’s plan to build the so-called Northern Gateway system of pipelines across northern B.C., which would ship crude from the Alberta oilsands to ports on the Pacific Ocean.
On Monday, in a fresh volley of attacks, former Canadian environment minister David Anderson said Enbridge is “the last company in North America” that should be allowed to do it because the corporation has a “cowboy culture” and pays little attention to environmental safety procedures. The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and the B.C. New Democratic Party have also voiced opposition to the Northern Gateway project.
It’s one of the last bastions of Canadian wilderness: the Great Bear Rainforest, on BC’s north and central Pacific coast. Home to humpback whales, wild salmon, wolves, grizzlies, and the legendary spirit bear – this spectacular place is now threatened by a proposal from Enbridge to bring an oil pipeline and supertankers to this fragile and rugged coast. The plan is to pump over half a million barrels a day of unrefined bitumen from the Alberta Tar Sands over the Rockies, through the heartland of BC – crossing a thousand rivers and streams in the process – to the Port of Kitimat, in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest. From there, supertankers would ply the rough and dangerous waters of the BC coast en route to Asia and the United States. Dubbed the Northern Gateway Pipeline, the project is of concern for three main reasons: 1. It would facilitate the expansion of the Tar Sands, hooking emerging Asian economies on the world’s dirtiest oil; 2. the risks from the pipeline itself; 3. the danger of introducing oil supertankers for the first time to this part of the BC coast. Source
Alberta Oil Sands a Pollution Nightmare
A year on from Fukushima, Japan is struggling to convince consumers that fish from contaminated areas is safe. With new limits imposed on radioactive substances in food, the government is sending canned fish to developing countries to feed children.
A year on from Fukushima, Japan is struggling to convince consumers that fish from contaminated areas is safe. With new limits imposed on radioactive substances in food, the government is sending canned fish to developing countries to feed children.
As of April 1, 2012, the ceiling on radioactive Cesium in food has been lowered from 500 becquerels per kilogram to 100. With stricter regulations in place, authorities in the Tohoku and Kanto regions said Friday they are ready to increase the number of food tests to win the trust of consumers.
The food aid program will be carried out jointly by the Japanese government, Britain’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Official Development Assistance (ODA) and the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), reports Sankei Shibun news website.
Last week, the Japanese government exchanged letters with WFP so that processed marine products made in the areas affected by the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami could be used as food aid for people in developing countries. The program is specifically designed for fisheries from the disaster-affected areas, so that they could eliminate “reputational damage” caused by consumer fears.
According to Sankei Shibun, canned fish from Tohoku region will be shipped to five developing countries and used to feed schoolchildren. Five recipient countries are discussed, however, the only one named is Cambodia.
One billion yen’s (that’s just over 12 million dollars’) worth of canned sardines and mackerel will be purchased by WPF from factories in Aomori, Iwate, Ibaraki, and Chiba Prefectures. The money was allocated to WPF in 2011 by Japanese government. Parliamentary Secretary for Foreign Affairs Toshiyuki Kato in the ceremony of exchanging letters said that “fish processing companies in the disaster area were severely damaged, however, they are making an effort towards resuming full operation”.
Not everyone supports the ODA initiative. Several citizens’ groups have opposed the move, saying that they do not trust the safety of food that comes from disaster-affected areas. Top officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs brushed off the doubts, saying all necessary radiation tests will be taken and only those products that do no raise any concerns will be exported. Source
Cesium is not the only radiaocative thing in the fish. Giveing this to children is the worst possible senerio. Children are the most vunerable when it comes to radiation.
Radiation has harmful effects on child development.
In Japan: The standard is 40 becquerels or less per kilogram for radioactive substances contained in the lunches, and will essentially be used as a regulation threshold. Source
Well seems the regulations in Japan are one thing, but for poor people in another country it is different.
This fellow explains the different types of Radiation.
Video Gundersen Discusses Various Types of Radiation Experienced at Fukushima
Gamma, Beta and Alpha radiation
Radiation (from here, we will use the word ‘radiation’, to mean nuclear radiation) can destroy molecules, including the molecules in our bodies. When DNA-molecules in our cells are destroyed, this creates a run a risk of developing cancer. Radiation is therefore called carcinogenic: it causes cancer. The specific problem with radiation, compared to other carcinogenic substances (i.e. chemical etc.) is that there is no ‘safe dose’ below which there is no effect.
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Children living in un-insulated tents; families relying on buckets for toilets; elders living in sheds–these are some of the conditions witnessed by Timmins-James Bay MP Charlie Angus and MPP Gilles Bisson on a tour through Attawapiskat this month.
For almost two years, the Attawapiskat First Nation has been facing a severe housing shortage. As MP Charlie Angus recently witnessed first-hand, there are several families on the reserve who are living in makeshift shelters including uninsulated tents, converted garages, temporary trailers and deteriorating homes filled with Stachybotrys chartarum–a fungi more commonly known as black mold.
Some of the shelters have no heat, electricity, or plumbing of any kind. Some don’t even have toilets, so instead people are using plastic buckets, which they are dumping into nearby ditches.
With winter fast approaching, the housing shortage is turning into the kind of crisis that humanitarian aid groups would normally flock to in droves, if it was happening in Haiti or Darfur. But the Cree Fist Nation isn’t in Haiti, it’s in Canada. And Canada is basically doing nothing. In fact, these days the government seems more interested in spying on Cindy Blackstock and shutting down native healing centres than actually helping and working with Indigenous Peoples.
In response to the ongoing crisis, Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence recently declared a state of emergency, in which she pleaded for the government to step in and, if necessary, lead an emergency evacuation to ensure everyone’s health and safety. The government said no.
It probably came as no surprise to Chief Spence, given the way Canada has dealt with Attawapiskat in recent years. For instance, in 2009, another state of emergency was declared after INAC finally stepped in to clean up a 30,000 gallon oil spill from the 1970s. The mass of oil had accumulated directly beneath the community’s school grounds.
Some 30 years later, children at the school started getting sick, leaving Attawapiskat with no choice but to abandon the building. INAC responded by providing a new makeshift school a few metres away; but the actual clean up didn’t begin for another nine years.
In 2009, INAC demolished the old school and left an “open wound” at the center of the community, which it covered with a tarp.
Soon after that, community members started complaining of headaches, nausea, skin rashes, nosebleeds and chronic diarrhea. In the makeshift school, some children were said to be just “passing out”.
Canada did nothing. In fact, then-INAC Minster Chuck Strahl even went so far as to say that the whole situation was little more than a publicity stunt being propped up “on the backs of needy aboriginal people.”
This time around, the Canadian government appears to be acting a shade more reasonably, but only a shade. They recently promised to give the First Nation $500,000 to renovate 15 houses; but that’s it. Federal officials haven’t even bothered to visit the community. And who knows how long that will take for that fund to go through; never mind the fact that almost half of the houses on the reserve need renovations or are condemned.
In a frustrating twist, Attawapiskat happens to be in the shadow of the De Beers Victor Diamond Mine, which extracts about 600,000 carats per year.
Attawapiskat is getting an undisclosed amount of money from De Beers; however, Chief Spence says the bulk of that money goes directly into a trust fund which they can’t access for housing. Chief Spence is trying to renegotiate with De Beers, but those negotiations don’t appear to be going anywhere. Source
The Canadian government says it has given Attawapiskat roughly $90 million since 2006. However, documents from the department of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada show Attawapiskat only received $4.3 million in funding for housing since 2006. Source
Someone is not being truthful. Which is it?
I am guessing they only received $4.3 million.
Harper’s government is not to reliable when it comes to facts.
Even if they did get $90,000,000
Divided by 6 years
= $15,000.000 per year
Divided by 1,800 citizens
= $8,333 per person per year = about
$694 per month per person
When you bring it down to reality it really isn’t very much.
That money of course does not go to the people. Some does, but not it all.
A few things money is used for in Northern Communities.
They have to bring in most of what they use.
Shipping is a huge cost.
Snow Removal.
Building maintenance for schools or should I say school and portables.
They need an air port.
Have to pay the teachers, janitors etc.
Have to pay for the Health Care workers.
Have to pay the airport personnel and maintenance.
Have to pay for road maintenance employees.
Those are just a few of the things not all. There are many more if I took the time to really think about it.
The cost of living in Attawapiskat is quite high, due to the expense of shipping goods to the community.
Local stores include the Northern Store and M. Koostachin & Sons (1976). More than a third of the residents occasionally place orders for perishables and other goods which are shipped in via aircraft from Timmins, and for which the residents make prepayments with money orders. When their orders arrive, the residents have to pick them up at the local airport. For example, 6 apples and 4 small bottles of juice cost $23.50 (2011-12-01).
The price of gasoline is considerably higher than the provincial average. When the fuel is shipped via winter road, the prices of gasoline and propane tend to drop slightly.
It costs $250,000 to build a house in Attawapiskat and only the Federal Government can build houses on the reserve. . The cost of renovating one condemned house is $50,000-$100,000. A majority of the community members have updated their heating needs, while many households still use dry firewood. Firewood in Attawapiskat costs $150 and $200 a cord, and a cord will heat a winter-bound tent for only a week, or at most 10 days. More information at Source
Dec 1, 2011
Charlie Angus, NDP MP for Timmins-James Bay answered questions about the First Nations community of Attawapiskat in crisis – recorded by Samantha Bayard and Ish Theilheimer for Straight Goods News on December 1, 2011 during a scrum on Parliament Hill.
NDP Canada on Dec 1, 2011
Attawapiskat First Nation is on the shores of James Bay Ontario.
Nov 23 2011
Timmins James Bay MPP Gilles Bisson calls on provincial government to help residents of Attawapiskat
This video was taken fall 2010 when my family and I had visited Attawapiskat. Canada AM followed us up, and created this documentary to bring awareness to the housing, food, and ect. crises. since then not much has changed. and the people continue to lose more, and more hope.
This video was taken fall 2010
Apr 14, 2009
Attawapiskat is the home of the Mushkegowuk (swampy) Cree that is situated on the west coast of James Bay. The community has been exposed to toxic fumes dating back to 30 years. Since 1979, about 30, 000 gallons of hydrocarbon oil spill has occured underneath the old school grounds. In the year 2000, there were health concerns of children and the staff getting sick. This resulted the closure of the old school. INAC build temporary portables near the contamination site til the new school was build. The community worked hard in negotiations with INAC and the government to get a new school and finally came to light! There was Hope once again for the children. Everything was in the process until the the new government stepped in 2007. On August 2007, Minister Chuck Strahl became the new Minister for Indian and Northern Affairs Canada under the leadership of the Conservatives. On December 2007, Minister of INAC decided to halt the deal, that left the community devastated. But that didn’t stop the community and the Children, they went as far to having a Human Rights Conference in Toronto. The students argue for a right to a quality education in safe environment in November 2008. Mr. Chuck Strahl was invited but didn’t show up?
Finally on March of 2009 , the old school was demolish under the direction of INAC, exposing the ground once capped by the old building. The contaminated debris wasn’t properly contained and was dump too closed to the community. As for the old building, it wasn’t capped leaving the fumes exposed to the residence. A stench was reported making the students, teachers and the community sick which then resulted to the closing of the schools, shortly by a declared state of emergency from the leaders. A few days later, INAC and Health Canada flew in to meet with the community and listen to the community’s testimonies of getting nausea, headaches, dizziness and skin rashes? The community felt it had to do with the contaminated ground and their water source.
INAC responded that they would take the information back to their Superiors and report back of their decision for further immediate action. Three days later, Attawapiskat was devastated when INAC and Health Canada went to the media and said “There was no iniminent dangers and that the community’s air tested normal?”. The Leaders didn’t buy it! As of April 9, 2009, Attawapiskat is still under state of emergency and have no trust in the government officials. They suspected that something wasn’t right with their findingsl because of all the testimonies that were given at the meeting of people getting sick? That people were dying from cancer too fast, children having skin rashes and the stench of the contaminated oil can still be smell.
Later that week, MP Charlie Angus and MPP Gilles Bisson responded to the urgent call of the Attawapiskat Chief and Council and did their own investigations. They were shock to find out the extent of this urgent matter and confirm the seriousness of addressing the health concerns right away.The next day, Both parties called for a National Press Conference and share their findings. Shortly after, INAC responded by saying, it was just a grandstanding photo-op? Which is not true. The Reps of James Bay-Timmins took soil samples with them and send them to Ottawa to get tested right away, doing INAC and Health Canada’s job for them?? They are calling on independent study by the medical and environmental team. As of today, INAC still refuses to evacuate the reserve even though they asked for immediate action until the remediation was completed and safe. The community was very upset to find out it would take INAC 2 more years to clean up the contamination site which wasn’t acceptable.
Ask yourself this question? Would you find it acceptable from INAC (Indian Northern Affairs of Canada) if they told you everything is fine in your community and there is nothing to worry about? While the children are breaking up in rashes, people getting sick and alot of reports of cancers since 30 years ago? Think about it…..Would you be willing to accept returning your children back to the toxic zone for their education? Would this happen down south? Is it acceptable to be told that it would take 2 years to finish cleaning up the toxic soil after it has been there for 30 years. These schools were under INAC’s watch when the spills happened…… If this reaches you, please help the community and put your government to shame!! Spread this video and let the world know what our Government is doing to their Indigenous People!
Shannen’s Dream of a new school may become reality in 2013. Will it really happen? Well I guess we will have to wait and see.
There have been promises before and still no school for the children.
After 2000, three successive INAC ministers — Robert Nault, Andy Scott and Jim Prentice — promised a new school for Attawapiskat. You can read the full chronology of seven years of negotiations on the departmental website. On April 1, 2008, the new minister, Chuck Strahl, informed AFNEA that Ottawa would not finance the new school after all. Well wasn’t that just the worst slap in the face a bunch of kids could get.
Shannen Koostachin at the National Day of Action on Parliament Hill in May 2008, a rally calling for better schools for First Nations children. The Attawapiskat teenager organized children in her community to lobby for a school to replace the portable classrooms she grew up attending. She was killed in a car accident on June 1 2010 at the age of 15. Photo Courtesy of 8th Fire
8th Fire: Aboriginal Peoples, Canada and the Way Forward. The four-part series begins airing on CBC television and Radio-Canada on Jan. 12, 2012.
The Canadian Red Cross is on the ground in Attawapiskat providing urgently needed aid to vulnerable families in the community.
“Our goal in Attawapiskat is to ensure that the immediate needs of the community are met, which includes making sure families have the supplies they need to survive the winter,” said John Saunders, provincial director of disaster management with the Canadian Red Cross. “We are focused on providing short-term relief to the community.”
The Canadian Red Cross is helping the families of Attawapiskat on the request of the local chief, Theresa Spence, and will continue to work alongside public authorities.
On November 29, a Red Cross team consisting of Saunders and two volunteers from Timmins arrived with preliminary supplies including sleeping bags, heaters and winter clothing. The team is conducting assessments to determine exactly what items and quantities are needed for short-term relief. Once the assessment is complete, the Canadian Red Cross will distribute those supplies.
In Attawapiskat, the Canadian Red Cross has identified families living in tents and wooden sheds without electricity and plumbing in most dwellings. Some homes have power by running extension cords. Some have created make shift wood stoves out of old oil drums, which is a threat to public safety and health.
Government and community officials continue to work to determine long-term solutions.
At the further request of the community, the Canadian Red Cross has taken on a donation management role. Canadians wishing to support immediate needs can make a donation through the Red Cross online, by phone by calling 1-800-418-111 or in person at their local Red Cross office. Red Cross.Ca
Libya took better care of it’s people then Canada does. Canada helped Carpet Bomb them back to the stone ages and could afford to do that but not help their own people.
Did You Know
1. There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity is free for all its citizens.
2. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law.
3. Having a home considered a human right in Libya.
4. All newlyweds in Libya receive $60,000 dinar (U.S.$50,000) by the government to buy their first apartment so to help start up the family.
5. Education and medical treatments are free in Libya. Before Gaddafi only 25 percent of Libyans were literate. Today, the figure is 83 percent.
6. Should Libyans want to take up farming career, they would receive farming land, a farming house, equipments, seeds and livestock to kickstart their farms are all for free.
7. If Libyans cannot find the education or medical facilities they need, the government funds them to go abroad, for it is not only paid for, but they get a U.S.$2,300/month for accommodation and car allowance.
8. If a Libyan buys a car, the government subsidizes 50 percent of the price.
9. The price of petrol in Libya is $0.14 per liter.
10. Libya has no external debt and its reserves amounting to $150 billion are now frozen globally.
11. If a Libyan is unable to get employment after graduation the state would pay the average salary of the profession, as if he or she is employed, until employment is found.
12. A portion of every Libyan oil sale is credited directly to the bank accounts of all Libyan citizens.
13. A mother who gives birth to a child receive U.S.$5,000.
14. 40 loaves of bread in Libya costs $0.15.
15. 25 percent of Libyans have a university degree.
16. Gaddafi carried out the world’s largest irrigation project, known as the Great Manmade River project, to make water readily available throughout the desert country.
17 Women’s Rights: Under Gaddafi, gender discrimination was officially banned and the literacy rate for women climbed to 83 per cent. The rights of Black’s were also improved. Source
All that has been destroyed.
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There are a number of Videos in the link below on How Americans Factory Farm Animals. Unbelievable cruelty.
By Mira Oberman
Nov 19, 2011
CHICAGO — Fast food giant McDonald’s severed ties with one of its American egg suppliers Friday after a video taken by undercover animal rights activists exposed shocking cruelty to chickens at a farm.
The footage showed chicks having the tips of their beaks being burned off by a machine and then tossed into cages along with images of barely identifiable corpses of birds that were left to rot in cages.
It also showed unwanted chicks left to die in plastic bags, birds mangled by the bars of overcrowded cages, and a chicken flapping its wings in distress as a plant worker swung the creature on a rope in a wide circle.
There are no federal laws governing the treatment of poultry on U.S. farms and most states have sweeping exemptions for farmed animals which allow for abuses to run rampant without prosecution.
“Unfortunately, much of the abuse we documented is not only standard, it’s legal,” Nathan Runkle, director of Mercy for Animals, which obtained the clandestine footage, told AFP.
“We’ve done over a dozen investigations at factory farms from coast to coast,” he said. “Every time we’ve sent an investigator into one of these facilities they’ve come out with shocking evidence of abuse and neglect.”
McDonald’s confirmed it had directed its supplier, Cargill, to stop sourcing McDonald eggs from Sparboe, the company at the center of the cruelty video.
“The behavior on tape is disturbing and completely unacceptable,” McDonald’s said in a statement.
“McDonald’s wants to assure our customers that we demand humane treatment of animals by our suppliers. We take this responsibility — along with our customers’ trust — very seriously.”
Sparboe, a family-run company, said it had launched a probe after learning of the video and has fired four workers who engaged in mistreatment of chickens.
In a message posted on a dedicated website, owner Beth Sparboe Schnell said an independent auditor from Iowa State University confirmed the company is in “full compliance with our animal welfare policies.”
She said Sparboe Farms was the first American egg producer to have its “science-based animal care production guideline” certified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
But Runkle noted that the video shows that “much of the mishandling type of abuse took place directly in front of and under the watch of supervisors and managers” at Sparboe facilities in Iowa, Minnesota and Colorado.
He also said McDonald’s decision to drop Sparboe as a supplier also fails to provide a solution to the real problem — the use of cramped battery cages which give hens no room to walk or spread their wings, Runkle added.
Mercy for Animals said it was urging McDonald’s to use its influence as the largest egg purchaser in the United States to improve industry standards and stop buying eggs from farms that use such cages.
The video was released a day after federal inspectors issued a warning letter to Sparboe citing “serious violations” of food safety rules, including inadequate rodent control and testing for the presence of deadly Salmonella bacteria. Source
November 17 2011
Factory Farming is what they are talking about.
Factory Farming is horrid and the cruelty towards animals is beyond anything imaginable. Your really should see what happens to the animals you are eating and the unhealthy environment they are raised in.
I have a few examples of it below.
Food Inc. An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry.
This documentary covers Chickens and Cattle For eating.
Go HERE for Documentary Wait for the Free User to come up and click on it.
Go HERE for more links if the Above one does not work.
Now here we have a few other Shorter Videos on Factory Farming
At this crowded South Dakota factory farm, pigs limp across their pens exhibiting basketball-sized ruptures (hernias) and huge infected abscesses.
Emaciated female breeding sows, many with open sores, are housed at this factory farm in crates measuring 19 inches wide — even smaller than the industry norm of 24 inches
Disabled cows at this Nebraska slaughterhouse are dragged off trucks with a chain, then are abandoned for days without food, water, or protection from the elements. Many die from their injuries, illnesses, starvation, or dehydration.
September 21, 2011
HFA’s Bradley Miller talking about the veal industry on Oprah.
This video I posted so you can see what is done to the baby pigs. Even if your not a vegetarian you must still see this as very cruel inhumane treatment of an animal.
The Pig Picture highlights never-before-seen-HFA investigative footage. This powerful 18-minute video traces the development of commercial pig rearing in America – from the small-scale family farms of yesterday – to the corporate owned pig factories of today.
More information and Videos HERE
Animals need room to roam.
They need fresh air and to be clean.
Any animals who are caged or over crowed, as the animals in the videos go insane.
Imagine if you were trapped in a small room 10 feet by 10 feet with 20 people how would you feel. You have to stay in that small room until the day you die.
Think about it.
There are still many farmers who do not use factory farming methods to raise their animals.
The food they produce is much safer and the animals have less illnesses.
Antibiotics nor hormones should be put into food fed to animals.
The only time antibiotics should be used is if he animals is ill.
The US needs to protect your food supply, not let things like Factory Farming take over your food supply. Factory Farming should be outlawed and normal farmers grow your food. Farm Animals need to be protected.
Imagine if those things were done your a dog or cat. Well Farm Animals need love and protection just like your pets.
Farm animals have feelings too.
I know I grew up around farmers. They never would do anything this horrible to any animal. They treated their animals extremely well.
Factory Farms are not Real Farmers they are just greedy profiteers.
Real Farmers take great care with their animals.
I buy all my meat from Real Farmers.
I know first hand how they are treated.
I know first hand what they are fed.
I know the Farmers personally.
Factory Farms put Real Farmers out of business.
The thought of eating anything that comes from a Factory farm turns my stomach.
I kid you not Been there, Done that, Got the tee shirts.
Just watching the Videos of those poor animals made me chuck my cookies.
I don’t eat Fast Food. I would never know where the meat comes from.
I don’t take chances with my health. I also do not want to contribute to animal cruelty.
If you hate puppy mills then you should hate Factory Farms.
If you however wish to continue to eat Factory Farm Food
Remember you are contributing to the cruelty of innocent animals.
A happy animal is a healthier animal.
Animals need to go outside and have freedom to live just like we do. They need to feel the grass under their feet, the sunshine and enjoy the shade of trees. They should be respected and treated humanly.
As a consumer you can demand food from Real Farmers who raise animals in a safe, clean, healthy and humane environment.
We are after all the 99%.
Don’t allow A Factory Farm in your community.
This doesn’t just happen in the US. Factory Farming has spread to other Countries.
Now for something else you should know about
By Michael Greger, M.D. Nov 3 2011
This week I participated in a press briefing to discuss National Meat Association v. Harris, a case appearing before the Supreme Court next week. The meat industry is trying to overturn a California law meant to keep “downed” animals—those too sick and disabled to walk to slaughter—out of the American food supply.
In 2008, an undercover investigation of a dairy cow slaughterplant in California showed that downers were being dragged to slaughter for hamburger meat distributed to the Federal School Lunch Program. The Humane Society of the United States investigators documented workers dragging downed cows with chains, ramming them with forklifts, shocking cows repeatedly in the face and eyes, beating them, and even shooting high-pressure hoses up their nostrils—anything to squeeze every last bit of profit from these animals. The investigation triggered the largest meat recall in U.S. history—143 million pounds of beef—for violations of food safety regulations meant to protect the public from bovine spongiform encephalopathy (“mad cow disease”).
The investigation prompted California to strengthen its laws to keep downer livestock out of the food supply. The meat industry—represented by the National Meat Association and the American Meat Institute—responded by suing the State of California to block the enforcement of the law on the grounds that only USDA had the authority to determine which animals are turned into meat. The California Attorney General argued that states should have the right to protect their citizens from the risks and abuses inherent in slaughtering downed animals. In response to the meat industry lawsuit, a federal judge temporarily blocked the enforcement of the downer ban, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the decision and reinstated the law. So the National Meat Association took it to the Supreme Court.
The handling of downers is not just an animal welfare issue. Inability to stand can be a symptom of disease that could threaten public health. Compared to those able to walk, downed cows were found to have 3 times the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7, the strain that kills dozens of Americans a year. The researchers concluded “downer dairy cattle harboring E. coli O157:H7 at slaughter may be an important source of contamination and may contribute to the health risk associated with ground beef.” A single downed cow infected with such a pathogen could theoretically contaminate more than 100,000 hamburgers with an infectious dose.
Downer pigs and sheep may also present a food safety risk. Downed pigs have been found to have 16 times the odds of antibiotic resistant Campylobacter infection, the most common cause of bacterial food poisoning in the United States. Allowing downer pigs in the food supply, concluded one team of researchers, “potentially endangers public health.”
Even if one doesn’t eat meat, more than half of downer pigs tested in the Midwest were found to be actively infected with swine flu, both the classic swine flu virus and the triple hybrid mutant that led to the 2009 human pandemic that killed more than ten thousand Americans.
Other human pathogens linked to downed farm animals include anthrax, Salmonella, and mad cow disease. At least two-thirds of the 22 mad cows so far discovered in North America have been downer cows. Though the riskiest tissues—the brains, eyes, and spinal cords—of most cattle are now excluded from most food items in the United States, there may be contamination of muscle meat via aerosolization of the spinal cord during carcass splitting. Significant amounts of central nervous system debris found accumulating in the splitting saws used to halve the carcasses may have the potential to then transfer contagion from one carcass to the next. Although, technically, processors are instructed to knife-trim “material grossly identifiable as brain material, spinal cord, or fluid from punctured eyes,” researchers have reported finding nervous tissue contaminating muscle in a commercial slaughter plant. Contamination of meat derived from cattle cheeks with brain tissue can also occur if the cheek meat is not removed before the skull is fragmented or split. Finally, captive bolt stunning, the predominant method used to render farm animals insensible before being bled to death, may blow a shower of embolic brain tissue into the animals’ bloodstream. Texas A&M University researchers found bodily brain fragments as large as 14 cm. The researchers concluded that mad cow pathogens could potentially be “found throughout the bodies of animals stunned for slaughter.”
An unequivocal ban on the slaughter of downed animals for human consumption would remove the incentive for the meat industry to transport and torment these animals rather than euthanize them, and thereby bolster the safety of the food supply. Sick animals can lead to sick people. Source
Mar 16, 2012
A report has been released by the Food & Water Watch which stated that the USDA wants poultry producers to regulate themselves. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) called this idea a “Recipe for food safety disaster”. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss this report and some of it’s more disgusting findings.
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Ahmad picked up a bright metal object in a park where he was celebrating his 5th birthday in Lebanon. It was an unexploded cluster bomblet, which blew up in his face, killing him slowly in front of his family.
Three years ago, public pressure pushed through a ban of these cruel bombs. But now the US is lobbying nations to quietly sign a new law that allows their use — signing the death warrant for thousands of other children. Most countries are still on the fence on how to vote. Only if we raise the alarm across the world can we shame our governments to block this deadly decision.
Positions are being drawn up now. We only have days until countries meet to send our leaders a clear message: stand up for the cluster bombs ban and keep our children safe. Click below to sign the petition — it will be delivered directly to delegates at the Geneva conference:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/cluster_bombs_ii_b/?vl
Thousands of people — many of them children — have been maimed or killed by these bombs. When they are fired, they spray small “bomblets” over a wide area, many of which fail to explode. Years later, people disturb them in their fields or school playgrounds not knowing what they are, and they explode.
In 2008, over half of the world’s governments outlawed these weapons by signing the Convention on Cluster Munitions. But now, shockingly, countries like France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and the UK, who all signed the Convention, are under pressure from the US, China and Russia to run rings round the ban by signing a separate agreement that would allow them to use cluster munitions. Only Norway, Mexico, Austria and a few others are fighting this horror.
Negotiators at the Convention on Conventional Weapons meet in Geneva next week. Most governments don’t really want this protocol and have not said which way they will vote, but they are under severe pressure from the US to comply and will only object if the global public persuades them.
There’s no time to lose — the conference starts on Monday. Let’s call on our governments to reject this deadly and cynical US campaign to legalize cluster killing. Click below to sign the petition and forward this email widely — we’ve done it before, let’s do it again:
Cluster bombs and land mines were banned because citizens raised the alarm across the world — with victims and survivors leading the way. For their sakes and to ensure no more lives are lost, let’s not allow these cruel weapons back and join together now to demand a more peaceful world.
More information:
Fourth Review Conference of the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Weapons:
http://www.unog.ch/80256EE600585943/%28httpPages%29/43FD798E7707CE5AC12578B20032B630?OpenDocument
UK backs bid to overturn ban on cluster bombs (The Independent):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/uk-backs-bid-to-overturn-ban-on-cluster-bombs-6259139.html
CCW – the potential to cause more humanitarian harm than good (Stop Cluster Munitions.org):
http://www.stopclustermunitions.org/ccw/
The Past and Future of the CCW (Arms Control.org):
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2011_03/LookingBack
No backsliding on cluster bombs (The Indepedent):
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-no-backsliding-on-cluster-bombs-6259009.html
Raed Mokaled and the story of Ahmad (Handicap International):
http://www.handicapinternational.be/en/raed-mokaled
Please pass this on. And do take the time to sign it.
US to stockpile cluster bombs in Australia? Despite Australia having signed the convention against cluster munition, a US base may transport and stockpile munition.
Recent
I came across this site today as I was wondering about.
They apparently monitor radiation levels which can be read on line and are apparently updated every minute or so.
What Amazed me is how many Nuclear sites there are.
The numbers are staggeringly high.
There sure are a lot of potential accidents waiting to happen.
Here are the three maps
Click on them and they will go into to new window.
If you press Ctrl and the plus (+) sign at the right of your computer it should enlarge the maps so you can get a close up. Or under VIEW at the very top of your screen there may be a ZOOM.
Nuclear Site
All
I can say are those maps are pretty scary. That is a lot of radioactive material on the planet and that is not all of the nuclear sites world wide.
They really need to find safer ways to create electricity.
One has to wonder how many of those sites like Japans could be damaged by earthquakes or tidal waves etc etc.
What is so foolish is they an you know who I am talking about, tell Iran they can’t have one of those sites. What hypocrites they all are.
One has to wonder who inspects all those sites on those maps if anyone?
How safe are they? Well they are all as safe as the ones in Japan, Chornobyl or Three Mile Island that’s how safe they all are.
It’s no wonder there is so much cancer etc around the world.
Don’t forget all the bomb testing that has taken place in the past all that radiation is still hanging around as well after all radiation doesn’t go aways for a million years or so.
Gee now don’t you feel so much better now? Don’t you feel oh so safe when they tell you all is well and you are safe?
Recent
For a while now, I have been trying to keep up on any reports of high radiation being experience here in Canada as a result of the fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster that is still ongoing, despite all of the news reports that are now downplaying that disaster. More reports about the levels here in Canada will be coming up soon in this blog….
In the meantime, I just came across a very startling and disturbing video, that comes from Youtube user “FireByNIght”. In this video, that I have embedded here in this report, “FireByNight” has taken readings in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on the night of August 6th, 2011, of radiation from rainfall that had occurred that night after a very long period of drought. Please watch this video to see the results for yourselves:
NTS Notes: Again, I want to thank Youtube user, “FireByNight” for taking these readings and exposing the fact that America, as well as Canada, is experiencing deadly radioactive fallout from the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It does seem that the citizens in BOTH the US and Canada are being lied to when our governments claim: “There is no cause for alarm” when it comes to this ongoing nuclear disaster.
And where is the US as well as the Canadian government in all of this? Our media is continuing to downplay the fallout danger from Fukushima, and trying to keep the public unaware of the dangers that we truly face. Again as I have stated before this is not negligence on the part of our media, or our governments, but outright criminality!
Please spread this information around for others to see…. We must all demand that our governments come clean about the danger that we face from the ongoing disaster at Fukushima.
Compliments of Northern Truth Seeker.
Where the wind blows it goes.
Dr. Helen Caldicott’s March 18th press conference in Montreal, sponsored by the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG)
Our thanks to Felton Davis for the transcription from the GRTV Video recording and for the annotations.
This press conference organized by Globla Research was held in the context of Helen Caldicott’s public lecture to Montreal on March 18, 2011.
First I want to present this report, produced by the New York Academy of Sciences, a report on Chernobyl. It can be downloaded.(2) They translated 5,000 articles from Russian for the first time into English. It seems that nearly a million people have already died as a result of Chernobyl, despite what the WH0(3) says and the IAEA.(4) This is one of the most monstrous cover-ups in the history of medicine. Because everybody should know about this.
Then we extrapolate through to Japan. Japan is by orders of magnitude many times worse than Chernobyl. Never in my life did I think that six nuclear reactors would be at risk.(5) I knew that three GE engineers who helped design these Mark I GE reactors, resigned because they knew they were dangerous.(6)
So Japan built them on an earthquake fault. The reactors partially withstood the earthquake, but the external electricity supply was cut off, and the electricity supplies the cooling water, a million gallons a minute, to each of those six reactors. Without the cooling water, the water [level] falls, and the rods are so hot they melt, like at Three Mile Island, and at Chernobyl.
So the emergency diesel generators, which are as large as a house, got destroyed by the tsunami, so there is no way to keep the water circulating in the reactors.(7) Also, on the roofs of the reactors, not within the containment vessel, are cooling pools. Every year they remove about thirty tons of the most radioactive rods that you can possibly imagine.(8) Each one is twelve feet long and half an inch thick. It gives out so much radiation, that if you stand next to it for a couple of minutes, you’ll die. Not drop dead. Remember Litvinenko, the Russian, who got poisoned by polonium?(9) You’ll die like that, with your hair falling out, and bleeding with massive infection, like AIDS patients die.
And [the spent fuel rods] are thermally hot, so they have to be put in a big pool, and continually cooled. The pool has really no roof.
There have been three hydrogen explosions, blowing off the roof of the building, not the containment vessel of the core, but the roof. And exposing the cooling pool.(10) Two of the cooling pools are dry. They have no water in them. Meaning that the nuclear fuel rods are covered with a material called zirconium. When zirconium is exposed to air, it burns, it ignites. Two of the cooling pools at this moment are burning. In the cooling pools are many times, like 10 to 20 times more radiation than in each reactor core. In each reactor core is as much long-lived radiation as would be produced by a thousand Hiroshima-sized bombs. We are dealing with diabolical energy.
E=MC2 is the energy that blows up nuclear bombs. Einstein said nuclear power is a hell of a way to boil water.(11) Because that is all nuclear power is used for, to boil water through the massive heat, turn it into steam, and turn a turbine which generates electricity.
Now when you fission uranium, 200 new elements are formed, all of which are much more poisonous to the body than the original uranium.(12) Although uranium is pretty poisonous. America used it in Fallujah, and in Baghdad. And in Fallujah, 80 per cent of the babies being born are grossly deformed.(13) They’re being born without brains, single eyes, no arms… The doctors have told the women to stop having babies. The incidence of childhood cancer has gone up about twelve times. This is genocide — it’s a nuclear war being conducted in Iraq. The uranium that they’re using lasts more than 4.5 billion years. So we’re contaminating the cradle of civilization. “The coalition of the willing!”
In the nuclear power plants, however, there is a huge amount of radiation: two hundred elements. Some last seconds, some last millions of years. Radioactive iodine lasts six weeks, causes thyroid cancer. That’s why people are saying, “Better take potassium iodide,” because that blocks the thyroid uptake of radioactive iodine, which later can cause thyroid cancer.
In Chernobyl, over 20,000 people have developed thyroid cancer.(14) They have their thyroids out, and they will die unless they take thyroid replacement every day, like a diabetic has to take insulin.
Strontium-90 will get out, it lasts for 600 years. It goes to the bone, where it causes bone cancer or leukemia. Cesium lasts for 600 years — it’s all over Europe. 40 per cent of Europe is still radioactive. Turkish food is extremely radioactive. Do not buy Turkish dried apricots, or Turkish hazelnuts. The Turks were so cross with the Russians, they sent all their radioactive tea over to Russia after Chernobyl.(15)
Forty per cent of Europe is still radioactive. Farms in Britain, their lambs are so full of cesium they can’t sell them. Don’t eat European food.
But that’s nothing compared to what’s happening now. One of the most deadly [nuclear byproducts] is plutonium, named after Pluto, god of the underworld. One millionth of a gram, if you inhale it, would give you cancer. Hypothetically, one pound of plutonium if evenly distributed could give everyone on earth cancer. Each reactor has 250 kilograms of plutonium in it. You only need 2.5 kilograms to make an atomic bomb, because plutonium is what they make bombs with.
So any country that has a reactor, works with your uranium. You [Canada] are the biggest exporter of uranium in the world.(16) Canada sells two things: it sells wheat for life, and uranium for death. Plutonium is going to get out and spread all over the northern hemisphere. It’s already heading towards North America now.
Radioactive iodine, plus strontium, plus cesium, plus tritium, and I could go on and* on and on. When it rains, downs come fallout, and it concentrates in food. If it gets into the sea, the algae concentrate it, hundreds of times. And the crustaceans concentrate it, hundreds of times. And then the little fish, then the big fish, then us.(17)
Because we stand on the apex of the food chain. You can’t taste these radioactive food elements, you can’t see them, you can’t smell them. They’re silent. When you get them inside your body, you don’t suddenly drop dead of cancer, it takes five to sixty years to get your cancer, and when you feel a lump in your breast, it doesn’t say, “I was made by some strontium-90 in a piece of fish you ate twenty years ago.”
All radiation is damaging. It’s cumulative — each dose you get adds to your risk of getting cancer. The americium is more dangerous than plutonium — I could go on and on. Depends if it rains if you’re going to get it or not. If it rains and the radiation comes down, don’t grow food, and don’t eat the food, and I mean don’t eat it for 600 years.
Radioactive waste from nuclear power is going to be buried, I hear, next to Lake Ontario. It’s going to leak, last for millions of years, it’s going to get into the water, and into the food chains. Radioactive waste will induce epidemics of cancer, leukemia, and genetic disease for the rest of time. This is the greatest public health hazard the world has ever witnessed, apart from the threat every day of nuclear war.
Einstein said “the splitting of the atom changed everything, save man’s mode of thinking” — very profound — “and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” We are arrogant, we have a lot of hubris, and I think the reptilian mid-brain of some men’s brains is pathological.(18)
We are in a situation where we have harnessed the energy of the sun. It is totally out of control. And there’s simply nothing we can do about it.
Older report with radiation fallout maps included. The radiation fallout is massive at this point in time.
Add to that the radiation poisoning from wars
What a hell of a mess they are creating.
Fox News tell you all is well. LOL Rightttt.
Obama in a Radiation protection suit, says all is well. Right Sure it is.
I feel so safe after that one. Don’t you?
Obama says “Don’t worry folks, I am not paranoid that is why I am wearing the pretty yellow suit”.
Hello any intelligent life out there. And one has to wonder where Obama and friends are getting their drinking water and food..
By Alex Roslin, August 4, 2011
Confused by all the nuke lingo about becquerels and sieverts and what it means for your health? So were most of the nuclear experts we talked to for this story.
It also doesn’t help that Health Canada’s data on the radioactive fallout from Fukushima is so sparse and confusingly reported that it’s hard to figure out whether or not it exceeds government limits.
Health Canada reports on monitoring data for only three or four of the hundreds of radioactive substances spewing out of the crippled Japanese nuclear plant.
Canada also has only five monitoring stations that contain equipment sensitive enough to notice levels of specific radioactive substances from Fukushima in the air.
“They’re measuring only a fraction of the radioactive fallout from Fukushima,” said Gordon Edwards of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, speaking from Montreal.
In contrast, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has 200 monitoring stations checking for up to 11 radioactive substances in everything from air and milk to drinking water and rainwater.
Health Canada’s radiation-monitoring webpage downplays any fallout concerns, saying radiation reaching Canada has been “within normal background levels”. That’s based largely on data from a second network of 35 other monitoring stations that have less sensitive equipment (including 12 in B.C.).
But an analysis of the data from these stations shows radiation levels did hit sustained above-normal levels for an average of 36 days in March and April after Fukushima. The radiation level rose to 0.48 microsieverts per day, on average, during this time, up from 0.43 seen in the rest of the monitoring data between March 10 and July 27—or an increase of 11 percent.
Of all the B.C. sites, the biggest spike was in Victoria, where the level rose from 0.23 to 0.25 microsieverts per day between March 19 and 25—an increase of 9.9 percent. Vancouver saw a four-percent increase, from 0.43 to 0.45 microsieverts.
The worst-hit city in Canada was Regina. It saw a 90-percent spike in its radiation level, from 0.36 to 0.69 microsieverts per day. Yellowknife was second-highest with a 31-percent jump, followed by Toronto with a 26-percent rise.
But this data downplays the radiation from Fukushima, Edwards said. The less sensitive equipment also picks up large amounts of background radiation from natural sources like the sun and soil.
It also doesn’t spot jumps in the type of radioactive substances released in a nuclear accident, like iodine-131. Another problem: sieverts are a questionable way to measure radiation because they include a subjective calculation of the radiation’s impact on a person, and so the results can be manipulated to play down impacts, Edwards said.
“It’s a shell game. Microsieverts are quite a distance removed from the raw data. They’re blending in stuff from nature to make the data look innocuous,” he says.
You have to scroll down to the bottom of Health Canada’s radiation webpage to find the more striking data from the five stations monitoring specific radioactive substances.
This data shows the air at the five stations contained an average of 33.3 millibecquerels of radioactive iodine per cubic metre during 30.4 days of elevated radiation.
That works out to double the 16.7 millibecquerels per cubic metre of iodine-131 that would be permitted over those 30.4 days, according to the maximum limit set by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission. (The commission’s ceiling is 200 millibecquerels per cubic metre of exposure in the air on a daily basis for an entire year. That equates to 16.7 millibecquerels per cubic metre over 30.4 days.)
The station in Sidney, B.C., detected 19.4 millibecquerels per cubic metre of iodine-131 in the air during a 22-day-long spike in radiation. That was 61 percent higher than the maximum dose of 12.1 millibecquerels per cubic metre permitted for 22 days.
July 2011
The radiation levels here are dangerously high.
July 2011
On June 26, 1954, at Obninsk, Russia, the nuclear power plant APS-1 with a net electrical output of 5 MW was connected to the power grid, the world’s first nuclear power plant that generated electricity for commercial use. On August 27, 1956 the first commercial nuclear power plant, Calder Hall 1, Eng-land, with a net electrical output of 50 MW was connected to the national grid.
As of August 7, 2011 in 30 countries 432 nuclear power plant units with an installed electric net capacity of about 366 GW are in operation and 65 plants with an installed capacity of 65 GW are in 16 countries under construction.
As of end 2009 the total electricity production since 1951 amounts to 64,600 billion kWh. The cumulative operating experience amounted to 14,570 years by August 2011.
|
Country |
In operation |
Under construction |
|||
|
Number |
Electr. net output MW |
Number |
Electr. net output MW |
||
| Argentina |
2 |
935 |
1 |
692 |
|
| Armenia |
1 |
375 |
– |
– |
|
| Belgium |
7 |
5,927 |
– |
– |
|
| Brazil |
2 |
1,884 |
1 |
1,245 |
|
| Bulgaria |
2 |
1,906 |
2 |
1,906 |
|
| Canada |
18 |
12,569 |
– |
– |
|
China
|
14 6 |
11,058 4,982 |
27 2 |
27,230 2,600 |
|
| Czech Republic |
6 |
3,678 |
– |
– |
|
| Finland |
4 |
2,716 |
1 |
1,600 |
|
| France |
58 |
63,130 |
1 |
1,600 |
|
| Germany |
9 |
12,068 |
– |
– |
|
| Hungary |
4 |
1,889 |
– |
– |
|
| India |
20 |
4,391 |
5 |
3,564 |
|
| Iran |
– |
– |
1 |
915 |
|
| Japan |
50 |
44,215 |
2 |
2,650 |
|
| Korea, Republic |
21 |
18,698 |
5 |
5,560 |
|
| Mexico |
2 |
1,300 |
– |
– |
|
| Netherlands |
1 |
482 |
– |
– |
|
| Pakistan |
3 |
725 |
1 |
315 |
|
| Romania |
2 |
1,300 |
– |
– |
|
| Russian Federation |
32 |
22,693 |
11 |
9,153 |
|
| Slovakian Republic |
4 |
1,816 |
2 |
782 |
|
| Slovenia |
1 |
688 |
– |
– |
|
| South Africa |
2 |
1,800 |
– |
– |
|
| Spain |
8 |
7,567 |
– |
– |
|
| Sweden |
10 |
9,298 |
– |
– |
|
| Switzerland |
5 |
3,263 |
– |
– |
|
| Ukraine |
15 |
13,107 |
2 |
1,900 |
|
| United Kingdom |
19 |
10,137 |
– |
– |
|
| USA |
104 |
101,240 |
1 |
1,165 |
|
| Total |
432 |
365,837 |
65 |
62,862 |
|
This is not a complete list as Israel has Nuclear plants as well.
Inspectors are never allowed in there however.
There is more information at the site on new ones being build as well.
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