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Louisiana Judge Martin Feldman, who inexplicably lifted the ban on offshore drilling last week, is significantly invested in BP, Transocean, and many other companies that are directly involved in offshore drilling. The U.S. District judge’s dividend checks are directly dependent upon the case that he decided to benefit oil companies. Isn’t this supposed to be [...]
An 85-year-old Michigan man is fighting for his favorite watershed, the St. Joseph in southern Michigan. He says he’s loved the river since he was about eight years old. Al Smith is the founder of the Friends of the St. Joe River Association, Inc.; his volunteer work began after watching changes in the health of [...]
The entire Gulf Coast was slowly melting away. Ghost towns spread across the southern seashore, as the ceaseless oily rain, toxic fumes and crude sludge infested the water and soil, killing all life and making all of the coastline uninhabitable. Hurricane season had then exacerbated what was already a horrendous situation, spreading the chemical toxins fast and furious further inland.
Billions of creatures perished. The whole southeastern seaboard had been turned into a polluted wasteland. Love Canal looked like a nature preserve compared to this annihilation and devastation. Millions of homeless oil spill refugees flooded into neighboring regions, in a desperate search for food, shelter and unpolluted water.
The disastrous oil spill in the Gulf has just taken a step toward the worst possible case scenario today. After a robotic submarine smashed into one of its vents, BP was forced to remove the containment cap that was capturing 25,000 gallons of petroleum pollution a day. This Enviroknow chart illustrates the estimated tremendous increase [...]
Editor’s note: This is the second installment of Sanctuary City, a fictional futuristic serial that appears regularly in Ecolocalizer. Read last week’s chapter here. The planet’s oceans turned into acid. The seas had already absorbed so much carbon dioxide from our pollution that their acidity levels had increased threefold in just the few years that [...]
