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Major Oil Spills - Part 2
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2001

January 14 - TAIWAN - Taiwan is racing against time to avert an ecological disaster and a major setback to its tourism industry, following the island's worst oil spill. Some 1,150 tonnes of fuel oil gushed out of a Greece-registered ship carrying 60,000 tonnes of iron ore, after it ran aground off the Kenting National Park. Marine mammals in the area, such as dolphins, are highly endangered by the spill. The crisis also threatens the operation of a nearby nuclear power plant, and risks cross-strait disputes if the spillage spreads to the Chinese coast.

January 15 - NORWAY - One of the largest oil spills ever from a land based oil storage facility in Norway, was detected when at least 750 tons of sludge had leaked from Norcem's facilities at Brevik. By the afternoon, some 100 tons had been recovered within the containment area around the tank, whilst another 190 tons had been recovered from the sea. The recovery operations are continuing, under close scrutiny from the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority.

January 16 - ECUADOR - A boat carrying fuel to Ecuador's Galapagos Islands is leaking oil into the ecologically sensitive waters near the famous islands. The boat, named "Jessica", was carrying 160,000 gallons of diesel and about 80,000 gallons of IFO 120.The spill has already affected animals including sea lions and pelicans, and volunteers are on standby to clean up and rescue them.

February 16 - INDONESIA - The Coast Guard authorities are working to re-float an oil tanker that ran aground in rough seas off Indonesia's Java island. The Honduras-registered Steadfast partially sank in shallow waters, when it was battered by massive waves and winds off Tegal, some 250 km east of Jakarta. Roughly 40 per cent of an estimated 800 tonnes of sump oil had leaked from the ship and reached the shore, and a joint clean-up operation involving local vessels, Coast Guard and police authorities is underway.

March 20 - BRAZIL - Up to 316,000 gallons of diesel has leaked after the world's largest offshore platform sank five days after a failed rescue effort. A huge diesel slick appeared on the surface when the platform sank to bottom of the ocean floor, almost a mile down. This was just another in a series of oil spills that have plagued the state owned Petrobras in recent months.

March 25 - DENMARK - More than 764,000 gallons of oil spilled after a double-hulled tanker carrying 9.7 million gallons of oil, and a freighter crashed in international waters between eastern Denmark and northwest Germany. A slick about 9.3 miles long and 161/2-feet wide slipped into the narrow Groensund strait between the Danish islands of Moen, Bogoe and Falster, while the bulk of the oil remained in the Baltic Sea off southern Denmark. As ships from three countries worked to contain the oil spill, an international conservation group said that a sanctuary home to thousands of ducks, swans and other water fowl was under threat by the oil slick, the largest ever in Denmark.

April 6 - UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Workers have started to clean a 12-kilometer-radius oil spill reaching the reserved island of Sir Bou Neair, about 70 nautical miles off the coast of the Emirate of Sharjah. The spill was caused by the Iraqi fuel tanker Zainab, suspected of smuggling around 1,300 tonnes of fuel oil from Iraq, as it ran into trouble on its way to a holding area in international waters. The emirate of Sharjah said it had temporarily shut down a desalination plant as a precautionary measure, after the spill neared pumping stations. The spill is said to be the emirate's worst environmental disaster in years.

May 24 - BRAZIL - Petrobras, infamous for a series of spills over the past two years, shut 12 oil rigs, responsible for nearly 9 percent of Brazil's oil output, Thursday night after detecting an oil slick on the ocean surface. There were two oil slicks some 90 km off the coast, one of approximately 110,000 liters and another of some 10,000 liters of crude. The source of the spill has yet to be determined, but officials are ruling out any relation to the huge oil rig that sank in March.

May 25 - CHILE - An oil tanker that ran aground in a remote southern Chilean fjord has spilled some 350,528 litres of crude, leaving an oil slick 70 miles (112 km) long and damaging wildlife and a salmon farm, the Chilean Navy has admitted. Maritime authorities initially dismissed the incident, saying the leak had been negligible and had caused no damage to the environment. But the Navy later admitted the spill was worse than initially announced.

May 28 - MALAYSIA - An oil tanker with some 67 tonnes of fuel, including diesel and 1,500 tonnes of bitumen, sunk after it was crashed from behind by a super tanker about 7.5 nautical miles off Pulau Undan, near Malacca. Officials said the crash caused MT Singapura Timur to take in water, and remained half-submerged in the sea floating southwards. Diesel and bitumen have started to spill into the sea, and is spreading to about one nautical mile from the collision spot.

May 30 - BRAZIL- Oil giant Petrobras said a break in its Paulinia pipeline dumped 220,000 liters of fuel oil in a residential neighborhood. The spill, which occurred 30 kilometers from the city of Sao Paulo, follows two unexplained and unclaimed oil spills in the Campos Basin off the coast of Rio de Janeiro state.

May 30 - CHINA - Chinese environmental experts are struggling to contain damage from toxic styrene which leaked from a ship, and fishermen along the eastern coast fear their livelihoods could be threatened for years to come. About 700 tonnes of the chemical, which is poisonous to humans, seeped into the waters near Shanghai after a South Korean vessel collided with a Hong Kong. State media said the South Korean freighter Dayong was carrying nearly 2,300 tonnes of styrene when it collided with the Hong Kong vessel in dense fog at the mouth of the Yangtze River, near Jigujiao.

June 10 - PHILIPPINES - An oil spill in Cavite is threatening to contaminate Laguna de Bay, caused by a bursting oil pipeline of an industrial and electronics firm at the People’s Technological Complex in Barangay Maduya, Carmona town. The oil spill has already affected a six-kilometer stretch of Carmona-Biñan River, just a few kilometers away from the Laguna Bay. Aside from the affected river, the spilling bunker oil and industrial fuel oil also affected land base areas surrounding the firm.

June 13 - MALAYSIA - An Indonesian tanker laden with a toxic chemical has capsized off Malaysia's southern Johor state, just across from Singapore. The 533 ton MV Endah Lestari was on its way to East Kalimantan in Indonesia with some 600 tonnes of the poisonous industrial chemical phenol, and 18 tonnes of diesel. Newspaper reports said the toxic spill had killed thousands of fish and cockles reared in 85 offshore cages, and Singapore authorities have also warned its citizens to stay away from nearby waters. Officials said it would be tough to mop up the phenol, as it is soluble in water.

August 4 - USA - A fishing vessel that has sunk and is leaking diesel fuel has caused the biggest spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound since the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, posing a threat to the area's wildlife. The Seattle-based Windy Bay was loaded with about 35,000 gallons (133,000 liters) of diesel fuel when it struck a rock and sank in the northern part of the sound about 40 miles (65 km) southwest of the port of Valdez. Just how much leaked was unknown, but diesel fuel leaking from the ship has created a sheen covering 4 square miles (10 sq km), and cleanup crews has recovered about 9,700 gallons (36,800 liters).

August 10 - MICRONESIA - A sunken World War II ship has been gushing 300 to 500 gallons of oil per hour into the Ulithi Atoll lagoon. The cause of the spill is the USS Mississinewa, a 553-foot Navy oiler sunk in 1944 by a one-man Japanese suicide submarine. Yap State officials said the state's governor has declared a state of emergency for Ulithi and advised the 700 people who live on the atoll not to swim or fish in the lagoon. Questions have been raised who should bear the responsibility for taking relevant action, with focus on getting international assistance to clean-up and minimize the environmental and ecological impacts.

September 7 - VIETNAM - Local residents in small boats used buckets to try to collect thousands of tons of oil from a damaged oil tanker and save the nearby beach resort of Vung Tau, after The Vietnamese Petrolimex 01 tanker, carrying 19,000 tons of diesel oil, was hit by a Liberian-registered oil tanker. But wind and waves drove much of the spilled oil to the beach, which normally attracts thousands of vacationers a day.

September 22 - USA - An oil spill caused by a collision between a ship and a barge closed the ship channel servicing the nation's second largest port. The fuel oil spill occurred at Barbour's Cut in La Porte, Texas, and some 860 barrels of fuel oil leaked into the channel. About 18,000 feet of boom were set up to contain the oil, and skimmers were removing it. Containment and cleanup operations involved more than 70 people.

October 4 - USA - Crews were slowed by explosive vapors as they tried to plug a leak in the trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline that spewed nearly 300,000 gallons of oil into the wilderness. A man who had been drinking caused the leak when he shot the pipeline with a big-game rifle. The pipeline carries about 1 million barrels of oil a day, prompting a halt to almost a fifth of U.S. domestic production.

October 18 - BRAZIL - Brazilian and foreign teams prepared to begin salvaging a tanker that hit underwater rocks, spewing a highly flammable oil product into the sea and forcing closure of the country's primary port for grain shipments. State oil giant Petrobras, which owns the tanker, said about 103,000 gallons (392,000 litres) of naphtha, an oil product lighter than gasoline, spilled into the Paranagua port area, some 380 miles (600 km) southwest of Rio.

November 21 - GERMANY - Almost 2,000 tonnes of nitric acid has spilled into the Rhine river, when motor tank barge Stolt Rotterdam sank during a disastrous discharging operation. The 1988-built chemical tanker was discharging the acid at Erdoelchemie Uerdingen when crew noticed fumes coming from the bottom of the barge. An emergency response was initiated, but a store room caught fire, forcing the crew and everyone in the surrounding area to evacuate as the vessel sank, emptying 1,895 tonnes of nitric acid into the river.

December 11 - FINLAND - Oil from a spill off the country's west coast has washed ashore on some 1.24 miles of Ruissalo island's coastline, and the spill is now three kilometers long and a kilometer wide. 10 vessels are involved in operations to contain and sweep up the oil, but the source of the spill is still unknown.

2002

January 22 - THAILAND - A huge oil slick has hit beaches in Thailand's Rayong Bay, a popular holiday spot south-east of the capital Bangkok, and is also said to be threatening the nearby resort island of Samet. Some 100,000 litres of oil had spilled from the Panama-registered tanker Eastern Fortitude when it hit a rock in Rayong Bay a week earlier. Authorities have struggled to clean up the slick, now estimated to be at least 400 m wide and about 3 km long, but complained they were not alerted to the accident until too late.

February 8 - UNITED STATES - A ship that sank nearly 50 years ago is to blame for a mystery oil spill that has killed more than 1,300 birds since November. The Coast Guard matched oil samples taken from the SS Jacob Luckenbach, located about 17 miles southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge, to those taken from oiled birds and the oil sheen that has colored the water. Just a drop or two of oil on a bird's feathers can break the animal's insulating layer and lead to hypothermia.

February 9 - NEW ZEALAND - A major clean-up operation is under way after a cargo ship carrying more than 700 tonnes of fuel ran aground a few hundred metres from the north island port of Gisborne. Already, several tonnes of thick black oil has drifted 400 metres to shore, polluting nearby rivers, beaches and coastline and sending noxious fumes over dozens of houses. Whilst conservation staff have already rescued a number of birds affected by oil in a local creek, wildlife casualties are expected to be inevitable.

April 4 - JAPAN - A flotilla of ships has raced to contain an oil slick off Japan's western coast before it washes ashore. The 10-kilometer (6.2-mile) long spill has been slowly moving towards the coast since it bubbled to the surface from a Belize-registered cargo ship that sank four days earlier, after colliding with a fishing boat. Officials earlier said the spill would likely hit the coast, but did not know when or where.

April 6 - USA - Strong wind hampered cleanup efforts as workers tried to contain a 90,000-gallon crude oil spill off the southeast Louisiana coast. Four-foot waves made it difficult for skimmers to collect the oil, but the Coast Guard said about 6,720 gallons had been recovered. No damage to wildlife had been reported, but officials expected there to be some shoreline impact.

June 12 - SINGAPORE - A collision between Thailand-registered freighter MV Hermion and Singapore-registered bunker tanker Neptank VII has caused about 450 tonnes of marine fuel oil to spill into the south-eastern waters of Singapore. Clean-up operations by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) have largely contained the oil spill, but broken patches of oil remained visible in the Singapore Straits, and oil booms were placed off the waters of Marina Bay and Sentosa.

July 31 - ROMANIA - Tons of oil gushed into a river in southern Romania after torrential rains damaged a pipeline. The spill occurred in the Prahova River near the village of Manesti, some 50 kilometers north of the capital, Bucharest. The water damaged the pipeline near a refinery owned by a state oil company, Conpet. Authorities placed dams along the Prahova to prevent oil from spilling into the Danube River, and police guarded the area overnight to prevent people from throwing flammable objects into the river.

September 12 - SOUTH AFRICA - Salvage teams and ecologists are battling to contain a spill of oil and chemicals from a blazing cargo vessel, and to prevent tides from pushing the spill into the pristine Saint Lucia wetlands, a wildlife sanctuary nearby. Wildlife officials have warned that a serious oil spill could pollute the Umfolozi River and a nearby estuary, and damage mangroves, crocodiles, hippos and a turtle nesting area in the park. Reefs off the area are also popular among scuba divers for their wide variety of fish.

November 13 - SPAIN - Four tugs have failed in their attempts to rescue a leaking oil tanker with 77.000 tonnes of fuel aboard, which later broke in two and sank off the northwestern coast of Spain. The Prestige, Greek-owned and registered in the Bahamas, has leaked most of its cargo, and the oil is washing up on the Galician shores and approaching the coastlines of Portugal and France. All fishing activities have been banned in the area, and the incident is fast becoming one of the worst ecological disasters ever to happen.

November 23 - CHINA - A Chinese ship has collided with a Maltese-registered oil tanker, spreading an oil slick 2.5 miles by 1.4 miles across the Bohai sea. The Tianjin Maritime Bureau sent seven vessels to clean up the spill at the accident site. Preliminary inquiries indicate the Tasman Sea tanker, which was bound for Tianjin carrying 80.000 tons of oil, was anchored off the coast when the accident took place.

December 5 - SINGAPORE - A potentially disastrous crude oil spill in Singapore waters was contained to just 350 tonnes when a small general cargo vessel collided with a heavily-laden single-hulled tanker in the middle of the Singapore Straits. Two oil slicks measuring 2.5kmx300m and 2.5kmx500m were spotted in Indonesian waters off the island of Bintan.

2003

February 14 - USA - Clean up operations are underway at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge after an underground corroded pipeline fitting released as many as 100,000 gallons of fuel in the fuel farm area last week. The atoll provides nesting and resting habitat for almost two million seabirds, as well as important habitat for migratory shorebirds, threatened green sea turtles, and endangered Hawaiian monk seals. Since almost all of the spill is underground, however, impact to wildlife has so far been minimal, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.

March 18 - AUSTRALIA - A large oil spill is threatening to pollute the Brisbane River, where up to 1.5 million litres of crude oil has leaked from a ruptured pipeline at the Santos terminal. Emergency crews have contained the oil to creeks and wetlands in an area of about eight hectares in the Lytton industrial estate. Booms further up the water course had not stopped the oil and the outgoing tide was threatening to drag the slick into the river and Moreton Bay.

March 20 - VIETNAM - Thousands of acres of clam and shrimp farms were in danger after a ship carrying 600 tonnes of fuel oil sank in the river in Ho Chi Minh City, environment officials said. The oil slick spread about seven kilometers towards Can Gio district, home of several aqua-cultural farms. It also spread three kilometers towards Vung Tau province, but has yet to hit the beaches there.

May 31 - SWEDEN - The Swedish government accused Denmark of reacting too slowly to the sinking of a Chinese vessel in Danish waters near Sweden's coast, saying the effects of the ensuing oil spill could have been reduced. The Fu Shan Hai bulk carrier went down in Danish waters between the Swedish coast and Denmark's Bornholm island, following a collision with a Polish freighter. At least 100 tonnes of oil have already leaked out into the water, and a large oil slick gushing from the vessel has hit Sweden's popular southeastern coast.

June 12 - SINGAPORE - The MV APL Emerald, a 40.077 ton container ship, spilled about 150 tonnes of fuel oil when it ran aground near Horsburgh Lighthouse, in the eastern approaches of the Singapore Straits. Six anti-pollution craft were involved in the clean-up, and oil booms have been laid around the vessel to contain the spill, which has since been contained. The authorities said there was no chance of any fuel reaching Singapore's shores, about 46km away.

July 12 - RUSSIA - Russian divers are exploring a sunken Japanese tanker that has begun releasing large quantities of oil and threatens to spark an ecological disaster off the west coast of the Pacific island of Sakhalin. More than two tonnes of fuel have leaked in the past few days from the Takeo Maru, which sank in 1979 off the sea port of Shakhtersk. The leaked oil is floating in the Tatar strait and heading for the coast. With up to 300 tonnes of fuel oil remaining inside the sunken tanker, the Takeo Maru could be an ecological bomb that jeopardizes Russia's Pacific coastline.

August 13 - PAKISTAN - An oil tanker has broken up off Pakistan's Arabian Sea port, Karachi, after spilling nearly 10,000 tonnes of oil, sparking fears of lasting damage to local marine life. The Greek-registered MV Tasman Spirit, still carrying 35,000 tonnes of crude oil, split in two around 100 metres from the Karachi port, after running aground on July 27. Officials said that most of the oil had pooled along Clifton beach, the favourite beach resort among Karachi's 14 million people. A thick oil slick could be seen snaking from the ship to the shores alongside the port, blackening waves and seeping onto sands. Environmentalists predicted the entire 40 kilometre (25 mile) Karachi coastline could be affected, endangering fish, crabs and rare turtles.

2004

January 19 - PHILIPPINES - An oil spill coming from a diving boat that ran aground at the Apo Manor Reef in December, a protected marine park off Mindoro Island, is threatening to destroy one of the world’s best dive sites. Residents of Barangay Siblayan in Occidental Mindoro, a nearby coastal town, said that the M/V Island Explorer has started to leak bunker fuel, endangering the reef which serves as a fish nursery and the major source of livelihood of the surrounding communities. The surrounding waters are abundant with marine fauna and luxuriant coral growth with more than 500 coral species. Marine life includes sharks, stingrays and manta rays.

January 20 - NORWAY - A large oil spill has started spreading from the capsized cargo vessel "Rocknes", that spilled several thousand litres of oil and bunker fuel along the coastline near the city of Bergen. Close to a thousand seabirds have already been found dead or dying, and clean-up crews are working day and night to clean up affected coastlines and prevent the slick from spreading further. However, due to the immediate search and rescue work that prevented the oil spill response activities from commencing, thick patches of oil have already drifted beyond the reach of the highly sophisticated and efficient Norwegian oil spill response vessels and their equipment.

March 4 - CHINA - Nearly one million people in south-western Sichuan province were without water for drinking and bathing, after chemicals spilled from a factory into an important Yangtze river tributary, state media said. The authorities shut down water supplies after a mixture of synthetic ammonia and nitrogen from the Sichuan General Chemical Factory leaked into the Tuo river in the densely populated province, the Shanghai Morning Post reported. Water supplies for four residential areas - Jianyang, Zizhong, Neijiang and Luzhou - were severely polluted, and could remain cut for several days, the report said.

October 2 - INDONESIA - An oil spill has swamped a chain of tourist islands off the coast of the Indonesian capital, polluting a marine park and hitting businesses in the area, officials and media reports said. Oil began leaking in the region known as the Thousand Islands, and government officials said the spill may have been caused by leaking oil pipes operated nearby by China National Offshore Oil Corp, or by a mishap loading oil onto tankers. The islands have been hit by at least five oil spills in the past year, driving occupancy rates at some resorts to just about 30 per cent, according to Jakarta Tourism Agency. The oil slick has also hurt fishermen and seaweed farmers in the area, officials said.

October 14 - USA - Emergency crews scrambled to control a massive south Sound oil spill that soiled portions of Tacoma's Commencement Bay and stretched for miles in a bluish-black sheen, threatening pristine beaches and wildlife on Maury and Vashon islands. "We have a major oil spill on our hands," said the spokesman for the state Department of Ecology. "This is a very large, very complex spill." Officials didn't know where it came from, who was responsible or exactly how much oil had been spilled.

November 18 - BRAZIL - Workers are rushing to avert an environmental disaster as an oil slick spread from a cargo ship that exploded and broke in half at a port in southern Brazil. Workers found dead fish and dolphins in the toxic slick of fuel oil, diesel fuel and methanol that leaked from the ship. The slick, which blackened rocks and beaches, stretched for more than 20 kilometres from the port of Paranagua, 625 kilometres south-west of Rio de Janeiro. Environmental officials indefinitely banned many maritime activities and grounded the area's 3000 fishermen.

November 21 - CANADA - Scientists warn the 44,000 gallon oil spill at an oil platform off Canada's Newfoundland province could kill up to 100,000 seabirds. The spill, coming at a bad time for the birds, occurred at the Terra Nova offshore oil platform as a result of a malfunction. A few days laster, the slick covered at least 14 square miles. The birds at risk include turrs, dovekeys and black-legged kittiwakes, as well as migrating birds such as shearwaters.

November 26 - USA - A tanker has spilled what was initially estimated as appr. 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey, immediately creating a 20-mile slick that threatened fish and birds. But authorities later estimated that it could be as much as 475,000 gallons, leaving a gooey mess that has stained 70 miles of shoreline across three states. More than 1,000 cleanup and emergency responders were called in to skim oil from the surface of the water, and place thousands of feet of barriers to contain the floating slick.

December 7 - CHINA - A collision between two container ships near the mouth of South China's Pearl River has caused the region's biggest oil spill in five years. Nearly 450 tonnes are said to have been spilled. Oil was mainly leaking from the fuel tanks of the MSC Ilona, that caused a slick about 17 kilometers long and up to several hundred meters wide. Eight decontamination ships from Guangdong Province are on the spot to deal with the leaking oil, while divers have been dispatched to plug the leak.

December 10 - USA - Thousands of gallons of fuel oil spilling out of a Malaysian freighter that snapped in two off the US state of Alaska have put the Aleutian islands' fragile ecosystem in jeopardy, fueling fears of an environmental crisis 15 years after the Exxon Valdez disaster. The Selendang Ayu's 480,000-gallon (1.8 million-litre) stock of thick fuel was leaking into the water off Unalaska Island, killing cormorants and marine life and leaving a thick and dark coating on beaches. Wildlife in the area includes endangered or threatened species such as Steller sea lions and Steller's eiders as well as western Alaska sea otters, the population of which is dwindling.

December 20 - EGYPT - An oil slick in the Suez Canal is threatening to reach the Mediterranean, port sources said. The spill was caused by a leak in a Kuwaiti tanker carrying 160,000 tonnes of crude, after it collided with a dredger further south on December 14. The slick has tripled in size over a week and now measures around 34 miles (55 kilometres) in length, the source said, adding that about 10,000 cubic metres (2.2 million gallons) had been lost from the tanker. Several aquatic species are threatened by the contamination, and foreign officials charge that the Egyptian authorities have no adequate strategy to face such environmental threats and lack means to combat them.

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Homosexuals for Republicans & George Bush
http://bigoil600038.insanejournal.com

WINE INDUSTRY ANNIHILATED by GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.ukfreepages.co.uk/publish/page4628.php

Global Warming Destroys Maple Sugar Industry

http://bigoil426.insanejournal.com

STOP CLIMATE CHAOS and the DESTRUCTION of the POOR
http://www.itdg.org/?id=stopclimatechaos
http://campaigncc.org
http://stopclimatechaos.org

BIG OIL MAIN PAGE
http://bigoil101.insanejournal.com

GENERAL LINKS
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25537.html

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Proverb:

A good person leaves an inheritance to their children’s children.

What kind of inheritance are you leaving?

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book: Miracle of Tithing; by Mark Victor Hansen
http://tithing101.livejournal.com

book: You Can If You Think You Can; by Norman Vincent Peale

You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
NFL Football Coach

DVD: Facing the Giants; director: Alex Kendrick

BOLD SPIRIT
http://bolderspirit.livejournal.com

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I CAN DO (be) all things thru God who strengthens me.

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Where there is no way, God can make a way.

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With God all things are possible.

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Whatever things you so desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them.

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The everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary.

He gives power to the weak.

To those who have no might, He increases their strength.

To those who wait on the Lord, He shall Renew their strength.

They shall mount up with wings like eagles.

They shall run and not be weary.

They shall walk and not faint.

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book: Unlocking the Secrets to Living Your Dreams; by Jack Canfield
book: Amazing Results of Positive Thinking; by Norman Vincent Peale
book: Miracle of Fasting, for Physical, Mental and Spiritual Rejuvenation; by Patricia Bragg
book: Fasting Can Save Your Life; by Doctor Herbert Shelton
book: Super Power Breathing for Super Energy and Longevity; by Patricia Bragg
book: Coconut Cures; by Bruce Fife
book: Healing Power for the Heart; by Robert Abel
http://adhd101.livejournal.com
http://organic4school.livejournal.com
http://em202.livejournal.com

your HEALTH (Wholeness) is your WEALTH

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book: Rwanda, The Land God Forgot; by Meg Guillebaud
DVD: In Lies We Trust; director: Dr. Leonard George Horowitz

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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Choose to BE A WINNER.

Be a bringer of the LIGHT.
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West African ChevronTexaco Gas Pipeline Rip Off
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The West African gas pipeline (WAGP) is a 681 kilometre onshore and offshore pipeline designed to transport natural gas from gas fields in the western Niger Delta of Nigeria to consumers in Benin Republic, Ghana and Togo.

Out of total estimated project costs of 590 million dollars, the World Bank has provided a 125 million dollar guarantee, while the European Investment Bank provided a 75 million euro loan to the Government of Ghana in 2006.

The project is being implemented by WAPCO (the West Africa Gas Pipeline Company), a consortium headed by ChevronTexaco that also includes Shell and the state companies of the respective countries. The pipeline started operation in late 2007 after significant delays caused by conflicts and instability in the Niger Delta.

ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOCIAL IMPACTS

WAGP has only added to the suffering of communities living in the Niger Delta region.

It has brought about environmental destruction, extreme social disruption, violence and political instability.

The oil giants ChevronTexaco and Shell have openly admitted that they have contributed to the violence, corruption and disruptions in the region.

The World Bank Inspection Panel has confirmed that WAPCO took possession of lands in Lagos and Ogun and displaced already impoverished residents, paying just 10 percent of the established value of their land.

The people living along the pipeline route in Nigeria and Ghana report that they have not been properly consulted.

Both the project sponsors and the World Bank have claimed that the pipeline will contribute to the ending of dangerous gas flaring in Nigeria.

Yet the Inspection Panel has found that gas flaring continues, afflicting Niger Delta communities with never-ending noise, heat, light and pollution that can only have acute impacts on public health. Moreover, actual reductions in gas flaring will be substantially less than was suggested when WAGP was still in the planning phase.

The cocktail of toxic substances which has been emitted for over 40 years via flaring – and with major support from Chevron and Shell – contains mercury, benzene, lead, nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide and particulates.

The effects of flaring have exposed neighbouring communities to an increased risk of premature deaths, child respiratory illnesses, asthma and cancer, as well as acid rain that kills fish, defoliates vegetation and corrodes infrastructure and buildings in surrounding areas.

While the Constitutional Court of Nigeria has declared that gas flaring is an illegal practice and a violation of human rights, this decision has not been implemented.

WHO BENEFITS?

The agreements between the African states and the oil companies also raises questions about the overall economic viability of WAGP for Ghana and Nigeria.

An assessment undertaken by Ghana’s Energy Commission concluded that the WAGP project would not be economically viable for the people of Ghana.

It stresses that the terms offered to Ghana by the ChevronTexaco-led consortium allow only a small saving on the current cost of oil for power generation. The Energy Commission also warned that “there is an urgent need for transparency” in relation to the Gas Purchase Agreement, which details the country’s payment obligations.

These contracts lock Ghana into buying WAGP gas at a set price for twenty years, impacting on Ghana’s budget and ruling out possible future alternative energy directions.

It also requires Ghana to pay the pipeline owners an annual fee in the order of 88 million dollar for transport services, thereby obliging the country to pay even in the event of supply failure.

In addition, Ghana will pay for the amortisation of the pipeline without ever gaining ownership title to the investment.

The project also has no economic benefit for Nigeria despite WAPCO claims that “the provision of a market and financial returns for natural gas that may otherwise have been flared, will have a positive impact on the economy”.

However, in a country where the economic benefits of oil production – estimated at over 20 billion dollars a year – have consistently not reached the most needy in society, it seems unlikely that any additional income from gas sales will ever benefit them.

The community conflicts that continue to rage across the delta area are directly linked to unequal benefit sharing.

While the World Bank claimed that the project adheres to its own safeguard policies, it did note that the WAGP is laying the foundation for continuing conflict in the Niger Delta.

DIALOGUE WITH NGOS

Despite concerns raised by environmental groups towards some of the EIB’s executive directors that the bank's funding for WAGP should have been postponed until the EIB ensured that outstanding problems were resolved, its board of directors gave the go-ahead to a project loan in December 2006.

In meetings and correspondence, EIB staff have claimed that the EIB would approve the loan only under certain conditions, subject to the World Bank Inspection Panel's satisfaction, and would make sure that the project uses 100 percent associated gas.

However, shortly after these statements, the EIB financed the project with no conditions attached and with currently no information available on its website, other than a few lines about the amount of the lending provided and the beneficiary.

The EIB has neither ensured that the project will increase access to energy for people living in Ghana, Benin and Togo, nor asked for a new environmental impact assessment (EIA) study that would scrutinise the Escravos-Lagos pipeline.

This pipeline was built in 1980 – without an EIA – to transport unflared non-associated gas to WAGP.
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Per the Sustainable Industries Journal,
the Pentagon has blocked the construction of 16 Wind Energy sites in the USA.
The military claims the Wind Farms are a threat to national security.
Maybe the Wind Farms are a threat to Big Oil and Big Coal?

HOW STUPID ARE AMERICANS?

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WINE INDUSTRY ANNIHILATED by GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.ukfreepages.co.uk/publish/page4628.php

Global Warming Destroys Maple Sugar Industry

http://bigoil426.insanejournal.com

Does Big OIL or Big COAL have a Body BAG with your CHILD'S Name on it?
http://air301.livejournal.com
book: Pioneer Doctor, the Story of a Woman's Work; by Mari Grana
book: Big Coal, The Dirty Secret; by Jeff Goodell
book: Moving Mountains; by Penny Loeb
book: Coal River; by Michael Shnayerson
book: Bringing Down the Mountains; by Shirley Stewart Burns
book: Lost Mountain; by Erik Reece
http://adhd102.livejournal.com/4176.html

OIL - GAS REFINERIES = DIRTY AIR & DEATH
http://www.refineryreform.org
G.Bush@Bankruptcy~Enron.com
http://ovl.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/23267.php
http://argentina.indymedia.org/news/2008/06/606157.php
http://chiapas.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=156821
http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/344250/index.php

DICK CHENEY Made Millions with SADDAM HUSSEIN

http://bigoil404.insanejournal.com

book: Tyranny of Oil; by Antonia Juhasz
book: Halliburton Agenda - The Politics of Oil and Moneyl; by Dan Briody
book: Cronies - Oil, the Bushes, and the Rise of Texas; by Dan Briody
book: Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; by John Perkins
book: Economic Gangsters; Ray Fisman
book: Sound Truth and Corporate Myth - The Legacy of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill; by Riki Ott
book: Poisoned Wells - The Dirty Politics Of African Oil; by Leandre Poisson
book: Justice Under Siege; by Eva Joly
book: Texas Oil and the New Deal; by Steve Isser
book: Corruption In Iraq & World; by Vance Jochim
book: Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country; by Laton Mccartney
book: Untapped - The Scramble for Africa's Oil; by John Ghazvinian
book: Eating Fossil Fuel - Oil, Food and the Coming Crisis in Agriculture; by Dale Allen Pfeiffe
book: Blood and Oil; by Michael Klare
book: Backstabbing for Beginners; by Michael Soussan
book: A Culture of Corruption; by Daniel Jordan Smith
book: THE RISE, CORRUPTION AND COMING FALL OF THE HOUSE OF SAUD; by Said K. Aburish
book: Greed and corruption in the Caspian; by Derek Brower
book: Corporate Corruption - The Abuse of Power; by Marshall B. Clinard
report: All the Presidents’ Men - The Devastating Story of Oil and Banking in Angola’s Privatised War; by Global Witness
book: Curse of the Black Gold - 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta; by Michael Watts
book: Crude - The Story of Oil; by Sonia Shah
book: Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil; by Ike Okonta
book: The Prize - The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power; by Daniel Yergin
book: A Game as Old as Empire - The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption; by Steven Hiatt
book: Blood Bankers; by James S. Henry
book: Grand Theft Pentagon - Tales of Corruption and Profiteering in the War on Terror; by Jeffrey St. Clair
book: Oil and the Glory - The Pursuit of Empire and Fortune on the Caspian Sea; by Steve LeVine
book: Indonesian Production Sharing Contract, an investor's perspective; by T. N. Machmud
book: Grand corruption in the regulation of oil; by Tina Soreide
book: Oil on the Brain; by Lisa Margonelli
book: Many Faces of Corruption; by J. Edgardo Campos
http://www.thebushagenda.net

How much political campaign contributions (bribes) is your congressman receiving
www.campaignfinance.org/states
www.publicintegrity.org

How much money (bribes) are the Republicans and their friends receiving from big companies?
www.campaignfinance.org/states
www.publicintegrity.org

DVD: Capitol Crimes
by Bill Moyers
The fall of super-lobbyist Jack Abramoff has exposed what may be one of the biggest political scandals in America's history. What does the dizzying scope of corruption say about how laws are made and who really owns the U.S. government? Bill Moyers and his team of investigative journalists untangle the web of relationships, secret deals, and political manipulation to open a disturbing window on the dark side of American politics.

stop ELECTION FRAUD, support Honest elections.
www.verifiedvoting.org
www.votevets.org
mediamatters.org
www.blackboxvoting.org
www.investigatethevote.org
www.votersunite.org
www.citizensact.org
www.solarbus.org/election/cd/test/videos.html
www.sourcewatch.org/index.php
state info:
http://victorygard379b.insanejournal.com

CRIMES AGAINST NATURE

http://bigoil405.insanejournal.com

DVD: Who Killed the Electric Car?
http://www.amazon.com/Who-Killed-Electric-Martin-Sheen/dp/B000I5Y8FU

Pure, clean air is the invisible staff of life.
Smog is the invisible staff of death.
book: Super Power Breathing for Super Energy and Longevity; by Patricia Bragg

book: Internal Combustion; by Edwin Black
http://www.internalcombustionbook.com

ARE YOU DRIVING A GM HITLER CAR?

http://bigoil406.insanejournal.com

book: Nazi Connection - Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism; by Stefan Kuhl
book: War Against the Weak - Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race; by Edwin Black

Does Big OIL or Big COAL have a Body BAG with your CHILD'S Name on it?
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24663.html
http://air301.livejournal.com
http://air309.livejournal.com

OIL - GAS REFINERIES = DIRTY AIR & DEATH
http://www.refineryreform.org

VEGETABLE OIL Cars
http://plantdrive.com
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24209.html
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/24451.html
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/25641.html
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/hemp.html

SolFocus Aims to Beat Coal with Solar Concentrators
http://air302.livejournal.com

SOLAR ENERGY INTELLIGENCE
More Jobs, Economic Progress, Clean Environment
Why be Stupid?
http://solomonintel.livejournal.com/12917.html

Convert GAS Cars to Plug-In ELECTRIC Autos
http://www.electroauto.com http://www.kta-ev.com http://www.nedra.com http://www.evparts.com
http://www.sourceguides.com/energy

book: Convert It; by Michael Brown and Shari Prange
DVD: Convert It http://www.electroauto.com
Links: http://vegcar.livejournal.com/5593.html

Electric MOTORCYCLES
http://motorcycle2.livejournal.com

http://motorcycle3.livejournal.com
http://motorcycle4.livejournal.com
http://evt2scooter.livejournal.com
http://www.solarmobil.net
http://motorcycle5.livejournal.com
http://www.e-max-ltd.com
http://www.topmotorx.com
http://www.patente-erfindungen.de/erfindungen_fahrraeder.htm
http://www.zeromotorcycles.com
http://www.sourceguides.com/energy
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Electric BICYCLES
http://nycewheels.com
http://www.myebike.com
http://e2bike.livejournal.com
http://vegcar.livejournal.com/1647.html
http://www.cyclone-tw.com
http://www.powacycle.co.uk
http://www.electricbikesales.co.uk
http://egovehicles.com
http://www.electricbicycle.com.au
http://www.evehicle.com.au
http://www.electric-bicycle.cn
http://www.greenspeed.us
http://www.sourceguides.com/energy

SOLAR BOATS - SHIPS
http://solar2boat.livejournal.com
http://solar3boat.livejournal.com

Recharge your Electric Auto with RENEWABLE ENERGY
http://www.bergey.com http://www.bwea.com http://www.vestas.com http://www.awea.org
http://solarenergy.org http://greendragonenergy.co.uk http://www.lowimpact.org
http://www.scoraigwind.com http://www.greenempowerment.org http://www.grupofenix.org
http://www.solarliving.org http://www.arthaonline.com http://www.the-mrea.org http://www.txses.org
http://www.irenew.org http://www.nmsea.org http://www.azsolarcenter.com
http://www.microhydropower.com http://www.newenergycorp.ca http://www.canyonhydro.com
http://wattsun.com http://www.lorentz.de http://www.etsolar.de
http://www.solargenix.com http://solar.sharpusa.com http://solren.com http://www.spirecorp.com
http://pickensplan101.livejournal.com
http://wind2air101.livejournal.com/8683.html
http://www.windpower.org
http://www.sourceguides.com/energy

http://www.i2p.org
http://www.ises.org http://www.firstsolar.com
http://www.rmi.org

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book: Unlocking the Secrets to Living Your Dreams; by Jack Canfield
book: Amazing Results of Positive Thinking; by Norman Vincent Peale
book: Miracle of Fasting, for Physical, Mental and Spiritual Rejuvenation; by Patricia Bragg
book: Fasting Can Save Your Life; by Doctor Herbert Shelton
book: Super Power Breathing for Super Energy and Longevity; by Patricia Bragg
book: Coconut Cures; by Bruce Fife
book: Healing Power for the Heart; by Robert Abel
http://adhd101.livejournal.com
http://organic4school.livejournal.com

your HEALTH (Wholeness) is your WEALTH

~

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book: Miracle of Tithing; by Mark Victor Hansen
http://tithing101.livejournal.com

Proverb:

A good person leaves an inheritance to their children’s children.

What kind of inheritance are you leaving?

book: You Can If You Think You Can; by Norman Vincent Peale

You never really lose until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
NFL Football Coach

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves.

Choose to BE A WINNER.

Be a bringer of the LIGHT.
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