[allamericanbird]

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/...-birds/259705/

[Bird_Bill]

An american only has to look here now to see what the future could very well bring if Northern Dynastys Minerals LTD has their way with the Pebbles mines project in Alaska. American citizens should well be outraged. We can contact our elected officials and let it be known.

And hell no to pebbles mines & north slope oil.

[Nightranger]

While we are on the subject, Shell have scored a huge own goal over a poster ad campaign and despite some severe Internet lampooning, they have yet to pull the ad.

http://arcticready.com/social/gallery

[keith]

Originally Posted by Nightranger

While we are on the subject, Shell have scored a huge own goal over a poster ad campaign and despite some severe Internet lampooning, they have yet to pull the ad.

http://arcticready.com/social/gallery

Tragic and funny at the same time.

[MJB]

Originally Posted by Nightranger

While we are on the subject, Shell have scored a huge own goal over a poster ad campaign and despite some severe Internet lampooning, they have yet to pull the ad.

http://arcticready.com/social/gallery

To provide some possible context, the Texas Republican manifesto for 2012 demands the immediate resumption of oil drilling in the Gulf, and in Texas; they also call for no environmental restrictions on mining or shale-fracking, and for the pipeline to Alaska to be finished as soon as possible; they also want the Federal Department of Environment closed down. Maybe Shell (US) are simply calculating that the GOP will win in Texas and want to be on the winning side?
MJB
PS The manifesto is attached. The reason it became widely known is because of this uncut quote (but my emphasis in bold) from it: “We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.” See the attachment.

[Bird_Bill]

What has been done in the gulf is history. What is possible and plausible of happening in Alaska regarding Bristol Bay/Pebbles Mine project hasnt happened yet. Posted no links to represent any point of view. Expressed personal opinion of what could happen. Invite everyone to research Pebbles, nothing on earth like it has ever been proposed before. Incidents such as Deep water Horizon seemingly happen often, all over the world, to lesser and greater extents. Again, again, and again.

[Dimitris]

Originally Posted by MJB

To provide some possible context, the Texas Republican manifesto for 2012 demands the immediate resumption of oil drilling in the Gulf, and in Texas; they also call for no environmental restrictions on mining or shale-fracking, and for the pipeline to Alaska to be finished as soon as possible; they also want the Federal Department of Environment closed down. Maybe Shell (US) are simply calculating that the GOP will win in Texas and want to be on the winning side?
MJB
PS The manifesto is attached. The reason it became widely known is because of this uncut quote (but my emphasis in bold) from it: “We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.” See the attachment.

This... this is... disturbing...

[Bird_Bill]

As a US citizen, would feel a little better about coal gasification and increased reliance on methane here. In overall energy needs the US satisfies seventy percent of our domestic needs. Kicking it up a notch with those two technologies frees BP to do the hell as they please elsewhere.

That would also let Mr. Harper to the north of us concentrate on what he feels needs to done with canadian shale oil. That keystone thing is driving that man nuts. Tired hearing about keystone here. Canadian prime minister wanting to put more Americans to work rather than his own brothers and sisters sounds decidedly suspicious to many of us here in the US.

Getting back to the hijacking and diversion of this thread from the catastrophe the was BP in the gulf, towards another Anglo/American accident waiting to happen in Alaska, please feel free to research Bristol Bay/Pebbles Mine project. There is enough embarrassment there to cover buisness partners on both sides of the atlantic.

[Bird_Bill]

People of the US are faced with some difficult enviromental choices. Do want to note as a Democrat that the GOP was responsible for the beginning of some of the most far reaching enviromental decisions ever made.

Setting aside Yellowstone National Park as our first of many is as fine example as any. It was accomplished with the
bi-partisan will of the people reigning supreme. No canard or rhetoric from another part of the world put us off of those accomplishments.

[Mitchelle]

"The Long Shadow of the BP Oil Spill Keeps Killing Baby Birds"

True.