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Tag: Fish
Mar 29 2010
What’s on Your Dinner Menu Tonight?
Jun 06 2009
The Hidden Danger in Coal Ash The Selenium Wars – in the TN. Legislature.
This is up at DK now – not getting ANY attention, but it’s an important story – so Ill put it up here but don’t have time to edit.
Who knows how the polo ponies were killed in Florida?
“An overdose of selenium is the probable cause of death of 21 polo horses in Wellington last week, the state veterinarian said today.” http://www.palmbeachpost.com/h…
While a little bit of selenium may be health promoting, at amounts of just a little bit more, it becomes a deadly toxic. http://ods.od.nih.gov/factshee…
Aquatic selenium pollution is a global environmental safety issue. http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.u…
Kossacks have heard previously in many good diaries about the Kingston coal ash disaster, including this one TOXIC BREW IN TENNESSEE: A look at what’s in TVA’s coal ash. http://www.dailykos.com/storyo…
There have also been diaries about the absurd things happening in the Tennessee legislature this year, particularly with guns http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
and our water laws.
Oct 07 2008
Israel Blockades Gaza Fishermen, Gas Resource
Scottish activist films Israeli navy shooting at Gaza fishermen
Claims of 14 deaths in previous incidents
According to
Billy Briggs, writing in Scotland Sunday Herald,
A Scottish human rights activist has filmed the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed Palestinian fishing boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip. The footage, taken on September 6 by Andrew Muncie, who is from the Highlands, shows an Israeli gunboat engaging fishing boats while international observers hold their arms in the air and scream for them to stop firing.
Briggs reports that:
No-one was injured in the incident, but Palestinian fishermen claim 14 colleagues have been murdered at sea by the Israeli navy since the onset of an economic blockade imposed after Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007.
Israel says patrolling these waters is a vital security measure to stop weapons being smuggled into Gaza, but by its blockade, Israel controls the Palestinians’ food, fuel, aid, and ability to fish in their own territorial waters.
The Sunday Herald article states that:
According to the United Nations, the crisis has left the number of households in Gaza below the poverty line at an unprecedented 52%.
Gaza’s fishing industry has been hit particularly hard. Under the 1993 Oslo accords, Gazan fishermen were to be allowed 20 nautical miles out to sea. According to Oxfam, fishermen are now only allowed six miles out to sea – not far enough out to reach the schools of large fish – and risk being shot or arrested if they breach this limit.
But that’s not all Israel controls with its gunboats in Gaza’s maritime territory.
Mar 26 2008
Plastic People, Oh Baby, You’re Such A Drag
cross posted from The Dream Antilles
The Midway Islands
Recently, I wrote about Si’an Kaan in Mexico and the utter disgrace that its beaches were full of plastic. Today, it’s the Midway Islands and a BBC story that plastic in these islands in the very middle of the Pacific Ocean is killing birds. That’s right. In the middle of nowhere, plastic is killing the birds. And turtles. And fish. Plastic is everywhere. It’s destroying wildlife. It’s destroying the planet.
Join me in the ocean.
Jan 31 2008
Pony Party… Fish Story
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