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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts) Sat Aug 3, 2013, 07:17 AM Aug 2013

Juan Cole: Oil Spills blacken Today’s Environment from Alberta to Thailand: Wind and Solar are Way

http://www.juancole.com/2013/08/environment-alberta-thailand.html

Oil Spills blacken Today’s Environment from Alberta to Thailand: Wind and Solar are Way Better!
Posted on 08/03/2013 by Juan Cole

1. High pressure steam injection as a technique of getting oil out of the ground has gone very wrong in Canada:

2. A leaking pipeline in Thailand is the 4th worst oil spill in that nations history.

3. Capetown, South Africa beaches are in danger from a further round of oil spilling from a beached Turkish oil vessel. Attempts to destroy it with controlled explosions have gone round, releasing further petroleum into the ocean this summer after it had soiled beaches last September.

4. Indonesia’s coral reefs are threatened by a tanker spill in the east of the country:

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