Archive for the ‘Ecology’ Category
Sting performs at Sundance exposing secret war
Sting, center, performs during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jan. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Gibson Guitar, Marsaili McGrath)
Sting publicizes film about destruction of Ecuadorian rain forest
by Stephen Pate, NJN Network, Charlottetown, PEI, Canada January 23, 2009 with stories from San Diego Union Tribune and CBS News
Famed rock star Sting gave an impromptu concert at the Sundance Film Festival last Sunday in support of saving the rain forests of Ecuador. He is supporting an indie film. “Joe Berlinger’s film ‘Crude’ traces 15 years of a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ecuador residents who claim that oil producer Chevron Corp. is liable for contaminating water supplies around the headwaters of the Amazon River”. This is a war that is not reported on CNN or CBC. It is a hidden war that Sting and director John Berlinger are bringing to the public, the need to restore this rain forest for the good of the world’s ecology and the indiginous people.
The story of how the United States started this atrocity is contained in John Perkins’ personal account of arranging World Bank development in “Economic Hit Man.”
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Snowy Owls on PEI, bad sign
This Snowy Owl relaxes on the Hillsborough Bridge causeway on Monday. This breed of owl, which is normally native to far more northern regions, has been spotted around P.E.I. in recent months. Guardian photo by Brian McInnis
By Stephen Pate
I’ve got to get out more often. The Guardian reported that there are snowy owls at the Hillsborough Bridge, Unusual visitor has descended on the Island this year. Nice photo Brian.
“Large, white, shadowy, deadly creatures have invaded Prince Edward Island.
The Snowy Owl, usually found in more northern regions, has appeared in large numbers on P.E.I. this fall and appears ready to stay here for the winter.
Reports have come in from a variety of locations across the Island about owl sightings, says Rosemary Curley, natural areas biologist with the fish and wildlife division of the Department of the Environment.”
That is so cool. I’ve never seen one in the open, except at zoo’s. Owls are pretty cool anyways: they are the cats of the bird family. Owls seem smarter than the rest of the birds, perhaps because they don’t say much. Hmmm could that be a hint.
Owls aren’t smarter than Deeter the parrot. That was a smart bird.
Apparently the owls are coming south to look for food, which means the ecological balance up north is shifting. The Ottawa Citizen reported the same thing, Owls moving south in search of prey
Liberal Minister Ronnie McKinley willing to poison children for profit
Ronnie McKinley, Liberal Minister of Highways and Doctor of Death for our children
Editor – Disability Alert reported this story as the first article on the Liberal Millionaires Club on June 19, 2008 following up a story in the Guardian of a week earlier. We reported correctly then that the land, with a skim of dirt is another Love Canal in the making.
Love Canal, along the Niagara Rivers, was meant to be a dream community. Improper dumping of chemical wastes turned it into a tragedy with children dying of various cancers and children born with abnormal birth defects.
The US EPA reported:
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y.–Twenty five years after the Hooker Chemical Company stopped using the Love Canal here as an industrial dump, 82 different compounds, 11 of them suspected carcinogens, have been percolating upward through the soil, their drum containers rotting and leaching their contents into the backyards and basements of 100 homes and a public school built on the banks of the canal.
Only a corrupt government would risk the lives of school children to make patronage profits for Ronnie McKinley and Clifford McQuaid.
Why didn’t the Province demand all the tainted soil be removed as it was on the corner of University Avenue for the new Jean Canfield Building? The reason is no doubt because the Federal Government doesn’t want to risk the health of adults, while the Provincial Government will sell our children into a poisonous play field for a few dollars.
The PEI Department of the Environment issued an all safe report for the sports field; however, how can Islanders trust them when the Minister George Webster is a polluting farmer?
Ronnie McKinley has always appealed to Islanders as a friendly, country kind of guy. What if he is really just a money-grubbing creep who doesn’t care for our children? The indicators point that way.
Don’t ruin Confederation Trail
Editor: We agree with this writer. The Confederation Trail was a project that thousands of Islanders worked since 1989. It is an important part of our lives.
The easements he has granted will last for centuries. What right does Premier Ghiz have to give it away to this rich friends?
If he wants to run on the platform of selling off PEI to his rich friends, call an election. Otherwise back off. As my mother would say, Mr. Ghiz you have unmitigated gall.
The Confederation Trail is ours not his.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Editor:
As a frequent user of the Confederation Trail, I want to add my name to the growing list of irate people over the construction of power lines along the Confederation Trail.
Last weekend, I joined hundreds of Islanders and people from other parts of Canada and other countries, who took part in the Island Marathon. Many spoke to me about the beauty of running the section on the Confederation Trail from Tracadie to the Brackley Point Road. I asked them how they would feel if the trail had power lines constructed carrying 138,000 volts of electricity beside the trail. I informed them about the 29 kilometres of power lines that are to be constructed along the trail in Prince County. They were shocked.
