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Dying, dead marine wildlife paint dark, morbid picture of Gulf Coast following oil spill
NY DAILY NEWS
June 2nd 2010
Here's what President Obama didn't see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds.
"When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of it. It was the saddest darn thing to look at," said a BP contract worker who took the Daily News on a surreptitious tour of the wildlife disaster unfolding in Louisiana.
His motive: simple outrage.
"There is a lot of coverup for BP. They specifically informed us that they don't want these pictures of the dead animals. They know the ocean will wipe away most of the evidence. It's important to me that people know the truth about what's going on here," the contractor said.
"The things I've seen: They just aren't right. All the life out here is just full of oil. I'm going to show you what BP never showed the President."
The day was 85 degrees, the blue sky almost white with sunshine, the air fresh with salt tang.
After checking that he was unobserved, he motored out to Queen Bess barrier island, known to the locals as Bird Island.
The grasses by the shore were littered with tarred marine life, some dead and others struggling under a thick coating of crude.
"When you see some of the things I've seen, it would make you sick," the contractor said. "No living creature should endure that kind of suffering."
Queen Bess Island was the first place where fledglings were born when the beloved, endangered Louisiana brown pelicans were reintroduced in the 1970s. Their population rebounded and was finally declared stabilized in 2002.
Now their future is once again in doubt. In what had been such an important hatchery, hundreds of pelicans - their white heads stained black - stood sentinel. They seemed slow and lethargic.
"Those pelicans are supposed to have white heads. The black is from the oil. Most of them won't survive," the contractor said.
"They keep trying to clean themselves. They try and they try, but they can't do it."
The contractor has been attempting to save birds and turtles.
"I saw a pelican under water with only its wing sticking out," he said. "I grabbed it and lifted it out of the water. It was just covered in oil. It was struggling so hard to survive. We did what we could for it.
"Nature is cruel, but what's happening here is crueler."
The uninhabited barrier islands are surrounded by yellow floating booms, also stained black, that are supposed to keep the oil out. It's not working.
"That grass was green a few weeks ago," the contractor said. "Now look. ... This whole island is destroyed. How do you write a check for something like this?"
He said he recently found five turtles drowning in oil.
"Three turtles were dead. Two were dying and not dead yet. They will be," he said.
As the boat headed back amid the choppy waves, a pod of dolphins showed up to swim with the vessel and guide it to land.
"They know they are in trouble. We are all in trouble," the contractor said.
BP's central role in the disaster cleanup has apparently given the company a lot of latitude in keeping the press away from beaches where the oil is thickest.
On Monday, a Daily News team was escorted away from a public beach on Elmer's Island bycops who said they were taking orders from BP.
BP spokesman Toby Odone denied the company is trying to hide the environmental damage; he noted BP has organized press visits to the spill zone and said BP cannot tell cops what to do.
The contractor for BP said the public needs to see the truth.
"BP is going to say the deaths of these animals wasn't oil-related," he said. "We know the truth. I hope these pictures get to the right people - to someone who can do something."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/06/02/2010-06-02_the_hidden_death_in_the_gulf.html
This is so saddening
My core being is sorrowful
Jun 4, 2010 - Brown pelicans drenched in black oil were found Thursday on East Grand Terre Island while BP was attempting to place a containment cap over the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
The brown pelicans, Louisiana’s state bird, were found when Gov. Bobby Jindal toured the island to survey a dredging operation.
Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries sent biologists to the island, where they rescued about 20 oiled birds, including a number of brown pelicans, Jindal said.
Sorry it took so long
Energy City at Holly Hill
A 17.5 (first phase) megawatt bio-mass electrical generation facility.
The project will be located in a recycled, existing 400,000 square foot facility located in Holly Hill, South Carolina.
The plant most recently produced pressed hard board from wood chips.
Roseburg announces closure of Holly Hill MDF facility due to poor market conditions, rising energy and materials costs
October 17, 2008 - Roseburg Forest Products announced today the scheduled closure of its Holly Hill, S.C. medium density fiberboard (MDF) manufacturing facility. According to Vice President of Composite Manufacturing Darrell Keeling, “Poor demand for our products, coupled with escalating raw material and energy costs have forced this unfortunate decision.” Keeling noted that the company will re-evaluate the closure in three to six months, reviewing its ability to re-start the facility.
The closure affects just over 100 employees, who are eligible to work in other RFP facilities and to apply for retraining benefits. “We understand that this action places a burden on our people, their families, and our community,” said Keeling. “We will do everything we can to help people with this transition.”
Built in 1974, the Holly Hill facility produces medium density fiberboard panels used for furniture, cabinetry and decorative molding. Customers include panel laminators, cabinet makers, major home improvement retailers and regional building products suppliers.
Roseburg Forest Products Co., based in Roseburg, Ore., is a family-owned manufacturer of lumber, composites, softwood plywood, engineered wood products and specialty panels. It has land and facilities in the northwest and southeast United States. The company was established in 1936.
http://roseburg.com/cgi-bin/s-mart.pl?command=whatsnew#
Roseburg Forest Products Holly Hill MDF
1972 Gardner Boulevard
Holly Hill, SC 29059
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Facility Information
PLANT NAME - GEORGIA PACIFIC FIBER BOARD PLANT
OPERATOR - ROSEBURG FOREST PRODUCTS S LIMITED
STREET ADDRESS - 1972 GARDNER BOULEVARD HIGHWAY 453
CITY NAME - HOLLY HILL
COUNTY - ORANGEBURG
STATE - SC
Operating Status - TEMPORARILY CLOSED
Date Last Updated - 07-MAY-10
EPA.gov
http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/fii_query_dtl.disp_program_facility?pgm_sys_id_in=SCD003351905&pgm_sys_acrnm_in=RCRAINFO
I'm a voracious reader
Looks like Toucan owes me one
Japan plans $2 billion robot moon base by 2020
May 27, 2010
(PhysOrg.com) -- Believing that a moon base is essential for exploration of the solar system, Japan has recently announced plans to send humanoid robots to the moon to construct a robot lunar base. As part of the $2.2 billion project, the robots will begin surveying the moon around 2015, and then build the unmanned base near the moon’s South Pole by 2020.
A Japanese government panel chaired by Katsuhiko Shirai, President of Waseda University, has developed a rough outline of the project. First, the robots, weighing about 660 pounds each, will begin by surveying the moon, taking images of the surface, collecting rocks, and returning the rocks to Earth via rocket for seismographic research. Later, robots will be sent to the moon to construct the lunar base for themselves.
According to the government panel, the robots and the unmanned moon base will be powered by solar panels. The robots will be controlled from Earth, but will also have a high degree of autonomy that enables them to operate on their own to perform certain tasks. Ultimately, the base could serve as a starting point for future robot colonizers, and even human colonizers.
http://www.physorg.com/news194274570.html
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