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The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: RADIATION
Full article at: The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: RADIATION
March 1, 2011 8:08 am
An odd sort of perfect storm – involving a high-profile New York Times energy series, a quirky documentary that just missed the Oscar and federal BP-spill recovery plans – may finally address the 800-pound gorilla of our nation’s energy policy: RADIATION.
The NYT series launched Sunday (Feb. 27) with detailed accounts of radioactive wastewater, created by a Halliburton-developed extraction process called “fracking,” being dumped with impunity across the country. The article even included a “smoking gun” document, a “confidential industry study” from 1990 by none other than the American Petroleum Institute. The API’s secret study concluded that even with conservative assumptions, the radium in drilling wastewater dumped off the Louisiana coast posed “potentially significant risks” of cancer for anyone eating fish from those areas. I’m working on my own series of posts about this hazard in the Gulf of Mexico.
Full article at: The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: RADIATION
March 1, 2011 8:08 am
An odd sort of perfect storm – involving a high-profile New York Times energy series, a quirky documentary that just missed the Oscar and federal BP-spill recovery plans – may finally address the 800-pound gorilla of our nation’s energy policy: RADIATION.
The NYT series launched Sunday (Feb. 27) with detailed accounts of radioactive wastewater, created by a Halliburton-developed extraction process called “fracking,” being dumped with impunity across the country. The article even included a “smoking gun” document, a “confidential industry study” from 1990 by none other than the American Petroleum Institute. The API’s secret study concluded that even with conservative assumptions, the radium in drilling wastewater dumped off the Louisiana coast posed “potentially significant risks” of cancer for anyone eating fish from those areas. I’m working on my own series of posts about this hazard in the Gulf of Mexico.
Full article at: The Oil and Gas Industry’s 800-Pound Gorilla: RADIATION
LSU coastal scientist dies at 54
Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Published: Feb 19, 2011 - Page: 9A
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The LSU community is reeling after the sudden death Thursday of prominent LSU coastal scientist Gregory Stone.
Stone, who was quoted extensively in many publications internationally after last year’s BP oil leak, was the director of the renowned Wave-Current Information System.
Full article at: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/latest/LSU-coastal-scientist-dies-at-54.html
Published: Feb 19, 2011 - Page: 9A
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Stone, who was quoted extensively in many publications internationally after last year’s BP oil leak, was the director of the renowned Wave-Current Information System.
Full article at: http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/latest/LSU-coastal-scientist-dies-at-54.html
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