EnviroDisasters
@EnviroDisasters
Tweeting on the most recent environmental disasters. Let me know if you discover any.
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June is #OrcaActionMonth! Oil from cars causes health problems for the juvenile salmon that our Orca population needs to survive. Puget Sound cars drip a tanker truck's worth of oil every single day. If your car leaks, please get it fixed. Don't drip and drive.
#Kenya is nervous after the leak of a document from #Somalia’s Petroleum Ministry showed that five oil blocks it aims to license to bidders may in fact be in Kenyan waters. bit.ly/2KiYW9W
The Kenya Pipeline Company has now admitted fault, for the oil spill in Kiboko, Makueni County, saying it failed to put in place a leak detection system before commissioning the 51 Billion shilling project. #NTVToday
Husky pleads guilty over oil leak into North Saskatchewan River cp24.to/CV2gaO
Leak shows Great Australian Bight oil spill could reach as far as Bondi! Sign the petition to ban oil in the Bight today. saveourmarinelife.org.au/sign-the-petit…
Puffins found starving to death in mass die-off likely linked to climate change, study suggests cbc.ca/news/technolog…
The Trump administration is rolling back some Obama-era safety regulations put in place to prevent a repeat of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion, the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. n.pr/2WrzAte
Much belated good news for the Gulf of Mexico, but yet another display of how dangerous offshore drilling is. This latest effort has not stopped the spill, only contained the oil that is being released. wapo.st/2Whqkeh
A massive Gulf oil spill is finally being contained after more than 14 years wapo.st/2VEuwoK
Scientists discover China has been secretly emitting banned ozone-depleting gas nationalpost.com/news/world/sci…
Great Pacific Garbage Patch is 16 times bigger than previously estimated, study finds environmentguru.com/pages/elements…
There was a "gas leak at the gas plant just down the road that leaked for ten years!" - Peter von Tiesenhausen vice.com/en_ca/read/thi…
Pipeline explosion caused by sand corrosion on an elbow from fracking that wasn't cleaned out properly- not a bomb. vice.com/en_ca/read/thi…
Canadian artist uses #copyright law to halt pipeline development vice.com/en_ca/read/thi… with this artwork:
London, Cairo, Bangkok, Venice and Shanghai would be critically hit by an expected three-foot rise in ocean levels nyti.ms/1A2BCCv
Measurements show that water is warm enough to melt glaciers rapidly from below - Science Seeks Data on Rising Seas: nyti.ms/GLHwuu
Oil corps continue to build coal plants and refineries; governments spend > $600 billion subsidizing fossil fuels. nyti.ms/1wTSvgi
“Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message, Leaders must act. Time is not on our side"- We must stop nyti.ms/1wTSvgi
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