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Saturday, April 23, 2016
You Mean Rivers Aren't Supposed to Burn? Who Knew?
He's as "digger" as they come. Australian Green MP, Jeremy Buckingham demonstrates the terrific thermal effects to be had in local waterways near gas fracking operations.
"When Lake Erie – or more exactly the Cuyahoga River which flows into Lake Erie – caught fire in 1969, it ignited a firestorm of public outrage over the indiscriminate dumping of sewage and industrial chemicals into the Great Lakes.
But the incident was not particularly unusual. Nor was it the most significant of a long history of fires fueled by the thick oily sludges that fouled the Lakes and their arteries. The Chicago and Buffalo rivers also repeatedly caught fire. So did Michigan’s Rouge River."
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Burn on big river, burn on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtW8RkI3-c4
We humans don't learn.
"When our rivers caught fire"
"When Lake Erie – or more exactly the Cuyahoga River which flows into Lake Erie – caught fire in 1969, it ignited a firestorm of public outrage over the indiscriminate dumping of sewage and industrial chemicals into the Great Lakes.
But the incident was not particularly unusual. Nor was it the most significant of a long history of fires fueled by the thick oily sludges that fouled the Lakes and their arteries. The Chicago and Buffalo rivers also repeatedly caught fire. So did Michigan’s Rouge River."
http://www.environmentalcouncil.org/priorities/article.php?x=264
Those who keep arguing or stalling against environmental action are really promoting business as usual.
Anyong said...... We humans are the most stupid of earths species. We poison the very thing that provides oxygen, rain and food that sustains us.
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