#oil pollution

[eaglesnick]

"An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."

Mahatma Gandh

The environment polluting industries certainly had a friend in the last Conservative government and it remains to be seen if Starmer’s Labour Party will be any different.

In January 2020, then Home Secretary Priti Patel included climate activists in her guide to “ideological extremism", and added them to her anti-terrorism watch list issued to the police and security forces.

Forced to retract her initial labelling of environmentally concerned children as “terrorists” Patel did not give up on her war against environmentalists. She threatened to change the law so that members of Extinction Rebellion could be accused of belonging to a “criminal gang" and jailed for up to five years.

She justified her stance by saying:

'We must defend ourselves against this attack on capitalism, our way of life and ultimately our freedoms.’

Yesterday, Patel’s dream came true when five environmental activists were each given between 4-5 years imprisonment for "conspiring to cause a public nuisance". These sentences are the harshest ever handed down for a peaceful protest in England.

While water companies continue to pollute our waterways with raw effluent and water company  bosses pay themselves huge bonuses for destroying  the riverside and shoreline environment, environmental protesters  convicted of causing a “public nuisance"  are jailed for 5 years.

Priti Patel and Sunak’s government might see people who protest against environmental polluters as an “attack on capitalism” but many see it as the only way to bring the publics attention to what big corporations are doing in their pursuit of profit at any cost.

Rather than the protesters mounting an attack against capitalism in general as Patel claims, the protesters target corporations who are knowingly polluting our environment. The protester attacks are very specific.  The Police. Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, introduced by Rishi Sunak, by contrast  is a general attack on our democratic freedoms.

Doughty Street Chambers (March 2023) pointed out the irony of the new public nuisance law in targeting  political and environmental protesters.

“The common law offence of public nuisance was traditionally, and frequently used to prosecute significant environmental offences. This included air pollution and the release of noxious substances by corporations or individuals that caused real harm to the general public. There is no irony lost in the fact the same offence in statutory form is now being zealously deployed to prosecute environmental protestors"

You really cant make this stuff up.!

[chanthaburi]

Oil spill washed ashore at Chao Lao beach today 18 March 2024.

Very heavy oil in blobs 10-30mm across 5mm thick, in the sea and on the sand from low to high water mark.

Not easy to wash off my skin and swim shorts.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Have you ever seen such audacity?

[whathaveilearned]

[ Rainbow water puddles ]

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Puddles like these are caused by oil floating onto the top of a puddle, reflecting light in the same way a rainbow does, causing a variety of colours.

Oil usually builds up over time on the roads, and without any rain to wash it away it just sits there, until rain finally comes mixing water with the oil.

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response.restoration.noaa.gov/understanding-how-oil-reacts-water-simple-experiment

kelownacapnews.com/trending-now/morning-start-why-does-oil-in-water-produce-all-the-colours-of-the-rainbow

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

This is what the Republicans are trying to do for the whole country. State news like in North Korea, China, Iran, Russia, Cuba, etc…

[mossy-paws]

Subspace doodles (PHIGHTING! Mermaid au)

so I was thinking more about the PHIGHTING mermaid au I’m doing and. What if subspaces’ gas- instead of being like actual gas, was polluted oil? I think that could make for a really cool trope if I ever were to redesign him for it :3!

For the design notes in specific:

When out of control, his “gas” takes the form of polluted oil, in control (as in wearing his mask and tank) it gets filtered into something akin to toxic brine (in which long exposure to can cause a lot of issues, specifically different types of shock, breathing issues, etc). Although the brine isn’t too dangerous to be around in small amounts, it can be harmful over time.

for those wondering what ACTUAL brine water (or more specifically brine pools) are, it’s pretty much a large accumulation of highly concentrated saltwater (which usually is around 10 times saltier then the ocean surrounding it) For most sea animals this brine means instant death due to the fact that is has no oxygen in it as well as the high saline levels.

(Im hyper fixating again can you tell)

[vangoghcore]

by kerber926

[mindblowingscience]

A new peer-reviewed study from researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington; the University of Nevada, Reno; Mokwon University in Daejeon, Korea; and Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi shows the Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill of 2010 affected wildlife and their habitat much more than previously understood. The work is published in the journal Marine Pollution Bulletin. "Overall, we found the area of deep-sea floor affected by the DWH spill was significantly larger than previously thought," said Masoud Rostami, an author of the study and assistant professor of instruction in UTA's Division of Data Science.

Continue Reading.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Alberta's oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful air pollutants than are officially reported, with the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles, new research suggests.

The study, published today in the academic journal Science, measured concentrations of organic carbon emissions in the air by flying overhead and taking samples. Those numbers were compared to estimated amounts, prepared using ground-based data, reported by oilsands operations.

The researchers from Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and Yale University found levels that were between 20 and 64 times higher than those reported by industry, depending on the oilsands facility.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[moeblob]

OC again gomen ... (her name is Yuma)

[justacynicalromantic]

🔴The rocket strike on April 11 at the Trypil thermal power plant in the Kyiv region caused huge damage to the environment of the region due to the release of pollutants into the atmosphere.

The State Ecoinspection of the Capital District reports that the fire caused an uncontrolled release of harmful substances into the atmosphere, namely:

- more than 2.5 tons of nitrogen dioxide;

- more than 6.17 thousand tons of carbon dioxide;

- more than 2.4 tons of carbon monoxide;

- more than 0.7 tons of VOCs;

- 1 ton of suspended solids.

There is soil contamination with oil products, copper and zinc. According to the inspectors' estimates, the amount of damage to the environment from this missile strike alone reaches more than $650 thousand$

[ms-boogie-man]

Dodge commercial (America Fuck Yeah!)

No Tumblr blog is proper without this epic little ditty yo!  *nods

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[kp777]

By Edward Carver

Common Dreams

Sept. 12, 2024

"We all agree on a simple but powerful principle—that polluters should pay to clean up the mess that they have caused, and those that have polluted the most should pay the most," Sen. Chris Van Hollen said.

United States Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Rep. Jerry Nadler on Thursday announced the introduction of legislation that would require Big Oil firms to pay into a damages fund used to address the climate crisis.

The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act, which Van Hollen first proposed in 2021, would levy charges on the largest companies that extract and refine fossil fuels in the U.S., based on a Superfund model. It would create a $1 trillion fund to "address harm and damages caused," with a significant proportion of the money spent on environmental justice in affected communities, Van Hollen said.

"We all agree on a simple but powerful principle—that polluters should pay to clean up the mess that they have caused, and those that have polluted the most should pay the most," Van Hollen said at a press conference.

Jamie Henn, director of Fossil Free Media, indicated that the proposal was groundbreaking.

"We're thrilled to be supporting the first ever federal bill that would make polluters pay for climate damages!" Henn wrote on social media.

The new bill targets only the "heaviest hitters," as Van Hollen put it: companies responsible for at least 1 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions in the period between 2000 and 2022. The levies they face would be directly proportional to the amount of oil, gas, and coal extracted or refined, as determined by the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In addition to Van Hollen and Nadler (D-N.Y.), the bicameral legislation was also introduced by Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.). It has five co-sponsors in the Senate, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and more than a dozen co-sponsors in the House of Representatives, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).

Many state legislatures have considered "polluters pay" climate bills in recent years, and Vermont passed one in May. Van Hollen said a federal bill "would be a big, big step forward."

The bill has the backing of many dozens of environmental organizations around the country, several of which had representatives at Thursday's press conference.

"The fossil fuel industry has known about climate change for decades," Sara Chieffo, a vice president at the League of Conservation Voters, said at the event. "It's time they face the consequences of their deception and are held responsible for their actions that are destroying both lives and a livable, safe climate."

Phil Radford, Sierra Club's chief strategy officer, added that "for way too long, these companies have poisoned communities, spilled oil, polluted our air, caused all sorts of health problems, and gotten away with it."

"Today is an incredible moment where we are saying: No more," he said.

Advocates indicated that at least 40% of the funds would go toward environmental justice.

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Hexxus from ferngully plz???

Hexxus (Ferngully The Last Rainforest)

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Case Study: Sinking of the Erika

In 1999 the Erika, an oil tanker, sailed into bad weather and fractured off the coast of France. The ship was carrying over 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil, thousands of tons of which were released into the sea, polluting the region and destroying marine life. Though the crew was rescued safely, it was one of the largest environmental disasters of its time, releasing more oil than was spilled the entire previous year combined. The incident triggered numerous legal changes about maritime shipping. Though many of these changes had to do with port control, ship classification, maritime traffic, and other legal requirements, several were as a direct result of the partial cause of the disaster: corrosion. Though weather played a factor in the sinking, the Erika was ultimately found to have had corrosion problems for years without being appropriately repaired.

Sources/Further Reading: (Image source - Corrosion Doctors) (Official Report) (2018 news article) (Aquarium La Rochelle) (Wikipedia)