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20th January 2019 21:01
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What if we could shut down Big Oil and Gas worldwide?
What if we had a way to shut down big oil and gas, shut down fraking, kick them in the teeth economically and move out of darkness.. ??
Is that a pipe dream?
What if it were real?
Could we all withstand the cut-throat manipulative SQUEEZE that they would try (that is the majors who think that they have a monopoly on hydrocarbon energy) ?
I ask that question because I think there is a way to do that. I'll get into that shortly.
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One of the most damaging events in history is about to hit the earth - that is deep sea and shallow continental shelf exploration for oil and gas, using what is called 3D Seismic Air-Gun explosions.
These explosions literally harm and damage organisms from shrimp, lobsters, other crustaceans, fish and of course marine mammals such as whales and dolphins and seals.
The industry seriously DOES NOT CARE one iota about the damage that they create or the harm that is produced by the actual search efforts.
Off Africa right now plans are being made to create surveys literally from South Africa all the way up the Atlantic (west) side to Morocco at the Straits of Gibraltar.
I am quite serious about this - we may very well have a way to do this. It may take a little bit of time and a lot of effort, but they can be shut down I believe.
Is it time for this change, to say ENOUGH harm has been done worldwide. We as citizens of the World decree that BIG OIL and Gas are now dead. We have moved on.
Are we willing to be held economically by the short hairs continually for another 100 years?
Not me.
By the way - 3D seismic being explosively performed off the western side of Africa WILL affect all of the region, plus as far as 4000 kilometers west... That means the fisheries off Canada, the US, the Caribbean, and of course South America.
About 500,000 fishing families are going to be affected. Fishing drops about 80% during and shortly after these surveys.. Countless damages happen to the marine wildlife in hearing, balance, acuity in finding food, spawning for fish, and reproduction for marine mammals.
So most of the Atlantic and South Atlantic will be affected.
These heartless brutal devil may care attitude characters are about to harm our immediate food sources from the seas, and countless lives living within the seas.
After this they intend to do this ON-LAND in numerous sacred and protected areas.
Almost simultaneously, 3D seismic explosive surveying off-shore will be started off the eastern US coast of the Atlantic.
This has to stop.
reference data: http://chanlo.com/images/Save-Lives-now-1.pdf
Within the 2 page PDF (please circulate to those who may be able to help) contains numerous links and outlines historically the damage we've talked about. A solution is in that document as well which needs to be fleshed out further. It is a start to gain interest.
Last edited by Bob; 20th January 2019 at 21:21.
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20th January 2019 21:36
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Re: What if we could shut down Big Oil and Gas worldwide?
What is this off-shore 3D seismic explosive surveying?
There is a large risk of harm to the marine environment during the exploration phase if seismic airguns are used (Popper et al. 2005, Lucke et al. 2009, Oceana 2012).
During exploration for oil and gas formations seismic airguns are towed with a vessel and release pulses of sounds from 225 to 250 decibels several times per minute (Richardson et al. 1995). To put that number in perspective, the noise from a jet engine is 140 decibels—seismic airguns are 100,000 times more intense than a jet engine. Airguns produce sound by creating a compressed air bubble, which collapses under the pressure of the water (Popper et al. 2005). The surveys off the US Atlantic coast will have on average about 20,000,000 such explosions during the surveys.
The sound then reflects off geologic formations and is measured by hydrophone arrays towed behind a ship. The time it takes for sound to bounce back indicates the presence of oil and gas (Figure 2). These studies are often conducted continuously over the course of several weeks.
Surface view - vessel, airgun and hydrophone "strings" extended for miles behind the ship
The shock wave from those airguns, kills, explodes internal organs, creates embolisms.. Not good, not safe, not kind.
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20th January 2019 21:57
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Re: What if we could shut down Big Oil and Gas worldwide?
Dead plankton, stunned fish: the harms of man-made ocean noise (from June 2018 article)
Human-caused ocean noise and its dangers to marine life are the focus of meetings at the United Nations this week, a victory for advocacy groups that have long warned of this problem.
A boat tows 12-48 airguns at a time, each of which shoot loud blasts of compressed air. These blasts are EXPLOSIONS.
These sound waves pass through the water and hit the seabed, and penetrate deeply, up to 20 thousands of feet into rock layers, reflecting back information about buried oil and gas deposits that can be used to create three-dimensional maps.
The blasts are repeated every 12-15 seconds, over vast areas of the ocean at high volume, sometimes for weeks on end. The high volume damages internal structure of that which is in the seas, from the plankton which are the building blocks for higher life forms (food), through the larger organisms such as fish and marine mammals.
With that much penetration energy, what happens to ANYTHING in the water subject to the shock waves?
A review of 115 studies done mainly in the 1990s and 2000s, showed the effects of ocean noise on 66 species of fish and 36 kinds of invertebrates, or animals without a backbone.
Zooplankton were found to be highly vulnerable to seismic blasts. A 2007 study showed that one blast, even at a lower level than those typically used in oil and gas prospecting operations, could decimate half the zooplankton in the area.
Up to 95 percent of certain species died.
Zooplankton form the base of the foodchain, and are vital nutrition for whales and numerous invertebrates like oysters and shrimp.
Fish can suffer internal injuries and change their behavior. Becoming disoriented by the noise, they may swim away or freeze in place.
According to studies in 1996 and 2012, seismic airgun blasts caused haddock and cod to flee, reducing the catch rate by 20 to 70 percent in some areas.
Some fish swam deeper, where they could be more vulnerable, while others were caught with empty stomachs, a sign they had stopped eating.
To date, about 130 species have been documented to be impacted.
Necropsy analysis to brain damage from explosive shockwaves:
Maybe you have heard about "fishing using explosives" - toss an explosive into the lake and watch all the dead fish float on the surface.. Same concept but over thousands and thousands of miles..
Last edited by Bob; 21st January 2019 at 01:50.
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20th January 2019 22:14
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