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From BirdLife:
Victory for biodiversity as oil company gets fined over Erika oil spill
24-01-2008
On 16 January, the French oil company Total and the Italian shipping classification society RINA were fined by a Parisian court over their involvement in the huge oil spill that resulted from the sinking of the tanker Erika off the coast of France. The Erika was a 24 year old rusting, Maltese-registered vessel that broke in two during a storm in 1999. The ship leaked 20,000 tonnes of oil in the sea and affected up to 400 km of the Brittany coast.
The oil disaster affected about 150,000 birds and killed 72,000 of them, mainly Common Guillemots Uria aalge, Atlantic Puffins Fratercula arctica, Northern Gannets Morus bassanus and Black-legged Kittiwakes Rissa tridactyla.
ACTION ALERT UPDATE PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
Just Say No to Oil Shale, Leave the Carbon in the Ground
Climate Ark a project of Ecological Internet
http://www.climateark.org/
January 26, 2008
TAKE ACTION
Oil shale production in Western U.S. with Department of Energy
subsidies will prolong dependence upon filthy fossil fuels
while destroying the climate, water and land
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=oil_shale
Oil shale deposits across 17,000 square miles of Colorado,
Utah and Wyoming hold an estimated 800 billion barrels of oil,
more than three times Saudi Arabia’s stated reserves. Mining,
processing and final use of oil shale involve a variety of
environmental impacts. The process produces four times the
amount of greenhouse gas emissions compared to normal oil
production. Vast amounts of water are required in the mining
process, up to 4 barrels of water for every barrel of oil. It
would be a reckless and short-sighted to allow full-scale
commercial production of synthetic crude oils from oil shale
and other non-conventional sources. Wide scale use of such oil
will result in decades of further carbon emissions from
dependence upon fossil fuels, making it impossible to stop
climate change. Please send a message today to the U.S.
Department of Energy noting that a sustainable energy future
does not include oil shale.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.climateark.org/alerts/send.asp?id=oil_shale
DISCUSS ALERT:
http://www.climateark.org/blog/2008/01/alert_just_say_no_to_oil_shale.asp
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