http://www.berkshireeagle.com/letters/ci_18983908
p-Crows have seen an 85 percent mortality in some areas [due to west nile]
p-No studies have been done in Berkshire County [for west nile]
c-Mosquito testing in Berkshire County will start the process of fixing the problem with dying bird populations.
Friday, September 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Text on the hoof 2
Downtown's future in real jeopardy
North Adams
P- Skateboarders create dangerous sidewalks on north st
P-Dangerous sidewalks with skateboarders will have detrimental effect on the downtown areas success
"Downtown's future in real jeopardy." Letter to the editor. The Berkshire Eagle. 21 Sept. 2011: Print. http://www.berkshireeagle.com/letters/ci_18941241 (Limited time only link)
Wednesday September 21, 2011
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/letters/ci_18941241 (link will expire soon)
NANCY RUMBOLT-TRZCINSKI
North Adams
P- Skateboarders create dangerous sidewalks on north st
P-Dangerous sidewalks with skateboarders will have detrimental effect on the downtown areas success
C-Law enforcement should remove the skateboarders to save the downtown area from failure
"Downtown's future in real jeopardy." Letter to the editor. The Berkshire Eagle. 21 Sept. 2011: Print. http://www.berkshireeagle.com/letters/ci_18941241 (Limited time only link)
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Does anyone really care?
20% of Americans do something that 40% of the those people feel is wrong, and 20% of those frequently lie about their answers. Of that percent there are 15 people who feel that 60% is a more realistic number of Americans who feel that everyone should really just get a life and do something that really matters to the universe and our species. Those people are only a fragile fraction within a fractal.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Got some Text on the Hoof here
Be realistic about Keystone pipeline
Tuesday September 13, 2011
In George Bissell's letter of Sept. 5, he congratulated both Robert Hyde and The Eagle for Mr. Hyde's letter opposing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would transport crude oil recovered from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to our Gulf of Mexico refineries for processing. His point being that burning this oil would result in greater carbon dioxide and other pollutant emissions than those derived from other sources.
Let me stipulate that although progress has been made and is ongoing at present to lower the amount of carbon present in this oil, Mr. Bissell is correct and the burning of petroleum obtained from the oil sands would indeed have a greater adverse environmental impact than oil from other sources (read here from our "friends" in the politically unstable Middle East, Venezuela, and Nigeria). Although environmental concerns must be considered, they should be balanced by other factors when arriving at a decision as to whether to construct a pipeline.
Firstly, Canada is going to sell the oil from its oil sands. If it is not sold to the U.S. it will be to the Pacific rim nations (read here, China). Have no doubt about it, energy starved China will buy and burn this oil in which case just as much carbon dioxide will have been liberated into the atmosphere as if we had burned it here. So not building the pipeline will not protect the planet from this negative impact. In fact more energy will be consumed to get the oil
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by tanker to China. The pipeline will however provide the U.S .with a source of oil from Canada, a stable, friendly ally rather than from these more labile foreign sources -- a fact which has not gone unnoticed by our State Dept.
Secondly, the pipeline will be a boon to our own oil fields as it will not only have the capacity to carry the excess amount of crude presently sitting unused in Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf refineries but will also be able to transport all of the oil presently being pumped from the Bakken formation in South Dakota with capacity to spare to accommodate Bakken's expected rise in production.
Additionally, the last time I looked we had a 9.1 percent unemployment rate with zero new job creation in August. The pipeline is projected to create an estimated 138,000 jobs with its building and maintenance and could inject some $20 billion into our economy. Sure I wish we had a clean, renewable source of energy but the reality is as of yet we don't and until we do we cannot be so cavalier in energy policy decision making as to be unwilling to weigh all the variables.
BARBARA JOSEPH, Williamstown
"Be realistic about Keystone pipeline." Letter to the editor. The Berkshire Eagle. 13 Sept. 2011: Print.
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/letters/ci_18881593 (Limited time only link)
Tuesday September 13, 2011
In George Bissell's letter of Sept. 5, he congratulated both Robert Hyde and The Eagle for Mr. Hyde's letter opposing the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would transport crude oil recovered from the Alberta oil sands in Canada to our Gulf of Mexico refineries for processing. His point being that burning this oil would result in greater carbon dioxide and other pollutant emissions than those derived from other sources.
Let me stipulate that although progress has been made and is ongoing at present to lower the amount of carbon present in this oil, Mr. Bissell is correct and the burning of petroleum obtained from the oil sands would indeed have a greater adverse environmental impact than oil from other sources (read here from our "friends" in the politically unstable Middle East, Venezuela, and Nigeria). Although environmental concerns must be considered, they should be balanced by other factors when arriving at a decision as to whether to construct a pipeline.
Firstly, Canada is going to sell the oil from its oil sands. If it is not sold to the U.S. it will be to the Pacific rim nations (read here, China). Have no doubt about it, energy starved China will buy and burn this oil in which case just as much carbon dioxide will have been liberated into the atmosphere as if we had burned it here. So not building the pipeline will not protect the planet from this negative impact. In fact more energy will be consumed to get the oil
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by tanker to China. The pipeline will however provide the U.S .with a source of oil from Canada, a stable, friendly ally rather than from these more labile foreign sources -- a fact which has not gone unnoticed by our State Dept.
Secondly, the pipeline will be a boon to our own oil fields as it will not only have the capacity to carry the excess amount of crude presently sitting unused in Cushing, Oklahoma to the Gulf refineries but will also be able to transport all of the oil presently being pumped from the Bakken formation in South Dakota with capacity to spare to accommodate Bakken's expected rise in production.
Additionally, the last time I looked we had a 9.1 percent unemployment rate with zero new job creation in August. The pipeline is projected to create an estimated 138,000 jobs with its building and maintenance and could inject some $20 billion into our economy. Sure I wish we had a clean, renewable source of energy but the reality is as of yet we don't and until we do we cannot be so cavalier in energy policy decision making as to be unwilling to weigh all the variables.
BARBARA JOSEPH, Williamstown
"Be realistic about Keystone pipeline." Letter to the editor. The Berkshire Eagle. 13 Sept. 2011: Print.
http://www.berkshireeagle.com/letters/ci_18881593 (Limited time only link)
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Call me crazy
You heard it before, we are killing the planet. I know it sounds crazy but we should not being doing that. I feel in my honest opinion that we should not kill the Earth. I know it sounds crazy, call me a loner or even an outcast. Maybe one day I will convert to normal-ism and I will start thinking that killing the Earth is cool, maybe even appropriate. For now, I will stand alone, helplessly consuming the earth killing riches.
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