What’s the Worst that can Happen?

 

 

What’s the worst that can happen?  Perhaps if we know in advance, we can figure out what to avoid.

 

Absolute worst?  That’s easy.  It means we don’t live to find out. (article)

 

 

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2019-11-01

New York Times

New Delhi, Choking on Toxic Air, Declares Health Emergency

Kai Schultz, Suhasini Raj (.pdf)

2019-10-29

Resource World Magazine

Former Bre-X geologist has died

- Bre-X scam (1996)

2019-10-12

Daily Mail (UK)

Residents of a drought-ravaged town will be forced to drink treated SEWAGE by Christmas as the taps run dry

Tom Place

2019-03-06

EcoWatch / Olivia Rosane

The World’s 20 Most Polluted Cities in 2018

Olivia Rosane

2018-12-04

TheNarwhal.ca

For decades B.C. failed to address selenium pollution in the Elk Valley. Now no one knows how to stop it.

Carol Linnitt

AO News - Mining

2018-11-28

TheHill.com

Two pipelines in Pennsylvania, Ohio amass more than 800 violations: report

Michael Burke

AO News - Pipelines

2018-11-21

EcoWatch / Lorraine Chow

Clean Up 14-Year Oil Spill or Face $40K Daily Fine, Feds Tell Taylor Energy

Lorraine Chow

AO News – Oil & Gas Spills/Explosions

2018-07-07

DailyMail.com

Human heads sold at the market stall for cannibals: Haunting images show Russian peasants selling body parts during 1920s famine that forced families to eat their relatives

Tariq Tahir

[shocking pictures of starvation]

2018-06-13

CBC News

MTO contractors mow down hundreds of saplings

Stu Mills

- Ministry of Transportation mows down trees that they planted 7 years prior

2018-05-23

EcoWatch / Olivia Rosane

Police Open Fire on Pollution Protesters in India, Killing at Least 9

Olivia Rosane

2018-04-16

ABC.Net.AU (Australia)

Road to nowhere: Central Queensland community left powerless after Gibihi Road mining blast

Rachel McGhee, Inga Stunzner

- 45 km detour

AO News - Mining

2018-04-16

Mother Jones

Officials Say Flint’s Water Is Safe. Residents Say It’s Not. Scientists Say It’s Complicated.

Nathalie Baptiste

 

AO News - Water

2018-03-31

Desmog

A Death in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Reinforces a Small Town’s Fears of Industry Impacts

Julie Dermansky

AO News – Louisiana Sinkholes

2018-03-25

Global News

Alberta’s stance on caribou a ‘national test case’ of Species at Risk Act

Colette Derworiz

AO News – Endangered Species

- human impacts are so dire that it is too expensive to remedy

2018-03-11

Bakersfield.com (USA)

Community Voices: Supervisors should do right thing by preserving farmland and threatened Swainson's hawks

Gordon Nipp

- county council demands money to mitigate habitat and farmland loss, then attempts to put funds in general coffers

2018-03-09

National Post

Quebec government to let threatened woodland caribou herd die off

Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press

- too expensive to save too few caribou

2018-02-01

The News & Observer (USA)

Companies illegally dumped pollution knowing the health risks, NC lawsuit charges

Will Doran

- chemical “GenX”

- Chemours, DuPont

2017-11-18

New York Post

Pipeline protester speaks out for first time after nearly losing her arm

Melkorka Licea

- Sophia Wilansky

AO News - DAPL

2017-10-08

NewsOK.com

Midwest City company illegally dumped cancer-causing toxins, dodged fines and forced taxpayers to clean it up

Justin Wingerter

2017-08-23

Enviro News

Video: The Bright Blue Dogs of Taloja – Mumbai’s 977-Factory, Industrial Waste Zone

Julia Travers

2017-05-22

Green Wall Warriors

BREAKING NEWS: Bolong Fenyo Wildlife Reserve in Gunjur seems poisened

Gunjur, Gambia

- Chinese Golden Lead Factory

- water is red

2017-05-04

Ring of Fire Radio (USA)

Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Requests Bankruptcy Protection: Now the Battle with Wall Street Begins

Ed Schultz Show

- unprecedented in size and value in USA’s courts

2017-04-23

Ring of Fire Radio (USA)

Talcum Powder Litigation: Johnson & Johnson Lawyers Up for Round 5

 

2017-01-23

The Guardian (UK)

At least 3,000 geese killed by toxic water from former Montana copper mine

Associated Press (USA)

2017-01-17

EcoWatch / Waterkeeper Alliance

Another Coal Barge Sinks in the Sundarbans World Heritage Site

Waterkeeper Alliance

- Bangladesh

2016-10-18

Upi.com

10,000 endangered Titicaca water frogs found dead in Peru

Brook Hays

- raw sewage and solid human waste

2016-10-07

CBC News

Nortel executives continue drawing bonuses years after bankruptcy

Julie Ireton

2016-09-14

Gatestone Institute

Venezuela’s “Death Spiral”

Susan Warner

2016-09-08

Toronto Star

Siberian river mysteriously turns bright red, nicknamed ‘Blood River’

Andrew E. Kramer

2016-08-28

EcoWatch / TakePart

Humboldt County’s Marijuana Boom Is Destroying Redwoods and Killing Rare Wildlife

Todd Woody

2016-05-03

CBS News

Detroit in a downward spiral as budget dries up

Dean Reynolds

2016-04-11

NYTimes.com

Rural Water, Not City Smog, May Be China’s Pollution Nightmare

Chris Buckley, Vanessa Piao

AO News – China

2015-11-09

Globe and Mail

Environment Minister approves Montreal’s sewage dump plan

Les Perreaux

2015-11-07

Ring of Fire Radio

VW Emissions Recall: It’s Not Just Diesel Cars, Anymore

 

2015-10-17

Gatestone Institute

Sweden Close to Collapse

Ingrid Carlqvist

2015-10-16

Global News

No viral testing of sewage-filled Olympic waters: Rio 2016 organizers

Jenny Barchfield

2015-09-22

Business Insider UK

There’s a monstrous issue at the heart of the VW scandal that no one’s talking about

Erin Brodwin

- can companies be trusted?

2015-09-15

Youtube / rxbuyer24

Dr.Johnson Explains How AIDS & Ebola Were Man Made

Dr. Umar Johnson – depopulation

-        AIDS

-        Ebola

2015-09-07

Health Nut News

US NEWS: 29 Holistic Doctors/ND’s Poisoned, Some suffering “life threatening conditions” at Conference (Criminal investigation Underway)

Erin Elizabeth

2015-09-02

Global News

‘I can’t stand it’: Pigeon Lake residents concerned about stench coming from water

Caley Ramsay

- blue green algae

2015-08-25

Whydontyoutrythis.com

18 Photos Proving That We Are In Danger

 

2015-08-17

Mic.com

Allegations From Amazon Workers Show Why Tech Is a Hostile Industry for Women

Sophie Kleeman

- women’s issues

2015-08-15

New York Times

Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace

JODI KANTOR and DAVID STREITFELD

- corporatism on steroids

2015-07-29

Ring of Fire Radio

Hedge Fund Tells Puerto Rico To Shut Schools Down and Pay Off Their Investments

- Puerto Rico

2015-05-27

1millionwomen.com.au

7 of the most polluted places in the world

 

2015-07-25

Daily Mail (UK)

The end of the gold rush: Amazing pictures show police destroying an entire TOWN including grocery stores and a nightclub that had sprung up to support illegal miners in the Peruvian rainforest

Imogen Calderwood

- illegal mining in Peru

2015-04

National Post

Maple syrup rebellion

Peter Kuitenbrouwer

- Quebec

2015-04-19

Youtube / Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Doomsday Video (HBO) (6 mins)

John Oliver / Martin Sheen

- LOL

2015-03-23

Guardian

This week I may be jailed for writing a book on human rights abuses

Rafael Marques de Morais

Rafael Marques de Morais

(Link to AO News – Whistleblowers)

2015-03-01

Youtube / Linghein Ho / Chai Jing

Chai Jing’s review: Under the Dome – Investigating China’s Smog

Chai Jing

2015-01-28

Ring of Fire Radio

Thom Hartmann: Why the Greek Anti-Austerity Party Won (12 mins)

Justin Lane, Thom Hartmann, Dr. Richard Wolff

- Greece

2015-01-27

Huffington Post

The Holocaust's Forgotten Victims: The 5 Million Non-Jewish People Killed By The Nazis

Louise Ridley

2014-12-09

Youtube / badfishcastle

Oil Apocalypse: Peak Oil – What If the Oil Runs Out? (45 min)

 

2014-10-14

Vice.com

A Giant Hole Is Swallowing a Town in Peru

Arthur Holland Michel

2014-08-22

Ottawa Citizen

Canadian Police add armoured vehicles to their arsenals

- “creeping militarization”

2014-08-18

Ring of Fire Radio

Video: John Oliver Covers Ferguson and He Nails It (15 mins)

- militarized police forces

2014-08-07

Mother Nature Network

America’s 10 worst man-made environmental disasters

 

2014-05-04

Youtube / TopListVideos

Top 10 Most Toxic Places In The World 2014 (1 min)

TopListVideos

Commentary

2014-01-09

Gizmodo

How the Railroad Wiped Out Passenger Pigeons (and Nearly Bison, Too)

Sarah Zhang

AO News – Rail

2013-12-03

Dailymail.co.uk

It looks like a puddle with petrol glistening on the surface... but this is the mighty Niger Delta defiled by repeated spills by oil companies

Chris Pleasance

-        Deliberate spill? (theft from pipeline?)

-        Decrepit infrastructure

2013-09-12

Youtube / Al Jazeera

In Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”, huge sinkhole creates more concerns, Al Jazeera America

AO News – Louisiana Sinkhole

 

2012-05-25

Huffington Post

Centralia, Pennsylvania Fire Still Burns Underneath Town, 50 Years On

- fire dept cleaning up local landfill sets coal seam alight in 1962

2008-09-27

Youtube / DieseWoche

AIDS Manmade: Robert Gallo, The Man That Created AIDS

-biological weapons (AIDS, ebola?)

- depopulation?

1980-11-20

Youtube / History.com / Bird Plan

Texaco drillers poke 14in hole in lake bottom draining 2.5 billion gallons & sucking down 11 barges

Lake Peigneur, November 20, 1980

- oil drilling disaster

Link to Wikipedia

1914-04-20

Upworthy.com

Have you ever heard of the Ludlow Massacre? You might be shocked when you see what happened.

- United Mine Workers of America (UMWA)

- Coal miners

Link to Wikipedia

 

 

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