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)

News – What’s the Worst that Can Happen?

Date yyyy-mm-dd	Posted By	Article Link	Comment
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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