An Occasional Ramble by the Sea February 1, 2006 By David Helvarg Rigs to Wrecks to Spills – The offshore oil industry has long advocated a program called ‘rigs to reefs’ that would allow them to save millions of dollars by toppling rather than removing played out production platforms. But 2005’s Hurricanes Katrina and Rita […]
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Welcome to the Greenhouse Century Jan 9, 2006 By David Helvarg, President – Blue Frontier Campaign Welcome to the Greenhouse Century There have been historic droughts and grassfires that have raged across Oklahoma, Texas and Australia. Big storms have roiled California leading to the 4th “100 year flood” on the Russian River in the last […]
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NOAA’s Silent World, Coasties Rule, Flippercide and more December 15, 2005 By David Helvarg NOAA’s Silent World While the nation’s leading civilian agency for the oceans is supposed to help assure our public seas are clean and bountiful, transparency is apparently not one of their aims. In the wake of the federal government’s failures to […]
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Oregon, Oil and Acid Indigestion November 14, 2005 By David Helvarg Oregon’s Finest “In Sea change, new homes swamp Oregon’s coast,” read the front page headline of the Oct 23rd Oregonian, the state’s largest paper. That Sunday was also the last day of the Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition’s (http://oregonshores.org) annual conference in Newport, Oregon, a […]
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An Occasional Ramble by the Sea October 17, 2005 By David Helvarg With the coastal catastrophe that was/is the 2005 Hurricane Season (and more likely to come) I’ve gotten behind on some other news, developments and fishy rumors worth noting. They didn’t bleach themselves. Warm water and summer long doldrums have turned parts of the […]