http://www.ttonline.org/ General Scientific topics and discussions on Trinidad and Tobago environmental issues. en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:53:22 GMT vBulletin 1 http://www.ttonline.org/images/misc/rss.png http://www.ttonline.org/ http://www.ttonline.org/threads/10042-Norway-donates-USD-1-billion-to-rainforest?goto=newpost Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:36:01 GMT positive action for preservation? positive action for preservation? ]]> Falcon http://www.ttonline.org/threads/10042-Norway-donates-USD-1-billion-to-rainforest http://www.ttonline.org/threads/9983-Greenpeace-Deepwater-legal-Challenge-to-UK-Govt?goto=newpost Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:43:15 GMT Greenpeace has intimated a legal challenge to the UK Govt in court on awarding deepwater leases without knowing the full outcome of the BP Macondo... Greenpeace has intimated a legal challenge to the UK Govt in court on awarding deepwater leases without knowing the full outcome of the BP Macondo blowout. Published in Trinidad press is an update that the TT Govt just opened up 11 leases for bids in the Deep waters off TT, but its balanced to oil and two reservoirs to gas. See links below. Are we side stepping the results of Macondo investigations? Are we ready for Deep & ULtra Deep using similar equipment and procedures that were used at Macondo? If we ignore the correlation of Greenpeace challenge as relating to what TT is planning, could we be in problems? If we wait for the outcome,may take years, we would be in dire straits as gas is running out, but note, the seismics indicate more oil than gas.
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""Trinidad and Tobago offers 11 blocks in latest bid round - Oil & ...
Trinidad and Tobago announced the offering of 11 deepwater
blocks for bid in its 2010 licensing round.. ... 2010-08-31
The energy minister noted that the companies will be entering into frontier territory since there has never been exploration on these blocks before, but she said studies had shown that the blocks could contain oil fields as large as 1.6 billion bbl and gas fields in excess of 6.5 tcf.""

http://www.ogj.com/index/article-dis...d_tobago0.html

Legal threat to UK deep-water plans
02 September 2010 11:29 GMT
The UK government faces a legal challenge to its plans to further open up the country's deep-water play to E&P activity.
The group has delivered a formal "letter before action" to the government, which accuses ministers of granting licences for new deep-water drilling before the causes of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the US Gulf of Mexico have been properly established

http://www.upstreamonline.com/live/article228253.ece ]]> Tipp http://www.ttonline.org/threads/9983-Greenpeace-Deepwater-legal-Challenge-to-UK-Govt http://www.ttonline.org/threads/9904-It-s-an-environmental-matter-but-also-politics?goto=newpost Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:40:43 GMT and also corruption, I think. About a week ago the headlines informed us that Angosturas highly toxic effluent, was a/ going through WASA... and also corruption, I think.

About a week ago the headlines informed us that Angosturas highly toxic effluent, was a/ going through WASA pipelines to the Beetham Treatment facility. But then, due to a monumental screwup in design and implementation, many years ago and well known, it poured throigh the intended settlement pond, right into Caroni Swamp.

Moreover that this appalling situation has been going on for some ten years with nothing being done to rectify it. And that now, the original cost of 260 millions for those ponds is to be near eclipsed if they are to actually fix it.

Then, within 24 hours, the entire topic disappeared off the news, entirely.

For what? Perhaps another 10 years of "see no evil, hear no evil, and do damn-all?"

To many, as to me, it is nothing short of criminal that Angostura's process residues, are not being taken care of by Angostura. We just know, don't we the very tangible daisy chain that existed between that company's hierarchy and the government of the prior day. Is it therefore such a stretch to imagine how the situation may have been "smoothed over".

But it was well known and even talked about at that time, between a senior company manager and a business friend of mine, that this incredibly polluting poison was just pouring through the WASA drains, day after day, year after year. And as was confrimed in the articles this week, WASA both knew what the poisonous material was / and still is, and further that it has been known for more than a decade now, that it was going absolutely nowhere, other than into Caroni Swamp.

WASA top managers and several echelons below them, plus the Governments that have successively over time employed them in that capacity, are guilty of major environmental crimes. Further, no-one so involved can ever be trusted to pontificate on their respective concerns for the environment, ever again.

Oh, but wait now! The "Head honcho then, and again now, was and is, ........?

Now that's rewards for faithful service! ]]> lexmackie http://www.ttonline.org/threads/9904-It-s-an-environmental-matter-but-also-politics