http://search.csmonitor.com/search_content/0819/p15s02-sten.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/082004G.shtml
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=140350


Informant: Teresa Binstock

http://www.gristmagazine.com/muck/muck081204.asp?source=daily


Informant: Sheila Baker

Michael Kerjman
mkwrk2 et yahoo.com

INTRODUCTION

A gradual sophistication of technologies stipulates an increasing consumption of energy in different forms. Since the beginning of human history, mining is inextricably linked to a progress and wellbeing of civilization. It is commonly suggested that influence of mining and mineral wastes on environment can substantially be reduced by implementation of comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation processes themselves requiring the additional input of energy.

Is mining and mineral wastes environmental impact a definitely well-known nothing – to – discover –more issue?

To what extent might uncertainties of complex recovery processes be integrated in?

Is international concern over the locally performed traditional mining activities grounded?

Assembled, seemingly unrelated features of the up-to-date knowledge of natural processes eventually present a comprehensive picture of an environmental integrity affected by human activities.

MOTION UPON A TIME

The seasons’ changes, continental drift, planet movement are mutually linked natural processes. Consisting of materials of different density with mountains up to 8848m (Everest) and ocean depths down to 11033m (Challenger Deep), Earth cannot be present as a simple homogenous sphere equipped by the forces working in accordance with Pascal Decree which supposes a similar distribution of powers in different directions. It is in fact a solid equipped with special apices and edges, corners and squares where the existing strengths affect both the surface and deep layers of it differently along different directions.

A continental drift is a matter of fact constituting the existing relative physical stability of a contemporary world. Any continent has relatively stable structure being formed ages ago (Endersbee, 2002). In Australia, sedimentary water basins underline about 66% of continent, and the majority of them are in the Great Australian Basin, which underlines an area of some 1.7 million sq.km, where the average depth of the 25000 bores is about 500m (Hambermehl, 1980). A piece of a moving crust, this continent is likely to a float being filled with the inertial inclusion – water instead of air. From the mechanical point of view, a similar structure exists in an Aral Sea-Karakum region of Central Asia, where the hydrocarbon wealth lies beneath. This desert area seems to act as a buffer between seismic zone of the Himalayas and recently stable flat countries of Middle Russia and Northern-West Siberia. Given the attention to similar patterns constituting natural structures, wouldn’t huge deposits of oil and gas eventually be exploited beneath Southern Ocean near the Northern – East shore of Antarctica and beneath Antarctica itself?

As soon as distribution of the soil / water volumes has been changed (for instance, mining activities stipulate relocation and degradation of soil and increase in the evaporation processes affecting the infiltration of ocean dense salt water into the mainland), the drift of the unique island of Australia would have been modified. If a drift of a rest of the world is not being adjusted in accordance with these changes (during the recorded human history the natural self-regulation processes are synchronous but not simultaneous to events initiated with), a planet’s movement would possibly have been altered, precession would have been mutated and the climate depending heavily on precession would have been changed drastically.

Certainly, from a mechanical viewpoint the Green Continent is the sensible fulcrum of the Earth on which activity may surely initiate an unpredictable disharmony on the planet.

TO STARS AND BACK

Electromagnetic field covers a planet and affects all processes occurring on the Earth. The gravity and attraction are the particular types of conversion of a wave stream into mechanical strengths having different capacity and effect in different parts of a planet (Fairall, 1994).

All elements either absorb or emit energy, which was proved by M.Planck and N.Bohr. A.Einstein explained these processes with a photon theory, which is a basis of photography.

Atmosphere and soil constitute the electromagnetic system being usually balanced, in other words, terrestrial magnetism is a stable natural pattern sustained by relatively constant levels of radiation. Magnetic abilities of metals are known from ages. It is that only over 20th century people have developed approaches and techniques permitting a systematic search for deposits that cannot be seen from the surface. These new tools provide a remarkable amount of information about rocks: about weight, chemical compositions-a whole series of characteristics. These characteristics can be translated into information on the probability of existence of useable material beneath any part of the earth’s surface. Technology has added a third dimension to exploration and thereby has greatly increased chances of discovering the unknown.

With high degree of probability, extensity of various mining activities affects the surrounding:

- The acceleration of young generation had begun in the early fiftieth-a period of broad establishing the mains of uranium, molybdenum and other rare trace metals

- Data from Antarctica has been the subject of much comment and offers undisputed evidence that chlorine compounds realized by the dissociation of chlorofluorocarbon molecules (aerosols, fire-fighting) are affecting the Earth’s protective ozone layer. As this enormous area of degradation has been situated above Antarctica (frankly, above both of Magnetic Poles), far away from inhabited places of the world (US Congress, Senate, 1989), it appears to be a catalyst to an original natural process rather than a cause of degradation.

Apparently, the changes in the protective electromagnetic field may occur because of modification that happened to the electric changes on the surface (Malan, 1972). These modifications may occur because of the changes in capacity /activity of nuclear reactions in the core and alterations of the waves these reactions provide a planet with. As a possible cause of alteration, the transfiguration of screens (which is strata) on the way the waves could reach / be dispersed off the surface has been seen.

The worked / transferred, frankly speaking, destroyed and modified layers as well as transcendent continental drift satisfy the above mentioned assumption

- The growth of such diseases as cancer and AIDS (The Sydney Morning Herald, 1992) dealt with genes’ mutation is certainly the reaction of organic patterns (geo/bio magnetic stimulation) on the changes of a planetary magnetic field. These changes stimulated by replacement and redistribution of mineral disposals-natural magnets used to have been among the factors configuring this field. The role and effect of mineral disposals on the natural processes seem being comparable with the impact of moles on a human body

- Some commonly existing in particular areas of the world diseases are never known or seldom occurring in other places (Lazaroff, 2002) because the natural forces affect differently in different areas of the planet. It is synonymous to a undisputed fact: the some quantities of the same goods have different weigh on the equator and near the Northern Pole.

So, some areas where particular types of diseases could more effectively be treated or generally be fought off with no medicine at all would eventually be discovered

- Lactose intolerance varies between inhabitants of different continents. It is clear, that inside a particular nation changes occur as a very result of migration to different parts of the world having been characterized with even slightly different magnetic – radiation levels. Although many chemicals, natural and synthetic, are mutagenic, variation in acceptance of lactose between particular groups of population residing in different regions of same country definitely reflects magnetic / radiation aspects.

Thus, a "lactose not-persistence in Finnish families" (Enattan et al, 2002) results a mere bio-reaction on a magnetic alterations in a Northern Pole area (Song et al, 1996).

Manipulating the undulatory parameters of materials can interfere with natural wave processes consciously: the more emissions initiated - the less intact patterns left. Following up these newly acquired abilities, engineering solutions deploying planetary gravity and nuclear reactions, establishing radiation clean-up processes are next in line.

The recent knowledge questions the survival of human beings during trans-universe expeditions. With emphasis on time, space and nuclear processes, a level of radiation vital for a human existence should at last have been estimated. Beyond comprehension, a number of biological transformations and biochemical characteristics was since the dawn of human history recorded. Practically accounted, it would eventually contribute to new forms of the space travelling. As fantastic today as the Internet not so long ago, trans-galactic expeditions constituted by high energy – artificially-constructed-genes’ (Pearsall et al, 2002) systems could in the future reach unthinkably remote regions of the universe. There their transformations into bio-mechanical discovery units could occur (Cameron, 2002). Operating a speed of light, those space-discovery projects would be executed in terms comparable with a term of a human life.

Thus, stability of planetary electro-magnetic characteristics substantiating navigation of future trans-galactic expeditions is to be of an imperative importance.

CONCLUSIONS

As time goes on broadening knowledge of a nature, the understanding of industrial activities and their impact on human civilization have been changed dramatically (Kerjman, 1995).

Viewed from the proper perspective of time, the most of planet catastrophes are gradual, caused only by simple terrestrial causes. The existing model of atomic/molecular structure was established and developed in environment characterized with a particular terrestrial electromagnetic field. The global changes in the electromagnetic properties would really cause the end of a contemporary civilization.

While mining affects local environment by various ways, an impact at a planetary scale is less certain. If it does, it will serve to further market’s ability to sustain development globally. The question remains what the costs are which industry is willing to incur to obtain it.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I thank my parents for all a life to present. 1994-2004

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Flussschutz: Ende der Naturzerstörung im ukrainischen Donaudelta gefordert

13.08.04

Angesichts der Zerstörung bedeutender Teile des Donaudeltas durch Kanalbauarbeiten auf ukrainischem Gebiete hat der Naturschutzbund NABU das Auswärtige Amt aufgefordert politischen Druck auf die Ukraine auszuüben. "Die Bauarbeiten am Schifffahrtskanal und in den Uferbereichen gefährden einen der großartigsten Naturräume der Erde und die wichtigste Drehscheibe des Vogelzuges im westlichen Schwarzmeerraum", sagte NABU-Vizepräsident Thomas Tennhardt. Auch die UNESCO dürfe nicht tatenlos bei der Zerstörung eines ihrer Weltnaturerbegebiete zuschauen. Die Hamburger Firma Möbius Bau, die maßgeblich an der Umsetzung vor Ort beteiligt ist, forderte der NABU auf, unverzüglich die laufenden Bauarbeiten zu beenden...

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet:

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php4?Nr=9088

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/185477_cement10.html


Informant: Teresa Binstock

"We were doing some research up the McKenzie River valley near Eugene and we had a hard time finding a place in the forest, within a reasonable distance from roads, where the moss had not already been picked.” In the Pacific Northwest, some business owners are concerned enough about illegal harvests that they have hired private security guards to patrol lands on which they have legally leased the moss rights.

Full article below:
http://www.bend.com/news/ar_view%5E3Far_id%5E3D17140.htm

From Bend.com news sources
Posted: Tuesday, August 3, 2004 10:26 AM
Reference Code: PR-17140

August 3 - PORTLAND – A huge, largely underground industry has been built on the moss that drapes some forest trees, raising ecological concerns, questions about export of potentially invasive species, and other issues that have scientists, land managers and businesses unsure about how to monitor, regulate or control this market amid so many uncertainties.

A report on this trade in forest moss – sometimes legal, sometimes on the black market – was made Tuesday by a botanist from Oregon State University, speaking at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

“Certain types of mosses and lichens, often those that hang on hardwood trees such as vine maple or big leaf maple, are prized for their use in the floral trade,” said Patricia Muir, an OSU professor of botany and plant pathology. “The moss is used in planters, wreaths, hanging baskets, other floral displays. And it has become a big business and big money.”

How big? That’s part of the problem - no one really knows. The newest studies done by Muir suggests it must be at least $5.5 million a year, but it could also range up to $165 million annually, mostly in the Pacific Northwest and parts of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern U.S.

Sometimes the moss is harvested legally, by permits on public lands or contractual arrangement on private land, Muir said. But there’s strong evidence that the amount taken by permit or private legal arrangements is just the tip of the iceberg of actual harvests.

“Any penalties for illegal taking of moss are usually small and rarely enforced,” Muir said. “There also is a lack of record keeping and reporting on many public lands, and clearly some illegal harvesting on both public and private forests.”

But legalities aside, millions of pounds of moss are leaving America’s forests every year, and that has ecologists concerned.

“When large amounts of moss are taken from an area, we aren’t sure what species may grow back in its place,” Muir said. “There may be some inadvertent removal of endangered species. We could be shipping dangerous insect pests overseas in untreated moss samples. And moss may play an important role in nutrient cycling that is not yet fully understood.”

Moss also holds about 10 times its weight in water, Muir said, and acts as a natural sponge, a hydrologic buffer to help control the flow of water in forests. Some threatened species such as the marbled murrelet build their nests in moss mats. And the moss is habitat for hundreds of insect species.

“We don’t really know whether the removal of this much moss is a serious problem, because no one has studied it very carefully,” Muir said. “Right now it’s safe to say that whatever we decide about a reasonable amount of moss to allow harvested is just a seat-of-the-pants guess.”

And that assumes, she said, that there is an effective management or enforcement structure in place to control moss harvest, once quotas are decided upon. In fact, there is not.

“Amid land managers, there’s a lot of frustration about any type of enforcement of moss regulations,” Muir said. “When you consider all the issues relating to timber, streams, fisheries, salmon, endangered species, there is hardly anyone left who has time to worry about moss.”

Ideally, Muir said, enlightened managers would know more about their moss resource, how fast it regrows, what amount could be safely removed, and which sensitive habitats should be avoided. Harvesters would be trained, maybe even have a long-term lease on a parcel of forest land, and there would be some degree of enforcement of rules and permits in a system that encouraged trust, respect and responsibility.

The moss industry is unorganized, which is part of what makes it so difficult to regulate. Some of the harvesters are “mom and pop” businesses that are difficult to tell from a couple out for a walk in the woods, Muir said. The moss may bring the harvesters 50 cents to $2 a pound when they sell it to a wholesaler, more often at the low end of that range.

But the pounds can add up. Muir estimates – again, with a huge range of variability – that between 2 and 82 million pounds of moss is used in, or exported from the U.S. each year, with a final market value that could approach $165 million. Domestic sales, which are largely unknown, are estimated based on the value of export sales that are easier to track, and the known ratio between the amount of moss used locally versus that which is exported. Muir estimated that the moss being harvested in the U.S. could fill between 600 and 2,400 semi-trucks per year.

In her survey, Muir contacted 361 land managers, 97 botanists and 98 businesses. About 64 percent of botanists felt that the volume of moss being removed was of concern.

In the East, the concern about moss harvests in some areas is sufficiently high that the Monongahela National Forest has stopped issuing any harvest permits. In the Pacific Northwest, some business owners are concerned enough about illegal harvests that they have hired private security guards to patrol lands on which they have legally leased the moss rights.

“There’s still a lot we don’t know here, but there clearly are ecological concerns,” Muir said. “Moss harvesting is a big business and it’s all around us. We were doing some research up the McKenzie River valley near Eugene and we had a hard time finding a place in the forest, within a reasonable distance from roads, where the moss had not already been picked.”


Informant: Deane T. Rimerman

(excerpt)

By Stewart L. Udall, who has written, edited or contributed to dozens of books, most recently "The Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West" (Shearwater Books, 2002).

July 26, 2004

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-udall26jul26,1,2080196.story

SANTA FE, N.M. -- A crucial struggle over land stewardship is taking place south of my home on the Greater Otero Mesa, a1.2-million-acre stretch of grassland that looks pretty much the way it did when Coronado explored the region almost 500 years ago. As much as half of Otero Mesa still qualifies for protection under the landmark 1964 Wilderness Act, which was enacted when I headed the Interior Department under presidents Kennedy and Johnson. This law prevents industrial development on designated federal land "retaining its primeval character and influence."

But the Bush administration, determined to ransack public lands for the last meager pockets of petroleum, has turned my old department into a servile, single-minded adjunct of the Energy Department. It is intent on opening Otero Mesa and other wild lands to oil and gas exploration under the guise of reducing our ever-growing dependency on imported oil.

Here in New Mexico, where citizens cherish sublime landscapes, the administration's attack on the mesa is a heated issue. Gov. Bill Richardson has been joined by lawmakers, environmental groups and thousands of citizens in opposing drilling on Otero.

This crusade is part of a wave of public resentment across the West over the dark chapter that President Bush and his aides are writing in the history of the American conservation movement. From California to Colorado, Montana to Arizona, drill rigs pockmark the West's wild places, licensed by a White House that views opening of the nation's last untrammeled country to private development as a prime economic priority.

For the last 50 years as a congressman, as Interior secretary, as a citizen activist and a historian, I have been involved in the conservation cause. Until the last few years Americans have taken pride in the fact that our country has set the standard for innovative ideas about resource stewardship, and has seen them emulated throughout the world.

The word "conservation" -- and the concept of science-based management of resources -- did not exist until Teddy Roosevelt became president. He initiated the reforms and raised the banner, halting raids on the public's resources and creating millions of acres of national forests, parks and wildlife refuges.

Even during the Great Depression, the second President Roosevelt enlarged his cousin's legacy. FDR put people to work replanting forests, bringing electricity to rural areas and enlarging the nation's national parks.

A third wave of conservation got underway in 1961 when Kennedy called for the establishment of wilderness reserves and the addition of seashores to the park system, inspiring conservationists to revive ideas that had been shelved after Pearl Harbor.

My office sorted through the results: Should I urge the New Jersey governor to oppose the powerful New York Port Authority's plan for a super jetport in order to preserve the Great Swamp? Should I travel to Maine to help Sen. Edmund Muskie stop a dam that would flood the storied Allagash River? Could I persuade the budget people to spend $30 million more to prevent development inside the new Point Reyes National Seashore in California? We did all that, and more.

In those days, partisan lines were never drawn where conservation issues were concerned. Kennedy's Wilderness bill passed the Senate by a vote of 78 to 12, with only six members of each party voting no. Republicans overwhelmingly voted for the bill largely because of the leadership of a farsighted Californian, Thomas Kuchel.

From 1961 to 1981, every president -- Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter -- gave his unwavering support to environmental reforms. Richard Nixon set a high goal by declaring that the 1970s should be the "environmental decade." He created the Environmental Protection Agency and approved laws to protect endangered species.

As the country moved rightward with Reagan, the rhetoric may have been negative, but in the end no effort was made to repeal important environmental laws. George H.W. Bush had a positive record, and although Bill Clinton was stymied by a hostile Congress, he used his executive powers to achieve positive results.

Overall, it's a record that bolsters my thesis that this administration is rowing against the tide of American history. Otero Mesa symbolizes its narrow focus. Bush and company have not put forward a single positive new conservation concept. They have systematically lowered pollution regulations to please favored industries. They have allowed park and forest maintenance to be neglected and under-funded. I view these events and developments with dismay. This is a time for straight talk, for those who love the land to make their voices heard before more damage is done to the resources we all own.

Copyright 2004 Los Angeles Times


Informant: Teresa Binstock