postMigrator

Please Help Bear Butte: Bars, Mufflers, Helicopters-& Sacred Sites

By postMigrator June 19, 2008 June 19, 2008 Uncategorized

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Subject: FW: Please Help Bear Butte: Bars, Mufflers, Helicopters
and……Sacred Sites
From:    “wsdp” <wsdp@igc.org>
Date:    Thu, June 19, 2008 9:37 am
To:      wsdp@igc.org
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—–Original Message—–
From: tamra@protectsacredsites.org [mailto:tamra@protectsacredsites.org]

Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 9:01 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Bars, Mufflers, Helicopters and……Sacred Sites

Hello everyone,

We still need YOUR help and support for our petition to Protect Bear
Butte. We are currently at 859 signatures, which is great, however we
need to keep it going. Thank you to everyone that signed so far, your
support is greatly appreciated!

Oceans Warming, Rising Faster

By postMigrator June 19, 2008 June 19, 2008 RT Newswire

Scientific sleuths find seas warming, rising faster
Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:01am EDT By David Fogarty

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Scientific detective work has uncovered a decades-old glitch in ocean temperature measurements and revealed that the world’s seas are warming and rising faster than previously reported.

An international team of scientists, reporting their findings on Thursday in the journal Nature, looked at millions of ship-based measurements taken since 1950, but particularly from 1960, and revealed an error in data from a common probe called an XBT.

NZ Engineers Convicted for Depleting Ozone Layer

By postMigrator June 19, 2008 June 19, 2008 RT Newswire

NZ engineers convicted for depleting ozone layer
Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:39am EDT

WELLINGTON (Reuters) – Two refrigeration engineers have been convicted by a New Zealand court for depleting the ozone layer.

The country’s Ministry for Economic Development prosecuted the two men in the first ever case taken under a 1996 law protecting the ozone layer.

The pair released an ozone depleting substance, chlorodifluoromethane HCFC22, into the atmosphere as they were repairing a drinks chiller, and ignored a warning that it was hazardous.

The Ministry said it took the case as a warning to industry. The two were convicted and fined NZ$750 each ($568).

Permits are needed to handle HCFCs, which will be banned under an international agreement from 2015.

(Editing by Alex Richardson)

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Brazil Backs Amazon Soy Ban

By postMigrator June 18, 2008 June 18, 2008 RT Newswire

Brazil throws weight behind Amazon soy ban
Wed Jun 18, 2008 1:20am EDT By Ana Nicolaci da Costa

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s new environment minister reached an agreement with the grain processing industry to ban purchases of soy from deforested Amazon until July 2009, winning praise from environmentalists.

“This same initiative will be extended to two other sectors — the timber sector and the beef sector,” Environment Minister Carlos Minc said while praising the grain industry and non-governmental organizations for a “pioneering” initiative.