PLANET IN PERIL

RAINFOREST Action Network  If TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline is approved, close to 1 million barrels of thick tar sands crude will flow each day at high pressure from Canada through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and all the way to Texas, threatening countless communities and over 2000 waterways, including America's largest under ground water source—the Ogallala Aquifer. Tell President Obama to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline. TAKE ACTION HERE.

 by Larry Powell If you enjoy this blog, please consider  donating to the author to keep it going.  Just click on the link below . Thanks! - Larry                                                                                                        A tractor located in a market garden east of Lumsden, Saskatchewan, sits in water in the Qu'Appelle Valley town northwest of Regina on April 17, 2011. Water-logged Prairie farmers and ranchers are to receive $448 million to help deal with devastating flood damage, Thursday Aug 4, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Roy Antal

Green/ThinkProgress - 08/4/11 Texas is now in its worst-ever one-year drought, according to John Nielsen-Gammon, the Texas State Climatologist… details here. An underweight longhorn  (Jay Janner/AP) Washington Post.

Democracy Now 08/05/11 In one of the largest meat recalls in U.S. history, this week the food giant Cargill ordered the recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey. Details here.

by Chris Mooney - DeSmogBlog They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up the switchboards whenever there’s a radio show about climate change. They commandeer your blog comments section. They have a seemingly insatiable desire to debate, sometimes quite aggressively. Read more about this story.

Guardian.co.UK  Aug 5 '11 Friends of the Earth Europe claims ministers have attempted to undermine European fuel legislation that would affect exports. Details here.

By: Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press - 08/4/201 LAGOS, Nigeria - A region of Nigeria's oil-r ich southern delta suffers widespread ecological damage as spilled oil seeps into its drinking water, destroys plants and remains in the ground for decades at a time, according to a United Nation s report. Details here.

by Larry Powell   Below is a complaint I launched with the CBC Ombudsman, Kirk LaPoint (above).   It arose from an interview on the CBC Radio program, The House. (Read "PLT" Takes Former Ambassador to Task for Bullshit Comments on the Keystone XL Pipeline" ) l.p. ===== Kirk LaPoint, Ombudsman, CBC. Dear. Mr. LaPoint, Please consider this a formal complaint about a program aired on "The House" on Sat. July 23rd, 2011. In it, a former Canadian ambassador to the US, Derek Burney, strongly defended the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which is scheduled to carry tar sands oil from Alberta, to the Texas Gulf Coast. Burney accused environmentalists opposed to the project of being "emotional" and "violent," although he was never challenged to give examples of what he meant. It turns out,(according to Wikipedia) Mr. Burney is on the board of Trans Canada Pipelines, builders of the project. This, however, was never revealed during the inter

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ScienceDaily (July 28, 2011) — Global population is expected to hit 7 billion later this year, up from 6 billion in 1999. Details here. A crowded beach in China. Courtesy of AcidCow.com

ScienceDaily (July 29, 2011)  Water isn't the only thing pouring over Niagara Falls. Pollution from fires... Details here. Courtesty of 4 Season Tours