There have been a number of calculations and predictions of the health consequences of the Chernobyl accident exposures. These range from virtually none (The UN Chernobyl Forum) through 60,000 excess cancer deaths (Fairlie and Sumner 2006) to 1.8 million cancers (Rosalie Bertell 2006) and include the prediction of between 900,000 and 1.4 million cancers in the last 25 years made recently by Alexey Yablokov (Yablokov 2011) in Berlin and widely covered in the media. In view of the recent local and ongoing global contamination being produced by the Fukushima nuclear power station meltdown in Japan and the 25th anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl accident it would seem of interest to revisit the various calculations and to employ the ECRR2010 approach to predicting the cancer yield and other ill health, and at the same time, check the results against other epidemiological approaches to obtaining the correct result for exposures to the radionuclides emitted from an accident involving a nuclear reactor.
Read More »Associated Press – More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help prevent leaks that could threaten the same waters fouled by last year’s BP spill, The Associated Press has learned. These wells likely pose an even greater environmental threat than the 27,000 wells in the Gulf that have been plugged and classified officially as “permanently [...]
Read More »A flurry of legal claims were filed on the one-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion Wednesday, as people harmed by the oil spill rushed to put their names in for a trial scheduled for next February, companies involved in the disaster filed suit against each other, and the state of Louisiana expanded its claim as legal deadlines loomed. About 70,000 people filed claims in an obscure maritime [...]
Read More »BP is suing the maker of the device that failed to stop last year’s calamitous Gulf of Mexico oil spill, alleging negligence that the oil giant says helped cause the disaster. The British company says in papers filed in federal court in New Orleans on Wednesday that Cameron International provided a blowout preventer with a faulty design, and in doing so caused an unreasonable amount of risk that harm would [...]
Read More »For Immediate Release, April 20, 2011 Contact: Chris Pincetich, Ph.D., Sea Turtle Restoration Project, (415) 663-8590 x102, cell (530) 220-3687, chris@tirn.net Teri Shore, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (415) 663-8590 x104, tshore@tirn.net Todd Steiner, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (415) 663-8590 x103, tsteiner@tirn.net Photos of current Gulf conditions and B-roll available U.S. Earns Failing Grades for BP Oil Spill Response and Repair in Gulf of Mexico Environmental Report Card Finds Business As [...]
Read More »NEW ORLEANS – Relatives of the 11 men who died aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig are flying over the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, back to the epicenter of the worst offshore oil spill in the nation’s history. Meanwhile, on land, vigils were scheduled in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to mark the spill. On the night of April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon, a rig operated by Transocean [...]
Read More »The state’s struggle to deal with the remains of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill can be seen in miniature in a broken stand of roseau cane in Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area, Wildlife & Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham said Tuesday morning. When Barham scooped up a handful of earth, what oozed from between his fingers was a mixture of soil and oil. “They made an attempt to try [...]
Read More »GULF SHORES, Alabama – An oil spill victim police who police said had his claim denied threatened to kill everyone inside a local claims office. Police aren’t releasing the man’s name because he’s now in custody at a psychiatric hospital, but say the man threatened to kill himself, then open fire at a Gulf Coast Claims Facility. Police put out a “BOLO” or Be on the Lookout” radio transmission and [...]
Read More »FORT WALTON BEACH – Staff’s Restaurant has been a fixture downtown for nearly 100 years. These days it doesn’t look like it will make it to its centennial. Fifth generation family members blame the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a long wait for claims money from BP and fewer customers for putting them on the brink of closure. “We’ve been through the Great Depression, hurricanes and economic hard times, but the [...]
Read More »New York state will sue the federal agency regulating gas drilling in the Delaware River corridor if it doesn’t commit to a full environmental impact study of its proposed regulations within 30 days, state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said. Such a study of the impact of more than 15,000 wells that could be drilled along the Delaware could take years and thus delay drilling for at least that long. The [...]
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