Tag: environment
member name: Dona Tracy
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March 30, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
One of the biggest environmental travesties concerns the divide and conquer approach of Corporate America, politicians and industrial developers. Environmentalists have been pitted against environmentalists . . .
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May 20, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
While there is, no question, beauty in some man-made things, they pale in comparison to those of Mother Nature. A night time city skyline may sparkle like jewels on the horizon but . . .
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March 28, 2007 02:23 PM EDT --
Across the globe a new threat to eagles is quickly replacing shooting, poisoning, trapping and electrocution by power lines. The traditional Big Four has a new 'kid on the block'; Industrial Wind . . .
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May 18, 2007 02:25 PM EDT --
Industrial wind farms, like the Cape Wind project, are on the rise and along with them public protest and opposition. Is it anti-environnmental to even question much less object? Not at all. In fact, . . .
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July 15, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
Evolutionarliy speaking whales walked from land and into the sea around 60 million years ago. 60 million years!
Talk about coming face to face with the magic of nature and the universe.
A visiting friend . . .
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July 17, 2007 09:19 AM EDT --
Great trip yesterday out to Stellwagen Bank, a National Marine Sanctuary off the coast of Massachusetts. Every encounter with the whales is different. You simply can't tell from one hour to the next . . .
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July 30, 2007 10:37 AM EDT --
The best part of watching whales in their natural environment is that up close and personal encounter that no captive situation can provide. No bells, no whistles, no hoops and no fish rewards. . . .
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February 24, 2007 10:15 AM EST --
The opposition to industrial wind power has been given a bad name by the industry, politicians and an uninformed media.
With this blog, our hope is to establish a dialog with others that believe . . .
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March 26, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
Trees Not Turbines
At best, a project like Cape Wind might save us 10 cents on our electric bill. For that same 10 cents, I would rather plant a tree.
Trees not only remove CO2 and pollutants like dust, . . .
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April 06, 2007 12:49 PM EDT --
The 'Great Wind Rush' is on!
Despite strenuous objections from citizens all over the world, who see the destruction and potential destruction of their landscapes, seascapes and wildlife . . .
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June 11, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
Warning: This Post Contains Pictures the American Wind Energy Association and Some Environmental and Wildlife Protection Organizations like the Sierra Club Do Not Want You to See. . . .
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July 13, 2007 10:26 AM EDT --
Cape Wind, a 25 square mile off-shore industrial wind plant proposed for the Nantucket Sound, claims it would reduce our dependence on foreign oil, which places our economy and national security . . .
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July 19, 2007 09:11 AM EDT --
Tuesday was, what I can only call, 'the whole is equal to the sum of its parts' day on the Whale Watcher.
We left Barnstable Harbor in the morning mist, on glassy waters with 342 . . .
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August 21, 2007 09:31 AM EDT --
There was a time when Greenpeace would throw itself in front of whaling boats to protect whales from harm but, now, this same organization, funded by tax deductible contributions from whale lovers, . . .
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February 28, 2007 10:28 PM EST --
For the over twenty-five years I've been working with wildlife, particularly, the birds of prey; eagles, hawks, owls, osprey, falcons and vultures. A day hasn't gone by when I don't feel . . .
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March 21, 2007 10:59 AM EDT --
Jim Gordon's Energy Management Inc., the developer of the Cape Wind project, knows no bounds when it comes to energy development. While he and his thirty something year old company hide behind . . .
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October 03, 2007 09:27 AM EDT --
Life has a way of handing us great moments when we least expect them. And so it was with my summer as an on board naturalist on the Whale Watcher out of Barnstable Harbor, Cape Cod, MA.
I would . . .
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May 10, 2007 09:34 AM EDT --
The David Letterman Show and all those interested in unbiased journalism should have a field day with this book written by admitted wind industry writer Wendy Williams and opinion based editor Robert Whitcomb. . . .
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April 10, 2007 06:13 PM EDT --
Last week, in an outrageous decision to speed up the process for industrial wind farms, the lawmakers in Maryland voted to eliminate environmental reviews concerning the potential impact . . .
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April 15, 2007 08:50 AM EDT --
Developer Jim Gordon, of the Cape Wind project, may have been thinking "It is sometimes better to apologize than ask for permission" when his company omitted the dredging of Horseshoe Shoal from . . .
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