 Gov. Schwarzenegger Introduces an Environmentally Friendly Hummer
Plan to update Critical Conservation Information in the Illinois Natural Areas Inventory 1,600 Acres on St. Mary's River Preserved (FL)
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A personal quest to promote the use of wind energy and hydrogen technology in the Great Lakes area of the United States. The Great Lakes area is in a unique position to become an energy exporting region through these and other renewable energy technologies. *Update 2014: Just do it everywhere - Dan*
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
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African Conflict Is Seen Rooted in Environment Asia Needs Network to Fight Illegal Wildlife Trade Global Stocks of Nuke Bomb Material Are Growing, Says Survey Fish Near Some Colorado Treatment Plants Found With Male-Female Tissue CITES Lifts Ban on Hunting Black Rhino Mount St. Helens Spews More Steam and Ash U.S. Mine Tries to Dig Out from Under Local Discontent in Peruvian Andes Recycling Used CDs and DVDs, and Tallgrass Prairies Tyson, Wal-Mart Sign on for Emissions Reduction Program National Showcase Lets Sun Shine on Solar-powered Home in Winters, Calif. 
Pricey Oil May Raise Interest in Alternative Energy — Eventually Alaska Bering Sea Pollock Gets Eco-label Australia's Frisky Koalas to Get Hormone Implants Philippines Orders Exotic Pets Registered, Says Paper North Pacific Right Whales Seem to Be Making a Comeback, Says Scientists Trade Pays Big Dividends for Crocodiles Pricey Oil Could Be Boon for European Car that Runs on Compressed Air OECD Praises Sweden's Environmental Policy, Suggests Improvements Chevron Phillips to Pay $1.8 Million for Plant Explosions Canada Study Details Pregnancy Chemical Hazard In Public Policy, Quirky California Often Pioneers Rewrite Softens Report on Risks to Salmon in Sacramento, Calif., River Delta Beef Recall Data to Remain Secret in California After Governor's Veto Analyst Lowers Outlook for Hydrogen Cars 
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Puerto Rico Water Authority Strike Blamed for Service Loss to 20,000 Customers Indonesia Police Submit Newmont Case to Prosecutors Shaw Industries to Convert Carpet Waste into Energy Russia Could Finish Kyoto Approval by Year's End Myanmar Leader Says More than Half of Country Is Forested, Despite Concerns About Deforestation Japanese Cars Top Government's List of Most Fuel Efficient NYC Mayor to Announce New Plan to Ship Trash Out of City on Barges U.S. Bomb-Grade Plutonium Convoy to Cross France
Montana Rocky Mountain Front Victory CITES – A Force to be Reckoned With White Rhino Caught in the Cross Hairs at CITES 27 Business and Environmental Organizations Send White House Funding Recommendations For Fiscal Year 2006 Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Programs, Urge Doubling of Budget over the Next Five Years The Coming Electrical Energy Shortage A Plan to Offset Damage Costs to Florida of Hurricane Ivan Starbucks Becomes First-Ever EnviroStars Recognized Leader ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ENN is a Registered Trademark of the Environmental News Network, Inc. Copyright © 2004 Environmental News Network, Inc. This Newsletter is sent in accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 Environmental News Network - P.O. Box 6782 - San Rafael, CA 94903 Phone: (415) 459-2248 Fax: (512) 681-0652 To subscribe or unsubscribe from the ENN Daily or Weekly Newsletter please click here or copy and paste the following link into your web browser's address bar http://cubert.routesys.com/~enn/homepage.php Enter your email address - select the ENN Daily Newsletter or ENN Weekly Newsletter - select Subscribe or Unsubscribe - click on "Submit"
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The Entire Tech Week in a Single E-mail October 23, 2004 As the final week of campaigning in the presidential election approaches, the battle for ballots is heating up on the Internet. When comedian Jon Stewart blasted the hosts of CNN's "Crossfire" as fomenting political partisanship, he ignited a frenzy of online activity. The online transcript and video clips of the program became an overnight sensation among Web surfers, bloggers and pundits alike. As of Friday morning, online video hosting site IFilm said, more than 1.6 million people had downloaded the 13-minute CNN clip from its site. Links to the IFilm video and CNN.com's transcript of the show have been posted to countless Web logs and online bulletin boards. The video clip also was a favorite among the peer-to-peer community. According to SuprNova.org, which tracks usage of the Bit Torrent file-sharing protocol, the segment is currently being offered for download by more than 1,100 sources. Voters in swing states currently saturated with political ads might choose to avoid the P2P Politics Web site, which helps people swap campaign commercials via e-mail. But for anyone who has missed the ads now barraging battleground states with all the relentlessness of a Florida hurricane, a trip to the new civic-minded site might be in order. The new site is backed by Stanford Professor Lawrence Lessig and his Creative Commons foundation, which promotes a version of copyright that facilitates widespread distribution and use of content. Although the site's role in shifting voters' opinions is likely to be small, it is a real part of what has been a radical transformation in campaigning and political awareness because of the Internet. Tech-minded voters who are still undecided may be interested in how President Bush and Sen. John Kerry stand on tech issues. Both responded to a questionnaire on technology policy from the Computing Technology Industry Association, weighing in on such issues as Internet telephony and intellectual-property protection. Bush and Kerry, both looking to gain an edge in the extremely close race, expressed their views on 12 topics, which also include spam, privacy and unlicensed wireless spectrum. Voters can view the candidates' answers on the association's Web site. Security breakdown
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Friday, October 22, 2004
There is no such thing as a completely secure all-electronic ballot nor paper ballot so far. One can be hacked or the data simply lost, the other can be discarded or lost by either human dishonesty or human error.
However, of the two, the one it takes a human to mess up is more likely to survive intact because other humans are actively working to prevent intentional or unintentional discarding of votes, and humans who cheat can go to jail and know it.
There are no Democratic or Libertarian or Green computers watching the Republican computers, and no computer has any realization that it should try to keep from being penalized for failure or sense of self-preservation guiding it to act in a moral and ethical fashion. It is just a complicated machine that acts on rules configured by it's makers, and quite possibly will fail to act as intended on those rules. Interestingly, it's mostly Republican owned companies that at this time are configuring the rules since they are making the machines. It's actions in real time are not visible or able to be monitored against a master set of rules as would be the case with a human being directly watched by other humans. If it screws up, there's no record of how it screwed up because the information it contains is ephemeral rather than physical and permanent which paper is for the intents and purposes of voting. No one can tell if it is being remotely manipulated, that is invisible.
The bottom line is that there are so many more ways a computer can screw up than a human can on the unintentional side that paper ballots far surpass it on unintentional mistake security. As for intentional mis-use, since the process inside the machine is essentially invisible and the trail of events ephemeral and mostly untraceable. Also, intentional mis-use of either paper or electrons requires the creativity and cunning of a human being or multiple human beings acting in conspiracy to happen. Electronic methods of cheating far surpass paper in their ease of being accomplished, or paper far surpasses electronic methods of cheating in their difficulty of being accomplished.
Give me paper every time.
Dan Stafford
Thursday, October 21, 2004
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Dear Illinois PIRG supporter,
Oil companies are fighting to get their hands on the small amount of oil under Alaska's North Slope. Now the Bureau of Land Management is proposing a leasing plan for the Western Arctic that would allow oil companies to drill in this unique and critical wetland habitat.
Write ConocoPhillips CEO John Mulva and urge him to listen to his shareholders, elected officials, conservation groups, and consumers around the world and drop out of the Arctic Power lobbying group. Also urge the company to stay out of sensitive areas within the Western Arctic/National Petroleum Reserve Alaska. Then, forward this email on to your friends and family members so they can help as well.
To take action, click on the link below or paste it into your web browser:
http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=6&id4=ES
Background
ConocoPhillips is one of two oil companies - along with BP - that dominate Alaska's North Slope. The company is particularly active on the western side of the North Slope, hundreds of miles from the coastal plain of the Arctic Refuge but on the doorstep of the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska, otherwise known as the Western Arctic.
The Western Arctic's extensive network of wetlands supports world-class populations of golden eagles, peregrine falcons, and other birds of prey, along with millions of migratory waterfowl and shorebirds. Grizzly bears, wolves, caribou, and moose roam the foothills, beluga whales and spotted seals swim freely in icy coastal lagoons, and Arctic poppies and cotton grass dance in the wind. The Western Arctic is an area of stunning, untrammeled wilderness.
The weight of scientific evidence points toward significant impacts on the wilderness if sensitive areas within the Western Arctic are opened for drilling, especially from industrial-scale oil and gas drilling and development.
The current leasing plan for the Western Arctic proposed by the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management would allow oil companies to operate in unique and critical wetland habitat of Teshekpuk Lake. The lake is one of the single most important tundra-wetland complexes in the entire circumpolar Arctic. Teshekpuk Lake is heavily used for subsistence purposes, especially its caribou. Brant and other waterfowl that use the area are harvested for subsistence and sport in Alaska and throughout the Lower 48 states.
On the eastern side of the North Slope is the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, one of America's last wild places. Caribou, muskoxen, wolves, polar, brown and black bears, and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds rely on the wilderness habitat that the Refuge provides. The Gwich'in people, Alaska natives who live near the Refuge, depend on the caribou. For 20,000 years, their culture and way of life have been intimately bound up with the Porcupine River caribou herd.
Juxtaposed against these wilderness values is the chance of finding little or no oil. At current rates of consumption, there is at best 6 months worth of oil in the Refuge. An analysis by the U.S. PIRG Education Fund - False Profits: The Business Case Against Drilling in the Arctic Refuge - makes the case that there is NO economically recoverable oil in the coastal plain of the Refuge. You can read the full report here:
http://savethearctic.com/PDFs/arcticwhitepaper_2_4_02.PDF
PIRG's Arctic Wilderness campaign is targeting all four of the companies that want to drill in the Refuge. In response to our campaign, BP dropped out of Arctic Power, the lobbying group, in 2001, and in April 2003, announced that drilling in the Arctic Refuge is not part of their current business plan. It is now time to push ConocoPhillips to drop out of Arctic Power and refrain from drilling in sensitive parts of the Western Arctic.
Pressure is building on ConocoPhillips regarding their operations on the North Slope of Alaska. In May 2004, more than 8 percent of ConocoPhillips shareholders voted in favor of a PIRG-sponsored shareholder resolution that called on the company to stay out of the Arctic Refuge.
Write ConocoPhillips CEO John Mulva and urge him to listen to his shareholders, elected officials, conservation groups, consumers around the world - and even BP - and drop out of Arctic Power. Also urge the company to stay out of sensitive areas within the Western Arctic/National Petroleum Reserve Alaska. Then, forward this email on to your friends and family members so they can help as well.
To take action, click on the link below or paste it into your web browser:
http://pirg.org/alerts/route.asp?id=6&id4=ES
Sincerely,
Rebecca D. Stanfield
Illinois PIRG Environmental Attorney
RebeccaS@illinoispirg.org
http://www.IllinoisPIRG.org
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The Wisconsin Department of Justice has sued Northern States Power Company to recover $1.4 million in investigation costs related to contamination in Lake Superior and on the lakefront next to the company's property in Ashland. Source: The Appleton Post-Crescent (10/20)
MP wants to ban water exports
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A Member of Parliament has introduced a private member's bill to ban the export of Great Lakes water outside the Great Lakes basin, claiming that piping water out of the Great Lakes would threaten Canada's water supply and damage the lakes' delicate ecosystems. Source: The Toronto Star (10/20)
Paying a little more would cut mercury a lot
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According to the National Wildlife Federation, it would cost the average residential customer living in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania or North Dakota only 69 cents more per month on their electric bill to produce a 90 percent reduction in airborne mercury from coal-fired power plants. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (10/20)
New Canadian regulations trigger jump in environmental spending
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Companies responding to new regulations boosted environmental spending between 2000 and 2002, says Statistics Canada. Source: The Globe and Mail (10/20)
Relief in Chicago: No more 'Frankenfish'
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An anxious search Tuesday of a Chicago harbor failed to turned up any northern snakeheads, a voracious alien fish that can devastate freshwater ecosystems by gobbling up food and native fish. Source: Booth Newspapers (10/19)
U.S. cleanup starts on Detroit River's "Black Lagoon'
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Known as the Black Lagoon, a heavily contaminated 2-mile stretch of the Detroit River is getting a multimillion-dollar federally funded cleanup designed to turn a toxic eyesore into a natural resource. Source: Detroit Free Press (10/19)
Michigan seeks to ban 'engineered' fish
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A series of bills have been proposed to prohibit non-native or bioengineered aquatic animals and plants from being sold in Michigan. Source: South Bend Tribune (10/19)
Officials to focus on chemical spills
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Environmental leaders from Michigan and Ontario will meet this week to continue discussing ways to keep toxic chemicals out of the St. Clair River, including fines for spills. Source: The Port Huron Times-Herald (10/17)
Steel heritage museum could rise in industrial valley
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The movers behind a series of projects percolating in the Cuyahoga River's industrial valley met this week to brainstorm on one more -- a world-class steel heritage museum. Source: The Plain Dealer (10/16)
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| October 20, 2004 Topics in this issue: Keeping up our successful strategy Trade Fair Survey shows that 97% of exhibitors reached
Industry gives positive assessment of second WindEnergy:
WindEnergy Study becomes a relevant market indicator 51 companies used the WindPower Technology Transfer
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Current industry study: "Wind Energy – Assessment
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Keeping up our successful strategy We will therefore maintain this strategy, and will continue to hold this event on a two-yearly basis, inviting the international wind energy industry to Hamburg in the spring of every second year. Our goals for 2006 are clear – still more international character, and more trade visitors. There will be numerous marketing and PR activities already starting next year. And we will continue with the WindEnergy Study, which has gained a reputation for reliability in the industry and is often quoted. We will keep you up to date regularly via the e-news, and via our website - now under www.windenergy.de. I look forward to another successful WindEnergy from 16 to 19 May 2006. I hope you will be with us – let us go for growth together. Heiko Heiden
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Trade Fair Survey shows that 97% of exhibitors reached their most important discussion partners and target groups -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Not only the figures for exhibitors and visitors show positive results from the second WindEnergy – International Trade Fair. Participation at the fair was also worthwhile for industry. A large number of companies have already announced that they will be there again in 2006. Some statements from industry representatives given during the WindEnergy 2004 are shown here.
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The WindEnergy 2004 featured the "WindPower TTC" (Technology Transfer Centre) for the first time – this is an arrangement specifically designed for internationally operating, export-oriented companies and for scientific and other institutions in the field of wind energy. 47 technology profiles were received during the four-month preparation period. In total, there were 51 companies participating from 16 countries. Some 120 bilateral meetings were arranged at the Fair in Hamburg. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
All around the Hamburg Fair site, building activities are moving full speed ahead. Work has started on schedule for construction of the New Fair, following the laying of the foundation stone in June this year. The first hall will be available, in accordance with planning, for the INTERNORGA international trade fair in March 2005. The expansion and modernisation will have been completed by 2008. This means Hamburg will have one of the most modern fair sites in the world, with 84,000 square metres of space (previously 64,000 square metres). "The standards of our clients in terms of comfort, efficient logistics and service have risen continuously in recent years,” says Dietmar Aulich, Managing Director of HMC. "This new construction project enables us to maintain our competitiveness, and prepares us for the future. We are creating new jobs, and laying solid foundations for growth of the Hamburg Fair, for the benefit of a growing city.” For information on the "New Fair” with facts and figures on construction, time schedules, photos and press information, visit the website: www.new-hamburg-trade-fair.com
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The project coordinator is REpower Systems AG, Hamburg. The following companies are involved in this European project "5MW Innovative Wind Turbine Suitable for on Land and Offshore Installations":
Funding for development of this system is provided by Schleswig-Holstein and by the European Union. The foundations of the system were completed in July 2004. Construction of the crane started at the beginning of August, and finally, on 11 August, REpower announced completion of the machine test in Kiel. The nacelle panels were mounted there, before the system was shipped to Brunsbüttel. To follow the activities in Brunsbüttel live, visit the website www.repower5m.de.
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The industry study on "Wind Energy” of the HSH Nordbank, Hamburg, was published in July, focusing on assessment of the international markets. It gives the latest facts and figures on the wind markets in Europe, including the new accession countries to the EU, and on wind markets outside Europe such as the USA, China, India and Japan. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The ruling handed down by the Federal Administrative Court on 30 June 2004 is very important for operators and project developers of wind farms with three or more turbines. It redefines the term "wind farm": A "wind farm" within the meaning of clause 1.6 of Annex 1 to the Environmental Impact Assessment At (UVPG) and of clause 1.6 of the Annex to the 4th Federal Emissions Act (BImSchV) comprises three or more wind turbines, physically arranged in such a way that their areas of operation overlap or at least have contact with one another. As soon as the threshold of three turbines for a "wind farm" is reached or exceeded, an approval procedure in accordance with emission protection legislation is required, regardless how many operators are involved. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The next WindEnergy - International Trade Fair will be held in Hamburg from 16 to 19 May 2006. Click here to register now.
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The purpose of this newsletter WindEnergy e-news is to keep you informed regularly on the latest events related to the WindEnergy – International Trade Fair. We aim to present the supporting programme, report on services for visitors and exhibitors, and keep you up to date on relevant industry news. To help us to satisfy your information needs even better, you have an opportunity here to give us your feedback, using this questionnaire (or click here for a German version). We look forward to reading your ideas. Click here to view all previous issues of WindEnergy e-news.
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