"Rush is on to stem Yellow Sea oil spill" by Cara Anna, Associated Press | July 21, 2010
BEIJING — China rushed to keep a growing oil spill from reaching international waters yesterday, while an environmental group tried to assess if the country’s largest reported spill was worse than had been disclosed.
Oh, so they are handling it just like BP and the AmeriKan government and newspapers.
Crude oil started pouring into the Yellow Sea after a pipeline exploded last week, sparking a massive 15-hour fire....
Images of 100-foot flames shooting up near part of China’s strategic oil reserves drew the immediate attention of President Hu Jintao and other top leaders. Now the challenge is cleaning up the greasy brown plume floating off the shores of Dalian, once named China’s most livable city.
Shouldn't take long; our MSM over here is telling us the Gulf is beginning to thrive again.
The environmental group Greenpeace China shot several photographs at the scene yesterday before its team was forced to leave.
You mean, like what BP and the government are doing to Gulf Coast residents and reporters?
They showed oil-slicked rocky beaches, a man covered in thick black sludge up to his cheekbones, and workers carrying a colleague covered in oil away from the scene. His condition was not known.
Activists said it was too early to tell what impact the pollution might have on marine life.
Dalian’s International Beach Culture Festival, which draws thousands of tourists every year, started over the weekend, but the state-run Xinhua News Agency said waters around the beach had not been affected by the slick.
Florida governor's office said he same thing.
Officials told Xinhua they did not know how much oil had leaked....
At least they are honest about that.
The Dalian port is China’s second-largest for crude oil imports, and last week’s spill appears to be the country’s largest in recent memory.
“Government and business leaders have been telling the media that there’s no environmental impact. From Greenpeace’s perspective, that’s very irresponsible,’’ said Yang Ailun, spokeswoman for Greenpeace China....
Obama told us the place would come back better than ever before!
The cause of the blast was not clear yesterday. The pipeline is owned by China National Petroleum Corp., Asia’s biggest oil and gas producer, by volume.
While the Chinese public has not seized on the accident as its own version of the massive
The International Energy Agency said China has overtaken the United States as the largest energy consumer, using the equivalent of 2.252 billion tons of oil last year. China immediately questioned the calculation.
Related: Carbon Caps Meant to Contain China
Timely report, huh?
“China was a spectator of the Gulf of Mexico incident, but suddenly it itself has attracted attention from the whole world,’’ wrote Sima Pingbang, the executive chief editor of environmental protection website chinaepr.
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Expect more spills, Chinese:
"China bests US as world’s top energy user" by Jenny Barchfield, Associated Press | July 21, 2010
PARIS — China has overtaken the United States as the world’s largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said yesterday. China immediately questioned the report, asserting its calculations were “unreliable.’’
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The shift is historic, coming years ahead of forecasts. In climate change talks, China has often pointed fingers at the energy consumption patterns of developed nations and is sure to feel uncomfortable with the mantle of consuming more energy than any other nation.
I sense an agenda being pushed, don't you?
China is also sensitive to complaints about its status as the world’s biggest polluter and suggestions that its demand is pushing up energy prices on global markets....
Yeah, China is to blame for all the worlds economic woes.
How come they haven't invaded anyone yet?
Per capita, the United States still consumes five times more energy than China, agency chief economist Fatih Birol told The Associated Press.
Yeah, what an AGENDA-PUSHING PoS article this is!!!
China’s manufacturing and steel production are booming, and newly prosperous Chinese families, who a generation ago were subsistence farmers, are now buying air conditioners, home electronics, and cars in record numbers.
As Americans are having their jobs and homes taken from them.
The surge in energy consumption has turned China into the biggest source of climate-changing greenhouse gases....
PFFFFFFFFTTT!!!
Didn't the Chinese just have a RECORD-COLD WINTER?
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"Last year, China invested about $34 billion in solar panels, wind turbines, and other alternative energy technologies, nearly twice as much as the United States, where spending fell sharply"
And yet here you went and gave yours to wars, banks, and Israel, America.
At least their is always coal:
"Miners stuck in flooded shaft in China" by Associated Press | July 19, 2010
BEIJING — Rescue operations were underway for 13 miners trapped underground in a flooded coal shaft in northwestern China yesterday — a reminder of the dangers of an industry that claimed the lives of 36 others a day earlier....
In the third mining accident, eight coal miners died when a blaze engulfed a mine in central Henan Province Saturday morning, Xinhua reported....
Although safety conditions have improved in recent years, China’s mining industry is by far the world’s deadliest.
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Also see: Mining Miracle in China
Taking a MSM Bath in a Turkish Mine
Slow Saturday Special: Colombia's Coal Mines
Tennessee Geiger Counter Clicking Over Coal Spill
Around AmeriKa: Son of Coal Miner's Slaughter
Worldwide, isn't it?
Maybe the Globe's invisible ink (did not appear in my printed paper) can wash it away:
"Flooding in China kills 701 this year" by Associated Press | July 21, 2010
BEIJING — Flooding this year has killed 701 people, left 347 missing and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage, the worst toll across the board that China has seen in a decade, a senior Chinese official said today.
Three-quarters of China’s provinces have been hit by flooding and 25 rivers have seen record-high water levels, Liu Ning, general secretary of the government’s flood prevention agency, told a news conference.
Aside from the 701 dead and 347 missing, 645,000 houses were toppled and overall damage totaled about $21 billion. All the figures, Liu said, were the highest China had seen since 2000.
With the flood season far from over, this year is shaping up to be one of the most devastating since 1998, which was the worst in 50 years. Flooding, particularly along the Yangtze River Basin, has overwhelmed reservoirs, swamped towns and cities, and broken off hillsides causing landslides that have smothered communities.
Soldiers used bulldozers to plow through debris yesterday in search of survivors from separate landslides in Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces, while workers in other parts of the country scrambled to drain overflowing reservoirs and pile up sandbags to prevent further flooding, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
Three people were killed late Sunday night by landslides in Lingao county in Shaanxi Province that also left 17 missing, Xinhua reported.
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Related: Globe News Flashes From China
The Boston Globe's Invisible Ink: The Forgotten Floods of China
Seems to be a PATTERN with the Globe, doesn't it?
