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Arkansas Nuclear 1 still down since fatal accident in March

Apparently we still don’t know why this happened:



At approximately 7:50am on Sunday, March 31, 2013, a 600-ton
generator stator fell onto the turbine deck and then about 30 feet
to the train bay floor as was being lifted out of the Unit 1 turbine
building at the Arkansas Nuclear One plant. One worker was killed
and four others injured when the load fell.

Dave Lochbaum wrote for Union of Concerned Scientists 18 June 2013,

Fission Stories #139: Arkansas Nuclear One Fatal Event,

The

NRC reviewed U.S. nuclear plant experience with lifting loads
with cranes between 1968 and 2002. The NRC reported that about two
load drops per year happened during this period with ten incidents
causing deaths. The NRC’s review concluded that there had been only
three very heavy load drops (defined as a load weighing more than 30
tons). ANO-1 makes four.

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BP: the beaches are open for everyone to enjoy!



BP must be getting desperate about people catching onto what they did to the Gulf.
A BP video ad has been replaying itself every few minutes beside various
news stories since yesterday, claiming two years after the oil disaster
(“spill” doesn’t describe it) “the beaches are open for everyone to enjoy!”

BP’s website
says “We are helping economic and environmental restoration efforts in the Gulf Coast as part of our ongoing commitment to the region following the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010”.
Neither the ad nor the website says BP actually cleaned up the oil.
Because they didn’t.
It’s still there, as is the even more toxic “dispersant” Corexit BP
dumped on top of the oil to make it sink.
Both are busily poisoning dolphins, fish, birds, and humans.

Antonia Juhasz wrote for The Nation 7 May 2012,

Investigation: Two Years After the BP Spill, A Hidden Health Crisis Festers,

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13 oil spills in 30 days

As if

three spills in one week wasn’t bad enough,
the spills, leaks, and derailments just keep on coming,
13 of them on 3 continents in just the past 30 days,
as

listed by tcktcktck and illustrated in this graphic.
Meanwhile, a solar spill is still called a nice day.


-jsq

Arkansas tar sands oil spill


Will Exxon clean all these tar sands oil spills like BP “cleaned up” the Gulf?
Meanwhile, a solar spill is called a nice day.



June 2013, pipeline ruptured in
Alberta:
250,000 gallons spilled into the Red Deer River.

27 March 2013, train derailment in

Minnesota: 15,000 gallons spilled.

“Only about 1,000 gallons has been recovered,” said Dan Olson, spokesman for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. “The remaining oil on the ground has thickened into a heavy tar-like consistency.”

30 March 2013, pipleline rupture,

Mayflower, Arkansas: “thousands of gallons” spilled.

Kimberly Brasington, an Exxon spokeswoman, confirmed the oil from
the ruptured Pegasus pipeline originated in Canada. The oil is
“Wabasca Heavy Crude from Western Canada,” she said in
an e-mail Sunday. Canadian group CrudeMonitor describes Wabasca as a
blend of heavy oil production from the Athabasca region.


Aerial footage of the Arkansas crude seeping through woods, waterways, streets, and yards:

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Is Walmart Now a god beside God; and answers to no one? —George Rhynes

Received 15 October. -jsq



October 14, 2011

George Boston Rhynes (229-251-8645)

Valdosta, Georgia 3605-1144

TO: All concerned citizens, Walmart Workers, internet and beyond!

Our Walmart in Bentonville, AK and how we were ignored by America’s Largest
Retail Giant (President Mike duke, Board Chairmen David Glass and about
thirteen other board members.

Here’s

the video:




Is Walmart Now a god beside God; and answers to no one? —George Rhynes

For Respect,

Bentonville, Arkansas, Our Wal-Mart,

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 12 October 2011.

Videos by George Boston Rhynes for K.V.C.I., Keeping Valdosta Citizen Informed.

However, this is nothing new for George Boston Rhynes; since I have
been ignored for over 3 1/2 years. After

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