Alaska whale hunters wary of oil drilling-“This place has been transformed because of oil.” Barrow, Alaska

November 25, 2012 North Pacific

Barrow, Alaska — Minutes after the hunters’ harpoon pierced the flesh of a bowhead whale, the call went out. By cell phone and radio, Alaska whale hunters wary of oil drilling-“This place has been transformed because of oil.” “The infrastructure that you see in Barrow is what was brought in by oil,” Leavitt said. “Before the discovery of oil, there was no education past eighth grade. This place has been transformed because of oil.” http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Alaska-whale-hunters-wary-of-oil-drilling-4062827.php

I guess Ollie Leavitt thinks it’s also time to bring “progress” to Indigenous tribe discovered in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest!

Alaska, Barrow, native Alaskans, transformed because of oil

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The New England groundfish debacle (Part III): who or what is at fault? Nils E. Stolpe/FishNet

It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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