Tag Archives: Wildlife
Shellenberger Discusses Offshore Wind Farm Proposal – “This is literally the worst project I have ever seen,”
The California resident, author and environmental advocate spoke about how an offshore wind farm project planned 15 miles off the coast from Atlantic City to Stone Harbor is bad for the environment, wildlife, marine life and the fishing industry. Shellenberger, who is a proponent for nuclear energy, spoke of how the wind farm would not be an efficient way to receive power, would take up too much real estate and not be a consistent source of power. Tricia Conte, of Ocean City, founder of Save Our Shoreline, said in an interview prior to the program, “We are very excited to have Michael Shellenberger here in Ocean City. He is presenting the side that no one else is telling us.” Video >click to read<10:27
Polluted water flowing into Tampa Bay could cause massive algae bloom, risking manatee and fish habitats
Millions of gallons of water laced with fertilizer ingredients are being pumped into Florida’s Tampa Bay from a leaking reservoir at an abandoned phosphate plant at Piney Point. As the water spreads into the bay, it carries phosphorus and nitrogen – nutrients that under the right conditions can fuel dangerous algae blooms that can suffocate sea grass beds and kill fish, dolphins and manatees. It’s the kind of risk no one wants to see, but officials believed the other options were worse. >click to read< 18:38
Wildlife, including fisheries, management is a bogus enterprise
Now, here’s our point. This whole business of “fisheries management” is simply mass delusion created by people who have a vested interest (money and power) in regulating the fishing industry. They pretend it is based on “science” but that is rubbish. Almost all of the “scientists” make money, one way or another, from creating the delusions that certain species of fish are in danger of becoming extinct. Three years ago we challenged whether the “science” behind the fishery management industry is valid. Read the rest here
House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans and Insular Affairs Hearing – Opening Statement – Randy Fisher Executive Director of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
May 22, 2013 (Congressional Documents and Publications/ContentWorks via COMTEX) — Good Morning. My name is Randy Fisher and I am the Executive Director of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. The Commission represents the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, California and Alaska. The Commission manages a number of large projects that focus on scientific, inventory and economic research and data collection. continued
Watch Live – Oversight Hearing on data collection issues in relation to the reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Act – Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:30AM
on and Management Act Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:30AM 1334 Hearing Room in the Longworth House Office Building http://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=333644 Watch Live Young named to two fisheries related committees
Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, has received subcommittee assignments on the House Natural Resources and House Transportation and Infrastructure committees for the 113th Congress, both important to the commercial fisheries industry. Read more
