It's
heart breaking. It's devastating. How do you clean up a dying
ocean?
The
predictable tragedy at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in
March 2011, continues to destroy fish, mammals and critically
important ecosystems in the Pacific Ocean. TEPCO and the Japanese
government have allowed one of the greatest crimes against humanity
to spread devastation and destruction not only to the Japanese
people in the area who have suffered massive cancer rates, illnesses
and loss of their livelihoods, but an ocean now affecting us
whether you live on the East coast or San Francisco.
Why
the Fukushima disaster is worse than Chernobyl
"Some
scientists say Fukushima is worse than the 1986 Chernobyl accident,
with which it shares a maximum level-7 rating on the sliding
scale of nuclear disasters. One of the most prominent of them
is Dr Helen Caldicott, an Australian physician and long time
anti-nuclear activist who warns of "horrors to come" in Fukushima.
Chris Busby, a professor at the University of Ulster known for
his alarmist views, generated controversy during a Japan visit
last month when he said the disaster would result in more than
1 million deaths. "Fukushima is still boiling its radionuclides
all over Japan," he said. "Chernobyl went up in one go. So Fukushima
is worse."
"The
official line is that the accident at the plant is winding down
and radiation levels outside of the exclusion zone and designated
"hot spots" are safe. "But many experts warn that the crisis
is just beginning. Professor Tim Mousseau, a biological scientist
who has spent more than a decade researching the genetic impact
of radiation around Chernobyl, says he worries that many people
in Fukushima are "burying their heads in the sand." His Chernobyl
research concluded that biodiversity and the numbers of insects
and spiders had shrunk inside the irradiated zone, and the bird
population showed evidence of genetic defects, including smaller
brain sizes. "The truth is that we don't have sufficient data
to provide accurate information on the long-term impact," he
says. "What we can say, though, is that there are very likely
to be very significant long-term health impact from prolonged
exposure."
Fukushima
radiation detected in bluefin tuna on California coast, May
29, 2012, CNN
That
was in 2012. By 2013, Fukushima was pouring 300 TONS of contaminated
water into the ocean EVERY day. I wonder what current testing
shows for Bluefin tuna and other species of popular fish? The
American people have the right to know, even if the news is
bad.
Fukushima:
300 tons of radioactive water leak everyday (August 2013)
Tritium
soaring in water at No. 1 plant (July 2013): "A Nuclear
Regulation Authority official recently said contaminated groundwater
from the plant, which is being fed cooling water from outside,
may be seeping into the ocean and that the matter must be addressed
carefully because data is limited." Tritium is a radioactive
isotope of hydrogen.
There's
no maybe about it: Toxic groundwater reaching sea: NRA (July
2013)
"
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday it strongly
suspects highly radioactive water at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear
power plant is seeping into the ground and contaminating the
Pacific Ocean. “We must find the cause of the contamination
. . . and put the highest priority on implementing countermeasures,”
NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka told a meeting of the body's commissioners
after they had examined recent studies carried out on groundwater
samples at the plant that detected high levels of cesium, tritium
and other radioactive contamination."
Radioactive
Nightmare - Government turns a blind eye as fallout from Fukushima
heads our way, July 5, 2012
All
of these are after Fukushima. Are all of them just a coincidence?
Why so many mysteries after Fukushima?
Scientists
Confirm Fukushima Radiation in California Kelp, February 7,
2014 (that's just one month shy of three years since
the melt down began)
Fukushima
radioactive contamination is rapidly warming North Pacific seawater,
September 2014
Six
sick sea lions found in Sonoma County, February 25, 2015, The
Press Democrat:
"A crisis among California sea lions that has resulted in nearly
1,000 stranded pups and older animals arriving starved and sick
on coastal shores has reached the Sonoma Coast, where six animals
have been recovered in recent weeks, according to the Marine
Mammal Center near Sausalito." Photos of the stranded babies
is absolutely heartbreaking.
Gov’t
Official: Chilling report from Pacific Ocean… “Silence on the
seas” — “Quite literally, there isn't any fish” — Japan
Professor: Fukushima posing reproduction risk to marine life,
ongoing concern over bio-accumulation of radioactive material
"Senator
Penelope Wright, Parliament of Australia, Mar 5, 2015 (emphasis
added): “Like many others, I read an article in 2013 by Ivan
Macfadyen called ‘The ocean is broken‘. It was published in
The Sydney Morning Herald… He is an experienced sailor, so he
had the ability to compare his experience then with… other trips.
It was chilling. It was heartbreaking really. He had noticed
changes in the last years. Basically, he was confronted by the
silence that he heard, the silence on the seas, and he realised
that this was attributable to the fact that they saw very, very
few birds. They also caught very few fish… two fish.”
"Interview
with Ivan Macfadyen, Talk Radio Europe, May 24, 2015 (at
14:30 in): “The reality was… if I would have had no spare dry
food on the boat — relying on fish this time around — we would
have starved to death — because, quite literally, there isn't
any fish. There's vast tracks where they're just all gone. Where
you could fish reliably, they're just not there… I used to fish
here on exactly the same course, at exactly the same time of
year… the same ocean, on the same course, into the same place
— and I could catch fish everyday, and for some reason now 10
years later they're all gone.”
"Though
not discussed in the above interview, Macfadyen has attributed
his statement “The ocean is broken” to the impact of Fukushima.
Host: "What about sea birds and all of that"? Macfadyen: "As
you get closer up to Japan they're all gone, they're not there
anymore… Everything's all gone, it's just like sailing in a
dead sea… there's nothing… Host: "After Japan you headed [to]
America, did you see any impact from…Fukushima?"
"Macfadyen:
It's dead. That's where I coined the phrase, ‘The ocean's broken’
because, for thousands of miles, there's nothing. No birds,
no fish, no sharks, no dolphins, no turtles… they're not there…
all those beautiful creatures, they're just all gone… We'd seen
a whale, round about probably 1,000 miles [off] Japan, just
lying on the surface with like a big tumor… just behind its
head… it looked like it was going to die… it didn't try to get
away, it didn't flap its tail, it didn't do anything… It had
such a profound effect on me… Just talking about it makes me
feel like I want to cry."
"A
record 2,250 sea lions, mostly pups, have washed up starving
and stranded in Southern California, a 20-fold increase in the
level of strandings averaged for the same three-month period
over the past decade, and twice the number documented in 2013,
the previous worst winter season recorded for Southern California
sea lions." Natural
News,
April 22, 2015
A
1,000 Mile Stretch Of The Pacific Ocean Has Heated Up Several
Degrees And Scientists Don't Know Why, April 13, 2015, Michael
Snyder
"According
to two University of Washington scientific research papers that
were recently released, a 1,000 mile stretch of the Pacific
Ocean has warmed up by several degrees, and nobody seems to
know why this is happening. This giant “blob” of warm water
was first observed in late 2013, and it is playing havoc with
our climate. And since this giant “blob” first showed up, fish
and other sea creatures have been dying in absolutely massive
numbers. So could there be a connection? And what is going to
happen if the Pacific Ocean continues to warm up? Could we potentially
be facing the greatest holocaust of sea life in the Pacific
that anyone has ever observed? If so, what would that mean for
the food chain and for our food supply?...
"Meanwhile,
while this has been going on, scientists have also been noticing
that sea creatures in the Pacific have been dying in record
numbers. In fact, last summer I wrote an article entitled “Why
are massive numbers of sea creatures dying along the west coast
right now?” Since then, things have continued to get even worse.
For instance, it was recently reported that the number of sea
lions washing up on Southern California beaches is at an all-time
record high…
"A
record 2,250 sea lions, mostly pups, have washed up starving
and stranded on Southern California beaches so far this year,
a worsening phenomenon blamed on warming seas in the region
that have disrupted the marine mammals’ food supply. "The latest
tally, reported on Monday by the National Marine Fisheries Service,
is 20 times the level of strandings averaged for the same three-month
period over the past decade and twice the number documented
in 2013, the previous worst winter season recorded for Southern
California sea lions. "And of course fish are being deeply affected
as well. Sardines have declined to their lowest level in six
decades, and National Geographic says that a whole host of tiny
fish species at the bottom of the food chain are dying off rapidly."
Radiation
Expert: Enormous amount of contamination flowing from Fukushima
will probably imperil entire Pacific Ocean — Threatens other
countries, food chain — Absolutely can reach U.S. and Canadian
shores, August 12 2013: Title:
Fukushima Radiation Leakage Still Going on / Source: CCTV
(China Central Television of Beijing)
"Anand
Naidoo, CCTV anchor: From what we know about what is going on
at the plant right now, is this going to get worse?
"Dr.
Janette Sherman, radiation expert: I hate say this, but yes
I think it will. And my concern is the enormous amount of radioactive
material flowing with the water into the Pacific Ocean. And
we know that the ocean flows northward along Alaska and down
the coast of Canada and the United States. And I think it probably
will imperil the entire Pacific Ocean, and the the sea life
that's in it.
"Naidoo:
What you're saying here is that this water can actually reach
other shores, can reach other countries as well?
"Sherman:
Oh absolutely, we already know that.
"Naidoo:
The radioactive content in this water — does it dissipate, or
does it just stay in the water all the time?
"Sherman:
Well both cesium and strontium have a half-life about thirty
years. It takes 10 half-lives for each of these isotopes to
decay down to nothing. We contaminate the plankton,
and that's eaten by shrimp and oysters and fish and mammals.
And as most of these move up the food chain they get concentrated.
Particularly strontium-90 gets concentrated in the bones."
Leading
Scientist On Fukushima Radiation Hitting West Coast of North
America: “No One Is Measuring So Therefore We Should Be
Alarmed”, January 26, 2014
TEPCO
Concedes Failure of Fukushima Ice Wall, August 20, 2014:
"TEPCO administrators said Tuesday that although they had injected
more than 400 tons of ice and dry ice to freeze radioactive
water in this section of the Fukushima ice wall, the temperature
did not fall low enough and the strategy did not work."
NBC:
Sea creatures swarming ashore from San Diego to San Francisco,
June 19, 2015
CBS:
Millions of dead blanketing miles of coastline, “...like a red
carpet… 12-16 inches thick… never seen anything like this”
— ABC: We wonder if they're sick, or it's something in ocean?
Scientists don't have an explanation.
"NBC
(Weather Channel) transcript, Jun 16, 2015 (emphasis added):
“From San Diego to San Francisco, creatures from the sea are
swarming ashore… large slugs are showing up on Bay Area beaches…
In the San Diego area, local beaches have taken on a reddish
tint… crabs have washed ashore.”
"NBC
(Weather Channel), Jun 16, 2015: A pair of bizarre invasions
have left California beachgoers perplexed… Large purple blobs…
known as sea hares [and] hundreds of miles to the south… tuna
crabs washed ashore.
ABC
News
transcript, Jun 16, 2015: "Like something from a science
fiction movie, the invasion of the purple blob… [Experts] tell
us it's unusual to see these slugs show up [over] an extended
period of time. Morgan Dill: “We've been seeing them wash up
since September, going all through winter, and now even more
in spring. Perhaps it's because of the warmer water?”… The slugs
are among the creatures that have been mysteriously showing
up on land. A number of whales have been beached in the area
recently."
CBS
News,
Jun 17, 2015:" Millions of red tuna crabs invade California…
overwhelming beaches in Orange County… Ben Tracy says these
crabs are trying to tell us something… crabs are so thick in
places… “It looked like a red carpet — a good foot-to-16 inches
thick. It kinda took me back, [I've never seen anything like
this before].” CBS LA, Jun 16, 2015: "Countless red tuna crabs
have washed ashore… covering the Orange County coastline… conditions
few [fisherman] have seen in their lifetimes."
10
giant whales found dead in Pacific off US coast — Victims of
‘mysterious affliction’ — Mass die-off of walruses and seabirds
reported nearby — Experts: “Something out of the ordinary is
happening” — “Really perplexing… We're at a loss… Maybe whales
ran into a toxin”.
Kodiak
Daily Mirror, Jun 19, 2015: "At least nine fin whales have
been found floating dead… the exact numbers are still unknown…
Daily Mirror columnist Zoya Saltonstall also photographed a
dead fin whale at the mouth of Afognak Bay around the last week
of May. She said she was told that a “very young fin whale calf”
was also found dead, floating nearby. “There were long black
and white stripes along the whale's body and it was bloated
and swollen,” she said.
Prof.
Kate Wynne, Univ. of Alaska marine mammal specialist: “It is
an unusual and mysterious event… We rarely see more than one
fin whale carcass every couple of years… It is really perplexing…
They appear to have all died around the same time… We are asking
people to watch for, report and photograph dead birds, fish
or anything that seems unusual… So far there is no ‘smoking
gun’ in this environmental mystery.”
Wynne:
“The fact that the carcass are intact, it rules out killer whale
predation — but other than that, we're at a loss… It suggests
that there's something, maybe a feeding group of fin whales
ran into a toxin or bio-toxin. It is hard to trace a source
when dealing only with evidence in the aftermath.”
Deborah
Mercy, communications coordinator at the University of Alaska
Fairbanks: “They don't know exactly how many (whales have died).
It's a big mystery.” Bree Witteveen, UAF Sea Grant marine mammal
specialist: “It is enough to raise a concern that something
unusual, something out of the ordinary is happening.” Andrea
Medeiros, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: “You don't usually
see large mortality events in that area… I don't know if there's
a connection or not [between all the bird, walrus, and whale
deaths].”
Mass
death of seabirds in Western U.S. is ‘unprecedented’ unexplained
changes within ocean to blame, May 19, 2015
OCEAN
HEALTH "In the storm debris littering a Washington State shoreline,
Bonnie Wood saw something grisly: the mangled bodies of dozens
of scraggly young seabirds. In the storm debris littering a
Washington State shoreline, Bonnie Wood saw something grisly:
the mangled bodies of dozens of scraggly young seabirds. Walking
half a mile along the beach at Twin Harbors State Park on Wednesday,
Wood spotted more than 130 carcasses of juvenile Cassin’s auklets—the
blue-footed, palm-size victims of what is becoming one of the
largest mass die-offs of seabirds ever recorded. “It was so
distressing,” recalled Wood, a volunteer who patrols Pacific
Northwest beaches looking for dead or stranded birds. “They
were just everywhere. Every ten yards we'd find another ten
bodies of these sweet little things.”
"Cassin’s
auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. They
feed on animal plankton and build their nests by burrowing in
the dirt on offshore islands. Their total population, from the
Baja Peninsula to Alaska's Aleutian Islands, is estimated at
somewhere between 1 million and 3.5 million. Last year, beginning
about Halloween, thousands of juvenile auklets started washing
ashore dead from California's Farallon Islands to Haida Gwaii
(also known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) off central British
Columbia. Since then the deaths haven't stopped. Researchers
are wondering if the die-off might spread to other birds or
even fish. “This is just massive, massive, unprecedented,” said
Julia Parrish, a University of Washington seabird ecologist
who oversees the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team
(COASST), a program that has tracked West Coast seabird deaths
for almost 20 years."
Unprecedented
emergency statewide fishing closures enacted in Pacific Northwest
— “We've never had to do anything like this” — “Very alarming”
mass die-offs linked to disease outbreak — Nearly 100% infection
rate in some areas — Rotting gills, distended bellies
-
KTVZ, Jul 16, 2015: Restricting fishing in Oregon streams and
rivers for the first time ever… Oregon Department of Fish &
Wildlife announced it's taking drastic measures… they've never
had to do this before… ODFW: “We're starting to see fish kills
in more places than we typically do. This is a pretty extreme
set of conditions.”
- Statesman Journal, Jul 16, 2015: "[ODFW is
taking] an unprecedented step… The move comes on the heels of
multiple fish die-offs… “We've never had to do anything like
this before — we're in new territory,” said [ODFW's] Bruce McIntosh."
- Mail Tribune (Oregon), Jul 16, 2015: Emergency
fishing closures go statewide
- Spokesman Review, Jul 17, 2015: "Washington
Fish and Wildlife Department officials are enacting fishing
restrictions involving 38 rivers… emergency rules take effect
on Saturday."
- AP, Jul 9, 2015: "Fisheries biologist Rod
French said [dead salmon] appeared to have been infected with
a gill rot disease"
The
Oregonian, Jul 10, 2015: "Scores of dead salmon are washing
ashore… mortality rates are rapidly rising for juvenile fish
near John Day Dam… [French] said it appears the fish are dying
from a bacterial infection… “It's very alarming that we're seeing
them this early,” he said… [Paul Wagner, NOAA fisheries biologist]
called it a head scratcher. The die-offs seem to be associated
with disease, he said."
Siskiyou
Daily (Calif.), May 19, 2015: "Klamath Fish Health Assessment
Team has raised its level of alert… due to an increased detection
of a deadly disease…. Chinook salmon tested in two reaches of
the Klamath River… reached a 100-percent prevalence of infection
[for] one of the deadliest salmon diseases… [Juveniles] have
been found with… distended bellies, pale-colored gill and gill
erosion… [N]ear the Scott and Klamath rivers confluence… 86
out of 120 showing distended bellies and 87 out of 114 showing
pale gills…"
OPB,
Jun 9, 2015: "More than half of the 3-inch long Chinook in the
[Klamath River] trap are either dead or showing signs of a serious
parasitic infection… nearly 100 percent of Chinook caught in
this fish trap in early May were infected."
KATU
(Portland), Jul 10, 2015: "Salmon and trout, even sturgeon,
are dying like never before… on the Deschutes, Santiam, Mackenzie,
Clackamas, and other rivers."
KGW (Portland), Jul 7, 2015: "It just seems like it's getting
worse… the issue certainly hasn't improved since we reported
on it 2 weeks ago… Chinook salmon, even some sturgeon, continue
to wash up… Several fishermen I spoke with down here today,
well they're worried… Pretty much everywhere you look… dead
fish… Starting last month, Chinook salmon began washing up…
far short of their spawning grounds… It's all the talk among
local fisherman, “I've lived here about 25 years, and I'm an
avid fishermen. I've never seen any fish like this on the bank
as much as I've seen this year.”
KOIN
(Portland), Jun 19, 2015: "Is this a really big concern right
now? Very much so… “I've never seen it like that before“… The
Chinook are on their way back from the ocean… Fishermen are
coming up empty and are worried."
I
lived in California 40 years. Through earthquakes and droughts.
Scientists are saying all this could be because of the big drought
in California, others are saying warming water in the Pacific
Ocean. Can't be Fukushima, oh, no.
Sickened
by service: More US sailors claim cancer from helping at Fukushima,
December 20, 2013, FOX News
"When
the USS Ronald Reagan responded to the tsunami that struck Japan
in March 2011, Navy sailors including Quartermaster Maurice
Enis gladly pitched in with rescue efforts. But months later,
while still serving aboard the aircraft carrier, he began to
notice strange lumps all over his body. Testing revealed he'd
been poisoned with radiation, and his illness would get worse.
And his fiancé and fellow Reagan quartermaster, Jamie Plym,
who also spent several months helping near the Fukushima nuclear
power plant, also began to develop frightening symptoms, including
chronic bronchitis and hemorrhaging.
"They
and 49 other U.S. Navy members who served aboard the Reagan
and sister ship the USS Essex now trace illnesses including
thyroid and testicular cancers, leukemia and brain tumors to
the time spent aboard the massive ship, whose desalination system
pulled in seawater that was used for drinking, cooking and bathing.
In a lawsuit filed against Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO),
the plaintiffs claim the power company delayed telling the U.S.
Navy the tsunami had caused a nuclear meltdown, sending huge
amounts of contaminated water into the sea and, ultimately,
into the ship's water system."
As
of July 21, 2015, three sailors have died. In an interview with
the attorney presenting 250+ sailors, Charles Bonner says: "We
had one of the sailors who came home and impregnated his wife.
They gave birth to a little baby born with brain cancer and
cancer down the spine, lived for two years, and just died in
March of this year."
A
heartbreaking Interview - do Americans care? 'Our' government
does not I can assure you.
Navy
Sailor after Fukushima: I'm in a wheelchair, now it's spreading
to my arms and hands, January 17, 2014
Of
course they were lied to; they were told it was safe and sailors
are now dead. It wasn't safe and now our sailors along with
all those poor souls over there in Japan who have been suffering
and will for decades just to keep the true extent of that disaster
from the world. You can watch the interview with Bonner here:
USS
Reagan Sailors Sue for Nuclear Justice
TEPCO
and the government over there are still the blind leading the
blind: No more half-baked plans for decommissioning Fukushima
reactors, June 17, 2015
"Although
nobody knew the amount or exact location of melted fuel in the
reactors, the old road map indicated the “flooding method” of
removal, meaning the containment vessels of the No. 1, No. 2
and No. 3 reactors were to be filled with water. This method
is similar to the usual removal method. But probing the conditions
of the containment vessels by various means revealed the difficulties
of stopping the water leakage and problems regarding earthquake-proofing.
It is only natural that the new road map proposes to reject
the flooding method for the time being and study other removal
methods over the next two years. What we do not understand is
why the government and TEPCO continued to reject the recommendation
of outside experts to study the matter more broadly.
"Last
month, TEPCO announced the “completion” of processing a massive
amount of highly contaminated water that had collected in clusters
of storage tanks. But work is still continuing on separating
radioactive substances from about 300 tons of highly contaminated
water, which is generated every day. Any water still contaminated
by unremoved tritium continues to remain in the tanks."
Over
four years into that disaster and still no one over there seems
to know what they're doing. All that contaminated water sitting
in an earthquake zone. Okuma, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern
Japan lines on what's known as the “Ring of Fire” — an arc of
earthquake and volcanic zones that stretches around the Pacific
Rim. Good place to build a nuclear power plant where 90 percent
of the world's quakes occur in that region. On October 15, 2015,
a 5.5 magnitude earthquake hit Fukushima. Wait until another
9.0 hits. It will.
WUS
2015 Impacts of the Fukushima nuclear accident: 4 years
later. Arnie Gundersen, Chief Engineer at Fairewinds Energy
Education, World Uranium Symposium, April 2015 (21:15 in): “[Chernobyl's]
core never hit groundwater, that core stayed in the building
and remained dry. We have 3 nuclear cores in contact with groundwater.”
In
May 2015, the UN
says TEPCO might have to dump all that contaminated water into
the Pacific Ocean. My God, it's nothing but unchecked insanity!
Where the hell is the U.S. government?
West
Coast of North America to be Slammed by 2016 with 80% As Much
Fukushima Radiation As Japan, June 10, 2015. "A professor
from Japan's Fukushima University Institute of Environmental
Radioactivity (Michio Aoyama) told Kyodo in April that the West
Coast of North America will be hit with around 800 terabecquerels
of Cesium- 137 by 2016. EneNews notes that this is 80% of the
cesium-137 deposited in Japan by Fukushima, according to the
company which runs Fukushima, Tepco...And we've noted for years
that there is no real testing of Fukushima radiation by any
government agency."
What's
being done over here in the U.S.? The California Coastal Commission
is involved in clean up for which the Japanese government and
TEPCO should foot all the bills for cleaning up Fukushima debris
where ever it's found. Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, you name it,
tons and tons of debris has washed up so far. Tragically, it
appears the worst predictions are underway:
“Mind-blowing”
die off of seabirds underway from California to Alaska — Experts:
“This is unprecedented… Worst I've ever seen… Why they're dying,
I'm still baffled” — “Every bird we're seeing is starving to
death… Basically withering away” — “Catastrophic molting” due
to unknown cause - a small sampling.
"San
Francisco Chronicle, Oct 15, 2015 (emphasis added): [T]housands
of common murres… have been found dead… “all signs point to
starvation from a lack of forage fish,” [Marine ecologist Kirsten
Lindquist] said, adding that the same problem has been documented
along the Oregon, Washington and Alaska coastlines… many endemic
marine birds and mammals are suffering.
"International
Bird Rescue, Sep 22, 2015: An unprecedented number of exhausted,
hungry seabirds continue to flood International Bird Rescue's
San Francisco Bay Center… The sight of so many starving seabirds
has raised red flags among seabird scientists…
"Santa
Cruz Sentinel, Sep 25, 2015: A troubling number of starved and
weak seabirds are washing ashore on beaches from the Monterey
Bay to Alaska… “There's been die-offs in the past, but this
is one of the worst ones I've ever seen,” said Lupin Egan, an
animal technician… “it's been really crazy,” said spokesman
Russ Curtis. “They're really sick — just feather and bone.”…
“At Waddell and Greyhound (Rock) beaches, I saw the most murres
I've ever seen in 10 years,” said Cori Gibble, seabird health
coordinator with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center in Santa
Cruz. “You see them on the tide line. They're kind of strewn
all over the beaches… It's been a really strange year“…
"ABC
San Francisco, Sep 22, 2015: The number of birds being delivered
to the rescue center daily is the number that usually comes
over the entirety of a month, center officials said. “The sheer
number of birds we're seeing is pretty mind-blowing“… Curtis
said. “This is unprecedented. Sometimes we get spikes and it
dissipates. But it has not stopped.”
"Sacramento
Bee, Sep 24, 2015: Rescue center overwhelmed with starving seabirds…
Fairfield rescue center has seen 25 times more common murres
than normal… Across Northern California… malnourished seabirds
have been appearing in alarming numbers, some shrunken to little
more than feather and bone… The murres’ presence is significant
to scientists because they're considered a marker species, whose
movements and numbers signal changes in the ocean's food supply…
“Our gut tells us there is something going on in the marine
environment.”… Some of the birds that are being brought into
the center are showing symptoms of catastrophic molting, where
large patches of their bodies are missing feathers, said Kelly
Berry, wildlife manager with the center. The cause is unknown…
"Santa
Cruz Sentinel, Sep 2, 2015: A huge influx of weak, starving
seabirds have been overwhelming a Fairfield bird rescue center…
“They're like the canaries in the coal mines,” Curtis said…
“the first ones to tell us if… there's something wrong with
our environment.”
"KTVU,
Sep 25 2015: Up and down the West Coast, thousands of starving
sea birds are washing up… [The murres] resemble penguins, but
can fly… “They are washing up extremely skinny… They're starving
to death,” lead rehabilitation technician Isabel Luevano told
KTVU… “they're basically withering away“… More heron and egret
hatchlings have needed care this summer as well."
To
even suggest this might be from Fukushima is to invite being
called a conspiracy nut. This is also very telling and should
concern everyone, October 3, 2015: Unpublished
gov’t map shows massive plume of Fukushima radioactive material
just off West Coast of North America.
I
have no doubt some testing is going on at universities up and
down the Pacific Coast. Private organizations are doing what
the U.S. government should be doing: "The
release of radioactive contaminants from Fukushima remains
an unprecedented event for the people of Japan and the Pacific
Ocean. Help scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
reveal the ongoing spread of radiation across the Pacific and
its evolving impacts on the ocean."
According
to the State of Alaska's Environmental Health: "The U.S. Food
& Drug Administration (FDA) is the lead agency on food safety.
Both FDA-regulated food products imported from Japan and domestic
food products, including U.S. seafood, have been tested. FDA
has found no evidence that radionuclides of health concern from
the Japanese nuclear power plant disaster are present in the
U.S. food supply." Really?
According
the much of the mainstream press, radiation from Fukushima has
shown up in Canada and the Pacific Ocean but the levels are
so low, you shouldn't worry about it. Nothing to see, move on.
Really?
“Millions
of salmon mysteriously just disappear” off West Coast — Expert:
“Literally within 2 days it disappeared, it just crashed… I
have never ever seen, nor can I explain” that — “One of the
worst seasons ever” — “Disturbing… Serious trouble… Very dramatic”,
November 4, 2015, Enenews
Toxic
Algal Bloom Spurred by Pacific 'Warm Blob' Wreaks Havoc for
West Coast Crab Fishermen, November 24, 2015
"A
record-setting toxic algal bloom off the West Coast of North
America, that has impacted marine life and fisheries since the
spring, has delayed the start of California's commercial Dungeness
crab season. On Nov. 3, The California Department of Public
Health (CDPH) advised consumers not to eat Dungeness and Rock
crabs that were caught in waters between the Oregon border and
the southern Santa Barbara County line after dangerous levels
of toxins produced by the algae were discovered in the shellfish.
"Recent test results have shown persistently high levels of
domoic acid in Dungeness crab and Rock crab, which have been
caught along the California coastline. The levels have exceeded
the state's action level for the crabs' body meat as well as
the viscera, commonly referred to as crab butter, and therefore
pose a significant risk to the public if they are consumed,"
the CDPH said.
It's
also spread to Washington. That article also goes on to say:
"The size and duration of the bloom, which extends from Alaska
to Southern California, has been attributed to the 'warm blob'
in the Pacific, where water temperatures have been above normal.
Algal blooms along the West coast are not uncommon, but they
typically have dissipated by the time the Dungeness season starts."
"font-family:
calibri;" Blame it on anything but Fukushima. My heart breaks
for our fishing families, which I have always supported. A lot
of people have read the truth about Fukushima and will not eat
any fish coming out of the Pacific even as far away as Alaska.
They just don't feel it's safe. Here and there I can find wild
Atlantic salmon; I NEVER eat farm raised fish.
Our
oceans provide us with so many wonderful things besides beautiful
mammals, heavenly beaches and delicious fish of all kinds for
consumption. Many native American tribes depend on fish like
salmon as a food staple. Our oceans also provide critical plant
life. Too many do not appreciate the importance of all sea life.
TEPCO and the Japanese government are guilty of a monstrous
crime against humanity and still they haven't taken responsibility.
Thousands
of sea pups, sea lions, countless whales are starving to death
as I write this. What they eat is contaminated
and disappearing so those mammals are starving to death. But,
oh, no, it's not Fukushima. Every scientist with a resume two
miles long is wrong. It's only government mouthpieces and lawyers
for TEPCO and Japanese government officials are right. Same
damn thing as 'smart' meters only this time it's killing an
entire ocean.
How
do you clean up an ocean? For the love of God, remember this
link above? West
Coast of North America to be Slammed by 2016 with 80% As Much
Fukushima Radiation As Japan, June 10, 2015. More is coming
our way. I was out at Monterey Bay two years ago and interviewed
fishermen there and in San Diego; mostly crabbers.
Most
had never heard of Fukushima or didn't remember such a monstrous
event. Some laughed at me when I told them what was underway
and some time in the near future would affect their crab hauls.
As I stood there watching those guys it was kind of sad they
didn't seem interested in something that was going to hurt them
down the line. I doubt they are laughing now. That means all
those fishing families who catch dungeness crab are suffering
bad because their season is pretty much dead.
How
about all the other fish like salmon, abalone, cod and more
that come out of the Pacific? Hundreds, if not thousands of
restaurants all up and down the West coast from San Diego to
British Columbia are going to feel this financially in a bad
way.
This
is a VERY important article; the photos are horrible: Catastrophic
Pacific Ocean Die-Off, The US Military's All Out Assault On
The Web Of Life, November 19, 2015
"Many
have heard about some of the die-offs occurring in our oceans,
but most have no understanding of how catastrophic the actual
reality is. Fukushima
is where all the fingers point as the source of the carnage
along the coast, but there is much more to the story. Those
who control the US military have virtually no regard for any
of the destruction they are wreaking on the entire web of life,
including marine life. The US Navy has long since been using
live depleted uranium ammunition and devastating sonar devices
along the Pacific coast (the
US Navy is now also waging electromagnetic warfare along our
forests and our
coasts). The US
(and other nations) have also routinely dumped nuclear waste
into our oceans. The excerpt (shown below) from the US
Navy's "Environmental Impact Statement " is beyond shocking.
Their position is this, if there are no studies to prove the
harm they are causing, then no harm was caused."
I
want you to go to Rense.com
and look at the big photo. It speaks for itself. In Canada,
blow the whistle and they arrest you. If you scroll down the
right side of the page you'll see an entire section on nothing
but Fukushima. Jeff has been out there from the beginning keeping
this deadly issue at the forefront.
This
is nothing to smirk at and it's certainly not some 'flaky' issue
cooked up by conspiracy nuts. There's been a conspiracy all
right and it's to keep the American people in the dark. Out
of sight, out of mind might seem like a good idea, but a lot
of suffering has been going on since that earthquake. As scientists
have said, Fukushima is unprecedented. Only a fool or someone
who benefits from keeping the truth from the American people
would have the audacity at this point to say all of this is
not a result of Fukushima.
As
I ask earlier: How do you clean up an ocean? What about all
those mammals starving to death and not reproducing, all the
dead fish?
I
don't have the answer to the first question, but the best minds
in this country should be brought together with both federal
and western states officials and come up with whatever plans
they think can help stop or minimize the destruction and demand
TEPCO and the Japanese government not only foot the bill but
STOP ANY MORE LEAKAGE OR DUMPING OF RADIATION INTO THE OCEAN
NOW BECAUSE IT'S KILLING THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
As
for question two above, sea pups, sea lions, dolphins, whales
and more will continue to starve to death while no one does
a damn thing. PLEASE raise your voice next week to the idiot
who represents you in Congress about the killing of the Pacific
Ocean AND our military using depleted uranium! INSANE. There's
a long list of individuals who should be thrown in prison never
to see the light of day again.
Don't
forget to call or fax governors of Washington, Oregon and California
as well as your state legislatures. Emails really don't go any
good because all you get is a form response; "I'll look into
it" BS. A phone call, snail mail or fax is something that will
sit on their desks.
Important-
Want to drink that water? That plant is due to go on line mid-December
2015.
Desalinization
Plants in California & Fukushima
[Just
a short note about 9/11. The cost of America's
undeclared "war" (invasion) in Afghanistan has now reached $1
trillion borrowed dollars - massive debt heaped on us all based
on what happened on 9/11. Regular readers of my column know
I continue to press for the truth about the events of 9/11.
Military grade nanothermite is not a conspiracy theory. It was
found and tested from the rubble at the twin towers. A new,
powerful film has been released: The
Anatomy of a Great Deception. For full disclosure I receive
no compensation, but I want you to get a copy (or a few) and
share it with others or give a copy as a present. I've purchased
half a dozen copies and given them to individuals I believe
seek the truth. It's very powerful simply because it's one 'ordinary'
man's story who ask a simple question that led him to a not
so simple journey. There is factual information in this film
that many have never heard about but everyone should.
Just a suggestion, order more than one and give one
to a friend. Also,
must
see video on the dangers of Smart Meeters on your home, titled:
Take
Back Your Power.]
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