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Archive for May 8, 2007
Death From Above: Acid Rain in Buenos Aires
May 8, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
GNN (Guerilla News Network)
Weapons of Mass Distraction
Death From Above: Acid Rain in Buenos Aires
Well guess what? Not only we’re back to the turbulent years of the 1970s, we also have reports of major levels of a very dangerous type of pollution, also from those crappy years.
Just last week many residents of the city of Buenos Aires (BA) (the capital of Argentina and biggest city of the country) reported massive cases of acid rain, a [type] of pollution known for being highly [corrosive - the term used in the original article is “abrasive”] to materials, extremely dangerous to living creatures and, yep, a big source of CANCER.
Now, why there’s acid rain in BA? after all there’s a source for everything, specially pollution…
The thing is, one of the main sources of acid rain is sulphur. When sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are emitted into the atmosphere, these undergo a chemical transformation and are absorbed by water droplets in clouds. The droplets then fall to earth as rain, snow, mist, dry dust, hail, or sleet.
The result? A rain of death….(Full Story — off-site)
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Shell’s Misleading Ad - Flowers, not Pollution?
May 8, 2007 by Walter Schneider.
Shell’s Misleading Ad: Complaints Submitted, ‘Oil Refineries Emit Smoke Not Flowers’
BELGIUM, UK, THE NETHERLANDS - May 8 -Complaints are being filed today, May 8, in three European countries against a shameless advert that makes exaggerated and misleading green claims about oil giant Shell’s operations.
Friends of the Earth International is filing simultaneous complaints to the national advertising standards authorities of Belgium, the Netherlands, and the UK about Shell’s advert which depicts the outline of an oil refinery emitting flowers rather than smoke and claims that it uses its “waste CO2 to grow flowers and [its] waste sulphur to make concrete”….(Full Story — off-site)
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