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In October 2004, the EPA's draft dioxin reassessment was delivered to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for review.
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Mercury pollution may cause autism (Al Jazeera, Thursday 17 March 2005, 5:19 Makka Time, 2:19 GMT)
Mercury released primarily from coal-fired power plants may be contributing to an increase in the number of cases of autism, a Texas researcher says.
"For every thousand pounds of environmentally released mercury, we saw a 17% increase in autism rates."
A terrorist attack in Yemen in October 2002 punched a 26-foot-wide hole in the Limburg, a double-hulled oil tanker. USA Today article DEBKAfile
A study by Lloyd's Register of Shipping presents a chilling examination of what might happen if terrorists attacked an LNG tanker ship. According to the study, terrorists who blew relatively small holes in the inner and outer hulls of an LNG tank ship could trigger an escalating series of explosions and fires. The ship, said the Lloyd's study, "would become a total loss with a continuous fire that would be inextinguishable until all gas had been consumed."
Massachusetts Institute of Technology LNG expert James Fay wrote that the required hazard exclusion zones would not protect people from such low-risk, high-consequence accidents.
An ignited LNG vapor cloud is very dangerous, because of its tremendous radiant heat output. Furthermore, as a vapor cloud continues to burn, the flame could burn back toward the evaporating pool of spilled liquid, ultimately burning the quickly evaporating natural gas immediately above the pool, giving the appearance of a "burning pool" or "pool fire." An ignited vapor cloud or a large LNG pool fire can cause extensive damage to life and property.
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...Even then, insiders considered the move offshore inevitable, if for no other reason than to avoid maneuvering LNG carriers through congested, populous harbors.
In our age of terror, that reasoning makes more sense than ever.
Mechanical Engineering Magazine
Results of the study show that a major leakage of LNG in the dike area could evaporate and flow over the dike wall and form a flammable cloud at the ground level outside the dike. This is different from what people have thought about natural gas. As NG is lighter than air at normal temperature, people have paid less attention to the UVCE risk of cold NG.
A Study for Prevention of Unconfined Vapor Cloud Explosion from Spilled LNG Confined in Dike, by Kim and Salvesen
See the LNG movie the
energy industry doesn't want you to see
Coastal communities throughout America are being targeted by the energy industry
for building large, vulnerable and dangerous Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG)
facilities - attempting to industrialize our precious coastline and beaches.
Tim Riley and Hayden
Riley, consumer protection advocates from Oxnard Shores, California, created
this film to demonstrate the imminent perils of LNG, its vulnerability to
accidental disaster, terrorism, and how massive its destruction
can be to our coastal communities.
The energy industry has tremendous economic resources
and many friends to promote its LNG agenda
"We felt we had to make the film to offset the energy industry's relentless
spin, and to vividly demonstrate to the public the actual perils of LNG by
exposing its true volatility and danger to our American communities. This is
the film that LNG proponents don't want you to see," says Tim Riley, who also
co-wrote the film.
Preview LNG Film, The Risks and Danger of LNG, nominee for Best Documentary in the Malibu Film Festival
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