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Out of the Archives: Sludge Vessel Tallman Island, one of the first of its kind, built during the late 1930s wave of sewage treatment modernization. Sludge is the organic material removed from wastewater. Back then, the vessels carried sludge out into the ocean to keep the local waters clean, but for over thirty years now, they’ve transported it from treatment plants without dewatering facilities to those that do have the infrastructure needed to finish the treatment process.
We digitized these glass lantern slides by scanning each twice (once transparent to capture the photograph and once reflective to capture the mount), then merging the scans to create a faithful reproduction of the entire object. This improves access to images that originally required an antique projector for viewing and helps to preserve the fragile slides by minimizing future handling.
Photo taken circa 1940.
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This is a crop of another picture in my photostream that shows an old tender in use at Derby for transporting acetylene sludge. Intrigued by what information was provided on this data panel I asked for information on the BR Wagon io. groups forum and the following detailed reply was provided by David Monk-Steel.
The C.M.& E.E. panel.
A black panel is painted on the right hand end of the body to give details of the date and depot which carried out a Intermediate repair and other inspection and maintenance.
Like the periodic maintenance panel it is completed in white paint using stencils or freehand by the depot staff concerned.
Details written on the panel include –
IR - Intermediate Repair , as well as a thorough examination and lift. The date is 10th June 1970 and the number 6336 on this line is the location, in this case Wakefield.
Lift, - when the wagon was jacked up off its bearings to check bearing surfaces and axle journals for wear or damage, Will apply to all types of bearing and also to bearing springs, spring shoes, wheel treads and flanges etc. This is dated 5th April 1966, the code 2001 refers to Derby
BO or TBO - Brake overhaul, including inspection and test of power brake where fitted. Wear of brake blocks or shoes will be checked and they will be replaced if necessary. A complete overhaul must be carried out every 3 years, but defects discovered during routine examinations must be attended to immediately or the vehicle ‘carded’ for repair. BO to occur every three years and TBO every 6 years.
PE - pad examination, Wagons with plain bearings where oil is distributed by an Armstrong Oiler or similar worsted pad. Pads had to be examined every 8 months and if necessary replaced every 10 months. The old record was to be overpainted in black and new information written in white paint.
DO - Oiling date, Wagons with plain bearings only. The information was to be written in chalk.
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That morning in the alehouse none of them would have guessed they will lose all they had by the time night falls. Last night's election was the hot topic, when all of the sudden the sludge painted their lives red. It ate away the streets, houses, animals, vineyards, breathing nature. Causing permanent scars on body and soul. Two meters high. Making houses uninhabitable. The places they used to call their home.
And killing the neighbors they once had.
The scatching lye became their fate, still leaving them human. Standing two feet on the ground, holding onto life with both hands, with a mighty heart... and a smile on their faces.
Do they have anything left? Soul and memories. Dignity.
Objects surrounding us are just objects. They will only be important after they are gone. Just a smile and few kind words do stay with us.
This uber textural creepy is one of my all time favorites and is priced as such b/c I would love to keep him.
"Sludge" hails from the chic NYC Sewer Floater Society. Such a unique and wonderful specimen Sludge is with his charmingly posed head, Milky piercing eyes and long moldy lashes. Eyes, lips and cheeks appear to moist. Gorgeously Unique "Moldy" Trim surround Sludges neck and cascades over cupcake paper.
Available in my Etsy Shop shortly 6/4/09
Out of the Archives: Then and Now
Sludge Vessel Coney Island passing under the Brooklyn Bridge on May 27, 1949, and the Hunts Point this week. One of NYC’s first three sludge vessels, the Coney Island was built in the late 1930s and named after the City’s first modern sewage treatment facility. Sludge is the organic material removed from wastewater. Back then, the vessels carried sludge 12 miles out into the ocean, but for thirty years now, they’ve transported sludge from treatment plants without dewatering facilities to those that do have the infrastructure needed to finish the treatment process.
In 1987, the Coney Island was intentionally sunk (empty!) off the coast of New Jersey, becoming a Scuba diving and fishing destination as part of the Shark River Reef.
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This is part three (of 6) for a commissioned "World's Smallest Transformers" Extinction. Sludge's details were meticulously painted and articulation was added.
Extinction
Following the defeats at the hands of Unicron (TF Movie) and the the Predacons (Call of the primals) The dinobots start to show signs of mutiny in the ranks of the Dinobots. Slag and Sludge question if Grimlock is truly the strongest one there is. Before a battle for a shift of power can begin with their ranks, they are interupted by one of the few Autobots all the Dinobots trust, Wheelie. He informs Grimlock that Gnaw, Wheelie's pet Sharticon went haywire destroyed a small Cybertronian fair, and commendered a shuttle and left for the Quintesson planet! In an attempt to regain control Grimlock decrees that the Dinobots will go to the Quinteson planet and retrieve Gnaw. The other dinobots are leary, but Wheelie's excited cheers about not only returning to his home planet and saving his pet/friend sway them to follow Grimlocks plan. Not being known for their piloting skills, Grimlock, Wheelie, and the Dinobots find Scattershot in the Autobot hanger and convince him to deploy them on the Quintesson planet for a recon mission. Once on the planet, they find that things are amiss. A lone Quintesson looking to reclaim the power that was usurped from them via Hot Rod, Kup, and the Dinobots has initiated Protocol: Frenzy, a program designed to reboot all the Sharticons and send them on a seek and detroy mission throughout the cosmos. Millions of them! Once on the planet, the dinobots are immediately attacked and their ship is over run and literally devoured. The Dinobots and Scattershot fight valiantly, but the sheer numbers of the Sharticons is too great and they are over run. In the midst of the battle Wheelie is searching for the spark of Gnaw, and while doing so is mortally wounded by some Sharticons forcing the heroes to retreat and regroup in Wheelies former hideaway on the planet. Defeated and with no way off the planet or to call reenforcements, their fate seems doomed. Slag says the Dinobots would crush the Sharticons with stronger leader! The fight that started on Cybertron continues in Wheelie's bunker. But in their weakened state, the battle is over shortly as Scattershot states this is madness, you are a TEAM! Scattershot states that if the other Technobots were there, they'd have a fighting chance with Computron. Then the as Grimlock surveys the bunker he sees Swoop holding the dying Wheelie, but also notices that Wheelie has scavenged parts and pieces from the left of parts of the various "residenst" of the planet. "me Grimlock say we, Dinobots ARE a team, and Dinobots shall save the day!" He looks at Scattershot. "You Scattershot will make Dinobots combine" We will be the strongest. We Will crush all those who stand in our way." "But thats... thats... INSANE" Scattershot states, thinking about the sheer destruction all of their powers combined would unleash on this planet, let alone the universe "...but what other choice do we have."Slag and Sludge have enough of following BORING Grimlock" We rather die on Shark planet befor...."Enough!!!!" Swoop says while holding the almost lifeless Wheelie. "Grimlock is dinobot, we are dinobots, he is leader, WE follow Grimlock. Friend Wheelie need our help" All the while Scattershot has surveyed and scan the items into his databanks, and scans Wheelie's body and all of the dinobots..."And help him we will Swoop"
Nombre: Sludge
Afiliación: Autobots
Línea: G1
Año: 1985
Número de adquisición: 163
Sludge es uno de los Dinobots de 1985. Está incompleto pero en muy buen estado, solo tiene un problema en una pierna del dinosaurio.
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Name: Sludge
Allegiance: Autobots
Line: G1
Year: 1985
Number in Collection: 163
Sludge is one of the Dinobots from 1985. He's incomplete, but in a good condition, only has a problem in one of the dinosaur legs.
Toxic sludge scandal in Calcinato (BS) ITALY
A company in Calcinato was spreading untreated toxic sludge in the Po Valley (over 150,000 tons in the last 10 years).
The fields so "fertilized" were cultivated with maize.
From the interceptions of the investigators, the managers of the incriminated company, amused, imagined how good the corn grown on the toxic sludge would have been when eaten by children.
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"International Stop the Tar Sands Day 2011" protest at the Canadian High Commission, London.
A small group of environmental activists staged a vociferous protest this weekend outside the Canadian High Commission in Grosvenor Square against the huge and devastating ecological damage being wrought on the pristine Boreal forests of Alberta in Canada by international oil companies extracting so-called Tar Sands in order to extract bitumen which is then refined - at a huge energy cost - into crude oil.
This protest was a part of "International "Stop the Tar Sands" day, which saw co-ordinated protests happening in 30 countries worldwide. The London action included the laying down of bunches and wreaths of dead flowers to represent the devastated Albertan boreal forest and ancient wilderness. A spirited choir of women entertained us with their rendition of "Sludge, Sludge, Glorious Sludge", and a symbolic environmental activist was tarred and feathered by Big Oil, representing the huge number of migratory and indigenous wildfowl which have been poisoned by the toxic waste in the water ‘tailings’ left behind by the extraction process. It is reported that some local species of wildlife in Alberta are in danger of becoming extinct in the region.
The Canadian Tar Sands ‘Mega-Project’ is slated to be the greatest environmental calamity in the World, eclipsing the destruction of rainforest habitats.
Deep under the boreal forests of Alberta lie 140,000 square kilometres of bituminous sand. Exploration continues all over Canada to find more, but already it is estimated that Canada has enough proven oil reserves to put it in second place behind Saudi Arabia in the oil producer's league table, and already the USA is Canada’s best customer. However... to get at the tar sands Canada is ripping up vast areas of this pristine forest, laying it to waste and leaving behind an immense toxic wasteland. Furthermore the extraction process is much, much more energy intensive to extract and requires very intensive refining, all of which produces, it is estimated, 3 to 5 times the usual amount of greenhouse gasses, consuming as it does a vast amount of natural gas and locally-sourced fresh water.
The right-wing Canadian government led by the pugnacious Stephen Harper has thrown open the doors to the massive - and destructive - exploitation of huge expanses of Canadian wilderness in the rush to put Canada into the global league tables of oil exporting countries, but environmentalists, ecologists and indigenous First Nation peoples are warning that the price of this extraction is having a terrible effect on local wildlife and on human health. Though not scientifically proven beyond any doubt, it has been reported that there has been an alarming increase in unusual cancers and birth-defects amongst local populations affected by the huge volumes of pollution released into the environment by the extraction and refining processes that, apart from requiring up to 200 gallons of fresh water to produce a single 40 gallon drum of bitumen extracted from the sand, leaves behind waste water is so toxic that it cannot be allowed back into the local eco-system, so it is stored in many huge 'tailing ponds' carved out of the local landscape.
Apart from the enormous volume of migratory birds and local wildlife which have already been fatally poisoned on these tailing ponds - and will continue to die in huge numbers for as long as tar extraction continues in Canada - it was always inevitable that the toxic tailings would seep into the local water table and eco-system. Overflows and breaches are happening with alarming regularity, seeing rivers, streams and the water table - on which everyone in those regions depends on - poisoned with sulphur compounds and heavy metals.
There has been, as previously mentioned, an increase in non-typical cancers and birth deformities which local populations blame on this highly polluting heavy industry. This is aside from the many very serious explosions and tragic industrial accidents at refining and extraction sites. This oil comes at a heavy price, so it seems.
It may come as no surprise that oil company internal investigations regularly give the oil companies a clean bill of health, and the Canadian government isn't about to look this gift horse in the mouth, so rigorous independent government environmental impact assessment just isn't happening. The suffering local populations await costly independently commissioned scientific studies, which will be fought against tooth and nail by the legions of very expensive corporate attorneys employed by the oil companies who are allegedly accused of bullying, bribery and corruption and even physical intimidation in the region.
In an area with historically low employment, taking the Oil Companies' 30 pieces of silver is understandable but the problems don't just end there, as the multinationals have drafted in migrant and foreign labour to undercut wage bills, creating friction. The locals were promised jobs when the government and oil companies were flooding the region with propaganda and inducements, but now they have what they wanted they're not willing to pay good wages to the locals who now understandably feel betrayed. These armies of imported workers live weeks at a time in work camps in the remote wilderness, coming into the local towns during rest periods to let off steam. Alcohol and drug-related problems have followed the labour camps, causing havoc in local towns when the blue-collar workers come into town on furlough, and understandably many towns feel completely overwhelmed.
Conflict with the local First Nations is rampant; the oil companies are expanding the scale and pace of Tar Sands development way beyond what was originally promised. The bitumen extraction is under the jurisdiction of treaties that are supposed to ensure the First Nation lands are not taken from them by massive uncontrolled development, but that is exactly what is happening. The oil companies are wielding extraordinary power in the region and nobody from the Canadian government is paying any attention to the destruction of the First Nation peoples’ culture and way of life. Several First Nations are in direct conflict with federal and provincial governments over the cynical traducing of Aboriginal and Treaty rights and legal land title.
Meanwhile, the Canadian government has been engaged in an all-out propaganda and lobbying assault on the European Union, trying to make the EU Commissioners accept imported Canadian bitumen extracted from the tar sands as a part of the impending 'Canada-European Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement' (CETA), which if completed as planned threatens to completely undermine hard fought-for strong climate policies right across Europe, but dedicated campaigners and activists are fighting hard to prevent this and are engaged in a David and Goliath battle to have Canadian bitumen included in the 'Fuel Quality Directive' (FQD) which would effectively see the bitumen banned from Europe on the basis of the ecological damage the extraction is causing and the Carbon Intensity Caps invoked by the extremely high amounts of carbon content released by end product oil made from the Tar Sands.
However, perpetual aggressive lobbying and coercion by the Canadians is weakening the current initial draft of the FQD. The Canadians do not want any reference to be made to tar sands in the FQD – they want it treated the same way as conventional oil, despite its huge carbon intensity. To add further pressure in a diplomatic pincer movement, the Canadian government is hinting that it might pull out of CETA if the EU dares set a separate and higher value for tar sands oil in terms of carbon footprint in the FQD.
There are several informed and concerned European members of Parliament who agree with the environmentalists, and they have recently been responsible for passing a resolution in the European Parliament that the EU should not bow to Canadian and Oil Company pressure, and to reiterate their concerns about greenhouse gas emissions and environmental destruction caused by the Tar Sands extraction, but this may only be a temporary bump in the road for the oil companies and the Canadians, who, having to watch their southern neighbours in the USA straddling the globe and flexing their military muscles in the interests of American business, desperately want the power and influence that always goes hand in glove with oil revenues, licensing fees and the albeit insultingly low rates of corporate taxation they will be levying on the oil companies.
CETA would give the major European multinationals Shell, Total and BP (who had promised ten years ago when they were desperately trying to re-brand themselves as being somehow "Green" that they wouldn't be joining in the rush to Canada), dramatic new powers by legislation which would give them a free hand to trample over the rights of indigenous peoples and undermine crucial social and environmental legislation in Europe and in Canada.
Under the proposed terms of CETA Investment Protections would be enshrined in law which could allow Canadian and European oil companies to force governments before completely unaccountable closed-door Trade Tribunals to settle disputes, including any attempt by the Canadian government to prevent the out-of-control rapacious expansion of the Canadian wilderness. In other words the oil giants would be free to ruin the entire eco-system for their personal profit, and then just walk away from the carnage once the very last drop of economically viable bitumen has been sucked out of the ground. It is this horrific scenario which motivates the campaigners.
UK Protests and direct actions simultaneously took place in London, Plymouth, Birmingham, Oxford, York, Bangor, Brighton, Norwich, Manchester and Bridport in Dorset.
For further reading on the Tar Sands campaigns, visit www.no-tar-sand.org, oilsandstruth.org or stoptarsands.eu
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We encountered these two Bison bulls as they slurped up sulfur mud near Soda Butte in Lamar Valley, Wyoming. We breathed in the acrid scent of sulfur as we listened to the loud slurping from these bulls that were fewer than 10 feet from where we stood. Yellowstone National Park. October 2014
If when your bunny pees you see this chalky wee then you need to consider putting them on a low calcium diet. You can see what I assume are small calcium deposits in here too. If sludge like this accumulates in the bladder then it risks urinary tract infections and/or kidney stones. The risk is greater in bunnies that don’t have proper bladder control and thus are unable to fully empty it (e.g. due to EC or arthritis). In those cases ask your vet to show you how to manually express the bladder (and how often you should do this).
Compost, sludge, urine, plants - what if we could use all organic waste as sustainable energy sources? Well, we can. With microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology, which the European Commission has already named one of the “100 most radical innovation breakthroughs for the future” in 2019. The “Living Light” project aims to ensure that this innovative technology receives the attention it deserves: in the form of a designer light for both indoor and outdoor use, for example in parking lots. The microbial fuel cells in this project use microbes found in the soil to generate the energy that lights up the lamp. The Living Light received an Honorary Mention at the STARTS Prize 2021.
Photo: Nova Innova
" The approval given last week by the VoG Planning Committee to gas-drilling activity showed a disgraceful bias towards the company Coastal Oil & Gas. The officers let the company get away with minimal information and falsely ignoring the toxic waste water and radioactive sludges likely to be produced.
Both the officers and the Natural Resources Agency ignored flooding risks and environmental impacts as allegedly short-term, yet the precautionary principle and environmental impact (EIA) regulations do cover short-term harm.
The VoG officers quoted the Llandow inquiry decision. Yet no other authority takes that seriously, as the Vale Council failed to make a proper case on drilling noise disturbance and local water supplies at risk. They accepted noise levels used for regulating quarrying (nighttime quarry working excluded) to apply to all-night drilling for gas; they ignored the WHO (World Health Organisation) 30 decibel level for disturbance to sleep.
The Vale's new LDP does give the chance to write into our local plan strong requirements on shale-gas drilling. Official support for this comes in EU Commission and European parliament resolutions both saying that EIA should apply to all shale gas activities.
At the committee on 3rd October, Councillors pressed the VoG officer to assure them that extracting shale gas would require EIA, but he was not even ready to promise this.
Building a strong policy into the LDP will enable us to stand up to pro-fracking interests and the hands-off Welsh Government, who see only profits from exploitation.
Basic to this policy should be requiring EIA and normal restrictions on night-time noise for 'unconventional' gas exploration as well as its exploitation. It should also mandate the precautionary principle is to be used until all questions on pollution and gas leakage have been satisfied. "
Max Wallis
Barry & Vale Friends of the Earth
14 Robert Street, Barry
Because it is test drilling. There will be stimulation (fracking) to test the productivity.
The Llantrthyd application is for “gas testing”
The ‘supporting information’ does not explain this protracted process anywhere, but it involves pumping of water with chemicals to “stimulate” the release of gas. At Balcombe, Cuadrilla use the word “stimulation” to describe this gas-testing process, but Coastal Oil&Gas’s Supporting Information refers to ’stimulation’ only in:
the shale gas boom in recent years has been due to modern technology in stimulation techniques to create extensive artificial fractures around well bores.
The BBC denial refers only to this use of the term.
See supporting information here vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Ref: Application for Planning Permission.
7. Waste Storage and Collection
Do the plans incorporate areas to store and aid the collection of waste? Yes
please provide details:
The drilling cuttings will be placed in a skip and disposed of at a licensed facility. Any waste water will be tankered to a licensed treatment plant.
Planning Application Details for : 2013/00335/FUL
vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania. This area is a high Radon area, the waste material will be deal with how and where?
www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-rad...
What is the Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) for Wales criteria for determining if a Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) is required and what have their assessments been for all fracking applications in Wales.
The MPA determines if an EIA is required. When an operator wishes to drill an exploration well, their first step is to negotiate access with landowners for the drilling pad area and the surface under which any drilling extends. Permission must also be obtained from the Coal Authority if the well encroaches on coal seams. Then the operator needs to seek planning permission from the MPA. The operator must obtain the appropriate environmental authorisation/permit from the Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The MPA will determine if an EIA is required, such assessments are required if the scale of the operations meets certain' thresholds', or if, depending on their nature, scale and location, they may have significant environmental impacts. If an EIA is required, it must be completed by the applicant and submitted to the MPA before the MPA decides on planning permission.
There is a bill being put to EU Parliament on 8th October to get this amended so that it is mandatory for EIAs to be carried out for both the exploration and production phases of all unconventional fossil fuel projects.
I recommend you write to your local MEP’s and ask them to support amendments 31 and 79 in the Zanoni report and that they reject amendment 112 which excludes exploration phase from mandatory EIAs.
On top of this the Government is planning to amend UK planning laws so that fracking companies don’t need to notify you if they plan to frack under your property. Given that in the states people struggle to sell their houses if they have been fracked under as they can’t get insurance and thus mortgages and we live in old coal mining areas prone to subsidence this could be an issue for valley property.
The whole of the Vale needs to realise the potential scale if shale gas is to be viable here, how many wells, lorries, polluted water (10,000 to 30,000 tonnes per well), gas pipes, infrastuctures to be put into place? The whole of the Vale is pretty much available for fracking license, are the communities there aware of this? What is Alun Cairns MP (conservative) for the Vale of Glamorgan doing, and Jane Hutt Labour AM for The Vale Of Glamorgan doing to help these communities?
I felt that site visit was pointless, the planning officers and councilors had already made their minds up.
Please Attend:
Tomorrows Planning C'ttee, THURSDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2013 AT 6.00 P.M. Venue COMMITTEE ROOM 2, CIVIC OFFICES. Holton Rd, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
www.facebook.com/events/204260026421416/?ref_newsfeed_sto...
Todays site meeting www.llantrithyd.com/
Llantrithyd 'Villagers Against Drilling' The Vale of Glamorgan
Frack Free Wales www.facebook.com/groups/394027893948761/
Future fracking fears as south Wales drilling bids considered (with my photos) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-24376142
Twitter @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh
Because it is test drilling. There will be stimulation (fracking) to test the productivity.
The Llantrthyd application is for “gas testing”
The ‘supporting information’ does not explain this protracted process anywhere, but it involves pumping of water with chemicals to “stimulate” the release of gas. At Balcombe, Cuadrilla use the word “stimulation” to describe this gas-testing process, but Coastal Oil&Gas’s Supporting Information refers to ’stimulation’ only in:
the shale gas boom in recent years has been due to modern technology in stimulation techniques to create extensive artificial fractures around well bores.
The BBC denial refers only to this use of the term.
See supporting information here vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Ref: Application for Planning Permission.
7. Waste Storage and Collection
Do the plans incorporate areas to store and aid the collection of waste? Yes
please provide details:
The drilling cuttings will be placed in a skip and disposed of at a licensed facility. Any waste water will be tankered to a licensed treatment plant.
Planning Application Details for : 2013/00335/FUL
vogonline.planning-register.co.uk/PlaRecord.aspx?AppNo=20...
Dangerous levels of radioactivity found at fracking waste site in Pennsylvania. This area is a high Radon area, the waste material will be deal with how and where?
www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/oct/02/dangerous-rad...
What is the Minerals Planning Authority (MPA) for Wales criteria for determining if a Environmental Impact Assesment (EIA) is required and what have their assessments been for all fracking applications in Wales.
The MPA determines if an EIA is required. When an operator wishes to drill an exploration well, their first step is to negotiate access with landowners for the drilling pad area and the surface under which any drilling extends. Permission must also be obtained from the Coal Authority if the well encroaches on coal seams. Then the operator needs to seek planning permission from the MPA. The operator must obtain the appropriate environmental authorisation/permit from the Natural Resources Wales (NRW).
The MPA will determine if an EIA is required, such assessments are required if the scale of the operations meets certain' thresholds', or if, depending on their nature, scale and location, they may have significant environmental impacts. If an EIA is required, it must be completed by the applicant and submitted to the MPA before the MPA decides on planning permission.
There is a bill being put to EU Parliament on 8th October to get this amended so that it is mandatory for EIAs to be carried out for both the exploration and production phases of all unconventional fossil fuel projects.
I recommend you write to your local MEP’s and ask them to support amendments 31 and 79 in the Zanoni report and that they reject amendment 112 which excludes exploration phase from mandatory EIAs.
On top of this the Government is planning to amend UK planning laws so that fracking companies don’t need to notify you if they plan to frack under your property. Given that in the states people struggle to sell their houses if they have been fracked under as they can’t get insurance and thus mortgages and we live in old coal mining areas prone to subsidence this could be an issue for valley property.
The whole of the Vale needs to realise the potential scale if shale gas is to be viable here, how many wells, lorries, polluted water (10,000 to 30,000 tonnes per well), gas pipes, infrastuctures to be put into place? The whole of the Vale is pretty much available for fracking license, are the communities there aware of this? What is Alun Cairns MP (conservative) for the Vale of Glamorgan doing, and Jane Hutt Labour AM for The Vale Of Glamorgan doing to help these communities?
I felt that site visit was pointless, the planning officers and councilors had already made their minds up.
Please Attend:
Tomorrows Planning C'ttee, THURSDAY, 3RD OCTOBER, 2013 AT 6.00 P.M. Venue COMMITTEE ROOM 2, CIVIC OFFICES. Holton Rd, Barry, Vale of Glamorgan.
www.facebook.com/events/204260026421416/?ref_newsfeed_sto...
Todays site meeting www.llantrithyd.com/
Llantrithyd 'Villagers Against Drilling' The Vale of Glamorgan
Frack Free Wales www.facebook.com/groups/394027893948761/
Future fracking fears as south Wales drilling bids considered (with my photos) www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-24376142
Twitter @nspugh twitter.com/nspugh
Extinction
Following the defeats at the hands of Unicron (TF Movie) and the the Predacons (Call of the primals) The dinobots start to show signs of mutiny in the ranks of the Dinobots. Slag and Sludge question if Grimlock is truly the strongest one there is. Before a battle for a shift of power can begin with their ranks, they are interupted by one of the few Autobots all the Dinobots trust, Wheelie. He informs Grimlock that Gnaw, Wheelie's pet Sharticon went haywire destroyed a small Cybertronian fair, and commendered a shuttle and left for the Quintesson planet! In an attempt to regain control Grimlock decrees that the Dinobots will go to the Quinteson planet and retrieve Gnaw. The other dinobots are leary, but Wheelie's excited cheers about not only returning to his home planet and saving his pet/friend sway them to follow Grimlocks plan. Not being known for their piloting skills, Grimlock, Wheelie, and the Dinobots find Scattershot in the Autobot hanger and convince him to deploy them on the Quintesson planet for a recon mission. Once on the planet, they find that things are amiss. A lone Quintesson looking to reclaim the power that was usurped from them via Hot Rod, Kup, and the Dinobots has initiated Protocol: Frenzy, a program designed to reboot all the Sharticons and send them on a seek and detroy mission throughout the cosmos. Millions of them! Once on the planet, the dinobots are immediately attacked and their ship is over run and literally devoured. The Dinobots and Scattershot fight valiantly, but the sheer numbers of the Sharticons is too great and they are over run. In the midst of the battle Wheelie is searching for the spark of Gnaw, and while doing so is mortally wounded by some Sharticons forcing the heroes to retreat and regroup in Wheelies former hideaway on the planet. Defeated and with no way off the planet or to call reenforcements, their fate seems doomed. Slag says the Dinobots would crush the Sharticons with stronger leader! The fight that started on Cybertron continues in Wheelie's bunker. But in their weakened state, the battle is over shortly as Scattershot states this is madness, you are a TEAM! Scattershot states that if the other Technobots were there, they'd have a fighting chance with Computron. Then the as Grimlock surveys the bunker he sees Swoop holding the dying Wheelie, but also notices that Wheelie has scavenged parts and pieces from the left of parts of the various "residenst" of the planet. "me Grimlock say we, Dinobots ARE a team, and Dinobots shall save the day!" He looks at Scattershot. "You Scattershot will make Dinobots combine" We will be the strongest. We Will crush all those who stand in our way." "But thats... thats... INSANE" Scattershot states, thinking about the sheer destruction all of their powers combined would unleash on this planet, let alone the universe "...but what other choice do we have."Slag and Sludge have enough of following BORING Grimlock" We rather die on Shark planet befor...."Enough!!!!" Swoop says while holding the almost lifeless Wheelie. "Grimlock is dinobot, we are dinobots, he is leader, WE follow Grimlock. Friend Wheelie need our help" All the while Scattershot has surveyed and scan the items into his databanks, and scans Wheelie's body and all of the dinobots..."And help him we will Swoop"
We were working on a water pump that was choked full of what is called "sludge". It's actually lime sludge that is a byproduct of my city's water treatment plant. Lime is used to soften natural groundwater and the sludge is what's left over. This yellow chalky stuff has more in common with plaster then just regular sand. The pump had to be totally flushed out for it to work properly.
It seems that the guys use this pump to transfer the sludge. When finished they are supposed to flush out the pump. When they don't it hardens like concrete. And then they wonder why the pump wont start the next day.
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