Published: August 27th, 2012 at 8:40 pm ET
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Title: Whales Intervene In Nuclear Plant’s Seismic Testing
Source: Forbes
Author: Jeff McMahon, Contributor
Date: 8/27/2012 @ 11:55AM
Endangered humpback whales have converged on the Central Coast of California just as the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant prepares for seismic testing that has been accused of frightening, deafening, and killing sea life.
The nuclear plant was built at the mouth of a coastal canyon beginning in 1968 above a then-unknown fault line, the Hosgri Fault. In 2008, another previously unknown fault was discovered running along the shoreline.
Beginning in September, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. plans to produce a 3-D map of the shoreline fault’s deeper regions by firing high energy air guns dragged in an array behind a research vessel.
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“Our position is that seismic testing is a threat not only to whales, but to all of us, because it allows Pacific Gas and Electric to delay removal of the nuclear plant from the earthquake fault,” according to Stop the Diablo Canyon Seismic Testing, a facebook page launched this summer.
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See also: Some at forum say Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant survey could harm wildlife -The San Luis Obispo Tribune
Published: August 27th, 2012 at 8:40 pm ET
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Will San Diego nuke plant follow the example of other nuclear fiascos in the US?
Los Angeles Nuclear Plant Meltdown; Completely Covered Up; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/los-angeles-nuclear-plant-meltdown.html
Radium Girls & Radium Dials; Ottowa Illinois, Death City; via A Green Road http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/radium-girls-radium-dials-ottowa.html
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Just dismantle the ancient POS and be done with it….before you set OFF a damn EQ with your idiotic testing.
BTW Isnt it illegal to harm or kill an endangered species?
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And immoral?
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Speaking of endangered species…….us
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San Juis Obispo, CA…If all my high school classmates from Paso Robles Joint Union H.S. (Republican Central Valley) hadn't turned me to spam a decade ago, I would forward this to them. But they, like many others, didn't want to hear what I had to say.
Apologies to the whales!
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Mammals have an inherently anti-nuke bias.
Nuclear radiation damages us all in so many different ways, including heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, autism:
"Autism and radioactivity.
In a previous post, I talked about mounting genetic damage in each generation due to man-caused radioactivity in the environment. The article linked from the graphic shows that mercury increases DNA damage from radiation. So what we have is mercury from generations of vaccinated parents interacting with and potentiating the radiation damage of generations of radiation-exposed parents. Every generation, it takes less mercury to cause disease.
http://optimalprediction.com/wp/autism-and-radioactivity/
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"Endangered humpback whales have converged…"
Stop the testing!
Stop the risks!!!
When will endangered humans converge?
NOW would be a good time.
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Funny that PG&E would pick now to do begin their deadly seismic testing. One has to wonder if there isn't an element of spite involved, an element of "let's stick it to those environmentalists good" reasoning. After all it's been the environmentalists who have been the biggest thorn in their side all these years.
At the very least you'd think they could delay these tests until after the whales have migrated away. Hopefully some court will order a halt for those reasons.
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