Big business wants Europeans to pay them to burn your forests for energy.
Biomass Secure Power Inc. of Canada, Drax Biomass International of the United Kingdom and Point Bio Energy of Wisconsin are in the process of building facilities at the Port of Baton Rouge that will manufacture wood pellets out of trees from Louisiana forests and then ship them to Europe to be burned in power plants and furnaces. Check out the investigative video below!… 
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Our Forests Aren’t Fuel!
Big business wants Europeans to pay them to burn your forests for energy.
Biomass Secure Power Inc. of Canada, Drax Biomass International of the United Kingdom and Point Bio Energy of Wisconsin are in the process of building facilities at the Port of Baton Rouge that will manufacture wood pellets out of trees from Louisiana forests and then ship them to Europe to be burned in power plants and furnaces. Check out the investigative video below!… NRC Reports for November 2013 – MS River Corridor
Release of pollutants reported to the National Response Center during the month of November, 2013 along the Mississippi River industrial corridor in Louisiana.
Release of pollutants reported to the National Response Center during the month of November, 2013 along the Mississippi River industrial corridor in Louisiana.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Louisiana, National Response Center, NRC, Volatile Organic Compounds
Louisiana’s Dirty 100 Orphaned Oil & Gas Wells
The “Dirty 100” are the 100 orphaned wells that are ranked as having the highest priority for the need of permanent plugging. They are leaking oil or Natural Gas, are currently causing an environmental problem and may also present a hazard or concern to human health and safety.… A Green Army is Forming!
Louisiana faces a myriad of environmental challenges but organizations from all over South Louisiana are coming together and joining forces to address these challenges.
Louisiana faces a myriad of environmental challenges but organizations from all over South Louisiana are coming together and joining forces to address these challenges.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: environmental challenges, General Russel Honore, Hays Town, Mike Schaff, Nara Crowley, South Louisiana
Annie’s Journey Continues
Paul and Michael Orr of LEAN/LMRK made the trip upriver last week to drop off Annie to John Ruskey and the Mighty Quawpaws.
Paul and Michael Orr of LEAN/LMRK made the trip upriver last week to drop off Annie to John Ruskey and the Mighty Quawpaws. Quapaw Canoe Company offers wilderness expeditions on the Lower Mississippi River, its Back Waters, Bayous, Oxbows, and Flood Plain between the levees.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: John Ruskey, Lower Mississippi River, Mighty Quawpaws, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Quapaw Canoe Company
Soil Sample Testing Results From The Bayou Corne Sinkhole
Early this summer LEAN acquired a sample of soil from around the Bayou Corne sink hole and sent it to Marco Kaltofen at Boston Chemical Data Corp. and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute previously analyzed many samples related to the BP oil spill.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Bayou Corne, Boston Chemical Data Corp., BP, LEAN, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Oil and Gas Leaks in the Gulf – Business as Usual
On September 30, 2013 the Gulf Monitoring Consortium conducted a monitoring flight of south-east Louisiana and found what it always finds; oil and gas operations spilling oil and other pollutants into the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana coastal wetlands. Here are some highlights, or perhaps, “lowlights” from the flight:
On September 30, 2013 the Gulf Monitoring Consortium conducted a monitoring flight of south-east Louisiana and found what it always finds; oil and gas operations spilling oil and other pollutants into the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana coastal wetlands.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: GMC, Gulf Monitoring Consortium, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, Louisiana State, NRC
GC-HARMS update September 2013
The “Gulf Coast Health Alliance: Health Risks Related to the Macondo Spill” (GC-HARMS) research project seeks to characterize health impacts and community resiliency factors related to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
a collaborative response to characterizing environmental health risks and building community resiliency after the Deep Water Horizon disaster in the northern Gulf of Mexico
The “Gulf Coast Health Alliance: Health Risks Related to the Macondo Spill” (GC-HARMS) research project seeks to characterize health impacts and community resiliency factors related to the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Barbara Robbins, crude oil, GC-HARMS, John Sullivan, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Zack Carter
LEAN Backs Coastal Lawsuit
Executive Director, Marylee Orr’s letter to the editor supporting the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East’s lawsuit was published in the Advocate today, 8/30/13.
http://theadvocate.com/news/opinion/6904341-123/letter-lean-backs-coastal-lawsuit
From The Advocate:
August 30, 2013
I have been the executive director of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) for over 25 years.… Waterkeeper’s Air War
Great article from the TecheToday.com profiling the work of Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Dean Wilson, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper Paul Orr and SouthWings.
Great article by Ken Grissom
Special Thanks to SouthWings.org and volunteer pilot David Mauritson.
From TechToday.com, 8/29/13:
With nearly a million acres to monitor with one set of eyes, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Dean Wilson and his Waterkeeper Alliance colleague Paul Orr, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, with the task of watching over that major industrial corridor, relie on the kindness of another non-profit formed to give wings to a wide variety of persons and organizations interested in the health of the ecosystems of the Southeast from Louisiana to West Virginia.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Dean Wilson, David Mauritson, Louisiana, Paul Orr, Special Thanks, Waterkeeper Alliance
