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Gateway to Heroin

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Making a Killing: The Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugging - Full Movie (Documentary)

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Addiction - Methadone Maintenance Treatment Introduction Video

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41 Sad, Haunting Photos Of Crack Addicts In Brazil

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Nelson Trout Explains Beating Perscription Drug Addiction

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Tarsands wolf cull ripped apart by naturalist on TODAY Show

A prominent American naturalist used an appearance on NBC’s popular Today show to salvage the image of the misunderstood grey wolf, and savage Canada’s reputation over its plan to poison and shoot the predator in Alberta’s oil sands region.

As host Natalie Morales joked about Little Red Riding Hood, David Mizejewski showed off two wolves and made a plea for their protection. He highlighted a Canadian plan to kill wolves as part of an effort to protect the boreal caribou herd, which is threatened by loss of habitat in the oil sands region and elsewhere.

The National Wildlife Federation conservationist said the wolf cull was one more reason that Americans should oppose their country’s growing consumption from the oil sands.

“These beautiful animals – their wild kin – are going to be poisoned with strychnine, they’re going to be shot out of helicopters, all to feed our addiction to dirty oil,” he said.

The federal and Alberta governments say the wolf program is just one possible tool to be used in a national effort to protect the boreal caribou that, they say, is threatened not only by industrial encroachment on their habitat but by increased predation.

Environment Minister Peter Kent has acknowledged that wolves may have to be killed in northeastern Alberta and said that is “regrettable” but an accepted scientific approach. A spokesman said Friday it will be up to the province to implement and manage the plan once it has been finalized this spring.

David Ealey, a spokesman for Alberta’s Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development, said the government is working with industry across the province to protect caribou habitat and protect the herds. For the past several years, there has been a wolf cull in one region of western Alberta that has succeeded in stabilizing the caribou population, he said, but it is not certain it will be replicated in the oil sands region.

Wolves have seen their Alberta numbers rise, in part because warmer winters are driving growing white-tailed deer numbers. But scientists say culling wolves is simply ineffective. Alberta’s wolf population has rebounded from 1,500 in the late 1960s to an estimated 7,000 today.

More at the linkA prominent American naturalist used an appearance on NBC’s popular Today show... more

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Journey of Hope With Rodney Mathers (71)

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Opposition rising against U.S. Arctic drilling

Drilling in the Arctic waters of the U.S. may become as contested an issue as the Keystone Pipeline XL in up-coming months. Scientists, congress members, and ordinary Americans have all come out in large numbers against the Obama Administration's leases for exploratory drilling in the Beaufort Sea and the Chuckchi Sea.

Last month 573 scientists signed a letter against opening the Arctic up to drilling until more research can be done in the sensitive area. In addition, a letter signed by 60 Congress members has been sent to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar noting that the Deepwater Horizon disaster occurred only two years ago. Finally, nearly half a million Americans (400,000) signed a petition against drilling in the Arctic. Critics of the Obama Administration's leases say there is no coherent plan to clean-up a spill in the icy, remote Arctic ecosystem, which already embattled by climate change.

"The Arctic is the last wild ocean on the planet. Its waters and the abundant life they support are simply too sensitive to be drilled—especially since neither the oil industry nor scientists have identified a proven way to contain or clean up a spill in the Arctic’s extreme conditions," Chuck Clusen, Alaska Project Director with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said in a press release. "At the very least, there should be no plan to lease these areas until key scientific studies have been done and until the oil and gas industry can demonstrate its ability to contain and clean up a spill."

The letter from scientists asked the administration to "to follow through on its commitment to science" by following recommendations made by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and refrain from drilling until more research can be done.

Still, drilling in the Arctic could begin as early as this summer by Royal Dutch Shell. The oil company argues that it has a meticulous oil-response plan even given the intense conditions of drilling in the Arctic, including response vessels standing by. Shell Alaska Vice President Pete Slaiby told the Associated Press that the company would be ready with a capping stack, similar to what was used to stop the Gulf oil spill in 2010 after the well leaked for three months.

Critics of Arctic drilling argue that given the extreme weather conditions, icy waters, and the remoteness of any oil well, it would currently be impossible to clean-up an oil spill adequately. Furthermore, clean-up efforts would almost certainly have to stop during the long Arctic winter. Currently the federal government is asking Shell to stop operations 38 days before the seasonal sea ice would arrive to make certain an oil spill doesn't occur at the end of the season. Shell is trying to overturn this ruling.

"If the Obama administration were making its decision based on science rather than politics, drilling in the Arctic would be a nonstarter," Rebecca Noblin, the Alaska Director with Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). "The Arctic Ocean is America’s last best wilderness. Launching massive industrial drilling operations risks America’s Arctic legacy for oil company profits."

Read more: http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0209-hance_arctic_drilling_us.html#ixzz1m0w4myDx

http://photos.mongabay.com/j/oil.drilling.shell.arctic.568.jpgDrilling in the Arctic waters of the U.S. may become as contested an issue as the... more

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Death by suffocation: How whippets can kill you!

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INTERNET ADDICTION IS LIKE DRUG AND ALCOHOL ADDICTION – IT CHANGES YOUR BRAIN, STUDY FINDS

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Internet addiction: commentary

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Legal drug pushers turn bigger profits

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Pencil Drawing - The Addiciton

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Thanksgiving 2011

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Special Report: Addiction on the rise among baby boomers

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The science of getting high

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Pill addiction hurts like heroin hell

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Keystone XL delay unlikely to stall big oil companies-"Alberta Clipper" already pumps tarsands here

With the Keystone XL pipeline on hold, the giant companies tapping Canada’s oil sands will turn to Plan B — existing pipelines to the United States.

Those pipelines, which now carry slightly more than 1 million barrels a day from Canada’s oil sands to the United States, can be expanded by adding pumping stations. Some companies, notably Enbridge, already have plans to boost the capacity of their lines and speed the journey of crude from Alberta to Texas.

.“It’s inevitable that it will get here. This oil will have to find a market,” said Fadel Gheit, oil analyst with Oppenheimer & Co. “All these competing pipelines are going to rethink their strategy.”

That would disappoint foes of the Keystone XL pipeline, who hope that the delay or defeat of the project would impede the growth in output from the oil sands, whose exploitation releases 5 to 15 percent more greenhouse gases than the average crude used in the United States.

Asked what the Keystone delay would mean for oil sands development, a spokesman for Chevron, which owns 20 percent of one of the oil sands projects, said: “The Keystone decision has no implications for Chevron.”

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers forecasts that oil sands output will nearly double from 1.5 million barrels a day in 2010 to 2.9 million barrels a day by 2020. Proponents of the Keystone XL pipeline warned that a rejection of the project would lead to exports to China via a pipeline to Canada’s west coast, or shipments to the United States using barges, trucks and railroads, thus creating a larger carbon footprint.

Many Canadians prefer a pipeline to be built from Alberta to eastern Canada, which still imports oil from Saudi Arabia.

But oil analysts said Friday that existing pipelines to the United States offer the easiest and most likely fallback plans.

Enbridge is a likely choice for oil companies seeking additional pipeline space over the next two or three years. The company’s 1,000-mile long Alberta Clipper line, which went into operation last year, goes from Hardesty, Alberta, to Superior, Wis., and has an initial capacity of 450,000 barrels a day. But it can be pushed up to 800,000 barrels a day, the company says. That alone would make up for half of the capacity Keystone XL would have added.

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To love an opiate addict

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Natural gas and oil business still booms during Oklahoma drought-don't wonder why there are more earthquakes

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