After cycling from Los Angeles to New York and hiking from Georgia to Maine, you'd think kayaking from Winnipeg to the Gulf of Mexico wouldn't faze Kevin Knieling. The trip will likely take three to four months, "depending on our penchant for fooling around," joked Knieling, a former Wall Street stockbroker who gave up the daily grind and began travelling a few years ago. The tour will complete his "adventure triathlon," which includes the cycling and hiking excursions earlier this year. I'm sure I'll put together a book, when I'm in one place long enough to write it," he said.
At the start, it had a less than 10 per cent probability of success, but to the two MBA-trained executives (the president and his mining engineer) it was doable, provided they avoided the bureaucratic bungling that followed hurricane Katrina and the lying and blame fiasco of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The implication is that all human problems are essentially economic ones: young offenders' real problem is the burden on the provincial budget; the real problem with unemployment is the expense of welfare payments, combined with lost tax revenue. The point of Jesus' teaching is to show us that economic value is subordinate to moral value: it makes moral sense (though economic nonsense) to pay the late-arriving labourers a living wage (Mt 20:9).
While oil tankers now prowl Canada's east and west coasts and roll up the St. Lawrence River to Montreal without the public giving it a second thought, Mr. Ignatieff's plan would banish tankers from a safer port in northern B.C. and kill much-needed jobs and investment in the region. Tankers have been shipping in petroleum products to Kitimat and tankering out of Vancouver for 50 years without incident and the existing southern pipeline owners have plans to double their pipeline shipments to the West Coast, ultimately reaching a daily volume at least seven times the Gulf of Mexico leak.
The root of the word "vacation" is "to vacate," as in "vacate your premises. is a stair-climb over the dune, which rises up between the hotel and the shore (I'm glad for the third-floor view from my room). The land-side of the dune, which is under restoration and protected by lengths of snow-fence (that's what we call it where I come from) and is packed with plants. The plants and the sand cling to each other for dear life. The plants need a place to grow in the dune -- the dune can't hold it's ground without the plants. The sea-side of the dune is mostly sand, sloping down to more sand; which is just that: Perfectly ground quartz that stretches and stretches along the Gulf of Mexico. This the shoreline which gives it's name. At first this seems a bit presumptuous. ...
Well, on Jan. 7, the Tallahassee Democrat reported: "Across the Sunshine State, oranges and strawberries are freezing, icicles are hanging off palm fronds, and iguanas paralyzed by the cold are falling out of trees. We refuse to wear hats and don't plug our cars in until it's at least 30 below. Here's the deal: Ours is a dry cold. Try standing next to the Gulf of Mexico during near freezing temperatures, the wind whipping across the water, the taste of salt in the air and the sound of your cheeks getting frostbite, and you'll have a different take on things.
Why was this the case? There are many reasons. The large-scale atmospheric circulation was variable but generally acted to steer storms away from the Prairies and to limit moisture coming from the Gulf of Mexico. Dry ground limited the local production of precipitation. The abundance of aerosol particles generated by blowing dust and forest fires, initiated at least in part by the drought, is also believed to have interfered with the efficient growth of precipitation particles. So drought begets conditions for drought. Extremely dry conditions actually increased the severity of some types of storms occurring during the drought. As rain falls on the north side of such a storm, the dry air from the drought causes it to rapidly evaporate. This leads to a rapid cooling of the surrounding ai...
The [Celest]ún beach stretches as far as the eye can see with almost no development. There are a few modest hotels, residences, restaurants, one pier, a lighthouse and a dozen fishing boats. The town has three or four good restaurants and virtually no nightlife or shopping. The sand, coarse and strewn with shells, is best navigated with sandals. The Gulf of Mexico water is clean, calm and safe for swimming, and cool afternoon and evening breezes are common. A key Celestún attraction is touring the adjoining estuary known as the Ria Celestún Biosphere by fishing boat, where you'll see dozens (or thousands) of migrating flamingos (depending on the season), hundreds of other birds, possibly a crocodile that lives under the bridge and a petrified forest. A 2.5-hour tour with guide costs a...
A test well indicates it could be the biggest new domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay a generation ago. But the vast oil deposit roughly 6.5 kilometres beneath the ocean floor won't significantly reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil and it won't help lower prices at the pump anytime soon, analysts said. It's a nice positive, but the U.S. still has a big difference between its consumption and indigenous production," said Art Smith, chief executive of energy consultant John Herold. "We'll still be importing more than 50 per cent of our oil needs. "This area is one of the new and promising deep-water areas in the Gulf of Mexico," said Ivind Reinertsen, senior vice-president of Statoil's Gulf of Mexico operations in Houston.
Oil futures were steady Monday near the previous session's closing price as worries eased over the threat of a hurricane to key oil infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. Worries over a Category 5 Atlantic storm, Hurricane Felix, eased as it churned its way into the open waters of the Caribbean Sea Sunday and looked less likely to hit the Gulf of Mexico, where key refineries are located. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Felix was packing maximum sustained winds of 265 km/h as it plowed westward toward Central America, where it was expected to skirt the Honduras coastline Tuesday before slamming into Belize Wednesday.
It's bad, but we know we can turn this around," says Boris Worm, head of the international team and a fisheries biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Today's report is the second in less than a month that points to serious degradation of ocean ecosystems. The United Nations reported two weeks ago the number of oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the world's seas and oceans has risen to 200, an increase of more than a third in the past two years. Some dead zones persist year-round, like the one in the Gulf of Mexico, where fertilizers and other nutrients pour out of the Mississippi River. Others form in the summer, depending on winds that generate upwelling in which nutrient-rich water is brought to the surface from lower depths. "In the event that we don't make these changes that pr...
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