“This is really sickening”
“Black liquor” spilled by paper mill killed “every breathing organism” including hundreds of thousands of fish
[August 22, 2011] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016. SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,668 Days Left to the ‘Worst Day’ in Human History
Disaster Calendar 2011 – August 22 Entry
- Louisiana, USA. Hundreds of thousands of fish, “including federally protected Gulf sturgeon as well as catfish and flounder,” were killed after a large spill of a high concentration of waste material from paper mill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, into the Pearl River sucked the oxygen from the water, a report said.
- “This is really sickening,” said St. Tammany Parish President Kevin Davis, who put the number of dead fish at “hundreds of thousands.”
- Ontario, Canada. A deadly tornado tore through the town of Goderich, a port town of 8,000 on Lake Huron, about 250 km west of Toronto, killing at least one person, injuring dozens more and destroying or damaging hundreds of building, reports said.
- According to Environment Canada, the town was buffeted by winds of up to 280 km per hour (174mph), an EF4 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita Tornado Scale.
- According to the town’s official website, Goderich is now in a state of emergency.
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