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'Global Cetacean Scenario: a Holistic Approach'

'Global Cetacean Scenario: a Holistic Approach'

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This show is a re-broadcast of On the Brink Radio #15 and is my single best show synopsizing what is happening with the whales and dolphins globally, with particular emphasis on New Zealand. Most of this show is my reading of an article I wrote entitled "Cetaceans Sacrificed to Anadarko and 'Big Oil' "

http://tutunui-wananga.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/cetaceans-sacrificed- to-anadarko-big_7.html

“No clearer parallel exists for the similarity between or identity of ‘military’ and ‘industrial’ systems than the technologies being deployed by navies and hydro- carbon/geo-physical exploration contractors around the world. These technologies include not only HAARP, it’s ‘sister’ installations and the integrated global network of microwave weapons which are currently weaponizing the entire planet, but also seismic survey and naval sonar systems, both of which utilize towed arrays of under-water transducers, and project single bursts or explosions of sound-pressure energy into the ocean which can deafen, injure, maim or kill hundreds or even thousands of whales and dolphins with one single blast.”

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This comprehensive article not only documents the global scenario of the full spectrum of threats to cetaceans, but also illuminates the explosion of hydro-carbon exploitation in New Zealand and its relationship to New Zealand's '9/11', the Christchurch quake (s), and Anadarko Petroleum. The latter has a direct bearing on and relationship to the plight of cetaceans in New Zealand's huge EEZ or 'exclusive economic zone', in particular the critically endangered Maui's dolphins, of whom only 50 remain. Their only remaining habitat, off the northwest coast of the north island, is rife with geo-physical exploration involving seismic testing, off-shore deep-water drilling for petroleum, and a conscience-less fishing industry running out of control, unfettered by a national government who, like all others, are pawns of Goldman-Sachs.

For New Zealand to continue to proclaim to the world it's '100% Clean and Green' status...which has always been a lie but is now moreso than ever...sitting idly by while faced with the imminent extinction of a totally unique life-form, a small dolphin who represents the equivalent of a human culture and 'language group', with their own cosmology, world-views, knowledge, wisdom and right to exist...is beyond mere contradiction and is a testament to the diabolical schizophrenia that has come to characterize the 'mainstream mentality' from which I am increasingly distancing myself.

http://uk.whales.org/campaigns/saving-new-zealand-dolphin#.VDRq-f7H-Ls.facebook

NEW ZEALAND SELLS OUT MAUI'S DOLPHINS - NZ's commissioner to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) put the cards on the table when he explained the government's failure to act on scientific advice, including from the IWC's Scientific Committee: "We do not dispute the IWC Scientific Committee’s findings, but management [of Maui's dolphins] has to consider other factors”. In other words, economic considerations over fishing, mining and fossil fuels override conservation needs. It is exactly this stance which has led Maui's dolphin numbers to plummet from 2000 to just 50 individuals and will lead to the dolphins' extinction. We are preparing a major new campaign to convince New Zealand that Maui's and Hector's dolphins are worth saving."

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503450&objectid=11326989

"Otago University associate professor of zoology Liz Slooten said earlier this year that sonar and seismic surveying for oil and gas off Northland's west coast could lead to more whale strandings and leave some species of whales and dolphins effectively deaf and blind."

Other major global threats to cetaceans continue to rear their heads daily. These are NOT the threats from Japanese whalers and fishermen in Taiji; these are real and not to go unnoticed, but they are of less significance by ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE than the warfare being waged on life in the sea by hydro-carbon exploration/exploitation; military-industrial activities involving high-powered sonars, weapons testing and 'war games'; and a more recent head of the Hydra, the explosion in deep-sea-bed mining.

http://www.deepseaminingoutofourdepth.org/media-release-the-newest-assault-on-the-worlds-oceans-deep-seabed-mining/

NGOs from Australia, Canada and India call for an international moratorium on deep seabed mining in light of the International Seabed Authority’s (ISA) issuing of 7 exploration licences for deep seabed mining in international waters.
Natalie Lowrey, spokesperson, Deep Sea Mining campaign, “The granting of these licences flies in the face of the precautionary principle. There is insufficient scientific data to understand the impacts of deep sea mining, there are no regulatory frameworks in place to govern mining operations and the capacity to enforce such frameworks does not yet exist. The issuing of exploration licenses must cease until these issues are addressed.”
The 7 new exploration licenses have been granted to: UK Seabed Resources, a wholly owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin the world’s biggest defense company; the Government of India; Russian Ministry of Natural Resources; Brazil’s Companhia de Pesquisa de Recursos Minerias; Ocean Mineral Singapore; Germany Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources; and Cook Islands Investment Corporation.[1]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25638838

"Deep see mining will be the end of marine mammals. The seismic surveys to search for deposits will be worse than seismic surveys for oil as not only they will be more destructive, but also more numerous."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22546875

"...seabed mining is taking shape at the same time as ocean ecosystems face 'large and accelerating' challenges, including from other physical disturbances (trawling, waste disposal, oil and gas extraction) and physiological stress from interacting climate factors such as temperature, acidification and hypoxia (expanding ‘dead zones’ of low oxygen).

Potential mining impacts identified in the report include the disruption of the vent sites (individual chimneys and their fauna would be destroyed), the production of sediment plumes affecting filter feeders higher in the water column, changes in hydrothermal circulation and the polluting effect of wastewater. The report’s authors – drawing on field research around the Solwara 1 site conducted in 2008 as part of the Nautilus environmental impact process – highlighted the 'significant risk' of losing rare species...."

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