According to a new report by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. government is allowing corporations to discharge millions of gallons of hazardous waste into the Gulf of Mexico "without limit," threatening wildlife and public health. By Kenny Stancil The Defender is experiencing censorship on many social channels. Be sure to stay in touch with the news that matters by subscribing to our top news of the day. It's free. As “extreme” fossil fuel extraction methods such as fracking and acidizing have become increasingly common in offshore oil and gas production over the past decade, the U.S. government is allowing corporations to discharge millions of gallons of hazardous waste into the Gulf of Mexico “without limit.” That’s according to “Toxic Waters: How Offshore Fracking Pollutes the Gulf of Mexico”, a new report published this month by the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). “A decade into the offshore fracking boom, officials still haven’t properly studied its public health impacts,” Miyoko Sakashita, oceans program director at CBD, said in a statement. “The failure to curb this major source of pollution is astounding and unacceptable.” Scientists and policy experts at CBD compiled the report by analyzing industry documents, peer-reviewed studies, publicly available data, and federal permitting records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. CBD explained that fracking “blasts water and chemicals into the seafloor to fracture rock and release oil and gas,” while “acidizing injects hydrofluoric or hydrochloric acid to etch pathways in rock walls and release the fossil fuels.” Because roughly 98% of all offshore oil and gas production in the U.S. occurs in federal waters off the Gulf Coast of Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, the report characterizes that area as “ground zero for offshore fracking and its threats to wildlife and public health.” Although an industry report to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency disclosed that “each frack releases about 21,480 gallons of fracking waste, including biocides, polymers and solvents, into the Gulf of Mexico,” CBD noted, the EPA permits companies to dump “unlimited amounts” of toxic byproducts into the Gulf. While the risks and harmful effects of some fracking chemicals are well-understood, more than three-quarters of the substances used in fracks “haven’t even been studied for their impacts” on human and environmental health, according to CBD. As a result, wrote the authors of the report, “the Gulf’s communities and ecosystem experience a heavy pollution burden from concentrated fossil fuel infrastructure and cannot bear additional fracking pollution.” ... ... (FULL ARTICLE : https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/66-million-gallons-toxic-fracking-waste-gulf-of-mexico/ )

UNN’s Oliver Down has undertaken a special report investigation and has uncovered some startling links with regards to amount of Chinese and CCP involvement within UK academia and health services.  A number of academics as well as the universities they work within openly advertise their Chinese links. One example of this is, the controversial Professor Ferguson’s Imperial College London stating on their website that: “Imperial is the UK’s number one university collaborator with Chinese research institutions” as well as: “More than 600 research papers published with Chinese institutions every year”. Given that many attribute the first government lockdown to Imperial College London’s Professor Neil Ferguson’s modelling into death predictions, this information may cause fresh concerns for many. Unherd magazine wrote of Ferguson praising CCP lockdowns: “I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March,” Professor Ferguson says. When SAGE observed the “innovative intervention” out of China, of locking entire communities down and not permitting them to leave their homes, they initially presumed it would not be an available option in a liberal Western democracy: “It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.” In addition to this, many other of the UK’s academic institutions have extensive relationships with China. University College London sent an academic delegation to Peking in 2017 as well as having “UCL-Peking University (PKU) Strategic Partner Funds” that fund research to the tune of £10,000 per project. Via a Freedom of Information it has emerged that in the academic year 2019/20, the proportion of fees paid by Chinese students was 32%. The percentage of Chinese students within UCL will be startling to many. Professor Jonathan Van Tam, who is now one of three of England Deputy Chief Medical Officers, graduated from Nottingham university. Nottingham University claim on their website, to be “In the Heart of China. In addition to this, the Vision Times has claimed that Yang Fujia, who was the University of Nottingham’s Chancellor from 2001 to 2013 was a “veteran CCP member”. However, institutions links with China do not end there. In 2019, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) hosted a joint symposium as an exercise in showing off the vaccine research policy collaborations between the UK and China. One of the speakers at that event, alongside many Chinese representatives was John Edmunds. Mr Edmunds is an epidemiologist who has recently spoken out and stated that the ‘Indian variant’ is incredibly serious and has been a prominent supporter of lockdowns. ... ( FULL ARTICLE : https://unitynewsnetwork.co.uk/revealed-massive-financial-links-to-the-ccp-at-the-heart-of-the-uk-scientific-establishment/ )