Thursday, 7 April 2011

US AND CANADA MAY RAISE "SAFE" LEVELS OF RADIATION IN FOOD, DRINK, SOIL

US AND CANADIAN GOV’TS

MAY RAISE RADIATION EXPOSURE LEVELS

IN FOOD, DRINK, SOIL


April 7, 2011
Noor

REMEMBER: there are
NO SAFE DOSES OF LOW-LEVEL RADIATION
and no exposure threshold below which radiation
can be proven to be harmless.

The great Fukushima radioactive fallout blackout continues. Basically raising these levels is just more “move along, nothing to see here. Yes you are all safe.” This is a totally unconscionable white wash for the American and Canadian public. We know that North Americans (US and Canada) live under governments that do their best to withhold the truth from their citizens for a variety of nefarious reasons. But find an honest savvy reporter and you realize the true scope of the problem. 

Right now we are about as stable as a bowl of pudding under a heat lamp!

Beneath this I will include a list of links that are worth looking at if you are concerned regarding the amount of fallout will be falling from your local skies. You don't have to look at all these links, just a few should do the trick. Of interest to you, dear Readers, will be the ones closest to where you live.

The only way to get up to date true information is to seek it out yourself. Honestly, there is one site I will include below Dutchsinse from YouTube and he is a very good start so that you can get an idea of what you are seeing and be able to relate to the images and numbers. Dutch constantly updates and is even easy enough for me to understand! And that, considering my non-scientific bent, is no easy task!

I am on the North American front line as I am on the Canadian West Coast, right smack in a thick cloud of the stuff. The pity is, it is spring, the skies today are blue and white with, so far, not a chemtrail in sight. I actually drove with my windows open because I crave the fresh air … haha at “fresh”… after not even opening my windows for 3 weeks.

Tomorrow we are taking my ancient mother out to a local park so she can enjoy the spring blossoms, something she will definitely enjoy. She does not get out too much lately. This is most likely her last spring and we are making as many special events for her as she can handle.  What a double-edged sword!  We have the overwhelming beauty of nature as it bursts into full bloom and promise while invisible poisons in the air stick to our hair and skin, enter our bodies, coat our vehicles. Not to forget it will also lay to rest on and in the very land that makes my island paradise one of the main organic food production areas of North America. According to one of Dutchsinse’s reports, Vancouver Island was under medium to high coverage today. 

I apologize for the fact that the links are all over the place and not at all categorized but  doing that was just more than I could manage at the moment.


By Lynn Herman
Digital Journal
April 7, 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering approval of a plan designed to dramatically increase permissible radiation contamination levels in food, water and soil after radiation events, including spills and dirty bomb attacks.

The Office of Radiation and Indoor Air (ORIA), the radiation extension of the EPA, has prepared a revision to the 1992 “Protective Action Guides” (PAG) that governs radiation protection conclusions on short-term and long-term cleanup levels, Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) reports.

Vigorously opposed by some agency experts, the plan is being discussed behind closed doors, notes PEER. “This critical debate is taking place entirely behind closed doors because this plan is ‘guidance’ and does not require public notice as a regulation would,” said PEER attorney Christine Erickson in a news release.

“We all deserve to know why some in the agency want to legitimize exposing the public to radiation at levels vastly higher than what EPA officially considers dangerous,” Erickson added.

Internal documents obtained by PEER under a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit last autumn show that, under the updated PAG, a single glass of water could give the equivalent of a lifetime’s permissible exposure. According to PEER, the
NEW LIMITS
WOULD CAUSE A CANCER
IN AS MUCH AS
EVERY FOURTH PERSON EXPOSED.
In a January 2009 email to ORIA, Charles Openchowski of the EPA’s Office of General Counsel wrote: “[T]his guidance would allow cleanup levels that exceed MCLs [Maximum

Contamination Limits under the Safe Drinking Water Act] by a factor of 100, 1000, and in two instances 7 million and there is nothing to prevent those levels from being the final cleanup achieved (i.e., it’s not confined to immediate response of emergency phase),” PEER notes.

The new PAG would also permit long-term cleanup limits that are thousands of times more lenient than previously accepted by the EPA.

In the news release, Stuart Walker of the EPA’s Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation explained the new radiation limits:
“It also appears that drinking water at the PAG concentrations...may lead to subchronic (acute) effects following exposures of a day or a week. In a population, one should see some express acute effects...that is vomiting, fever, etc.”
According to PEER, the EPA is still withholding thousands more communications. “EPA touts its new transparency but when it comes to matters of controversy the agency still puts up a wall,” said Erickson, who filed the FOIA lawsuit, the release notes. “Besides the months of stonewalling, we are seeing them pull stunts such as ORIA giving us rebuttals to other EPA documents they have yet to release.”

PEER sent EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson a letter on Tuesday that calls for more transparency and broader discussion on the proposed PAG.

According to a National Academy of Sciences 2005 report,
there are NO SAFE DOSES OF LOW-LEVEL RADIATION
and no exposure threshold below which radiation
can be proven to be harmless.

“The health risks ~ particularly the development of solid cancers in organs ~ rise proportionally with exposure,” said Richard R. Monson, chair of the NAS committee responsible for the report and professor at Harvard’s School of Public Health, Facing South reports.

Jet stream activity April 5, 2011

LINKS TO SCIENTIFIC SITES RELATING TO PLANETARY ACTIVITY


UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~tcanty/hysplit/

SpaceQuakes Rumble near Earth: http://goo.gl/hnkdd

Another volcanic eruption: http://goo.gl/i6U4a

http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/

USGS Live Internet Seismic Server: http://goo.gl/3ety5

IRIS Seismic Monitor: http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

Land masses rise in Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal: http://goo.gl/PkrCP

Mass fish death recorded in Caspian Sea: http://goo.gl/MpBMH

USGS Science for a Changing World: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

Significant Earthquakes past 30 days: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/


http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&...

Higher plumes, reaching 5000 meters (15,000 feet) are forecast to reach Portugal, Spain, and central Europe.

All animations are from professional forecasting services.


LINKS ARE BELOW.

http://www.woweather.com/

http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=hysplitheight

The radiation flow, forecast and shown by these several models... tells the tale of the isotopes coming our way. It will be up to you to decide if you should go outside during the time these clouds are over the USA, Canada, and Mexico.

Finland radiation: http://www.stuk.fi/fi_FI/


RADIATION FORECASTING LINKS:


http://www.woweather.com/weather/news/fukushima?LANG=us&VAR=webcam&SA...

http://eurdeppub.jrc.it/eurdeppub/home.aspx#

Spain radiation link: http://www.csn.es/index.php?option=com_maps&view=mappoints&Itemid=32

http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/

http://www.radiationnetwork.com/

http://www.blackcatsystems.com/RadMap/map.html

http://www.epa.gov (click on radiation update)

http://www.irsn.fr/EN/Pages/home.aspx

http://www.nucleartourist.com/

http://www.stuk.fi/index_en.html

http://www.mext.go.jp/english/radioactivity_level/detail/1303962.htm

http://www.nisa.meti.go.jp/english/index.html

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/

http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P867_02.html

http://www.mapion.co.jp/topics/genpatu/

http://strahlenbelastung.wo-wann-wer.de/

Dutch radiation monitoring:

http://www.rivm.nl/milieuportaal/dossier/meetnetten/radioactiviteit/resultaten/

Swiss radiation monitoring: https://www.naz.ch/en/aktuell/zeitverlaeufe.html

Finland radiation monitoring: http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P160_01.html

French radiation monitoring:  http://sws.irsn.fr/sws/mesure/index

http://www.irsn.fr/FR/Documents/france.htm



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