Friday, May 28, 2010

North Sound Sewage con't...

Email from: Thomas J. Goreau, PhD President, Global Coral Reef Alliance President, Biorock S.A. Coordinator, United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development Partnership in New Technologies for Small Island Developing States 37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge MA 02139 617-864-4226 goreau@bestweb.net http://www.globalcoral.org Date: April 19, 2010 @ 5:23pm Dear Kerry, Technically they are right. This is not sewage in it's original form, but recycled after it has rotted, and the nutrients and organic matter released have fueled massive growth of bacteria and algae slime. That's sort of a technical distinction, the problem is that they are not recycling the waste nutrients as fertilizer back on the land, and releasing them into the environment, where they are causing massive eutrophication. I wonder if there anybody left old enough to remember when the water in North Sound was BLUE? Best wishes, Tom

Earth Day 2010

http://www.cayman27.com.ky/news/item/5123

Botanic Park - Green Certification

http://www.caymannewsservice.com/science-and-nature/2010/02/20/caymans-botanic-gardens-achieves-green-accolade

Conservation Law Issues

http://www.caymannewsservice.com/viewpoint/2010/05/12/national-conservation-law-would-protect-our-critical-environmental-sites AND http://www.caymannewsservice.com/science-and-nature/2010/04/20/still-no-conservation-law-minister-signs-pledge AND http://www.caymannewsservice.com/headline-news/2010/05/19/conservation-not-radical-idea Note: write to the Govt. attn: Minister Mark Scotland, and impress upon him and his ministry to push the passage for the approval of the Conservation Law.

Extinction threat for mangroves....

http://www.caymannewsservice.com/science-and-nature/2010/04/22/extinction-threat-mangroves-warns-iucn

Mangrove Destruction by Dragon Bay Developers

http://www.cayman27.com.ky/2010/05/14/destruction-of-mangroves-controversy-continues From Mrs. Gina Ebanks-Petrie: She said, once mangrove was ripped out there were significant problems associated with trying to replant it.“It is extremely difficult if not impossible to re-create mixed mangrove communities such as that lost in the buffer clearance."
AND:
Here's the link where Micheal Ryan of Dragon Bay claims to be restoring them, but so far up to January 2012 no person or entity in the Cayman Islands can locate this so-called nursery of his!
here's more from his usual lip service:

Sewage in the North Sound

Click on the links below for a series of media reports on this subject: http://www.caymannewsservice.com/science-and-nature/2010/04/15/pollution-north-sound-issue-says-wa-and-doe AND http://www.cayman27.com.ky/news/item/5029 AND http://www.compasscayman.com/caycompass/2010/04/20/North-Sound-pollution-increasing/ AND http://www.cayman27.com.ky/news/item/5110 AND http://www.caymannetnews.com/news-20858--1-1---.html

Grocery Stores Moves on shopping bags....

http://www.caymannewsservice.com/local-news/2010/05/21/cayman-shoppers-wave-goodbye-plastic-bag AND http://www.caymannewsservice.com/science-and-nature/2010/04/18/supermarkets-join-fight-against-plastic-bag