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Environment

Windfall

Black River News noted last week that comments could still submitted about the panel recommended proposals for the five million in fines demanded of Ameren by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the Taum Sauk reservoir failure. Though I don’t live in the area, I had thought about submitting comments, to Ameren, and also to […]

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Critters

iCephalopod V

More cephaloporn thanks to Mr. Moult, who is also the happy owner of the einsteinslock.com domain. The site linked has some wonderful, though short, videos of Taningia danae, eight armed squid, captured recently by Tsunemi Kubodera. They demonstrate how amazingly quick and aggressive squid can be. When you consider how big the colossal was that was recently recovered, […]

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Critters

Giant squid Part 2

I knew the weblogging place to be on the squid story would be over at PZ Myers pad, and he points to TONMO of course. The feelings are mixed: on the one hand, the number of deep sea creatures killed by fishermen lately has become rather disturbing. On the other hand, where will we get a better view […]

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Orchid Show 2007

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Communicate

Lee at Black River News attended the Ameren dispersal of government mandated 5 million dollar fine yesterday, and I’m going to link to a couple of his posts: From the post And the Winners are he writes: Wildlife habitat received no funding. I’ll admit there were very few proposals, but you have to remember that if you […]