Love Canal Report - Keaton Cullimore

-Keaton Cullimore       Please read the article To what degree do environmental tragedies affect you/your family on a day to day basis? http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/56208839-78/pollution-utah-unhealthy-association.html.csp

Kirk Cullimore: 
Most large environmental events affect me in my pocketbook. The cost of products goes up whenever there is a problematic event. In AZ, we have natural occurring environmental events like the haboobs. These massive dust storms create a mess which takes days to clean up.
 Thayne Cullimore:
I'm affected in a couple ways. I have noticed I get more congested in my sinuses and chest during times when the is a high amount of dust or smog. Additionally, during the dust storms in Arizona, I have often had to drive in those and that is a potential safety concern.

Sandi Cullimore:
Luckily no one in our family has asthma or other breathing problems that occur when the inversions happen...but I have friends who were sick for 6-8 weeks because of the poor air quality this last winter in Utah! Here in AZ, we get these wild dust storms...that mostly affect me because of what a mess they make of everything!!

Kira Firzlaff:
I actually think that the poor air quality in Salt Lake has affected me quite a bit. Although my health isn't suffering greatly, I do believe that I get sick more often from the pollution. I have quite a few friends that also can feel the effects of the inversion and they have had many sick days because of it.

Jim Hamblin :
Thank you Keaton for posting this article. I think anti-pollution measures are too often forgotten. Let's clean up Utah's air.

Travis Fillmore:
I don't really pay attention to pollution, at all. My concern is whether or not people actually critically assess pollution. While people may compare Utah to other states and say we're the worst, the US's pollution over all isn't that bad. Often target pollution levels are set arbitrarily. They're set so extremely low that no possible harm can come from it.  I don't feel any problems from our pollution on inversion alert days. But, maybe it contributes to darker days, which stinks. I think in this way pollution hurts me more psychologically than physically.

Scott Bohne: 
I don't really notice the air pollution that much. So I don't think it has affected me much at all. I consider to be really fit, so air pollution wouldn't have any affect on me in any way. Now that I think of it I would like to have more air pollution so that I can challenge myself to be fitter than the pollution.

Pat Kawka: 
Air pollution in Utah is becoming an increasingly larger problem. Because Salt Lake City and Provo are situated in valleys the pollution can become seated within the valleys and engulf the cities. This is especially noticeable during the winter when inversion takes over. This creates many gloomy days and can irritate and sicken many people. It is important to get on top of this problem early and prevent it from getting any worse. 

Francis Sargeant:  In Utah pollution has affected me greatly because I spend a majority of the time outside. I feel like something needs to be done about this pollution.

John Pearce: I feel like air pollution isn't as big of a problem as everyone says it is and we should be using are money more wisely for bigger problems such as people starving globally.

Love Canal Tragedy

My Post to Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/jessica.c.wall.1/posts/10200845559842801?comment_id=6176078&offset=0&total_comments=3&notif_t=share_comment

Michael Mclind: Whoa what the heck. Cool government...
Gilda Wall: Jessiquita, que asco. (That's gross)
Alan Wall: I agree with mom. That is pretty nasty.
Marie Rivera: Ew. Gross.
Ryan Hintze: I remember learning about this. Thought they learned the first time.
Christian Carlson: We don't care about toxic waste, we care about guns. 'Murica!
Marcus: This is why U.S.A just sucks sometimes...
Shelby Carr: I wouldn't be surprised if business had a lot to do with this...businesses like Dominos.
Franciso De la Torre: I should probably stay in Mexico.
Tyson Hintze: (Posted a picture of America ''derping")

Amy Sprouse--Love Canal, Hemp Bio-remediation, and Chinese Industrialization

I posted on Facebook:

Please read from the articles below (especially the 2nd one in TIME's list, about Bhopal, India!!!). Why should we care about things that happened over 30 years ago? How was the Gulf Oil Spill in 2011 handled?
(Please comment. thank-you).

-link to Love Canal article

-link to Time Magazine’s Top Ten Environmental Disasters

-link to article on the Gulf Oil Spill

Kindia du Plessis How can people still deny our lasting effect on the world around us

Adam Lewis These definitely highlight the importance of process safety.

Ben Amann Chernobyl is the worst nuclear disaster of all time, and they are making tremendous strides in the bioremediation of the blast site using hemp plants. Hopefully it will be used soon on U.S. Superfund sites.

Amy Sprouse that is extremely fascinating Ben, thanks for the comment. only downside is I think they'd have to increase security around those sites after instituting remediation via hemp plants. there'd be some snatchin'! 

Amy Sprouse granted tokers would have to be cool with inhaling even more chemicals that fry their brains.

Ben Amann Actually, its a carbon 0 process. Once fully grown they take the hemp plants and burn them as biofuel.. And its scientificaly proven that you cant use hemp as a drug

Amy Sprouse That sounds incredibly bioeffiicient. and yea... the THC level is too low to be considered a drug right? still in the same family  where did you learn about this Be

Amy Sprouse (about Chernobyl bio remediation)

Ben Amann I dont know about chernobyl specifically, but you can find tons of literature on hemp being used as in phytoremediation

Kelli:  I believe that nature is very, very powerful at healing itself. And nature knows how to take care of itself. Humans are causing some of the problems. We may not be able to restore it to its perfect state, but our efforts are increasingly helpful.

If the world is coming to an end in Global Warming, it’s not because of us… it’s the natural cycle of Earth. We may be contributing to it but we are not the cause.

Kevin:  The whole Gulf Oil Spill propaganda stunt really bothers me. People don’t give nature enough credit for cleaning itself up. When President Obama flew down there for a photoshoot and to say “We’ll fix this problem”, the Ocean had already cleaned itself up and there was no oil to be seen in the water. It washed it away. The Ocean knows what to do with oil.

Shu (of China!): (on the topic of the amount of pollution China contributes to the world): I think all countries do this when they are developing so rapidly. And then when they have developed, and have enough money, they can make repairs. It is like a cycle. America did the same thing when it was developing so quickly 50 (or 100) years ago.

Jenna: All of our effects on the environment because of the chemicals we are using stretch so deep. Not just figuratively, but literally—the soil down to the bedrock are being contaminated with these chemicals. It is bad…and people are kept from knowing about it. Bottom of Form

My Response:

Were you aware that environmental tragedies of this magnitude still exist today?

I was definitely aware because the world has not stopped industrializing. Environmental disasters will not cease until mankind ceases development.  It is an unfortunate but unavoidable byproduct of the industrial world we live in. Accidents happen, and thankfully we have been making tremendous strides in increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of mitigation efforts.

Do you believe that environmental crises affect you/your family today?

When there are problems that disrupt oil, they cause us to pay more for gasoline. But I think you really have to be in the area of the disaster for it to cause significant harm to family life.   

In your opinion are environmental hazards something we should be concerned about on a daily basis?

No, we shouldn’t stress ourselves out over it daily (especially because they’re mostly unpredictable accidents), but we should definitely stand up against things we can have influence on such as industrial waste and the chemicals the farmers use. Those are environmental disasters that start from tiny seeds and grow into towering crises.

Ryan Anderson

For this assignment, I posted an article about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and also the video about the Love Canal incident on my Facebook page, and heard a number of various responses.

1) I heard about what happened in the Gulf of Mexico, but I have never heard of the Love Canal
2) The Love Canal was diseased... (insert sexual joke here)
3) What happened to the company behind the Love Canal?
4) Those poor animals!
5) I hope those people got everything they could from that company
6) I've seen that video on a few people's feed, now.  Is this thing going viral?
7) The kids that lived there are going to have to live with those problems for the rest of their lives.  This disgusts me.
8) Wow, I had no idea these things happen.  It really makes me wonder how many of these have happened without us even hearing about it.
9) Would they really think that there wouldn't be any problems with a place that was bought for $1?!
10) This is why we have landfills.  So things like this don't happen.

My responses:

Environmental tragedies still exist today; what can we do today to mitigate these problems?

- I feel as if the media would play a major role in these tragedies.  If these events are hidden away, then there will be more corporations that allow these things to occur from lack of awareness.


Were you aware that environmental tragedies of this magnitude still exist today? 

-  Being from Las Vegas, I remember there being a huge issue surrounding Yucca Mountain.  The government wanted to put nuclear waste there, and the people were adamant about that not happening because they were afraid of a leak into our water supply or a number of other possibilities.  However, I was not aware that those kinds of things actually occurred.

Why should we care about something that happened over 30 years ago? 

- We should care about these kinds of events, no matter how long ago they happened, because if we don't learn from history, then we are doomed to repeat it.  Certain regulations need to be put in place to make sure that events like this do not happen again.  If they do, any one of us could be at risk.

Responses to the Love Canal Tragedy-Kim Eckman

In response to the Love Canal Tragedy, these were the responses to my facebook post.

 My response

Were you aware that environmental tragedies of this magnitude still exist today?

-I wasn’t aware that these kinds of tragedies happen. I guess I just assume that people dispose of waste properly .

Do you believe that environmental crises affect you/your family today?

-I believe that they could affect my family but up to this point, we haven’t been directly affected.

Why should we care about something that happened over 30 years ago?

-History is so vital and important. We can learn from the past to improve the future. If we ignore past events especially ones that were extremely harmful, there is a chance that they can reoccur.