Black ooze at old Cold War station frightens Labrador town
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Residents of the Inuit community of Hopedale are anxious about what pollution in their midst may mean. Residents of the Inuit community of Hopedale are anxious about what pollution in their midst may mean. (CBC)
Health officials have told residents of a small community on Labrador's coast to be wary of possible contamination from an abandoned military site in their midst.
Serious PCB contamination has already been identified at a Cold War-era radar station on a hill near Hopedale.
But residents are worried about pollution that is now seeping up around people's backyards.
"Drums full of tar [are] coming up, coming from under the ground," said Sabrina Pijogge, crouching over a patch of the black ooze and metal that has extruded on to the ground by the foundation of her home.
At a town hall meeting on Sunday night organized by the Newfoundland and Labrador government, residents learned more about a study on contamination near their community.
"If you're staying away from these areas and you do not collect berries in these areas, you minimize your exposure," research Astrid Michels, of the Royal Military College, told residents. She also advised people not to hunt in certain places.
The U.S. air force ran a radar station in Hopedale from 1953 to 1968, during the height of the Cold War. However, the U.S. did not clean up the site when it left.
In the 1980s, the Newfoundland and Labrador government took over the site and a dozen others, in exchange for $5 million from the federal government.
The cleanup has subsequently cost tens of millions of dollars.
"It's crazy," said Pijogge, looking at what is still creeping through the ground. "I don't know what to think of it. There's more and more tar coming from over here," she said.
The warning comes 30 years too late for some residents like Phillip Abel.
"Why didn't the government come in and do a health risk to the whole community?" Abel told Sunday night's meeting.
"You want the place up there to look good when some of the people down here may be dying of this PCB or whatever contaminant [is] in the ground," Abel said before the meeting.
This summer, the government will spend an additional $1.6 million to study the extent of the pollution. No commitments, though, have yet been made to study the health of residents.
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Monday, June 22, 2009
Monday 8th June, winner "Pommy"
THE FINAL SECRETS OF ROSWELL'S MEMORY METAL REVEALED
Nitinol
By Tony Bragalia
For The UFO Iconoclast(s)
6-7-09
This is the last installment in a three-part series on the Battelle-Roswell Connection; Future updates may appear as new information is developed.
Was the Roswell memory metal secretly "seeded" to industry and to others who could exploit its potential benefits? How was the technology transferred while keeping its origin disguised? Why were bizarre "mind-over-matter" tests performed by government psychics on the shape-recovery metal Nitinol? What is the hidden meaning of the morphing metal? Newly developed information provides the stunning answers to these questions.
Prior articles in this series showed that Wright Patterson Air Force Base contracted Battelle Memorial Institute -in the months immediately following the Roswell crash in 1947- to conduct studies on memory metal based on a Nickel and Titanium alloy. Similar material that could "remember" its original shape when crumpled or deformed was reported at the Roswell crash debris site. Wright Patterson -the base that contracted Battelle- was the very base to which the Roswell debris was flown after the crash.
Evidence for the Roswell-Battelle Connection was drawn from:
Footnotes that were located within military studies to a Battelle report on memory metal conducted by the Institute for Wright Patterson in the late 1940s
The fact that -although footnotes citing these reports have been found- the actual reports are "missing" despite repeated efforts
Supporting information provided by two USAF Generals (including one from Wright Patterson) on the composition of the debris and the existence of the analysis reports
A senior-level Battelle scientist's confession that he had analyzed the UFO crash debris when employed at the Institute
NitinolA historical "backtracking" of the technical literature on the development of shape-recovery metals- leading back to the doors of Battelle and Wright Patterson, to late 1940s exotic metal reports and to the Roswell Incident
A telling examination of the life of Battelle's Dr. Howard Cross as both metallurgist and UFO researcher- showing his likely involvement in the debris analysis
In this last installment, the memory metal's secret history is further exposed- and the hidden meaning of the metal is finally revealed:
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Nitinol
By Tony Bragalia
For The UFO Iconoclast(s)
6-7-09
This is the last installment in a three-part series on the Battelle-Roswell Connection; Future updates may appear as new information is developed.
Was the Roswell memory metal secretly "seeded" to industry and to others who could exploit its potential benefits? How was the technology transferred while keeping its origin disguised? Why were bizarre "mind-over-matter" tests performed by government psychics on the shape-recovery metal Nitinol? What is the hidden meaning of the morphing metal? Newly developed information provides the stunning answers to these questions.
Prior articles in this series showed that Wright Patterson Air Force Base contracted Battelle Memorial Institute -in the months immediately following the Roswell crash in 1947- to conduct studies on memory metal based on a Nickel and Titanium alloy. Similar material that could "remember" its original shape when crumpled or deformed was reported at the Roswell crash debris site. Wright Patterson -the base that contracted Battelle- was the very base to which the Roswell debris was flown after the crash.
Evidence for the Roswell-Battelle Connection was drawn from:
Footnotes that were located within military studies to a Battelle report on memory metal conducted by the Institute for Wright Patterson in the late 1940s
The fact that -although footnotes citing these reports have been found- the actual reports are "missing" despite repeated efforts
Supporting information provided by two USAF Generals (including one from Wright Patterson) on the composition of the debris and the existence of the analysis reports
A senior-level Battelle scientist's confession that he had analyzed the UFO crash debris when employed at the Institute
NitinolA historical "backtracking" of the technical literature on the development of shape-recovery metals- leading back to the doors of Battelle and Wright Patterson, to late 1940s exotic metal reports and to the Roswell Incident
A telling examination of the life of Battelle's Dr. Howard Cross as both metallurgist and UFO researcher- showing his likely involvement in the debris analysis
In this last installment, the memory metal's secret history is further exposed- and the hidden meaning of the metal is finally revealed:
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Monday 1st June, winner "Ben"
Oregon witness watched an unusual orb in the sky as it changed colors in a pulsing manner, and then observed a triangle-shaped UFO emerge from inside of it, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness database.
The May 29 event occured near an airport, and the witness wants to point out that the shape and behavior of both objects is out of the ordinary. The triangle UFO had three amber-colored lights at each of its points. White lights seem to be the norm for this type of craft, but we have seen the amber lights reported in other cases.
The triangle craft eventually moved away at a high rate of speed, and the pulsing orb either moved away, or shrunk in size - the witness is not sure - as it just seemed to get smaller and smaller with each pulse of light.
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The May 29 event occured near an airport, and the witness wants to point out that the shape and behavior of both objects is out of the ordinary. The triangle UFO had three amber-colored lights at each of its points. White lights seem to be the norm for this type of craft, but we have seen the amber lights reported in other cases.
The triangle craft eventually moved away at a high rate of speed, and the pulsing orb either moved away, or shrunk in size - the witness is not sure - as it just seemed to get smaller and smaller with each pulse of light.
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