http://reducefootprints.blogspot.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pryYG-PsT-U&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79MystPqaeQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mo9N0-NnE
' Last night, I watched the Panorama , BP in deep water. I watched it in horror.
In 1995, I was in the Sarawak Town of Miri. We were there staying in the RIHGA Royal Hotel Miri which has since changed it's name to Marriott. My brother Henry was getting married, the whole family had returned.
The hotel was by the beach. It was like a holiday in tropical paradise. The beach looked so inviting. We wanted to swim in the beach, but saw signs,"Do Not Swim". I couldn't believe my eyes, the water looked clean and the beach pristine. Nobody was at the beach, only my kids and their silly mum.
A hotel employee came and said,"Mam, the water is polluted, please do not swim there. Swim in the hotel pool like the rest of the guests."
Miri is an oil town. Miri is the birthplace of Sarawak's and Malaysia's petroleum industry, which remains the major industry of the city. The first oil well was drilled by Shell in 1910 (the Grand Old Lady), and is now a state monument and one of Miri's tourist attractions. Shell also built Malaysia's first oil refinery in Lutong, a suburb of Miri in 1914. Recently, vast oil reserves were discovered just offshore northeast of the city. Miri has grown phenomenally since oil was first discovered in the early 1900s
How much is the economic benefit at the expense of environment?
It makes me want to sing Look what they have done to my song, and substitute it with the word BEACH.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0-bbSSaNFE
8 comments:
Progress and consumerism have a lot to answer for as does man's greed. Could we all get by with a horse and cart? And candlelight and no heaters? The children at least look happy in the sand with their sunny smiles.
Cheers,
Melbourne Daily Photo
love the sandy beaches..must save it!
How awful Ann! Oilcompanies are one of the greatest polluters in the world. Thanks for your comment.
When you come in Singapore please take many photos! I like this city.
Pity the fish, birds and turtles
Hello,
I came on to let you know I submitted my information to the right person, to help out with comment functionality.
What you raise here on saving the world, saving the beaches, deserves more attention. later?
thank you.
-ginab
Go here:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/blogger/thread?tid=73704901e459202e&hl=en
And refer to DARKO (he or she is a blog problem solver and you can use the spreadsheet (another link from DARKO) to describe your troubles with comments.
Resolved my issue I think.
Now onto the beaches, most seriously. How do we do this to ourselves and thereby others?
-ginab
wenn
love the sandy beaches..must save it!
BlossomFlowerGirl :
Progress and consumerism have a lot to answer for as does man's greed. Could we all get by with a horse and cart? And candlelight and no heaters? The children at least look happy in the sand with their sunny smiles.
Cheers,
Melbourne Daily Photo
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