[net-gold] COUNTRIES: HAITI : DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES: Did Mining and Oil Drilling Trigger the Haiti Earthquake?
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:53:04 -0500 (EST)
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COUNTRIES: HAITI :
DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES:
Did Mining and Oil Drilling Trigger the Haiti Earthquake?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:09:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Sue Fraser <xcschild@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [Net-Gold] Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake?
Did mining and oil drilling trigger the Haiti earthquake?
Did Western greed through mining and oil drilling behind US/UN guns these
last six-years post Bush regime change in Haiti trigger the Haiti
earthquake?
"The idea that human activity can cause seismic activity is widely
accepted in the scientific community ...the connection between oil
production and earthquakes dates back to at least the 1920s, when
geologists in South Texas noted faulting near the Goose Creek oil
field...A 1967 human-triggered earthquake in western India linked to the
Koyna Dam registered a 7.0 earthquake."
Since the earthquake, I've had occasion to ponder, like many others, about
what may have caused this heretofore-unknown natural disaster in Haiti?
Was it a natural occurrence or man-made? Haiti has not had an earthquake
in 270 years. Why now? The nation of Haiti is only 206 years old, so
Haitians have no experience with earthquakes whatsoever. Did not know that
for an earthquake you run away from the house. So, when the trembling
started they did the worst possible thing - ran into their houses as they
are used to, for protection, with hurricanes. The houses all collapsed on
them.
The devastation is heartwrenching. 200,000 dead in the capital alone,
devastation in the South also, in Leogane, Les Cayes, Jacmel. In Port Au
Prince everything collapse, 400,000 to be relocated, millions homeless,
untold numbers with amputated limbs, hundreds of thousands right now dying
without access to water, food, shelter and medical treatment.
Since the 2004 Bush regime change, Ezili's HLLN has been concerned about
the digging up of Haiti without any regards to environmental degradation.
In an April 29, 2009 interview with Chris Scott of CKUT (90.3 FM) in
Montreal, entitled Haiti's Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in
Haiti, I expressed concerned that under the UN occupation which made the
Haitian goverment a puppet government, Haitian lives and welfare were not
priorities just corporate exploitation of Haiti's resources and cheap
labor. Haiti's emergency civil preparedness agency was destroyed during
the Bush regime change and never rebuilt. (See, Earthquake in Haiti: Under
Aristide, Haitians were prepared for disaster.) We've had severe
hurricanes in 2004, 2005 and then the four back-to-back hurricanes of
2008. The people's living conditions has not improved in the 6-years the
U.S., France and Canada have controlled Haiti through the U.N. proxy
occupation. In fact, with clorox hunger, food riots, no monie to send
children to school, high food and fuel prices, no development, things, had
gotten much worse since the coup against President Aristide. The people
were simply slowly dying as UN Special Envoy Bill Clinton waxed on about
the "good business climate" in Haiti prior to the earthquake. They died
and there was no rebuilding of the institutions the Bush coup d'etat had
helped destroy. But there were 9,000 UN troops in Haiti doing what?
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/
Did-mining-and-oil-drillin-by-Ezili-Danto-100123-329.html>
or
<http://tinyurl.com/yatc29v>
The entire article can be read at the above URL.
Sincerely,
Sue Fraser
xcschild@xxxxxxxxx
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