Showing posts with label evacuation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evacuation. Show all posts

Saturday, 21 June 2014

Like rats from a sinking ship

Not exactly “breaking” news – but it wasn't in the headlines either. Highly significant

Exxon carries out major evacuation from Iraq: Oil official


18 Jun 2014 | 8:38 AM ET


ExxonMobil has carried out a "major evacuation,'' and BP had evacuated 20 percent of its staff, the head of Iraq's state-run South Oil Company said Wednesday.

Dhiya Jaffar also said ENI, Schlumberger, Weatherford and Baker Hughes had no plans to evacuate staff from Iraq following the lightning advance of Sunni militants through the country. The companies, which are based in southern Iraq where the government is still in firm control, were not immediately available for comment.
"This message is not satisfactory for us. We are not convinced the work should not be done remotely. They should be here on the ground,'' Jaffar told Reuters.
"I assure the companies that the current developments in the country have not affected and will not affect in anyway the operations in the south,'' he said, adding that the export level for June will be 2.7 million barrels per day.
CNBC could not immediately confirm the evacuations.


Of course it wouldn't be anything to do with this, would it?


Rami
 Oil refinery few hours ago..   


Wednesday, 2 April 2014

Japan lifts evacuation order

Japan lifts evacuation order near Fukushima for first time since nuclear disaster
Japan has lifted the evacuation order on part of the no-entry zone around the crippled Fukushima plant for the first time since the nuclear disaster struck three years ago. But many evacuees say they won't return, citing fears over radioactive fallouts.




1 April, 2014



The order, which is the first to be lifted for part of Miyakoji district in Tamura City, Fukushima Prefecture in eastern Japan, allows residents to return to their homes. Decontamination work was completed there last June, according to officials. The order affects 355 people in 116 households, according to late-March figures, NHK reported.

However, concerns remain about background radiation levels in the area of Miyakoji. Residents were told at a community meeting last month that radiation contamination levels had lowered sufficiently, enabling their return to the area. Radiation levels in Miyakoji ranged from 0.11 microsieverts to 0.48 microsieverts per hour, according to February readings. This is higher than the average 0.034 microsieverts per hour measured in central Tokyo on Monday.



都路町の幼稚園も以前より http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/dcrvx2100momdvd/66311201.html  線量が約半分に下がっています。小学校には新しい設備なども運び込まれ準備が進められていました。

Local broadcaster NHK said that more than half of the households do not plan to return.

Thirty-six-year-old evacuee Hideyuki Tsuboi said that he and his wife plan to remain in temporary housing in the city with their three young daughters, and move to Fukushima City next year. He added that from a parental perspective, he cannot choose to return unless living conditions in the district improve sufficiently.



"Many of our friends and neighbors won't come back," said Kimiko Koyama, 69, speaking on her return to the large farmhouse she had occupied for 50 years, Reuters reported.

"There are no jobs. It's inconvenient and young people are scared of radiation," she said. "My daughter won't bring our grandsons here because of the radiation."

For some, the homecoming is more difficult than for others. Many residents worked at the Fukushima plant before the disaster.



"It was the only job out there and we were grateful," said Koyama. "We worked hard to feed our three daughters. We worked and we built our life here."


Kimiko Koyama, 69, who evacuated from the Miyakoji area of Tamura three years ago, dusts off her house after she returned to her home with her husband Toshio, 76, in Tamura, Fukushima prefecture April 1, 2014. (Reuters / Issei Kato)

Kimiko Koyama, 69, who evacuated from the Miyakoji area of Tamura three years ago, dusts off her house after she returned to her home with her husband Toshio, 76, in Tamura, Fukushima prefecture April 1, 2014. (Reuters / Issei Kato)


Despite many residents' hesitance, others are eager to return to their houses.


Mitsuru Tsuboi told NHK that he was relieved to be able to return home. However, he is still concerned about effects from radiation. Tsuboi and his wife Mitsu, both 79, plan to live in their home in Miyakoji after repair work is completed in April.


The Miyakoji district lies 20 kilometers west of where the nuclear catastrophe occurred and is on the edge of the initial exclusion zone.


On March 11, 2011 an earthquake and tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi plant, which is situated just 220 kilometers away from the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Three reactors at the facility went into meltdown, causing the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.


The resulting radioactive fallout forced nearly 160,000 people to leave their homes. In April 2011, the government imposed a 20-kilometer no-entry zone around the crippled nuclear power plant in the interest of public health. Around 80,000 Fukushima residents remain in temporary accommodation, local Asahi newspaper reported on Tuesday. The cities, towns, and villages in the vicinity have been reduced to ghost towns.


Decontamination works have been ongoing in 11 municipalities near the plant since the catastrophe occurred.



Security personnel stand guard near a steel gate that marks the border between Tamura and Okuma town in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture April 1, 2014. (Reuters / Issei Kato)

Security personnel stand guard near a steel gate that marks the border between Tamura and Okuma town in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture April 1, 2014. (Reuters / Issei Kato)

The government, working under a deadline, has completed decontamination work in the towns of Okuma and Naraha and the village of Kawauchi, Environment Minister Nobuteru Ishihara told reporters on Tuesday.


Authorities hope to lift the evacuation order for a portion of the village of Kawauchi, home to 276 people, in late July, Asahi reported. It is also considering lifting evacuation orders in the municipalities of Katsurao, Nahara, Iitate, Minami-Soma, and Kawamata.


The deadline for decontaminating areas in the seven remaining municipalities has been postponed to three years from now at the latest – except for Futaba Town, which is situated very close to Fukushima Daiichi, with high radiation levels.


The safe level of radiation has been declared by the Japanese government at a maximum of 20 millisieverts of radiation per year. Officials have said they would like to get radiation exposure down to one millisievert a year.


Though Japan has invested around US$30 billion in the cleanup process, it is behind schedule. Ishihara said the government will continue monitoring whether the results of decontamination are maintained, adding that the government will also accelerate efforts to decontaminate remaining areas.



Friday, 28 February 2014

More on Victoria fire - Morwell to be evacuated


Morwell mine fire: Speculation Premier will announce partial evacuation of town
There is growing speculation that the Victorian Government will announce a partial evacuation of some residents from the smoke-affected town of Morwell.



28 February, 2014, 13.35 NZT



Premier Denis Napthine is refusing to confirm or deny the speculation, except to say that he will be making an announcement in Morwell at 1pm (AEDT) with health and fire officials.

Dr Napthine says the Government has done enough to provide a break for residents trapped indoors by the smoke.

"We are running respite centres, we will be looking to have broader respite options over the weekend when families and people who are normally week day workers have the opportunity to get out of Morwell," he said.

The town has been in the path of a choking stream of smoke coming from a fire at the Hazelwood coal mine which has been burning since February 9.

Residents are complaining of headaches and trouble breathing.

People with chronic heart and lung conditions, the elderly, pregnant women, smokers and children, are being advised to stay indoors.

A Latrobe City Councillor says the State Government should be doing more to help the residents.

Councillor Graeme Middlemiss says the Government should pay to evacuate the most vulnerable people.

"I just don't know why we are leaving people in this atmosphere who are at risk from it," he said.

As recently as yesterday the Government was calling on Victorians to give up their empty holiday houses to give those in the path of the smoke a break.

The main health concern surrounds exposure to small particulates found in the air and smoke.

The invisible particles, known as PM2.5, can penetrate the deepest part of the lungs and respiratory system.

A study published in the British Medical Journal last month found only a small increase in this particulate matter can lead to an increased risk of heart attacks and lung cancer.

The concentration of these particulates reached 280 micrograms per cubic metre in Morwell South on Thursday, more than 11 times Australia's daily threshold.

The study's lead researcher, Guilia Cesaroni from the Department of Epidemiology at Rome's regional health service, studied more than 100,000 people in five European cities over a decade.

"We found an association between increased levels of PM2.5 and mortality and also with incidence of lung cancer," she said.

Dr Cesaroni found an increase in annual exposure to PM2.5 of just 5 micrograms per cubic metre means a 13 per cent increased risk of heart attack.

She calls the Morwell reading of 280 micrograms per cubic metre "a huge level".

Dr Cesaroni says it would lead to more hospital admissions and, if the area is largely populated, "an excess in mortality" if the readings continue for a month or more.

"For sure there will be an increase in the annual average, but at the moment I would be more worried about the immediate effect," she said.

Hazelwood mine fire media conference, Morwell - 27/2/14



Sunday, 26 May 2013

Evacuations from California


This probably best fits into the category of “unsubstantiated rumour” - but I will post anyway

Suspected Plate Fracture In Cali/Oregon: Insiders Reportedly Evacuating West Coast Cities



24 May, 2013

After fifty earthquakes struck Northern California in the last 24 hours, and a massive quake in eastern Russia measuring 8.2 on the Richter scale, reports are emerging that some high profile individuals on the U.S. west coast have begun evacuating their families. Unidentified international dignitaries have likewise been reportedly flown out of the San Francisco area.


The reasoning is that there may be a suspected massive “plate fracture” occurring off of the Oregon/California coast.


Received by Steve Quayle:

Something HUGE is going down….
Just had Two 5.7 earthquakes just north of Sacramento near Lassen Volcanic National Park. Don’t normally post this kind of thing just giving you a heads up…
All I can say is someone was given the word that California is about to get a big one. Moving their family out right now. They are in San Jose. Not someone who would joke around unless they knew something…
I really don’t want to freak anyone out but this is legit info… I’m sorry, just knew when this guy said something that he was worried. He was given the word to move VIPs then told to get out of Cali. Like NOW!
Key dignitaries from SanFran consulates have been flown out.
Suspected plate fractures off Oregon, Cali coast. A double header. That’s all I know..

Tuesday, 14 May 2013

Libyan situation deteriorates


US moves military forces closer to Libya: Pentagon spokesman
Washington has dispatched more troops closer to Libya in the wake of the attack on a US consulate in the North African country so diplomatic personnel can be protected or evacuated in case of any potential threat, the Pentagon has announced.


13 May, 2013


"We are prepared to respond if necessary, if conditions deteriorate or if we were called upon," Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters in Washington on Monday.

"Obviously we have moved assets and personnel," he said, without providing any more details.

On September 11, 2012, clashes broke out at the US consulate in the Libyan city of Benghazi after a group of people held a demonstration to protest against a movie deemed offensive to Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).

US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three staff members of the US consulate were killed during clashes at the consulate building.

The incident occurred following a massive demonstration held earlier in the day in neighboring Egypt to condemn the anti-Islam movie.

Little added that the additional military forces were stationed at the NATO air base in Sigonella on the Italian island of Sicily.

He went on to say that some of the troops had come from a base in southern Spain, where 500 Marines, troop transport planes, and refueling aircraft were recently deployed.

On May 8, the United States decreased the staff at its embassy in Tripoli, citing the deteriorating security situation.

Britain adopted similar measures after a car bomb attack on the French Embassy in Tripoli injured two French citizens on April 23.

Meanwhile, a car bombing in a hospital parking lot in Benghazi killed at least 15 people, including children, and injured 30 others on Monday.

The blast occurred in a crowded area near al-Galaa Hospital.

Benghazi was the birthplace of the 2011 uprising that toppled long-time Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. It is largely governed by militias in the absence of unified Libyan security and military forces.

The former rebels refuse to lay down their arms, despite efforts by the central government to impose law and order.

Benghazi has been the scene of numerous attacks and assassinations over the past year as the power struggles between militiamen have intensified. 


Thursday, 2 May 2013

Russian navy ready to evacuate Russians


Russian Navy ships ready to evacuate Russians from Syria


1 May, 2013

Russian Navy ships in the Mediterranean are ready to evacuate Russian citizens from Syria, Captain Alexei Komarov, commander of a group of Black Sea Fleet landing ships, said upon arrival in Haifa abroad the large landing ship Azov on Wednesday, May 1.

Russian Navy ships are practicing combat training tasks in the area of Syria. There are ships of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets there, but they are not engaged in any concrete operations there at the moment. We are standing ready and can evacuate Russian citizens from Syria,” Komarov said.e Azov of the Black Sea Fleet has called in Haifa for three days on the occasion of VE Day traditionally celebrated on May 9.

Wednesday, 7 November 2012

Evacuations ahead of storm


Nor'easter: New York officials call for coastal evacuations as storm nears
New storm expected to bring fresh flooding and snow to region that is still recovering from superstorm Sandy


6 November, 2012


New York officials are encouraging a partial evacuation of low-lying coastal regions on Tuesday, ahead of a nor'easter that is expected to bring fresh flooding and snow to a region that is still recovering from superstorm Sandy.


"The National Weather Service has put our city on a high-wind watch and coastal flood watch," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, in an update on recovery efforts in New York.


Cold weather continues to pose a risk to thousands of residents who are still without power after last week's storm. Volunteers and officials will go door to door in an attempt to help elderly and vulnerable residents evacuate properties left uninhabitable by Sandy.


As many as 40,000 people could need resettlement, according to city officials. Bloomberg has said that adequate shelters are available and that police patrol cars will tour areas still cut off from power, using loudhailers to encourage residents to seek refuge.


The operation has been given added urgency by the approach of a new storm that is due to hit New York and neighbouring New Jersey on Wednesday. The nor'easter could dump wet snow on trees, raising the risk of downed power lines.


As of Tuesday, some 91,000 customers in New York City remained without electricity. With much of the blackout affecting coastal areas, it is feared that hypothermia could lead to more deaths; more than 100 deaths have been attributed to Sandy in the US.


At a press briefing on Tuesday, Bloomberg said that in the coming days the temperature was likely to fall to the mid-30s fahrenheit, but would feel more like the upper 20s due to wind chill factor. In addition, the mayor said, tidal surges of up to four-and-a-half feet could bring flooding to coastal areas.


Bloomberg said that in officials would urge people to leave a "handful of low lying areas", but added that they were not ordering the mandatory evacuation of any zones.


In a separate briefing Tuesday, state governor Andrew Cuomo urged caution over the incoming storm.


"We live by the adage 'prepare for the worst, hope for the best'," he said. The governor also said that he believed periods of extreme weather were likely to become common in the coming years. "I have been governor less than two years and we have gone through two terrible storms already," he said. "I think that is a symptom, I think these extreme weather patterns will continue."


Cuomo also maintained pressure on utilities companies over their perceived slow response to fixing broken power lines.


He acknowledged that the number of homes in the state without electricity was "way down" on recent days, but said that the current situation was "still not OK".


"I share New Yorkers frustration, I understand, we are not happy with the preparations or rate of recovery from the utilities companies," he said. "I promise the people of this state that utilities companies will be held accountable."

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Plan to evacuate Japan?


On the surface this article does seem to be rather unlikely – but the publication that published it appears to be bone fide and many aspects of this article have already been reported

The one part of this article about the Russians being told about Japanese evacuation plans is unconfirmed and unsourced; the other source quoted is Alex Jones' Prison Planet, that would not be a primary source of information – however this information is available elsewhere (eg. the video below).

So, make up your own mind!

Russia stunned by Japanese plan to evaluate 20 million revealed


15 April, 2012

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life threatening radiation poisoning and could very well likely be faced with forced evacuations away from their countries eastern most located cities… including the world’s largest one, Tokyo.

The Kuril Islands are located in Russia’s Sakhalin Oblast region and stretch approximately 1,300 km (810 miles) northeast from Hokkaidō, Japan, to Kamchatka, Russia, separating the Sea of Okhotsk from the North Pacific Ocean. There are 56 islands and many more minor rocks. It consists of Greater Kuril Ridge and Lesser Kuril Ridge, all of which were captured by Soviet Forces in the closing days of World War II from the Japanese.

The “extreme danger” facing tens of millions of the Japanese peoples is the result of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster that was a series of equipment failures, nuclear meltdowns, and releases of radioactive materials at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, following the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.

According to this report, Japanese diplomats have signaled to their Russian counterparts that the returning of the Kuril Islands to Japan is “critical” as they have no other place to resettle so many people that would, in essence, become the largest migration of human beings since the 1930’s when Soviet leader Stalin forced tens of millions to resettle Russia’s far eastern regions.
Important to note, this report continues, are that Japanese diplomats told their Russian counterparts that they were, also, “seriously considering” an offer by China to relocate tens of millions of their citizens to the Chinese mainland to inhabit what are called the “ghost cities,” built for reasons still unknown and described, in part, by London’s Daily Mail News Service in their 18 December 2010 article titled: “The Ghost Towns Of China: Amazing Satellite Images Show Cities Meant To Be Home To Millions Lying Deserted” that says:

These amazing satellite images show sprawling cities built in remote parts of China that have been left completely abandoned, sometimes years after their construction. Elaborate public buildings and open spaces are completely unused, with the exception of a few government vehicles near communist authority offices. Some estimates put the number of empty homes at as many as 64 million, with up to 20 new cities being built every year in the country’s vast swathes of free land.”

Foreign Ministry experts in this report note that should Japan accept China’s offer, the combined power of these two Asian peoples would make them the largest super-power in human history with an economy larger than that of the United States and European Union combined and able to field a combined military force of over 200 million.

To how dire the situation is in Japan was recently articulated by Japanese diplomat Akio Matsumura who warned that the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear plant may ultimately turn into an event capable of extinguishing all life on Earth.

According to the Prison Planet News Service:

Matsumura posted [this] startling entry on his blog following a statement made by Japan’s former ambassador to Switzerland, Mitsuhei Murata, on the situation at Fukushima.

Speaking at a public hearing of the Budgetary Committee of the House of Councilors on 22 March 2012, Murata warned that “if the crippled building of reactor unit 4 – with 1,535 fuel rods in the spent fuel pool 100 feet (30 meters) above the ground – collapses, not only will it cause a shutdown of all six reactors but will also affect the common spent fuel pool containing 6,375 fuel rods, located some 50 meters from reactor 4,” writes Matsumura.

In both cases the radioactive rods are not protected by a containment vessel; dangerously, they are open to the air. This would certainly cause a global catastrophe like we have never before experienced. He stressed that the responsibility of Japan to the rest of the world is immeasurable. Such a catastrophe would affect us all for centuries. Ambassador Murata informed us that the total numbers of the spent fuel rods at the Fukushima Daiichi site excluding the rods in the pressure vessel is 11,421.”

Disturbingly, the desperate situation facing Japan is, also, facing the United States as Russian military observers overflying the US this week as part of the Open Skies Treaty are reporting “unprecedented” amounts of radiation in the Western regions of that country, a finding that was further confirmed by scientists with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute who have confirmed that a wave of highly radioactive waste is headed directly for the US west coast.
Important to note is that this new wave of Fukushima radiation headed towards the US is in addition to earlier radiation events that American scientists are now blaming for radioactive particles from Japan being detected in California kelp.

Though the news of this ongoing global catastrophe is still being heavily censored in the US, the same cannot be said about Japan, and as recently reported by the leading Japanese newspaper The Mainichi Daily News that reports:

One of the biggest issues that we face is the possibility that the spent nuclear fuel pool of the No. 4 reactor at the stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant will collapse. This is something that experts from both within and outside Japan have pointed out since the massive quake struck. TEPCO, meanwhile, says that the situation is under control. However, not only independent experts, but also sources within the government say that it’s a grave concern.

The storage pool in the No. 4 reactor building has a total of 1,535 fuel rods, or 460 tons of nuclear fuel, in it. The 7-story building itself has suffered great damage, with the storage pool barely intact on the building’s third and fourth floors. The roof has been blown away. If the storage pool breaks and runs dry, the nuclear fuel inside will overheat and explode, causing a massive amount of radioactive substances to spread over a wide area. Both the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and French nuclear energy company Areva have warned about this risk.

A report released in February by the Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident stated that the storage pool of the plant’s No. 4 reactor has clearly been shown to be “the weakest link” in the parallel, chain-reaction crises of the nuclear disaster. The worse-case scenario drawn up by the government includes not only the collapse of the No. 4 reactor pool, but the disintegration of spent fuel rods from all the plant’s other reactors. If this were to happen, residents in the Tokyo metropolitan area would be forced to evacuate.”

Even though this crisis in Japan has been described as “a nuclear war without a war” and the US Military is being reported is now stocking up on massive amounts of anti-radiation pills in preparation for nuclear fallout, there remains no evidence at all the ordinary peoples are being warned about this danger in any way whatsoever.

NOTE: The coverage by Prison Planet is confirmed by the following video - 

Fukushima Reactor 4: Life On Planet Earth in the Balance



While we are at it this video is making the rounds of the internet. Make of it what you will.

Japan Is Doomed So Is USA Fukushima Radiation Spreading EVERYWHERE