Two links on oil and ecology

[Rosamma Thomas]

https://www.science.org/content/article/oil-and-gas-operations-could-trigger-large-earthquakes (Venezuela -- odd that the second quake was the higher magnitude one) 

For instance, the new study found that the pipeline route crosses more than 10,000 subsistence farms, with 84 percent of the route intersecting antelope habitat, 67 percent monkey habitat, 22 percent leopard habitat, and 17 percent giraffe habitat.  https://e360.yale.edu/features/eacop-completion

The company says its technology, which will include robotics devices travelling through the pipeline to inspect its condition, minimizes the risk of leaks. But environmentalists say that is no guarantee against earthquakes.

Two years ago, Stephen Kwikiriza, a vocal opponent of the project, was abducted in Kampala by military officers in plainclothes, beaten up, knocked unconscious, and dumped five days later on a roadside 150 miles away.