http://clipmarks.com/clipper/amgumen/clipcast/Ecology/http://rss.clipmarks.com/clipper/amgumen/clipcast/Ecology/15Clip, tag and save information that's important to you. Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D3A236B4-E842-4BBA-BA5B-2D5820CFB99F/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/amgumen/">amgumen</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> If our incandescent bulbs are banned we won't have a choice. What really is behind this push to create more mercury hazards after so many years of trying to eliminate the mercury hazards? <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.pacificspirit.org/news/archives/2007_06_01_index.html" title="http://www.pacificspirit.org/news/archives/2007_06_01_index.html">www.pacificspirit.org</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/amgumen/512/06FDF1F0-D584-4971-A3D6-31A754A72768.gif" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/amgumen/512/CF4AD430-A9DC-4056-9B10-B5FE1DE536C6.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">woman in Ellsworth, Maine that dropped a Compact Florescent Light bulb (CFL)</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">she call poison control who referred her to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection which directed her to call an environmental clean up crew that gave her a $2,000.00+ estimate to clean up the mercury mess.</div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>So how much mercury does one of these bulbs contain? So much that the broken CFL left 6 times the safe level of mercury in the Bridges' bedroom.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><DIV>Each CFL contains 5 milligrams of mercury, at the Maine "safety" standard of 300 nanograms per cubic meter, it would take 16,667 cubic meters of soil to "safely" contain all the mercury in a single CFL.</DIV></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;">Given the fact that we already know that mercury is dangerous and highly toxic, that it can cause brain damage and leaning disabilities, what is creating this Herculean push to install literally 10's of billions of these bulbs across the globe?</div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;">Tags: <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/optional.++separate+by+commas./" rel="tag">optional. separate by commas.</a>, <a href="http://clipmarks.com/tags/envionment/" rel="tag">envionment</a></div>http://www.pacificspirit.org/news/archives/2007_06_01_index.htmlFri, 11 Jan 2008 14:34:40 GMT