There's gold in....ah nuts...

[Doodler]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16988100/

Ouch. I'm not the biggest green geek to ever walk, but even I know trouble when I see it.

[Argos]

If you´re looking for environmental troubles, turn your eyes to China.

That´s just a drop in the ocean. The Amazon has an area of 4,500,000 km2. Worries are greatly exaggerated [as usual, when it comes to uninformed foreign media coverage on Amazonian affairs].

Oh, and we need that gold.

[BigDon]

Boy did I misread the title at first!

This isn't news. This has been going on hard since the mid-ninties. Then I read it in the fish trades that gold had been found in the Cardinal Tetras main spawning grounds.

[Argos]

This isn't news. This has been going on hard since the mid-ninties.

Seventies, actually.

[BigDon]

Yeah, when I first read the title I was thinking, "Oh, some spammer" then I saw it was posted by Doodler and I thought "What's Doodler doing? Making some sort of bad joke that will get him banned or something?" It wasn't until the third reading of the title that I saw the fourth word was "Ah" and not "my".

[sarongsong]

If you´re looking for environmental troubles, turn your eyes to China. ...

Or Nevada:
The Newmont open-pit gold mine

[Gillianren]

Yeah, when I first read the title I was thinking, "Oh, some spammer" then I saw it was posted by Doodler and I thought "What's Doodler doing? Making some sort of bad joke that will get him banned or something?" It wasn't until the third reading of the title that I saw the fourth word was "Ah" and not "my".

We can't talk about pecans?

[BigDon]

Good point Gillian, I'm sure a lot of folks got rich growing pecans and here in California, almonds.

[Kaptain K]

There are no pecans in pecan tea sauce!

[Argos]

The old 'Serra Pelada' [Bare Ridge] mine in the Amazon yielded scenes of biblical proportions. It´s closed now.

[MrClean]

And I was going to cash in, spoiled again.

side note:
Does anyone else hate it when their nuts go bad. Nothing like a rotten walnut.

[Doodler]

Yeah, when I first read the title I was thinking, "Oh, some spammer" then I saw it was posted by Doodler and I thought "What's Doodler doing? Making some sort of bad joke that will get him banned or something?" It wasn't until the third reading of the title that I saw the fourth word was "Ah" and not "my".

Heh, sorry about the false alarm, but at least it grabbed attention.