Michael Klare, Why High Gas Prices Are Here to Stay Posted by Michael Klare at 8:43am, March 13, 2012. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: TD has an offer today that shouldn’t be missed. The Race for What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s Last Resources, the new book of one of this site’s [...]
A retired career physicist with NASA, Bonny Schumaker, now the owner and pilot of On Wings of Care, has logged more than 500 hours surveying the area of the seep in question [Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera] New Orleans, LA - As BP settles out of court for the first phase of thousands of lawsuits that could [...]
BP signed an outline deal over the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but has 45 days to complete the process. Link to this videoBP warned on Sunday that it could not guarantee that the $7.8bn (£5bn) out of court settlement with plaintiffs covering the Gulf of Mexico oil spill would be finally signed because there were some loose ends still to [...]
State Of The Union: President Obama Blames Congress for Inaction on Climate Change, While Calling for Increase in Fossil Fuel Production Here’s the problem with Obama’s “all-of-the-above” energy strategy. January 25, 2012 | link to article http://www.alternet.org/story/153889/state_of_the_union%3A_president_obama_blames_congress_for_inaction_on_climate_change%2C_while_calling_for_increase_in_fossil_fuel_production?page=entire President Barack Obama delivered a State of the Union address that aggressively defended his successful work to save [...]
. A man covers his hands in crude oil during a Nigerian protest against Shell after last month’s spill. (Photograph: George Esiri/EPA) Nigeria’s Oil Disasters Met by Silence The global media have had little to say on Nigeria’s latest oil spill and the hundreds of others that have destroyed so many lives [...]
An oil spill on the shores of the Niger Delta swamps. Shell has said the recent oil spill is likely to be worst in a decade. Photograph: Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images Nigerian coastal and fishing communities were on Thursday put on alert after Shell admitted to an oil spill that is likely to be the worst in [...]
The Deepwater Horizon blast, which killed 11 workers, led to the biggest oil spill in US history, which affected wildlife such as pelicans. Photograph: Sean Gardner/Reuters BP has accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence relating to last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In a court filing, BP has alleged that the US oil services firm of intentionally [...]
A U.S. appeals court has ruled oil giant Chevron cannot escape an $18 billion fine for massive pollution of the Amazon rain forest. Amazonian residents won the damages in an Ecuadorian court earlier this year, and Chevron says it will appeal the decision. It is the latest development [...]
. The oil spill at an offshore Chevron rig about 370km from of Brazil‘s coastline could lead to $145m in fines [AFP] The Brazilian government has suspended Chevron’s drilling rights in the country until it clarifies the causes of an offshore oil spill ,those responsible for the disaster are identified and safety conditions are restored [...]
Imran Khan waves to supporters during a rally in Lahore which was attened by over 100,000 people. Photograph: K.M. Chaudary/AP Imran Khan predicts ‘a revolution’ in Pakistani politics Former national cricket captain vows to fight corruption and negotiate with the Taliban in address to 100,000 at Lahore rally reddit this Declan Walsh in Islamabad guardian.co.uk, Sunday [...]
1) Coastal estuaries like this one in Louisiana are crucial nurseries for the myriad species of marine and wildlife that would normally flourish along the Gulf Coast states. Prior to their contamination by BP’s toxic oil and dispersants, these estuaries yielded what would become 97 per cent of the commercial catch of Gulf [...]
How America’s Decline Is Linked to Oil LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: America’s rise to supremacy was fueled by control over the world’s oil supply. Now, the decline of the U.S. coincides with the decline of oil as a major energy source. September 15, 2011 | To stay on top of important [...]
You can watch this presentation at http://www.ecoshock.info/2011/09/fighting-fossil-goo-activism.html We begin with iconic anti-globalist author Naomi Klein, interviewed by Daphne Wysham from Earthbeat Radio. Naomi was outside the White House, September 2nd, on the Indigenous Peoples day of protest against the Keystone XL Pipeline proposed to carry dirty Tar Sands oil to refineries in Texas. Klein outlines the [...]
According to oil trackers, globs of oil have been spotted near the Macondo Well [Bonny Schumaker/On Wings of Care] Fifteen months after BP’s crippled Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico caused the worst environmental disaster in US history, oil and oil sheen covering several square miles of water are surfacing not far from BP’s well. [...]
The pipeline will carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta (above) to the Texas coast. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/AP The Obama administration gave an important approval yesterday to a controversial pipeline that will pump oil from the tar sands of Alberta to the Texas coast. In a blow to campaigners, who have spent the last week at [...]
Obama’s Biofuels Insanity By ROBERT BRYCE Barack Obama’s biofuels insanity continues. And it continues without any regard for history, basic arithmetic, or the recent spike in food prices. Last month, the Farm Foundation a centrist non-profit group based in Illinois, released a study which named biofuels as one of the key factors that is driving [...]
The oil sheen from a leak at Shell’s Gannett Alpha platform, 112 miles east of Aberdeen. Photograph: Marine Scotland The oil sheen on the surface of the North Sea that followed the UK’s worst oil spill for a decade has finally disappeared, according to Shell, after the company managed to plug its leaking pipeline on Friday. Government officials [...]
Shell’s second oil leak in North Sea pipeline caused by relief valve Campaigners and politicians have criticised the oil company for being slow to release information on the spill Shell Gannett Alpha platform oil spill in the North Sea. Photograph: Marine Scotland Fiona Harvey and Severin Carrell guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 16 August 2011 15.03 BST Article history [...]
