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 [...]
Shell: It’s No Oil Painting (Photo: Greenpeace / Sandison) Shell Wants To Sail With A Record That Is Totally Stale by Subhankar Banerjee I’m an artist. I love art. I create art. I get upset when someone tries to denigrate the very meaning of art. So I was outraged when I learned that [...]
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 [...]
What’s Really Pushing Up the Price of Gas? by MIKE WHITNEY Is the Fed’s “Easy Money” policy pushing up the price of gas? The editors of the Wall Street Journal seem to think so. Here’s how they summed it up in an article last week: “Oil is traded in dollars, and its price [...]
Engineers and visitors tour an exploratory well in Somalia‘s semi-autonomous Puntland region. Photograph: Reuters Britain is involved in a secret high-stakes dash for oil in Somalia, with the government offering humanitarian aid and security assistance in the hope of a stake in the beleaguered country’s future energy industry. Riven by two decades of conflict that have seen the [...]
No-one knows exactly how much oil remains in most OPEC countries, with reserves a closely guarded scecret [Erika Blumenfeld/Al Jazeera] Oil touches nearly every single aspect of the lives of those in the industrialised world. Most of our food, clothing, electronics, hygiene products and transportation simply would not exist without this resource. There is [...]
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 [...]
An oil tanker leaving the dock at Kharg island, Iran. Oil provides 80% of Iran’s foreign currency revenue. Photograph: Roger Wood/Corbis A meeting of European ambassadors in Brussels on Thursday is expected to decide on an EU oil embargo on Iran to be imposed later in the year, diplomats have said. Talks have been under way over the past [...]
. 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 [...]
The March Toward The Abyss By Fidel Castro January 08, 2012 “Cuba Debate” – - It is not a matter of being optimistic or pessimistic, knowing or not knowing elementary things, of being responsible or not for events. [...]
Iraq plans to increase its oil production capacity up to 12 million barrels per day by 2017 [Al Jazeera] Baghdad, Iraq - While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain. On November 27, 38 months after Royal Dutch Shell announced its [...]
Oil Nears 8-Month High as EU Nears Ban on Iran Trade EU Move Forces Mediterranean Nations to Seek Alternative Supplies by Jason Ditz, January 04, 2012 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Crude oil prices are approaching an 8-month high tonight following the announcement that the European Union has issued a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Photo Credit: Dulue Mbachu/IRIN LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. The New Wild West: Will Citizens and the Environment Suffer as an Oil Rush Engulfs West Africa? Offshore oil should be an economic boon for West Africa, but watchdog groups [...]
Any fossil fuel infrastructure built in the next five years will cause irreversible climate change, according to the IEA. Photograph: Rex Features World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will ‘lose for ever’ the chance to avoid dangerous climate change [...]
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 [...]
Fresh Analysis Needed on Gaddafi, Libya and the TNC By Iqbal Jassat – Pretoria Until Sunday – three days after the killing of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi – it appeared that South African media was lacking in coverage of this momentous event. While there has been saturated coverage largely focused on gruesome images of Gaddafi’s final [...]
Americans Should Worry About Obama, Not Uganda by Dr. Brian Phillips, October 19, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum President Obama has ordered about 100 U.S. troops into Uganda to “help” and “advise” in capturing Joseph Kony, the head of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The troops, Obama claimed, are not to engage Kony’s forces unless [...]
Clinton pledges increased aid for Libya Making an unannounced visit, US secretary of state praises those who “stood up against a dictator’s aggression”. Clinton, centre, said the US would ’return Libya’s frozen assets’ and provide more aid [AFP] The US secretary of state has pledged increased support to Libya and and praised Libyans for demonstrating “bravery [...]
Security guards patrolled beaches in Louisiana, while residents braced themselves the arrival of BP’s oil [EPA] A simple swim in the Gulf of Mexico has complicated Steven Aguinaga’s life in ways he could have never imagined. In July 2010, Aguinaga, now 33-years-old, had gone on a vacation with is wife and some friends to [...]
Barack Obama once promised to “end the tyranny of oil” but as president he has been cozy with the industry [EPA] For connoisseurs, Barack Obama’s fundraising emails for the 2012 election campaign seem just a tad forlorn – slightly limp reminders of the last time round. Four years ago at this time, the early [...]
New Draft of Oil Law Could Mean More Hostilities for Iraq Baghdad retains more power for itself at expense of Kurds, Shi’ites and Sunnis by Margaret Griffis, September 23, 2011 | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum The Iraqi cabinet has amended the draft of a much-debated hydrocarbons law, further complicating the delicate political atmosphere. The changes advanced [...]
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 [...]
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace Illustration by Mr. Fish Enlarge this image. By Chris Hedges Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendered the last shreds of his integrity. [...]
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. [...]
In Washington, at least 275 protesters have been arrested oppossing a pipeline which they say will damage ecosystems, increase oil dependency and worsen global warming [GALLO/GETTY] David Daniel had never been to an environmental protest before this week, but as hundreds converge in Washington for civil disobedience against a massive oil pipeline, the retired carpenter from Texas is spearheading [...]
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 [...]
On War, Obama Has Been Worse Than Bush by Anthony Gregory, August 26, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum Obama said he would divert resources from Iraq to Afghanistan. To his everlasting shame, he has not broken this promise. The real critique of the wars certainly goes beyond the numbers. It is good, [...]
Envoy: China to support Palestinian UN bid Published yesterday (updated) 24/08/2011 23:22 RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Chinese Middle East envoy Wu Sike announced his country’s full support on Wednesday for the Palestinian UN bid for recognition in September. Secretary-General of the Presidency At-Tayeb Abdul Rahim met with the Chinese envoy in the presidential headquarters in [...]
What does the rebel advance in Libya have to do with us? In obvious ways, a great deal: our sympathy, our common aspirations, our sense of what makes for a saner and safer world all involve us. It is good to see dictators fall, and people dancing about freedom. (Read Andrew Solomon on what comes [...]
International Oil Companies Eager to Restart Libyan Operations Oil corporations from various countries have business interests in Libya by John Glaser, August 22, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum International oil companies are preparing to resume exploration, drilling, and production in Libya after Monday’s near collapse of the Gadhafi regime. Most of [...]
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 [...]
The Gannet Alpha platform in the North Sea. Photograph: Royal Dutch Shell Ho/EPA The flow of oil from the worst spill in UK waters in the past decade, at one of Shell’s North Sea platforms, has been “greatly reduced” but not yet stopped completely, the government said on Monday. Conservationists warned that the leak could harm bird [...]
Officials: Egypt troops deploy for Sinai raids Published yesterday 22:06 Egyptian army tanks are deployed in front of the monument to the unknown soldier in Cairo in February 2011. Egyptian tanks were rolling into a town near Gaza’s border on Saturday for an anticipated operation against militants who attacked a gas pipeline to Israel [...]
Pakistani police officials declined to speculate on the motive for the abduction of Warren Weinstein in Lahore [AFP] An American aid expert has been kidnapped at gunpoint in the Pakistani city of Lahore after gunmen stormed his residence and overpowered security guards. The US embassy on Saturday identified the victim as Warren Weinstein, a consultant for [...]
Nigerian Oil Pollution May Need World’s Biggest Clean-up and Take 30 Years Gaagaa Gidom, a 60 year-old fisherman and father of eight, looks at the spilled crude oil (AFP/File, Pius Utomi Ekpei) LIKE THIS ARTICLE ? Join our mailing list: Sign up to stay up to date on the latest headlines via email. Activists [...]
Obama Vows to Continue Afghan War Panetta also backs continuing war, seeking to ‘honor troops’ by Jason Ditz, August 08, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum In separate comments related to the deaths of 30 US troops in a helicopter downing over the weekend, President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both [...]
A Wall Street sign in front of the New York stock exchange. Recent events have changed the US as an unassailable economic superpower. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters When India joined China in criticising America’s chaotic handling of its hefty debts this weekend, describing the challenges facing the White House as “grave”, it was the clearest indicator yet [...]
The video can be seen at http://english.aljazeera.net/video/asia-pacific/2011/08/20118693514112266.html Anti-nuclear campaigners in Japan are using the 66th anniversary of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima to push the government to abandon nuclear power. The United States dropped an atomic bomb on the city in August, 1945, near the end of the Second World War. By the end of the year, [...]
Vicitms of the 2010 BP oil spill feel they aren’t receiving adequate health coverage [GALLO/GETTY] When news of the disastrous BP oil well explosion reached the residents of Jean Lafitte, Louisiana last April, Mayor Tim Kerner did the only thing he could think of to stop the oil from destroying his community. He encouraged everyone [...]
Potential 1,500 mile pipeline could be ‘essentially game over’ for the climate [GALLO/GETTY] Potential 1,500 mile pipeline could be ‘essentially game over’ for the climate [GALLO/GETTY] It took some serious digging in the sock drawer, but eventually I found my ‘Environmentalists for Obama’ button left over from the ’08 campaign. I [...]
An oil spill near Oloibiri Town, Bayelsa, Nigeria. Photograph: Ed Kashi/Corbis Cleaning up a succession of oil spills in a region of the Niger delta that have occurred over five decades will cost $1bn and take up to 30 years, according to a major UN report into oil contamination in the region. The United Nations [...]
An oil wellhead in Ogoniland, Niger delta. Photograph: Amnesty International UK The air stinks, the water stinks, and even the fish and crabs caught in Bodo creek smell of pure “sweet bonny” light crude oil. It has found its way deep into the village wells, it lies thick in the mud flats and there are [...]
Progressives don’t need more reasons to be disappointed with President Barack Obama’s handling of the deficit talks, but here’s another failing that has not gotten much play: The administration has been so timid on defense cuts that some leading Republicans are now well to the president’s left on this issue. (Flickr/gregwest98) SHARE THIS STORY. [...]
