published September 5, 2011 and has No Comments
Two weeks of sustained protest concluded outside the White House yesterday. Over that time, over 1,250 people were arrested in order to send a single, simple message to the Obama administration: Do not approve the Keystone XL pipeline. The pipeline, currently pending approval, would carry the exceptionally dirty tar sands oil 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada to American refineries along ...
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published May 4, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: Mike Baird via Flickr /CC BY I reported yesterday that there's a major push from the GOP to vastly expand offshore drilling and to loosen regulations to boot -- they have, evidently learned zilch from last year's catastrophic disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. But they're persisting -- they falsely claim that rising gas prices could be alleviated ...
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published May 3, 2011 and has No Comments
photo: escher_47 / Creative Commons There's been a lot written lately about more and more people in high places recognizing peak oil isn't just something cranky ex-petroleum geologists and environmentalists reading too much Jared Diamond go on about. In fact both those groups have probably been right all along about peak oil, and it increasingly looks like we are ...
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published April 19, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: US Army The notion that the Iraq war was really about oil is far beyond speculation -- it floats somewhere in that ambiguous realm between generally accepted and assumed-to-be-fact. So the breaking news that a newly exposed secret memo reveals that national governments actually negotiated with oil companies before invading Iraq should surprise a total of about ...
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published April 18, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: US House Committee on Natural Resources Here on the East Coast, it's evening time, and many of you out there are scrambling to e-file your taxes before the deadline hits in a few hours. And as you wonder if there's any way you can get that refund number to look a bit bigger on TurboTax, keep this in ...
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published April 8, 2011 and has No Comments
Many Gulf Coast residents' lives have been changed by the BP spill -- whether through lost jobs, health woes, marred property values, or otherwise. And while a cumbersome system has been put in place to pay out claims made by impacted residents, it by no means will right all the wrongs imparted upon the region over the course of the ...
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published April 1, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo credit: ^riza^ via Flickr / CC BY Oh politics. How inane thou art. Take this fun pack o' lies that keeps cropping up like clockwork every few years when gas prices rise: That if we'd just open up all of that sweet, sweet American coastline and heartland for drilling, prices at the pump would come tumbling down! Politicians ...
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published March 25, 2011 and has No Comments
Image: Liz via flickr Mayors from across the country have sent a letter to Hillary Clinton, whose office has been rather quiet on the issue , expressing their concern over the proposed Keystone XL
Originally posted here:
25 U.S. Mayors Speak Out Against Tar Sands Pipeline
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published March 24, 2011 and has No Comments
photo: Graeme / Creative Commons Given that there's an ongoing nuclear power plant crisis in Japan and another oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, you may have missed this one: An oil spill caused by a ship run around on Nightingale Island in the South Atlantic (part of Tristan da Cunha group of islands) which has resu... Read ...
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published March 17, 2011 and has No Comments
Photo: jetalone , Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0 In an apparent attempt to secure the title of 'world's most despised oil company', BP has announced that its contracts with the Gaddafi-controlled state oil company are "still valid", according to Reuters. I suppose causing the largest environmental disaster in US history, lobbying governments to release terrorists , and rushing to drill ...
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