Photo via the New Republic It's a widely held notion that politicians have long been in the pocket of Big Oil. And there's good reason for that perception: oil companies' huge campaign donations, vast lobbying power, and close ties to politicians have ensured that their taxes remain low , that hidden subsidies are around to provide extra funding, and that they receive preferential treatment in US energy policy. But there could be a new, ... View original post here: The Next Big Oil: Big Smart Grid?
So there really isn't anything that deep to this image. It's just a (more or less) life-sized blue whale eye. And on the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site you can educate yourself/be mesmerized/ waste some time for a while staring at it while the entire life-sized animal scrolls across your browser window. Believe me, it's way cooler than you might think:... Read more from the original source: Ever See a Blue Whale Life-Sized on Your Computer? Now You Can
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A remote indiginious indian camp found abandoned after developers entered their region in Peru. Photo via Agencia Andina In the 1960s and 70s, there was an oil boom in Peru . Due to restrictions on where developers could explore, the hunt for fossil fuels in the cou... Read the full story on TreeHugger See the original post here: Oil and ...
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Photo via Syracuse I have a challenge for you: try to come up with a company that better exemplifies the archetype of the nefarious, greed-driven, monolithic corporation than Exxon. Besides Haliburton. You have until the end of this blog post to do so. But it's a tall order: Exxon is behind ... Read the full story on TreeHugger Continued ...
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Photo via CO2 Post We've heard this one before; Obama threatening to sever subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. He called for ending the subsidies during his SOTU , and was doing so even before that. Now, he's proposing that $36 billion worth of those subsidies for oil and $2.3 billion for coal (both get $70 billion a year ...
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photo: Robert Gale via flickr. Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it has a signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazilian biofuel company Cosan that would create a $12 billion joint venture for the production and distribution of sugarcane-based ethanol. Both companies will contribute Brazilian assets to the joint venture and Shell will pony up an additional $1.625 billion ...
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Photo via Cleveland Blog The US Supreme Court decision handed down earlier this week determined that corporations should be treated as individuals--and should face no restrictions on spending to support political candidates. In the wake of overturning a century-standing law, the way was paved for foreign companies to spend freely to influence US elections, too. And yes, that means ...
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Cleaning up an oil spill in the Kilyos area of Istanbul. Photo via Hürriyet . From my window, I can inevitably see -- at least when it's not snowing out -- a flotilla of cargo ships waiting their turn to pass through the Bosphorus Strait as they make their way from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea . This ...
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Photo via Surety International Old news: oil companies are bankrolling the efforts to stop clean energy reform from taking root in the Senate. They've spent millions on lobbying campaigns alone--this is old hat. Even fellow foes of clean energy reform can't deny big oil is trying its best to muck up the climate bill. Well I guess they could. ...
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You may have heard this song before, but it's one well worth replaying: the United States imports 4 million barrels of oil a day--adding up to 1.5 billion a year--at a cost of nearly $1 billion a day. That's $1 billion dollars a day that we're sending to nations with governments that are listed as "unstable or dangerous" by ...
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Fander Falconi, Former Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador. Photo: Reuters . Fander Falconí, Foreign Affairs Minister of Ecuador, has resigned due to differences with president Rafael Correa in the issue of the country's plan to protect the Yasuni reservation at the Amazon forest . The president of Ecuador has also set a deadline for the project. If expectations not ...
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photo: Wellington Grey via flickr. Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar is an interesting guy: Vocally supportive of renewable energy (yay!) but also a fan of more oil shale development (nay!). Well here's one more example of that. The New York Times reports that Salazar has said that under his watch public lands will no longer be a "candy store" ...
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Photo via International Rivers The International Herald Tribune has an interesting (if embarrassingly headlined--in the print edition, they went all-out for an Icarus reference) look at the boom and bust of the Spanish solar industry today . Basically, in ...
Image credit: Andrew Zuckerman When Andrew Zuckerman , a renowned commercial photographer, turned his lens on animals, the result was a series of striking images that resonate with emotion. Collected in his book Read more from the original source: Captivating ...
