File under: inevitable spills, seepage with deep-water?
RIGZONE: https://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/122839/Chevron_Offers_to_Pay_149_Million_to_Settle_Brazil_Oil_Spill_Lawsuits
Monday, December 17, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Matt Damon's Promised Land and Industry Counter-Attack (from DESMOGBLOG.COM)
Oil and Gas Industry Set to Attack Matt Damon's "Promised Land" (via Desmogblog)
Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damon’s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick about it. The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go forward with shale gas drilling after a team of landmen arrives in the area. Damon plays one of these…
Friday, December 7, 2012
McKibben and Hanley: Public Transit is One Easy Step
Think About the Transportation Sector
Superstorm Sandy has made it clear that no matter how hard some politicians try to ignore climate change, climate change will not ignore them -- or any of us. More carbon means higher seas, the kind that inundate subways. The U.S can also thank carbon emissions for contributing to the hottest summers on record, massive wildfires, and crippling droughts. The good news is, we can take some pretty serious steps to cut carbon pretty easily -- and make lives better at the same time.
Think about the transportation sector, which accounts for 27 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, mostly from cars and trucks. Tailpipe pollution is also a major source of asthma and other illnesses -- the transport sector contributes 80 percent of the harmful air pollutants that cause 1.3 million premature deaths each year. Road fatalities claim 33,000 lives per year on average, making traffic accidents the number one killer of people under 34 in the U.S. And traffic congestion is known to elevate stress levels and reduce quality of life for millions. READ MORE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/think-about-the-transport_b_2247048.html
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
To Stop Climate Change, Students Aim at College Portfolios
To Stop Climate Change, Students Aim at College Portfolios
Students are demanding that university endowment funds rid themselves of coal, oil and gas stocks in hopes of bringing climate change onto the national political agenda...... READ MORE
Monday, December 3, 2012
Media Matters: The Anti-Science Capitalists at Work
Meet The Climate Denial Machine
Blog ››› ››› JILL FITZSIMMONS
Despite the overwhelming consensus among climate experts
that human activity is contributing to rising global
temperatures, 66 percent of Americans incorrectly
believe there is "a lot of disagreement among scientists
about whether or not global warming is happening." The
conservative media has fueled this confusion by
distorting scientific research, hyping faux-scandals,
and giving voice to groups funded by industries that
have a financial interest in blocking action on climate
change. Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets have shied
away from the "controversy" over climate change and have
failed to press U.S. policymakers on how they will
address this global threat. When climate change is
discussed, mainstream outlets sometimes strive for a
false balance that elevates marginal voices and enables
them to sow doubt about the science even in the face of
mounting evidence.
Here, Media Matters looks at how conservative media
outlets give industry-funded "experts" a platform,
creating a polarized misunderstanding of climate science.... READ MORE
that human activity is contributing to rising global
temperatures, 66 percent of Americans incorrectly
believe there is "a lot of disagreement among scientists
about whether or not global warming is happening." The
conservative media has fueled this confusion by
distorting scientific research, hyping faux-scandals,
and giving voice to groups funded by industries that
have a financial interest in blocking action on climate
change. Meanwhile, mainstream media outlets have shied
away from the "controversy" over climate change and have
failed to press U.S. policymakers on how they will
address this global threat. When climate change is
discussed, mainstream outlets sometimes strive for a
false balance that elevates marginal voices and enables
them to sow doubt about the science even in the face of
mounting evidence.
Here, Media Matters looks at how conservative media
outlets give industry-funded "experts" a platform,
creating a polarized misunderstanding of climate science.... READ MORE
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
More on Criminality and Coal: Charges should go all the way to the top
Big news: Longtime Massey official helping prosecutors in Upper Big Branch investigation
"You can read the charging document online here, and there’s more coverage from NPR News, West Virginia MetroNews (including an appearance by Goodwin on the Talkline program), the Wall Street Journal, and The Associated Press." By Ken Ward at Coal Tattoo/Charleston Gazette
READ MORE
"You can read the charging document online here, and there’s more coverage from NPR News, West Virginia MetroNews (including an appearance by Goodwin on the Talkline program), the Wall Street Journal, and The Associated Press." By Ken Ward at Coal Tattoo/Charleston Gazette
READ MORE
Patriot Coal bankruptcy moved to St. Louis
Patriot Coal bankruptcy moved to St. Louis
By Ken Ward, Charleston Gazette (WV)
Quoting United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts: "St. Louis is where Patriot Coal is headquartered. More important, it’s the headquarters for Peabody Energy and Arch Coal. These two companies spun off their operations to Patriot in an attempt to run away from pension and health care obligations to thousands of miners and their survivors."
By Ken Ward, Charleston Gazette (WV)
Quoting United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts: "St. Louis is where Patriot Coal is headquartered. More important, it’s the headquarters for Peabody Energy and Arch Coal. These two companies spun off their operations to Patriot in an attempt to run away from pension and health care obligations to thousands of miners and their survivors."
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Monday, October 29, 2012
Monday, October 22, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
On KEYSTONE XL: The struggle continues
Chris Hedges:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/join_the_blockade_of_the_keystone_pipeline_20121015/?ln
The next great battle of the Occupy movement may not take place in city parks and plazas, where the security and surveillance state is blocking protesters from setting up urban encampments. Instead it could arise in the nation’s heartland, where some ranchers, farmers and enraged citizens, often after seeing their land seized by eminent domain and their water supplies placed under mortal threat, have united with Occupiers and activists to oppose the building of the Keystone XL tar sand pipeline. They have formed an unusual coalition called Tar Sands Blockade (TSB). Centers of resistance being set up in Texas and Oklahoma and on tribal lands along the proposed route of this six-state, 1,700-mile proposed pipeline are fast becoming flashpoints in the war of attrition we have begun against the corporate state. Join them. READ MORE>>>
Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/join_the_blockade_of_the_keystone_pipeline_20121015/?ln
The next great battle of the Occupy movement may not take place in city parks and plazas, where the security and surveillance state is blocking protesters from setting up urban encampments. Instead it could arise in the nation’s heartland, where some ranchers, farmers and enraged citizens, often after seeing their land seized by eminent domain and their water supplies placed under mortal threat, have united with Occupiers and activists to oppose the building of the Keystone XL tar sand pipeline. They have formed an unusual coalition called Tar Sands Blockade (TSB). Centers of resistance being set up in Texas and Oklahoma and on tribal lands along the proposed route of this six-state, 1,700-mile proposed pipeline are fast becoming flashpoints in the war of attrition we have begun against the corporate state. Join them. READ MORE>>>
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Friday, August 3, 2012
Monday, July 16, 2012
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Friday, May 4, 2012
FRACKING: BAD DECISION BY US GOVT
Makes no sense, but reconfirms an industry strategy to manipulate legal norms such that extraction is not ultimately threatened; and, as in this case, that potential resistance is frustrated by the de facto "legality" secured by drilling prior to disclosure. Turns transparency on its head.
Companies drilling for oil and gas on public lands must now identify the chemicals used. But in a concession to the industry, they do not have to make the disclosure until after drilling has begun.
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Friday, April 20, 2012
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Saturday, April 14, 2012
AS WE'VE BEEN SAYING: BP IS A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION, BY ANY OTHER NAME
OPINION
How to Prevent Oil Spills
By JOE NOCERA
Published: April 13, 2012 Two years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s clear that fines are meaningless. Only the threat of prison time can change behavior.
By JOE NOCERA
Published: April 13, 2012 Two years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it’s clear that fines are meaningless. Only the threat of prison time can change behavior.
Monday, March 26, 2012
AGAINST DIRTY POWER: SUITS GET ARRESTED
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/03/finally-ows-gets-police-to-arrest-the-people-in-suits/
and see also the Occupy-related campaign on dirty power:
http://disruptdirtypower.org/
and see also the Occupy-related campaign on dirty power:
http://disruptdirtypower.org/
Thursday, March 22, 2012
PIPELINES AND POLITICS: OBAMA SAYS KEYSTONE SOUTH OK
President Obama said that he supported expedited construction of the southern half of the controversial Keystone pipeline.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
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