Petroleum Coke: The Coal Hiding in the Tar Sands
Our own Wood River Refinery is one facility expanding to consume more of this nasty stuff.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
LAKOTA RESISTANCE TO PIPELINE POLLUTION
From Brian Hill at IGC.org: "Montana judge ruled the trucks were TOO HEAVY for Montana's roads, the
trucks didn't want to pay over $100,000 to South Dakota to use ITS roads so
they ILLEGALLY rammed through Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, without any fee
or permit, they were blocked by tribal members and the tribal police
wrongfully took the truckers' side and arrested the tribal members for disturbing the peace"
Monday, April 22, 2013
New Documentary on Oil in West Africa
Brad Pitt-Produced 'Big Men' Explores Greed in West African Oil Exploration
Documentary premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/brad-pitt-produced-big-men-explores-greed-in-west-african-oil-exploration-20130421#ixzz2RDouJVy5
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Thursday, April 4, 2013
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Corporate Oil $ + Federal Judges + University Seminars = Corruption at GMU?
Corporations, pro-business nonprofits foot bill for judicial seminars
George Mason University top host of events
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Why the war in Iraq was fought for Big Oil
Why the war in Iraq
was fought for Big Oil
March 19, 2013 -- Updated 1507 GMT (2307 HKT)
..."Of course it's about oil; we can't really deny that," said Gen. John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq, in 2007. Former Federal Reserve ChairmanAlan Greenspan agreed, writing in his memoir, "I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil." Then-Sen. and now Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: "People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are."....
READ the entire article here.
Monday, March 18, 2013
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Carbon Disinvestment by Universities? The API Counter-attacks
API: O&G Stocks Fuel Major Returns for U.S. College Endowments
Rigzone
Rigzone
Investments by U.S. university endowments in U.S. oil and gas company stocks produced the highest returns for endowments for at least the last decade, according to a recent study conducted for the American Petroleum Institute (API).
Oil and gas company stocks outperformed endowment funds and the Standard & Poor's 500, achieving returns of 52.8 percent in fiscal year (FY) 2010-2011, 7.9 percent in the last five-year period (FY2006-2011) and 11.5 percent in the FY 2001-2011 period, the study found. READ MORE
Link to the study: http://www.api.org/news-and-media/news/newsitems/2013/jan-2013/~/media/Files/News/2012/12-December/API-report-industry-returns-for-college-university-endowments.pdf
Link to API report: http://www.api.org/news-and-media/news/newsitems/2013/jan-2013/oil-and-gas-stocks-are-high-performers-in-college-endowments.aspx.
Link to the study: http://www.api.org/news-and-media/news/newsitems/2013/jan-2013/~/media/Files/News/2012/12-December/API-report-industry-returns-for-college-university-endowments.pdf
Link to API report: http://www.api.org/news-and-media/news/newsitems/2013/jan-2013/oil-and-gas-stocks-are-high-performers-in-college-endowments.aspx.
Coal to China via the NW: Key Battleground on the Climate
Visit the Tiny Town Where Big Coal Will Meet Its Fate
Mother Jones
Last week Beijing saw its infamous smog thicken to unprecedented levels, driven largely by emissions from coal-fired power plants across China. In recent years coal from US mines has stoked more and more of these plants, in effect offshoring the health impacts of burning coal. This year, much of the US coal industry's focus will be on pushing an unfolding campaign that seeks to dramatically ramp up the amount of coal we ship overseas. READ MORE
| Tue Jan. 22, 2013 3:01 AM PST
Mother Jones
Last week Beijing saw its infamous smog thicken to unprecedented levels, driven largely by emissions from coal-fired power plants across China. In recent years coal from US mines has stoked more and more of these plants, in effect offshoring the health impacts of burning coal. This year, much of the US coal industry's focus will be on pushing an unfolding campaign that seeks to dramatically ramp up the amount of coal we ship overseas. READ MORE
Friday, January 11, 2013
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Monday, January 7, 2013
In the Coal Fields, A Novel Way to Get Rid Of Pensions Is Born - Working In These Times
These are some really high-minded corporations.
In the Coal Fields, A Novel Way to Get Rid Of Pensions Is Born - Working In These Times
by Mike Elk, In These Times
"In 2007, Peabody Energy spun off a new company, Patriot Coal, which inherited 10 unionized mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. Along with the mines, Patriot took on $557 million in healthcare obligations to UMWA retirees. In 2008, Patriot bought Magnum, which had been similarly spun off from Arch Coal three years earlier. From Magnum, Patriot inherited another $500 million in obligations to retired miners, according to the UMWA.
...
Over breakfast in Morgantown, UMWA President Cecil Roberts describes the founding of Patriot. “It’s like we all are Peabody sitting here, and I am the CEO. This is what happened. 'Well we're going to create a new company boys. You’re gonna be the CEO; you're gonna be the vice president; you're gonna be the treasurer.' All the officers came from the corporate headquarters [of Peabody] in St. Louis. Peabody unilaterally decided what assets Patriot would have. They unilaterally decided what liabilities it would have. They gave Patriot all of its retirees.”
In the Coal Fields, A Novel Way to Get Rid Of Pensions Is Born - Working In These Times
by Mike Elk, In These Times
"In 2007, Peabody Energy spun off a new company, Patriot Coal, which inherited 10 unionized mines in Kentucky and West Virginia. Along with the mines, Patriot took on $557 million in healthcare obligations to UMWA retirees. In 2008, Patriot bought Magnum, which had been similarly spun off from Arch Coal three years earlier. From Magnum, Patriot inherited another $500 million in obligations to retired miners, according to the UMWA.
...
Over breakfast in Morgantown, UMWA President Cecil Roberts describes the founding of Patriot. “It’s like we all are Peabody sitting here, and I am the CEO. This is what happened. 'Well we're going to create a new company boys. You’re gonna be the CEO; you're gonna be the vice president; you're gonna be the treasurer.' All the officers came from the corporate headquarters [of Peabody] in St. Louis. Peabody unilaterally decided what assets Patriot would have. They unilaterally decided what liabilities it would have. They gave Patriot all of its retirees.”
Monday, December 17, 2012
Chevron Offers to Pay $149 Million to Settle Brazil Oil Spill Lawsuits
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
RIGZONE: https://www.rigzone.com/news/oil_gas/a/122839/Chevron_Offers_to_Pay_149_Million_to_Settle_Brazil_Oil_Spill_Lawsuits
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
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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>>>
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