HAS THE WORST CASE SCENARIO FOR ARCTIC DRILLING BEEN REALIZED IN ALASKA? Warnings from scientists and environmental activists that unchecked oil drilling in the Arctic could lead to a potential disaster may have come to some semblance of fruition after a massive Shell Oil rig became grounded in a remote section of the pristine [...]
“IT’S GOING TO RUIN OUR OCEAN”: SHELL OIL’S PLAN FOR MASSIVE ARCTIC DRILLING RUNS AGROUND…LITERALLY. (CNN) The “most complex, most difficult wells” ever drilled are to be found in the Alaskan wilderness, where Shell is launching a controversial plan to increase oil exploration in the Aleutian Islands. It is one of the largest such [...]
A “LAKE SIDE SETTLEMENT” IN AFRICA HAS “MOVED” 22 KILOMETERS FROM THE BANKS OF THE CONTINENT’S LARGEST WATER RESERVOIR. (Africa News) Lake Chad in Nigeria and Chad continues to dry up at an alarming pace. The extended drought put the lives of 30 million people in the Sahel region at risk and precipitates an intense struggle [...]
Two years ago, the cataclysmic fire and spill at BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico captured the nation’s attention, sullied the oil giant’s corporate reputation and brought the dangerous form of oil exploration the Gulf is known for to a halt. Today, the process to return BP and drilling operations in [...]
SHELL OIL COMPANY: YOU’RE POLLUTING THE ALASKAN ENVIRONMENT—AND BESIDES THAT, YOU ARE ON INDIAN WATER! (Indian Country Today) A native land claims group, REDOIL (Resisting Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands) joins 6 environmental groups in protesting EPA’s granting permits to Shell to drill “exploratory” oil wells in the Chukchi Sea off Alaska’s northwest coast. ` [...]
THE BIG PROBLEM AROUND HERE IS THE BIG GOVERNMENT’S WASTEFUL SPENDING. THE OTHER BIG PROBLEM AROUND HERE IS THAT WE DON’T HAVE NEARLY ENOUGH SNOWPLOWS WHEN THE BIG SNOW STORMS HIT. (Tom Dispatch) Christian Parenti observes that, as effects of climate change produce ever more drastic effects with which only large governmental agencies (like FEMA) [...]
EUROPEAN “UNION” IN DISARRAY AS FRENCH PM TELLS BRITISH PM TO “SHUT UP” ABOUT EURO CURRENCY ADJUSTMENT. (UK Independent) As the EU approaches a summit agreement on financial arrangements to avert world economic recession, Nicholas Sarkovy tells David Cameron to stop meddling in efforts to regulate European currency in the euro, which he says that [...]
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