18,000 MILE TRIP ADDS ANOTHER GIANT OIL RIG TO DRILLING IN THE GULF OF MEXICO. Operation owned jointly by Royal Dutch Shell and BP brings a huge platform from South Korea, to be assembled at a port in Texas, then to join a slew of rigs seeking to extend the producing life of the [...]
LASSO THAT ICEBERG, COWBOY! Exxon Mobil prepares massive oil drilling off the coast of Newfoundland, ironically near the point at which the Titanic was sunk by an iceberg. To ally any fears that another iceberg could produce an even larger environmental disaster, the company plans to construct concrete towers taller than the Eiffel Tower [...]
WHITE HOUSE TO MAKE PUSH FOR “COMPREHENSIVE” IMMIGRATION REFORM. Even while publicly engaged with the rancorous and seemingly endless squabbles over fiscal negotiations that have paralyzed Congress, the New York Times reports that the White House has been privately working on a “comprehensive” plan to deal with the nation’s immigration laws. President Obama will [...]
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 [...]
With gas prices at record seasonal highs and an increasing disparity between what a barrel of oil trades for on the open market and what consumers pay at the pump, Americans are learning the hard way that more domestic oil production does not mean less pain at the pump. The bitter presidential horse race that [...]
“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 [...]
While the undeniable ramifications of a warming planet are hard to ignore in the first months of what many say will be the hottest year in recorded history, some leading scientists and climate experts argue that important policy decisions that would perpetuate American reliance on fossil fuels could truly mean “game over” for climate change. [...]
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 LAST THREE DECADES OF THE PECUNIARY RECORD HAVE UNDERLINED A REALITY THAT INCOME INEQUALITY IS RULE, NOT EXCEPTION, IN AMERICA. In case you were wondering what the “99 percent” are doing on the streets, here is a slap in the face courtesy the Congressional Budget Office and its examination of income growth in the [...]
9 “YOU CAN COUNT ON SEEING MORE OF THIS NEXT YEAR.” (Los Angeles Times) The Obama administration announced with glee on Tuesday that the number of immigrants deported on their watch hit a record of nearly 400,000 over a period from October of 2010 through September of this year. That amount tops the previous record [...]
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