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BP’s Robert Dudley and Obama Administration’s Carol Browner singing from the same song book…it works everywhere else and it worked before so it must be right. He (Dudley) also said that the failure of the blowout preventer, the mechanism that was meant to cut off the flow of oil in case of an emergency, is “something [...]  Another depressing instalment in BP’s disaster. Oil workers killed, a quarter of the Gulf declared off limits to fishing, millions of litres of oil and dispersant dumped into the ocean and a criminal series of mismanagement before and after the explosion on Deepwater Horizon. BP’s response…relief wells and they are not expected to be working [...] Obama’s sudden public posturing on Deepwater is all the more curious in light of this article over at Thruthout. If the buck stop with Mr Obama, it would be fascinating to know why the subject of a criminal investigation isn’t on the public agenda. The public admission by BP of an environmental disaster may be [...] For a newspaper that promotes itself as fit reading material for the intelligensia, you might think it would disengage its blatant neo-conservative rhetoric and treat issues with a degree of detachment. Now in case you might be wondering if it was the newspapers unashamedly pro-Abbott viewpoint, its slavish support for the mining industry in its [...] President Obama’s press conference on the Deepwater disaster outlines the level of US government involvement in containment and mitigation work as well as the implications for the oil industry’s plans for more drilling in the gulf. Throw in a bureaucratic purge of the corrupt Minerals and Management Service and today’s statement looks like Obasma means [...] Despite the rhetoric from the Obama administration that Deepwater Horizon threatens government approval for future off-shore oil wells there can be little doubt that the US will continue the drill for oil in the area. Unfortunately for those hoping that the extent of the environmental disaster unfolding in the area will mandate against more drilling, [...] The moment was there, at Copenhagen. The scientists had been busy collecting data and making models. Broadly speaking the scientific opinion supported a view that A small excerpt from Bill’s book. Powerful stuff. For the 10,000 years that constitute human civilisation, we’ve existed in the sweetest of sweet spots. The temperature has barely budged; globally averaged, it’s swung in the narrowest of ranges, between 14.5 and 15.5 degrees Celsius. That’s warm enough that the ice sheets retreated from the centers of [...] Oops just watched a trailer for Unrivalled…urgh what is going on with the world or am I just some latte drinking trendy overeducated and underpaid, indulging in some romantic sensibilities? Lordy lordy be. It seems everywhere you have to have a position on something. Where do I stand on land rights for gay whales? Do [...] What a spineless article! A few local fishermen quoted who really can’t say much anyway because they work for the oil companies and a promise from Obama to make BP pay…meanwhile the oil still flows and directly into the country consuming more oil than anyone else. The Yanks should see the spill as an opportunity [...] |
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