Posts Tagged ‘oil’

• Controversial Pipeline Could Hurt Obama’s Hopes for Reelection

  President Obama may face a considerable amount of opposition from supporters if he moves forward in green lighting a pipeline that would run from Alberta, Canada, to Texas. Obama’s approval ratings have recently been on the decline, and with his …

• Obama sends US troops to Uganda to help combat the LRA – but is oil the true reason?

  Oil have been found in the underground below Lake Albert on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Western companies are working with the Ugandan government to get development under way but a myriad of issues …

• US Chamber of Commerce Lobby’s For Tar Sand Pipeline

  The U.S Chamber of Commerce has launched a campaign to lobby for Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. The Partnership to Fuel America is run out of the U.S. Chamber’s Institute for 21st Century Energy, and seems positioned to be the …

• Drinking water in Nigeria polluted with benzene at levels 900 times above the limit

  Families in Nisisioken Ogale, near a Nigerian National Petroleum Company pipeline, are drinking water from wells contaminated with benzene, a known carcinogen, at levels over 900 times above UN World Health Organization guidelines. Along with many others, this community is …

• Are consumers responsible for the BP oil disaster?

  Following the BP/Deepwater oil well explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, many commentators have tried to explain why it happened. Many blame greed and arrogance in BP’s executive offices. Others blame it on the Military-Oil-Government alliance that views free-flowing oil …

• Moscow Arctic Forum promises peaceful exploitation, silent on risks

  During the end of September the “Arctic nations” – Canada, Russia, Norway, the United States and Denmark – met in Moscow to agree on territorial claims. (Strangely, I didn’t notice any coverage at all in Danish media – while even …

• The energy-independent future that never was

  Bernie Sanders, the only democratic socialist in the US Senate, says that the single most important lesson we can learn from the ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is that drilling is not the answer. Sanders also …

• Greenpeace: Obama must shelve Arctic drilling plans, call for offshore moratorium

  In light of the ongoing offshore oil drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico Greenpeace is demanding that President Barack Obama cancels Arctic drilling plans and calls for an offshore moratorium. The Deepwater Horizon accident has resulted in eleven lives …

• Ecological unequal exchange is helping Europe maintain its leading role, greenhouse gases and overconsumption

  “To secure future oil imports USA is now using “force to reassert dominance” via “state terror and coercion” in Afghanistan and Iraq.” Ecological unequal exchange, or the zero-sum model, can help us understand many things about the world’s international trade, …

• A Picture is Worth… Oil advertisement from 1962

  Humble Oil, who is today more known as Exxon, pretty much nailed it back in the 60′s with this advertisement from a 1962 edition of Life Magazine. Oh, the grim irony. It’s also available in full view on Google Books. …