OIL
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird met this week with Libya’s National Transitional Council, the rebel organization claiming to be the “sole representative of all Libya", even though it represents less than half of Libya’s tribes. The group’s leadership is almost entirely elitist, Arab, pro-Western businessmen with American Ph.D.s. It has formed a central bank to act as monetary authority over a country it does not control and has made contracts with foreign governments for oil in rebel-held territories.
Submitted by andie531 on Tue, 2011-06-28 23:47
Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant.
Submitted by andie531 on Sat, 2011-06-18 23:43
As NATO attacks continue in Libya, ex US Congresswoman and former presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney went to the country on a non-governmental fact-finding mission to see what exactly is going on in the war-torn country. Cynthia McKinney believes the bombardments of Libyan cities and other measures taken by NATO, causing civilian casualties, represent the idea of "collective punishment".
Submitted by Sullivan on Tue, 2011-06-14 21:31
British Petroleum possesses 38% of the contract and the Chinese – 37%, while Iraq’s state-owned Southern Iraq Oil Company owns the remaining 25% of the contract.
Submitted by andie531 on Mon, 2011-05-30 15:58
A large explosion at Iran’s main energy pipeline hub Friday was caused by sabotage, an influential member of Parliament said Sunday. A similar blast Feb. 11 temporarily halted north-south gas transportation in the country.
Submitted by andie531 on Mon, 2011-04-11 03:43
In an interview on Fox News, potential Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump outlined his Iraq strategy to Bill O’Reilly.
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2011-04-10 20:28
China was one of the biggest importers of Libyan oil. So why were its oil facilities and workers in Libya under attack?
Submitted by andie531 on Sat, 2011-04-09 16:19
The average Libyan knows that the US and Israel are after their oil.
Submitted by andie531 on Wed, 2011-03-30 18:13
Germany has pulled out of NATO operations in the Mediterranean due to the disagreement over the forces' mission in Libya.
Submitted by Sullivan on Wed, 2011-03-23 09:10
Thanks to Barack Obama’s failed energy policies, seven deepwater rigs were moved from the Gulf of Mexico in the last year. At least one of the rigs was relocated to Brazil. Obama is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil to finance exploration of its huge offshore oil field discovery. His good buddy George Soros is invested heavily in Brazilian energy.
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2011-03-20 23:00
"New data suggests Israel may not only have much larger gas resources than believed, but also the 3rd largest deposit of oil shale in the world. As a consequence of these new estimates, Israel may emerge as the third largest deposit of oil shale, after the US and China." - JPost
Submitted by Aletho News on Thu, 2011-03-17 01:09
In the view of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, BP is the safest company to hire for offshore work today, having learned its lesson in the gulf. “One beaten man is worth two unbeaten men,” Mr. Putin said, citing a Russian proverb, after BP signed its Arctic deal with Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil company. Rosneft is negotiating joint venture agreements with other major oil companies shut out of North America, including Shell.
Submitted by andie531 on Sat, 2011-03-12 19:37
The long running legal case by the heirs of Andrew Oenga has resulted in a federal court awarding them $4.924 million against the United States (e.g. US taxpayers - BP is not liable, of course).
For the past 16 years, British Petroleum was allowed to use the land in ways not allowed by the lease to produce oil from unauthorized areas. BP also allowed ARCO and Exxon to use Oengas’ land for a fee. The Bureau of Indian Affairs refused to tell BP to stop the unauthorized use and refused to collect additional rents from BP for authorized use.
Submitted by andie531 on Wed, 2011-03-09 03:10
Global gas reserves have increased 53% in the past 20 years, outpacing oil
Submitted by Aletho News on Sat, 2011-01-08 05:15
Louisiana BP OIL SPILL 8 Months on Part 2, rawimagefilms, November 24, 2010.
Meanwhile, in Alabama...
12-3-2010 A giant tar mat…nearly an eighth of a mile long…is washing up west of Cotton Bayou in Orange Beach.
12-9-2010 A widespread fungal outbreak is affecting one of Alabama’s key marsh grass species, potentially rendering much of this year’s seed crop sterile, according to scientists.
Also in Missisisppi and Louisiana...
12-9-2010 Dispersants continue to be sprayed, says emergency worker.
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2010-12-12 02:19
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, who doubles as President Barack Obama's point man on Gulf Coast oil spill recovery, is pressing America's armed services to consume as much Gulf seafood as possible. A large-scale national marketing campaign will use $30 million in BP money and millions more in federal dollars, to reassure restaurants and markets across the country that Gulf seafood is safe.
Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, said he would like to see Gulf seafood as the choice throughout the public domain, "whether it's the military or prison systems or school systems."
Submitted by andie531 on Fri, 2010-12-10 04:27
... I never did come across any of that “hard science” documenting ‘Peak Oil’ that Mr. Strahl referred to. All the ‘Peak Oil’ literature that I found, on Ruppert’s site and elsewhere, took for granted that petroleum is a non-renewable ‘fossil fuel.’ That theory is never questioned, nor is any effort made to validate it. It is simply taken to be an established scientific fact, which it quite obviously is not. ...
Submitted by Aletho News on Fri, 2010-11-12 21:03
... the world’s total proved oil reserves have expanded more than twice as fast, swelling by nearly a third to 1.33 trillion barrels by the end of last year from 1 trillion barrels two decades earlier...
Submitted by Aletho News on Thu, 2010-10-21 02:15
The Georgian press broke today (October 15th) that the Georgian court ordered that two Israeli businessman, Ron Fuchs and Zeev Fraenkel, be put in custody on suspicion of offering a bribe worth seven million dollars to a senior official of the Republic of Georgia.
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2010-10-17 22:58
An hour after BP workers were told they had to shift from Destin, Florida to another location and to not discuss anything with anybody, human body parts washed up where they had been working.
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2010-10-10 19:50
The Gulf Islands National Seashore is located in Mississippi and Florida.
Submitted by pandora on Mon, 2010-09-20 15:10
... Al Jazeera has obtained a document written by Saddam Hussein's secretary, which conveys Hussein's rejection of an offer to partake in a peace process with Israel in exchange for the lifting of sanctions....
Submitted by Aletho News on Sun, 2010-09-05 14:16
OSHA describes 2-butoxyethanol's odor as a "mild, pleasant, sweet, fruity". Corexit 9527, the MOST TOXIC and DANGEROUS oil dispersant compound, contains 2-butoxyethanol. The video shows an unmarked boat with two huge barrels attached to it, with a sweet odor surrounding the vessel.
Natural gas is scented with a nasty smell (the chemical Mercaptan) so we can tell when there is a leak. This warns people NOT to breathe it. HOWEVER, the chemical dispersant (Corexit) is scented with a sweet smell from the 2-butoxyethanol, which isn't perceived as a dangerous smell. This sweet aroma would cause more people to willingly breathe it in on shore, unalerted to the danger in their air.
Submitted by pandora on Sun, 2010-08-22 13:38
SEA GULLS ARE FLYING RATS! They usually eat anything. But they are not touching the hundreds of thousands of dead fish that washed up on the New Jersey Shore near Cape May on August 12, 2010. Why?
Submitted by pandora on Sun, 2010-08-15 02:08
The latest version of the CLEAR Act is slated for a floor vote in the House this week as Democrats look for ways to use the Gulf oil spill as a means to pass elements of their unpopular energy agenda.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) stripped out authorization for an independent investigation into the Gulf disaster.
Submitted by andie531 on Thu, 2010-08-05 06:49
Reuel Marc Gerecht's screed justifying an Israeli bombing attack on Iran coincides with the opening of the new Israel lobby campaign marked by the introduction of
Submitted by andie531 on Sun, 2010-08-01 04:47
Billions of dollars of reconstruction funds have gone missing in Iraq with the US Defense Department saying it has no record of how the money was spent.
Submitted by timewilltell on Tue, 2010-07-27 16:52
Love is in the Air
Submitted by andie531 on Wed, 2010-07-21 21:57
Mud eruption 'caused by drilling' headlines a BBC report of 2008, two years after a drilling company was found negligent in drilling for gas and oil on the Indonesian island of Java. The amount of material that is still spewing out of the well would fill 50 olympic sized swimming pools EACH DAY. This has been happening every day for four years, with no end in sight. The Lusi mud volcano may be active for decades, some believe.
Submitted by pandora on Tue, 2010-07-13 01:47
The federal judge who overturned Barack Obama's offshore drilling moratorium reported owning stock in numerous companies involved in the offshore oil industry — including Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to BP prior to its April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico — according to 2008 financial disclosure reports.
Submitted by Sullivan on Tue, 2010-06-22 23:41
