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Posts in August 2006

• When Pigs…

  Andy Rowell

  Aug14

  Chris Borrowman, meet Yuanhui Zhang. Chris is a pork producer in Illinois and he has a lagoon in his backyard the size of about 23 swimming pools that is filled with pig crap. Yuanhui is a professor at the University of Illinois that has developed a new process to turn pig manure into oil. This…
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• BP Spins Alaska Story

  Andy Rowell

  Aug14

  Public relations trade magazine, PR Week has reported that BP has “more than doubled the number of external communications people” working in its Anchorage office due to its current problems in Alaska. According to PR Week, “the company’s image is taking a battering because advocacy groups are wondering how such an ‘eco-friendly’ company let something…
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• BP: Only Itself to Blame For Alaskan Fiasco

  Andy Rowell

  Aug14

  I am back from holiday, so lets go straight back to BP. The news that BP had to shut over half of its vast Prudhoe Bay operations because of pipeline corrosion has made headlines across the globe. It has also sent the price of oil nearly $2 dollars a barrel upwards. As BP apologized for…
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• Big Oil Rips You Off. Need more proof?

  Steve Kretzmann

  Aug12

  Here are two great recent reports detailing EXACTLY how oil companies rip us all off, from Consumers Union. Although its been woefully under-reported in both the traditional and alternative media, the conclusions of CU’s May report (“Debunking Oil Industry Myths and Deception: The $100 Billion Consumer Rip-Off”) are strong and clear, and the research is…
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• Petro-Imperialism

  Charlie Cray

  Aug11

  “Few lies have wound up injuring Americans more” than the persistent denial that the war in Iraq is about oil and America’s failed energy strategy, according to author Kevin Phillips who reviews the evidence in the first section of his superb new book, American Theocracy. If that’s not on the top of your reading stack…
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• Massive Oil Spill Continues to Spread in Lebanon

  Andy Rowell

  Aug11

  It has been almost a month since Israeli planes bombed the Jiyeh power plant 12 miles south of Beirut and triggered the largest oil spill in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. About two weeks ago the United Nations Environment Program warned that about 12,000 tonnes of oil had already leaked from the plant and…
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• Biggest Polluter

  Mark Floegel

  Aug10

  Sunday’s local newspaper reported that gasoline sales in Vermont were 13 percent below prediction in February of this year and almost 15 percent low for May.  I have no theories on the May swoon, aside from the toll continued high prices are having on us all, but I’m reasonably sure the February dip was due…
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• “Crude Awakening”

  Andy Rowell

  Aug07

  In the latest issue of Ms. Magazine, Martha Burk’s “Crude Awakening” draws fresh connections between the United States’ oil interests and its willingness to overlook gross violations of women’s rights, especially in oil-rich nations. Writes Burk: “Whether supporting gender apartheid abroad, or sacrificing feeding programs for U.S. women and children so that ExxonMobil can get…
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