“You going to watch the State of the Union?” I asked a friend Tuesday. “I’m going to listen on the radio. I want to hear it, but I don’t want to have to look at him.” Understandable, but by only listening, my friend missed the key to the speech. Viewers might have missed it, too … Read More
Day: January 26, 2007
Despite the Democrats, Big Oil Subsidies Continue
Well the public perception is that it is all change at Congress. With the Democrats in power, one of their promises is to get rid of nasty subsidies to the oil industry. Well apparently not. Great article by Laura MacCleery, who is the director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch division, on TomPaine. According to MacCleery: … Read More
Oil Leak Exposes Weaknesses in World Bank Pipeline
The World Bank-backed Chad-Cameroon pipeline, that brings oil from landlocked Chad along a 1,100km-pipeline to Cameroon, has run into trouble after springing a leak. Local Cameroonian NGOs, the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) and the Network for the Fight Against Hunger, have alleged that there was a delay in detecting the leak and the … Read More
Shell Plans Deepest Alaskan Well Ever
Oil giant Shell, which abandoned U.S. Arctic exploration 21 years ago, plans to expand its search for oil by drilling the deepest offshore Alaskan well ever. The oil company plans to drill one well to 14,000 feet beneath the sea floor (4,267 metres), which would exceed the deepest well ever drilled in Alaskan waters by … Read More