Posts in March 2007
FBI Widens North Slope Oil Probe
The FBI is investigating whether Alaska political appointees improperly punished state regulators who tried to enforce environmental rules against oil companies operating in Alaska. The inquiry is connected to an ongoing criminal investigation of BP for allowing pipelines it operates to corrode enough to cause a large oil spill on Alaska’s North Slope in 2006….
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Plans to be agreed today at the EU to open up transatlantic aviation and generate an extra 26 million air passengers over five years will undermine Europe’s push to combat climate change, campaigners have warned. The “open skies” agreement is being hailed as a revolution by officials who say it will deliver more competition and…
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Safety issues continue to plague BP. Workers for BP allege that a labour shortage at Prudhoe Bay, the United States’ largest oil field has made conditions ripe for fatigue-related accidents similar to one that killed 15 employees at the company’s Texas plant in 2005. BP has failed to fill about a dozen vacancies for highly…
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What a difference a few years makes. Last time he was on Capital Hill, Al Gore had to formally swear in George Bush who had just beaten him in the battle for the White House. Yesterday Gore returned to talk about climate change. He is a changed man. Gore’s film An Inconvenient truth has not…
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Among the many problems with the Democrats War Supplemental is the not so small fact that it endorses passage of the Iraqi Oil Law. “Democratic leadership is actively handing over Iraq’s oil to U.S. companies as some sort of war bounty,” said Antonia Juhasz, analyst with Oil Change International. Not so fast, say Dem Leaders…
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Gulf governments are planning to build oil pipelines that will bypass the world’s most vulnerable energy choke point, the Strait of Hormuz, aiming to avoid possible Iranian threats to global oil shipments. Around two-fifths of the world’s traded oil is shipped by tanker through the Hormuz Strait. But the 54km wide passage is highly vulnerable…
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The head of France’s biggest listed company, oil group Total SA , is being questioned by police in a probe into alleged corruption in Iran, reports Reuters. Christophe de Margerie, who only moved up to the chief executive’s post at Total last month, has been under investigation for several months by French judges probing corruption…
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The long-awaited report by the US Chemical Safety Board concluded that “organizational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation” caused the fire at the company’s Texas refinery in 2005. The 335-page report calls on the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to increase inspection and enforcement at U.S. oil refineries and…
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The New York Times reports on the growing importance of Angola’s oil industry as it attends its first OPEC meeting. Angola may be corrupt and “one of the poorest lands on earth. But ask any energy executive these days and another picture emerges: a place of immense riches, solicitous of foreign investors and among the…
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James Hansen, the Nasa scientist who first warned the US government about global warming, yesterday delivered a withering critique of the way the White House has “interfered” with climate scientists at the space agency. In a detailed written testimony before the House of Representatives, Dr Hansen said that there had been creeping politicisation of climate…
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