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Posts in September 2010

• Koch brothers fund fight against California climate law

  Andy Rowell

  Sep17

  Earlier this year Greenpeace published an excellent report showing that the secretive and arch conservative billionaire Koch brothers were the main funders of leading right wing climate sceptic organisations. Since then it has emerged that Koch brothers are bank-rolling the ultra-conservative tea party in the US. Koch industries is also, of course, the #1 provider…
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• If only BP had stayed true to Beyond Petroleum….

  Andy Rowell

  Sep16

  “If BP had stayed true to its ‘Beyond Petroleum positioning, it is likely that a disaster of this magnitude would not have occurred.” So says the global brand consultancy, Interbrand, in its annual branding report that shows that BP has tumbled out of the world’s top brands due to Deepwater. So BP may be within…
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• Utah Approves America’s First Tar Sands Mine

  Andy Rowell

  Sep15

  For the last eighteen months, Canada has increasingly come under the international environmental spot-light for its catastrophic exploitation of the dirty, polluting tar sands. Grim images of Alberta being strip mined have been beamed around the world as Canada has become the dirty man of the Northern hemisphere. It is said that large parts of…
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• No Dead Zones, Just a Dead Bottom

  Andy Rowell

  Sep14

  So there is good news and bad from the latest science from the spill. Last week the US government agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, released a report on dissolved oxygen levels in the Gulf Ocean. Oxygen levels are important – once…
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• Spill Scientists Face Funding Crisis

  Andy Rowell

  Sep13

  So there were no surprises last week when BP published its whitewash into the Deepwater Horizon disaster. “BP report clears BP of blame in BP disaster” was how American comedians saw it. The fallout from the report, that concluded that “No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy,” will continue though. The scientific fall out…
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• Another day, another fire

  Steve Kretzmann

  Sep03

  Yesterday, as BP tried to weasel its way out of its promised $20 billion payout, another Gulf rig caught fire, this time thankfully without any associated loss of life. Vermillion 380-A, owned and operated by Mariner Energy reportedly caught fire as workers were painting and water-blasting.  There are two main points that are illustrated well…
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