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U.S. Tentatively Approves Shell Spill Plan for New Arctic Drilling
In a crucial step toward the ultimate approval of new oil drilling off the North Slope of Alaska, the Interior Department on Friday tentatively approved Shell’s plans for responding to a potential spill in the frigid Arctic waters.
Shell still needs to cross several more regulatory barriers before it will be permitted to begin drilling as many as...
It’s Time to Pay Up: Unearthing the True Cost of Fossil Fuels
Senor Codo via Flickr/CC BY 2.0
For decades now, fossil fuel company executives and D.C. politicians have worked together to ensure that coal and oil prices stay low enough to keep the American people hooked. In his new book Greedy Bastards, Dylan Ratigan explains how “vampire industries” like oil and coal have forged “an unholy alliance with...
Northern Gateway Pipeline Part Of Battle Over Canada’s Oil Ambitions
The latest chapter in Canada’s quest to become a full-blown oil superpower unfolded this month in a village gym on the British Columbia coast.
Here, several hundred people gathered for hearings on whether a pipeline should be laid from the Alberta oil sands to the Pacific in order to deliver oil to Asia, chiefly energy-hungry China. The stakes...
Have Fossil Fuels Become the Enemy of Creativity?
Olle Svensson/CC BY 2.0
“I can’t face cooking tonight. I’m too tired.”
“Me neither. Maybe I’ll take Lilia in the car and we’ll drive and get takeout.”
To understand the absurdity of this exchange, you have to understand where my wife and I live. We’re about 10 minutes out in the country from the...
Harvest Natural Resources Updates Drilling Operations in Indonesia
Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. (NYSE: HNR) announced today that the exploration well KD-1ST, being drilled onshore Sulawesi, has reached a total measured depth (TD) of 14,437 feet (13,576 feet true vertical depth) and is being plugged and abandoned with oil shows.
KD-1 was the second exploratory well of a two well program on the Budong PSC drilled...
Judge rules BP not negligent in Alaska spill
A federal judge ruled that BP was not negligent in the case of a 2009 oil spill and did not violate the terms of its probation from an earlier accident thus escaping further punishment.
The decision is a victory for the oil giant as it attempts to rebuild its image after taking the bulk of the blame for the largest U.S. offshore oil spill last year...
Tragedy in the Sea of Okhotsk – a Consequence of blatant disrespect for the law
File photo of the Kolskaya oil rig. Russia's northern Murmansk region began a day of mourning Tuesday for 14 dead crew of a drilling rig that sank in icy seas, as rescuers searching for another 39 missing found several empty liferafts.
Environmental organizations demand to suspend all work on offshore projects in the Arctic before the parliamentary...
Chevron Admits Oil Leak in Brazil Hasn’t Stopped
© SkytruthThings just keep getting worse for Chevron. First, a deepwater drilling mishap off the coast of Brazil last month caused thousands of barrels of oil to spill into the Atlantic, which only after some dodging did Chevron take responsibility for, followed by Brazil’s petroleum agency deciding to suspend the company’s drilling rights...
LAST DAY … TAKE ACTION NOW! Save Seals: Keep Oil Out of Arctic Waters
Protect seals from an Arctic oil spill disaster
Shell will stop at nothing to drill in the Arctic and they are mobilizing right now.
Wherever there is drilling, there is the risk of spills. Spilled oil collects in the same breaks in the ice that seals and other animals use to come up for air. And in the remote Arctic, no one can clean up spilled oil...
Shell must pay US$1 billion in first step to clean up Niger Delta
Shell must commit to pay an initial US$1 billion to begin the clean-up of pollution caused by oil spills in the Niger Delta, Amnesty International and the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) said today.
A new report by the two groups released today, The true tragedy: delays and failures in tackling oil spills in the Niger Delta looks...
