Tag Archives: petroleum

As Silly as Mine Safety

To paraphrase a comedian, political commentator and now senator, “Facts and the lying liars who use them.”

The Electric Reliability Council of Texas

Just more turbines not turning, nothing to use here, citizen. Move along and you may want to turn up your air conditioning some more.

Deteriorating Narrative

BP applying a scientific approach to the disaster: “Fishermen hired by BP are still finding tar balls–and being instructed to hide their discoveries.”

Levels of toxins rising rapidly

Syncrude’s tailings pond is the largest, by volume of construction material, in the world, visible from space, full of sand and “dead water”, water containing carcinogenic hydrocarbons and toxic trace metals such as mercury, cadmium and arsenic.

John Minor Wisdom

Judge Carl J. Barbier said his ownership of debt instruments issued by Halliburton and Transocean does not give him a financial interest in these companies.

5-HMF

5-hydroxymethylfurfural (5-HMF) is a substrate for plastics.

Mr. Macondo from the BP Do Right Transition Team

What’s Good for BP is Good for BP

A Model of Corporate Social Responsibility

Will somebody please turn off those alarms, we’re trying to sleep the sleep of the Just here.

Extinction of Pteropods

Goodbye to all the Chips of the Sea

Co-Trustees?

As a trustee for coastal resources, NOAA protects and restores habitats injured by hazardous waste sites, oil spills and vessel groundings.

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