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Make the polluter PAY – Who should make this happen? You and I!

Excerpt from my book ZERO Greenhouse Emissions – The Day the Lights Went Out – Our Future World. It is a question we should all ask and answer as to the dark soul of the Corporation. This in light of the Gulf Oil spill by BP is ever more a pressing question to ask and [...]

Efforts to stem the oil spill in overdrive

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5,000 or 26,000 barrels a day: Size of gulf oil spill is a guesstimate

For nearly three weeks, the world has been hearing about the leaking well on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. Now there’s video footage, and it’s not pretty, showing a turbulent plume of oil and gas billowing from the end of a 21-inch pipe that dropped to the mud floor of the gulf after [...]

BP’s Oil Disaster: The Numbers Will Shock You

The following in-depth article from Alternet has been reproduced here in full by the Foundation, as it details the intricate web of BP control in the US. At best 20% of the oil spill may be recoverable. Though we don’t yet know the full extent of the disaster, one thing is for sure: regulatory failures [...]

BP Ignores the Most Effective Means of Locking Up Oil in Fragile Coastal Areas

Through a contact of the Greenhouse Neutral Foundation via email today we have learned the following: BP is ignoring the most effective and safest means of locking up the oil in zones around the fragile coastal zones of the Gulf Coast. Here’s a quick demonstration of how MOP (Maximum Oil Pickup) sorbent works and can [...]

Key Biscayne Jack-up – It’s happened before – it’s happened again – let’s stop ‘Drill baby Drill’

By Bob Williamson – Greenhouse Neutral Foundation On September 1 1983 I was the Personnel and Industrial Relations Manager of Keydril who operated the Key Biscayne. I remember the day well!   As you’ll read below offshore drilling operations for oil are always likely to have unforseen environmental outcomes. The recent disaster in the Gulf [...]

Society ignores the oil crunch at its peril

Warnings of a crash in oil production are no longer limited to a prescient few individuals – major British companies and oil CEOs are now sounding the alert In the years approaching the credit crunch, whistleblowers were limited to a few insightful economists and financial journalists. Now whistles are blowing again about another grave threat [...]

CRUDE – Action you can help with.

The final judgment is imminent after a long legal battle between oil giant Chevron and brave indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, who are seeking redress for the multinational’s dumping of billions of gallons of toxic waste in the rainforest. If Chevron is forced to pay billions in damages, it’ll be a big step forward [...]

Climate talks bigger threat to Saudi than oil rivals

RIYADH (Reuters) – United Nations climate talks are a bigger threat to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia than increased oil supplies from rival producers, its lead climate negotiator said on Sunday. SAUDI ARABIA Saudi Arabia’s economy depends on oil exports so stands to be one of the biggest losers in any pact that curbs oil [...]

Big Oil and Coal Climate Disinformation Campaign 101 (Video)

Pulitzer Prize winning Ross Gelbspan has been one of the leading lights in exposing the climate change disinformation campaigns waged for decades by coal and oil companies. His message is of the utmost importance, and comes at a time when the public could use a reminder that this is an urgent issue that some of [...]