Tag: Oil Industry
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 [...]
Posted: May 18th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General.
Tags: activism, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, pollution
Comments: 1
Efforts to stem the oil spill in overdrive
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Posted: May 15th, 2010 under General, World News.
Tags: Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Spill, pollution
Comments: 1
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 [...]
Posted: May 14th, 2010 under General, World News.
Tags: Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Spill
Comments: 1
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 [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2010 under Action Needed, General, World News.
Tags: major polluters, Obama administration, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, Oil Lobby, Oil Spill, pollution
Comments: 4
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 [...]
Posted: May 3rd, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, Nature, Technologies, World News.
Tags: #BREAKING NEWS, oil, Oil drilling, Oil Industry, pollution, World News
Comments: 3
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 [...]
Posted: May 2nd, 2010 under Climate Politics, Foundation News, General, World News.
Tags: Oil drilling, Oil Industry
Comments: 2
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 [...]
Posted: February 18th, 2010 under Climate Change, General, Tipping Points, World News.
Tags: Climate Change, global warming, Oil Industry, Peak Oil, Tipping Points, World Oil Reserves
Comments: 1
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 [...]
Posted: February 5th, 2010 under Action Needed, Foundation News, General, Nature.
Tags: activism, Amazon Rainforest, Ecuador, Oil Industry, pollution, World News
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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 [...]
Posted: January 27th, 2010 under Climate Change, Climate Politics, General, Negotiations.
Tags: Climate Change, climate negotiations, global warming, oil, Oil Industry, Peak Oil, United Nations, World Oil Reserves
Comments: 1
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 [...]
Posted: December 29th, 2009 under Climate Change, Foundation News, General.
Tags: Climate Change, coal lobby, Copenhagen, global warming, Oil Industry
Comments: 2
