thanks for all the links. i lived some time in the niger delta, where shell flares enough gas to provide a quarter of what the UK uses, because it's cheaper than reinjecting, building a pipeline, or utilizing it locally. and that's on purpose. the equivalent of 1 exxon- valdez tanker of oil has spilled in the mangrove creeks every year, for 50 years. the revolving door corporate selfregulation we see with BP is a problem in nigeria and finland as well, so i appreciate articles like these to pass on.
people still denying the urgency of renewable energy and sustainable living also own responsibility for these predictable and totally avoidable disasters best, /g. On 27 May, 2010, at 17:06 , Keith Addison wrote: > BP is a mad dog. Planet Earth hasn't got cancer as some people say. > It's got rabies. It sure takes some doing to out-dog such stalwart > corporate persons as ExxonMobil, Dow/Union Carbide, Monsanto, Bayer, > ADM/Cargill/Tysons et al, but about the only thing I can think of > that could dislodge BP from its Top Mad Dog position is if someone > presses The Button. > > Pretty pictures: > http://snipurl.com/wu3vj > > http://snipurl.com/wu3v2 > > Leave it to the experts: > http://www.CounterThink.com/BP_Visionaries.asp > > How Much Oil Is Really Spilling into the Gulf of Mexico? > http://www.prwatch.org/node/9065 > > Is the Gulf oil spill spinning out of control? > http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-25-is-the-gulf-oil-spill-spinning-out-of-control > > What if the oil spill just can't be fixed? > ... Even if the flow were stopped tomorrow, the damage to marshes, > coral, and marine life is done. The Gulf of Mexico will become an > ecological and economic dead zone. There's no real way to undo it, no > matter who's in charge. > http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-25-what-if-the-oil-spill-just-cant-be-fixed > > More Than Just an Oil Spill > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/opinion/22herbert.html > > Drilling Disasters Can't Happen Here > http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4079 > > Similar Disaster Could Occur in Arctic Later This Year > http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/05/24 > > BP and the 'Little Eichmanns' > http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/bp_and_the_little_eichmanns_20100517/ > > The Corporate Stranglehold: How BP Will Make out Like Bandits from > Its Massive, Still Gushing Oil Disaster > The existing $75 million cap on damages for offshore drilling > companies is a bailout every bit as disgusting as those recently > bestowed upon Wall Street. > http://www.alternet.org/story/146999/ > > 10 Things You Need (But Don't Want) To Know About the BP Oil Spill > How the owner of the exploded oil rig has made $270 million off the > leak, and 9 other shocking, depressing facts about the disaster. > http://www.alternet.org/story/147014/ > > Seize BP campaign > http://seizebp.org/ > > Everybody knows there's only one way to deal with a mad dog. Death to > BP. Let's get it done. > > "... and I'll stand over your grave 'til I'm sure that you're dead." > (Bob Dylan) > > All best > > Keith > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
