Tag Archives: Oily Industry

World Governments Subsidize Burning Of Fossil Fuels To The Tune Of $10 Million A MINUTE

Posted on May 23, 2015 by markt

By Mark Hertsgaard The Nation (5/21/15) $10 million a minute. According to the comprehensive account in The Guardian that broke the story of a new IMF study, $10 million a minute is how much the world’s governments are spending to subsidize the burning of … Continue reading →

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Spike In Dolphin Deaths Directly Tied To Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Researchers Say

Posted on May 22, 2015 by markt

By Ryan Grenoble The Huffington Post (5/20/15)   A dramatic increase in dolphin deaths in the Gulf of Mexico is directly linked to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, scientists concluded in a report published Wednesday. Following the 2010 explosion on the … Continue reading →

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Doubling Down On Madness: Wolves Shot From Choppers Shows Oil Harm Beyond Pollution

Posted on April 29, 2015 by dennis

By Rebecca Penty Bloomberg Business (4/22/15) Here’s one aspect of Canada’s energy boom that isn’t being thwarted by the oil market crash: the wolf cull. The expansion of oil-sands mines and drilling pads has brought the caribou pictured on Canada’s … Continue reading →

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Obama Administration Betrays The Future — Approves Arctic Oil Drilling

Posted on April 2, 2015 by markt

(Daily Call cartoon by Mark L. Taylor, 2015. Open source and free to use with link to www.thedailycall.org)     “The government should wipe the slate clean and start over.”   By Jennifer A. Dlouhy Fuel Fix (4/1/15) The Obama … Continue reading →

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Stealth XXL: Wisconsin Pipeline Dwarfs Keystone And Threatens Every Waterway In The State

Posted on February 15, 2015 by dennis

In the end, tar sands passing through pipelines in Wisconsin are bound for refineries and then storage tanks, where the oil will sit until prices rebound. Wisconsin is just a pass-through state that will see little if any economic benefit … Continue reading →

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75 Tons Per Day Of Radioactive Oil Waste Unregulated In North Dakota Oil Patch

Posted on July 15, 2014 by markt

By Amy Dalrymple www.grandforksherald.com (11/24/14) WILLISTON, N.D. – The state’s oil industry generates 75 tons of low-level radioactive waste per day and the state has few rules on how to handle it, but does say it can’t be dumped here But … Continue reading →

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From Dairyland to Petrostate: If You Don’t Think The Oil Companies Are Gunning For Wisconsin, Read This…

Posted on July 10, 2014 by markt

(Editor’s Note: Having just returned from a 10-day research and video recording trek to North Dakota’s Bakken oil patch, let me assure you we are facing a huge existential threat to life as we know it in this beautiful state. … Continue reading →

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Oil Boom Terror: ‘Man Camp’ Rape and Mayhem Issue Witnessed By Tribal Officer

Posted on June 4, 2014 by markt

“We are overwhelmed as is stands right now.”   By Damon Buckley  Lakota Country Times (5/22/14) ROSEBUD, SD – Former Rosebud Sioux Tribe Police Chief Grace Her Many Horses took a temporary job working in the Bakken Region near Newtown, North … Continue reading →

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Photos From Mordor: Photographer Captures Scope Of Tar Sands Industry ‘Destruction’ From Above

Posted on May 31, 2014 by markt

By James Gerken Huffington Post (5/29/14) Photographer and pilot Alex MacLean wanted to learn more about the Keystone XL pipeline, which if approved will carry oil from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, so he decided to take pictures from above of the … Continue reading →

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‘Sun Kinks’ — How Climate Change Will Lead to More Oil Train Derailments

Posted on May 30, 2014 by markt

By Brandon Baker EcoWatch (5/29/14) Fossil fuels contribute to climate change when they are produced and emitted, and, now, a report shows that rising temperatures are making the railway transportation of them riskier than ever. With temperatures in the U.S. rising by … Continue reading →

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Republican Congressmen Defend Repairing Dangerous Oil Pipeline With Trash Bags And Duct Tape

Posted on May 23, 2014 by markt

(Editor’s Note: Really now, how can any sane person ever think for a moment Republicans give a damn about the safety of your family and neighborhood? The health and wellbeing of your children and our communities are irrelevant when  it … Continue reading →

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Big Oil Does It Again: Massive Pipeline Rupture Coats LA Streets In Up To 20 Inches of Stinky Crude Oil

Posted on May 17, 2014 by markt

By Joanna M. Foster Climate Progress (5/16/14)  Residents in Atwater Village in northeast Los Angeles woke up Thursday morning to find crude oil flowing down their streets. A 20 inch wide, above-ground oil line ruptured around 1 a.m., sending a geyser of oil … Continue reading →

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