Counter Punch, September 9, 2009. "Richard W. Behan lives and writes on Lopez Island, off the northwest coast of Washington state. He has published on various websites over two dozen articles exposing and criticizing the criminal wars of the Bush Administ
Pandora's Box? "This is the quintessential Pandora's box moment - like the splitting of the atom or the cloning of Dolly the sheep. We will all have to deal with the fall-out from this alarming experiment," comments Jim Thomas of the ETC Group. "Synthetic
While BP’s shares recovered some ground to close 6.6% down — wiping another £5bn off the value of the group — investors were spooked after US Department of Justice officials reportedly said they were planning “to take action” to make sure BP had enough ca
BODO, Nigeria — by Adam Nossiter: "Big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land. The Niger Delta, where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface, has endured the equivalent of the Exxon Valdez spill
"Everything is dying," a woman said as the town hall meeting was finally coming to a close. "How can you honestly tell us that our Gulf is resilient and will bounce back? Because not one of you up here has a hint as to what is going to happen to our Gulf.
av Björn Lindahl, SvD "Det kinesiska oljebolaget PetroChina passerade i fjol Exxon och blev återigen det företag som har högst marknadsvärde i världen. Det är inte en ensam svala. Tre av de tio högst värderade företagen är kinesiska, ett tecken på maktski
Prinzipiell befürwortet Greenpeace Energy auch hocheffiziente Kraft-Wärme-Kopplungs-Anlagen (KWK), die Erdgas nutzen. Die Energiewende weg von Kohle und Atom funktioniert nur, wenn Gas-KWK die Lücke schließt, bis die Erneuerbaren die Versorgung vollständi
The U.S. administration's decision last month to sell billions of dollars worth of weapons to potentially unstable Arab nations in the Gulf - including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain - have triggered fears of
Hidden energy crisis in the Middle EastBy Victor Kotsev TEL AVIV - While most of the world is preoccupied with the impact of instability in the Middle East on oil prices and the world economy, a different kind of energy crisis is unfolding practically un
Today there is a significant amount of separated uranium and plutonium which may be recycled, including from ex-military sources. It is equivalent to about three years' supply of natural uranium from world mines. Today MOX is widely used in Europe and in
comment 1: "The key to the successful exploitation of shale gas is the safe disposal of the used fracking fluid. The fluid is heavily mixed with biocides and surfactants, to help penetrate the shale and to keep the gas flow channels from clogging with bac