Occupy the Machine: An Escalating Campaign Against Fossil Fuel Extraction Begins In April (tags)
A festival of resistance and alternatives to the fossil fuel economy, in the shadow of the Houston Valero refinery, culminating in a refinery blockade.
Back to court for Vedanta Resources’ controversial mine (tags)
India’s Supreme Court is to consider a new bid to green-light FTSE 100 Vedanta Resources’ infamous bauxite mine in Orissa state, east India.
BREAKING: Toxic Texas City Terrified by BP Refinery Evacuation (tags)
Note to my readers: The bullseye in the Texas Terror Triangle, BP's refinery in Texas City, has just gone red. Beneath the news story I leave my incomplete nuclear national level exercise analysis for Major Bill Fox, my former executive officer. Beneath that is a special note of interest for Abu-Suleyman of Islamic Intelligence and Dr. Kevin Barrett of Truth Jihad. -- Captain May
The Corrib Gas Controversy: State Collaboration with Shell Exposed (tags)
The following article is a position paper on the Irish Government's attempt to placate growing opposition by the appointment of a so-called “independent mediator” to defuse the crisis over the outright handover of Irish energy resources to multinational corporations. It also includes an update on the present crisis at Corrib.
On top of an oil well and no petrol??
Breaking the grip of Big Oil (tags)
The day after President Bush advised Americans to deal with skyrocketing gas prices by avoiding unnecessary driving, he flew to New Orleans for a photo-op, burning up about 11,437 gallons of jet fuel, worth over $24,000. Apparently, it all depends on what you consider “necessary.”
Report on Condition of the Working Class in Iraq (tags)
Dodgy unions, ex-Baathist fascist bosses, spies monitoring the new ministries in Iraq and machine gun armed picket lines.
"Report From Baghdad" Part Three--Life in Iraq (tags)
This is a part three of the six-part series "Report form Baghdad" by Pacifica Radio KPFK Los Angeles Reporter Lee Siu Hin's July 2003 trip to U.S. occupied Iraq, to commemorate 6-months commemoration of U.S. invasion of Iraq (Sep 20), and to understand the future of Iraq. To view the entire series, please visit: http://www.actionla.org/Iraq/IraqReport/index.html
Wlimington residents protests against the use of Hydrofluoric Acid at Refinerys (tags)
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OIL EMERGENCY IN COLOMBIA (tags)
Workers shut down the country's main oil refinery in Barrancabermeja after right-wing gunmen kill yet another trade union leader.
Robertson to sue BIG OIL in CA??!! Strange but true... (tags)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Christian Coalition founder Pat Robertson accused the oil companies Thursday of trying to block him from reopening a small refinery in California and said he is considering an antitrust lawsuit. Robertson, at a news conference with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., reiterated complaints that unnamed oil companies had thwarted efforts to get financing to reopen the refinery near Los Angeles.