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ExxonMobil and the Oil Supply : The Bigger Picture
ExxonMobil CEO Rex W. Tillerson: What, me worry? Photo from Getty Images.The good news and the, well…Exxon says: No need to worry By Roger Baker / The Rag Blog / February 17, 2010 Here is the good news as seen … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Exxon Mobil, Oil Production, OPEC, Peak Oil, Roger Baker, Texas
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Harvey Wasserman : Vermont’s Radioactive Nightmare
Image from This Week in Nuclear.Radioactive fallout:Vermont Yankee one of 27 U.S. reactorsKnown to leak carcinogenic tritium By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / February 11, 2010 Like a decayed flotilla of rickety steamers, at least 27 of America’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, Environment, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Power, Public Health, Vermont
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Nuke Industry Chaos : Obama and the Reactor Wars
Image from Follow the Money.Trials of the nuclear ‘renaissance’:Will Obama guarantee a new reactor war? By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / February 4, 2010 Amidst utter chaos in the atomic reactor industry, Team Obama is poised to vastly … Continue reading
Some ‘Renaissance’ : Big Win for ‘No Nukes’
Nine Mile Point nuclear facilities in Oswago, New York, near the shore of Lake Ontario, at sunset . A new facility, to be built by UniStar, has been delayed. Photo by Mike Greenlar / The Post-Standard.Success for grassroots movement:Nuclear power … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Energy, Environment, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Power, Social Protest
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Thirty Years and Counting : Radioactive News from Three Mile Island
Three Mile Island. Graphic from The Infrastructurist.The new nuke media machine:Fluff, lies and radiation from TMI By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 25, 2009 Yet another “perfectly safe” release at Three Mile Island has irradiated yet another … Continue reading
Nuke ‘Renaissance’ : Same Old, Same Old
Not looking so good:Much-hyped nuclear renaissance ‘If history repeats itself as farce, then the nuclear power industry represents the most incompetent jester of all time…’ By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / November 12, 2009 The much-hyped “renaissance” of … Continue reading
Sherman DeBrosse : Pipeline Politics and the Afghanistan War
Worth all the blood?The Trans Afghanistan Pipeline By Sherman DeBrosse / The Rag Blog / November 6, 2009 President Barack Obama recently honored eighteen fallen American soldiers at a midnight ceremony at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. Let us … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Afghanistan Pipeline, Bin Laden, Bush Administration, Energy, Taliban, U.S. Foreign Policy
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Climate Bill : Morphing into a Monster?
“Acid Tar.” Image ©2009 ~Monster-Man-08.A John Kerry/Lindsay Graham production:Pro-nuke, pro-drilling, pro-coal ‘climate bill’ By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / October 15, 2009 Is the climate bill morphing into an excuse to promote fossil fuels and new nuclear power … Continue reading
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Tagged Bipartisanship, Climate Legislation, Congress, Energy, Fossil Fuels
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Ohio : Big Nuke’s Desperate Radioactive Hoax
Proposed nuke site in Ohio. Photo from AP. Southern Ohioans are good people who deserve jobs and a real economic future. No matter how much Big Nuke spends on them, rushed high-profile corporate announcements touting a doomed technology can only … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman : The GOP’s Radioactive Nuclear Power Plan
A portion of a cooling tower at Vermont Yankee in Vernon, Vt, just after its collapse in August 2007. Earlier this year Vermont Yankee cut its power back 60% due to a radioactive leak.The GOP’s 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive … Continue reading
Harvey Wasserman : Big Troubles for Big Nuke
Nuclear reactor fiasco in Oikiluoto, Finland. Four years under construction; defects multiply and price tag keeps climbing. Photo by Henna Aaltonen / The International Herald Tribune.The New York Times finally reports the economic disaster of new nukes Despite the torrent … Continue reading
