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Jim Hightower : British Petroleum as Global Corporate Criminal
British Petroleum: the many faces of corporate crime. Photo from BP 50 years in Pictures / TLAXCALA.British Petroleum:Recidivist corporate criminal By Jim Hightower / June 18, 2010 Gosh, how quickly things turn. One day, you’re a strutting peacock — the … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Corporate Corruption, Deepwater Horizon, Environment, Jim Hightower, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill
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View From Texas Coast : Stop the Drilling Now
In better days: Brown Pelican off the Texas Coast. Photo from Amber Coakley / Birders Lounge.BP oil disaster demonstratesNeed to end offshore drilling …our love for the abundant life [on the Gulf Coast] is so woven into our lives that … Continue reading
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Tagged Ecology, Environment, Gulf Coast, Habitat, Lamar W. Hankins, Offshore Drilling, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Texas
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Climate Change : Ten Times Faster than Predicted
Image from Greenpeace / UK.Climate change:Worse than the worst case scenarioBy Bruce Melton / The Rag Blog / June 16, 2010 It takes 196,000 pounds of plants to produce a gallon of gasoline. It takes 40 acres of plants, roots, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Melton, Climate Change, Environment, Global Warming, Science
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Harvey Wasserman : Corporate Apocalypse Cometh
Coming your way soon: Horsemen of the corporate apocalypse. Image from TheDailyBite.Survival means change now:Stop the corporate apocalypse By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / June 16, 2010 BP’s apocalyptic Gulf gusher has put our ability to survive in … Continue reading
Jordan Flaherty : Cultural Extinction and the Deepwater Spill
Photo of Bayou Pointe-au-Chien from a backyard in the Louisiana Indian community. Photo by Jordan Flaherty / The Rag Blog.Cultural extinction and the Deepwater spill Louisiana’s coastal communities fear they may never recover from BP’s drilling disaster. By Jordan Flaherty … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, Ecology, Economics, Environment, Jordan Flaherty, Louisiana, Oil Spill
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Oil and Politics: Reality Comes Home to Roost
Photo montage by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Deregulate this!Oil, politics, and the Tea Party I must ask the tea-bag draped folks who insist our government should take a hands-off approach to ‘their lives’ what their reaction is to the … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Deepwater Horizon, Environment, Government Regulation, Gulf Coast, Larry Ray, Oil Spill, Tea Baggers
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Harvey Wasserman: Apocalypse Now : Nukes Next?
Steam plumes rise from cooling tower at Fermi2 Nuclear Power Plant on the shore Lake Erie. Photo by Alexander Cohn / Bay City Times.Will nukes be next?Apocalypse (in the Gulf) Now By Harvey Wasserman / The Rag Blog / June … Continue reading
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Tagged Alternative Energy, Energy Policy, Environment, Gulf Coast, Harvey Wasserman, Nuclear Power, Oil Spill
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Larry Ray : BP Means You ‘Better Pray’
Time warp photo montage by Larry Ray / The Rag Blog.Blessing of the Fleet:Oil spill anxiety accompanies annual ritual By Larry Ray / The Rag Blog / June 2, 2010 GULFPORT, Mississippi — The uncertainty of the huge BP oil … Continue reading
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Tagged Biloxi, British Petroleum, Catholic Church, Ecology, Environment, Gulf Coast, Larry Ray, Mississippi, Oil Spill, Ritual
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Mission Possible? : Visualize Skimmers and Booms
Crude oil collects on the wrong side of an orange containment boom in Pass a Loutre near Venice, Louisiana, May 30, 2010. Photo by A.J. Sisco / UPI.Skimmers and booms:Keywords for victory on the Gulf Coast By Greg Moses / … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Environment, Greg Moses, Gulf Coast, Oil Spill, pollution
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TCEQ Blowing Smoke? : Protecting the Texas Environment
Image from Pegasus News / Dallas/Ft.WorthTexas’ lack of compliance:EPA challenges TCEQ over air quality By Ted McLaughlin / The Rag Blog / May 30, 2010 The state agency that is supposed to assure that pollution does not endanger the citizens … Continue reading
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Tagged Air Quality, Clean Air Act, Environment, EPA, Fort Worth, pollution, Rick Perry, TCEQ, Ted McLaughlin, Texas
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VERSE / Larry Piltz : New Atlantis and Banglateche
“Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn…” Illustration by Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming (1905) for “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” tr. Edward Fitzgerald / Wikimedia Commons. New Atlantis and Banglateche By Houma Cayenne Here beside my breathing … Continue reading
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Tagged British Petroleum, Ecology, Environment, Gulf Coast, Larry Piltz, Literature, Louisiana, Oil Spill, Poetry
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