Last updated: June 23, 2010 Source: The New York Times The future of BP’s offshore oil operations in the Gulf of Mexico has been thrown into doubt by the recent drilling disaster and court wrangling over a moratorium. The BP drilling station on the artificial island in the Beaufort Sea. Because of its location on [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
Electrify the Roads
Last updated: June 22, 2010 Source: Truthout My magic wand is on the fritz, otherwise we’d have a big, new federal program to free America from its dependence on oil. Like other environmentalists, I’m sad that the calamity in the Gulf of Mexico hasn’t spurred Washington to more vigorously promote America’s exit from this curse. [...]
BP and Sado-Messochism
Last updated: June 22, 2010 Source: Institute for Policy Studies Have the messes we’ve been making finally reached a point where they can’t be cleaned up? Aside from the occasional asteroid and volcanic outburst, human beings are responsible for the greatest messes on the planet. We’ve polluted the air and water, punched holes in the [...]