Offshore Drilling

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• Obama Takes 1 Step Forward, 1 Step Back On Climate

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 442
  Yesterday’s announcement by the EPA that the Obama Adminsitration is now willing to list greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride) as threats to public health that must be regulated under the Clean Air Act is a major step forward for the ...
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• Youth get in bed together on Lennon anniversary

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  It was 29 years ago today that a lone gunman assassinated John Lennon and the anniversary was the spur behind a youth "bed in" at the COP15 conference center. Socres of young folks from around the world used the day to remember Lennons famous bed-in protest of the Vietnam War and to put their own spin on it. They ...
  13 hours ago

• Palin: Its about time were allowed to compete for Arctic Circle energy resources

  
  Texas for Sarah Palin — Authority: 592
  On her Facebook Notes page Monday night, former Governor Sarah Palin praised Interior Secretary Ken Salazar’s decision to allow drilling at three exploratory wells in the Chukchi Sea off the coast of Alaska: Drill, Baby, Drill... Even Off-Shore I commend Interior Secretary Salazar’s decision ...
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• Thank you, EPA: U.S. solar companies

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Many businesses chafed on Monday at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s declaration that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. But executives at the two largest U.S. solar power companies took a shine to the statement, which clears the way for federal regulation and came as a global climate ...
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• Republican Leadership: FAIL

  
  kavips — Authority: 121
  Failed . The Republican leadership has failed … They are fighting a healthcare plan that benefits all Americans except those directly receiving compensation from the excessive profits being made by insurance companies… You can’t win by fighting everyone… Look locally at Copeland, Adams, McDowell, and ...
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• Fossil of the Day Award: And the winner is…

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The UN Conference on Climate Change is a weighty gathering of serious folks looking for a way to cut carbon emissions. Its also a great place to bring some much-needed humor and along the way hammer a few perceived laggers in the fight against global warming. Enter the Fossil of the Day Awards, a tongue-in-cheek ...
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• Drilling Rigs and Drilling Ships

  
  The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future — Authority: 655
  The debate about how much oil is left and recoverable in the world has brought increasing attention to the recovery of oil and natural gas from offshore. And while I suspect that most of those who comment on this site are very familiar with all the terms, some of the more general readership may not be. Let me, ...
  2 days ago

• Graham says Obama has his back on climate bill (Kerry has "definite Republican votes") (barf!)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Sen. Lindsey Graham may be under fire from conservatives back home in South Carolina. But the Republican got a personal assurance from President Obama yesterday that the White House is supporting his efforts to craft a sweeping Senate energy and global warming bill. “The president told me personally he was very open, ...
  3 days ago

• Taking the Tesla for a spin

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  We took a short spin in a Tesla to see what an all-electric sports car was like. The Roadster Sport wasn’t totally silent, but it wasn’t loud — and it was fast (zero to 60 miles per hour in under 4 seconds). We got lots of looks, too. Tesla calls it “performance with a clean conscience” but building the ...
  4 days ago

• U.S. says no to Arctic fishing

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  (Reporting by Yereth Rosen in Alaska) There is currently no commercial fishing conducted in U.S. Arctic waters, and now there won’t be: a formal ban on commercial seafood harvests in U.S. waters north of the Bering Strait went into effect on Thursday. Environmentalists and fishery managers applauded the move as a ...
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• Forest carbon schemes – new hope for the Amazon?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  By Stuart Grudgings In the tiny settlement of Boa Frente on the banks of a tributary to the Amazon river, bright blue butterflies flitting through trees and the constant squawks of parrots add to the feeling of a paradise on earth. The poverty endured by most of its residents quickly shatters that illusion, but ...
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• What to do while the world burns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A firefighter puts out a fire at a village near Bangkok March 31, 2008. REUTERS/Sukree Sukplang This opinion piece by Mort Rosenblum originally appeared in GlobalPost . The views expressed are his own. For the full article, click here . PARIS, France — Back when primal-scream therapy was the rage in ...
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• Sailing into an icy cauldron

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Reuters employee Pauline Askin has sailed for the Antarctic  for a six -week expedition on the icy continent where she will help restore Mawson’s huts named after Australia’s most celebrated Antarctic explorer on Commonwealth Bay, the windiest place on earth. During the expedition, Pauline will report on ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Endless oil–Russian research has shown that the Earth doesn’t need dinosaurs to produce oil.

  
  Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian — Authority: 149
  Endless oilCreated 09/14/2009 – 13:13 Lawrence Solomon 12 Sep 2009 Financial Post Russian research has shown that the Earth doesn’t need dinosaurs to produce oil. Do dead dinosaurs fuel our cars? The assumption that they do, along with other dead matter thought to have formed what are known as fossil ...
  6 days ago

• Is there an endless supply of oil?

  
  Thoughts Of A Conservative Christian — Authority: 149
  Is there an endless supply of oil? Russ Vaughn In doing some research on my modest energy investments, I came across a link that led me to a website called Energy Probe where I discovered a very interesting article entitled Endless Oil by Canadian environmentalist, Lawrence Solomon, which if true, could cause ...
  6 days ago

• ABG Shipyard exits race for Great Offshore

  
  Stock Advice — Authority: 136
  ABG Shipyard (BOM: 532682) exits race for Great Offshore; sells entire 8.27% stake in Great OffshoreABG Shipyard (BOM: 532682) exits race for Great Offshore. ABG Shipyard exits race for Great Offshore by selling entire 8.27% stake in Great Offshore. Acceptance ratio for Great Offshore open offer is at 26%.Bharati ...
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• After 25 years impact of Bhopal leak lingers

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Controversy still surrounds one of the worlds worst industrial accidents 25 years after an estimated 8,000 people died in the immediate aftermath of a toxic gas leak in Bhopal, India. At around midnight on December 3, 1984, a leak at a Union Carbide plant of methyl isocyanate gas -- a chemical compound used ...
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• 38 Onshore Oil and Natural Gas Lease Sales on Public Lands Set for 2010

  
  Candid Conservatives — Authority: 133
  This may indicate one of two things. More oil and gas or more lawsuits by enviroMentalists. NEWS BLAZE Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday the department next year will hold 38 onshore oil and natural gas lease sales on public lands, mostly in the West, including one in Alaska. The announcement ...
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• Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling (Too bad its not in U.S. waters.)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  <p>You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil.</p><p>The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazils state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazils Tupi oil field in ...
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