Energy Efficiency

BP officials tried to take control of a $500m fund pledged by the oil company for independent research into the consequences of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, it has emerged. Documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show BP officials openly discussing how to influence the work of scientists supported by the fund, [...]

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A new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has created a mile-long slick after a tug boat struck an abandoned well off the Louisiana coast and a crew from the Deepwater Horizon clean-up operation was sent there, the spill in Barataria Bay is surrounded by wildlife-rich wetlands and is at least the third leak [...]

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Previously I’ve commented on the crash of the US$; where America started as a world saviour (or was it just our first taste of spin-doctoring) when they entered the second world war. Americans (and for that matter the rest of the world) were warned by USA President Eisenhower that corporations and the military were positioning [...]

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A giant deepwater oil discovery in the Tiber field (Gulf of Mexico) is likely to increase BP’s oil footprint in the region; about 8% of the oil and gas BP produces comes from the U.S. Gulf. BP is the biggest producer in the Gulf, to the tune of 400,000 barrels of crude oil and natural [...]

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America is on the ropes and its ‘trainer’ – China – is also struggling. Just as Kevin Rudd is weighing up borrowing more money to pump into the economy to make it look like its business as usual, so too is China wondering how much more money to pump into the American economy to buy [...]

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