Over the last 50 odd years, big oil spills are no longer news in this vast, tropical land. The Niger Delta – where the wealth underground is out of all proportion with the poverty on the surface – has endured the equivalent of an Exxon Valdez spill every year for 50 years by some estimates; [...]
Entries Tagged as 'oil'
Americans Discover How Africans Live With Oil Spills
June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: africa · environment · oil
Gulf Oil Spill – A Hole in The World
June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
I’ve noticed a tendency to post less articles these days; sort of like I’ve given up. I joined the (Australian) Navy when I was 15 and having grown up in the bush, I didn’t see much cause and effect of humans on the environment; however, before I turned 18, I had seen sights of human [...]
Tags: corporations · environment · oil · usa
Coincidence, Collusion or Oil Spill Conspiracy?
June 22nd, 2010 · No Comments
We know that Churchill stole two ships already paid for by the Turkish which had them sign up with Hitler; we know that Dick Cheney (Former Vice President of the USA) was with Halliburton prior to through and still with a company structured to benefit from energy and war and that the Bush family has [...]
Tags: corporations · environment · oil · usa
Macro-economic Slips on Microscopic Oil Spill
June 3rd, 2010 · No Comments
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t for a moment pass off the BP oil spill off the USA as a minor issue by any stretch of the imagination. Be it 1,000 (as BP first stated) then 5,000 barrels a day – then they were ‘capturing’ 5,000 barrels a day yet camera footage sees tonnes of [...]
Tags: environment · money · oil
Corporate Government Leading ‘Lights’ – Bush, Blair & Howard, Iraq War Cash Bonuses?
March 20th, 2010 · No Comments
We know that the Bush family was heavily involved in oil (although George W had trouble finding any anywhere but on his car’s dipstick) and we know the Australian government did its best to steal East Timor’s oil reserves (by moving Australia’s boundaries below the sea but closer to Australia above the sea to turn [...]
