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NOVEMBER 2011
Chevron Has Some Credibility Issues With New Spill Off the Coast of Brazil
Why can't people just step up and tell the truth when there is an oil spill? Heck, we'll understand. On Nov 25, Brazil's environmental protection agency reported (about the same time Chevron was claiming the spill was contained) that the real total of oil spilled into the Atlantic Ocean in the latest petroleum industry mishap was more like 110,000 gallons. Chevron had earlier claimed the oil slick was caused by a natural oil seep on the seafloor. But Brazilian authorities said Eventually, Chevron admitted the possibility that something might wrong at their drillsite. The the oil slick kept getting bigger, up to 56 miles long according to
satellite images. Read
more.
OCTOBER 2011
Regina, SK Refinery 
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These are the clowns we're letting drill in the Arctic?
SHELL REFINERY IN SINGAPORE 
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As hundreds of oil executives and Alaskan tribal leaders drool over billions in potential oil profits, Shell and BP demonstrate their continued competency. Shell with a three day refinery fire in Singapore, and BP, with a resurgence of the Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Record profits for the top five oil companies give us a hint as to why the spills just keep on coming. ExxonMobil screwed up 40 miles of the previously scenic Yellowstone River July 1 after a
pimpline it had been warned about ruptured. Oops. [SECOND QUARTER PROFIT $10.7 BILLION]
As the media continues to not report the ExxonMobil spill and landowners continue to wait for answers, it is simultaneously not reporting Royal Dutch Shell's 200+ ton spill from its Gannet Alpha rig in the North Sea. Of course, Shell didn't report it either. SECOND QUARTER EARNINGS 48.7 BILLION] Good enough. Everything is under control according to Shell and it's hardly leaking at all at the moment.
Each year for the past half century or so, Shell has
spilled the equivalent of Deepwater Horizon into the Niger Delta. The difference is, they don't clean it up. Why? The key is in the word Niger. Just add a "g".
Exxon Mobil Oil Spill Fouls Yellowstone River
According to Montana officials, the world's largest oil company misled the state regarding the safety of the pipeline that ruptured in early July, sending more than 42,000 gallons of crude oil into the once scenic Yellowstone River. The company had been asked to inspect the line in May, and pronounced everything hunky dory.
Federal officials have said shoreline contamination has been observed over an area stretching at least 240 miles downstream from the spill site. Exxon officials said the damage was limited to 10 miles. Someone is mistaken. Is it the Feds or Exxon?
Is it just the highly trained information screening certification course that Editorial Board members are required to complete, or do other people see THERE IS A CERTAIN
PATTERN THAT RECUR WITH OIL AND NATURAL GAS COMPANIES?
ExxonMobil is the company that not only brought you the
ExxonValdez catastrophe in Alaska, but also fought reparations for twenty years and won (just waiting for the right Supreme Court is all). It’s the same company that was just outed for financing a fanatical climate skeptic after announcing it had stopped the practice.
(2) 20,000 Rare Penquins are Goners as Oil Spill Surrounds World Heritage Site in the South Atlantic
About 300,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil were spilled into the South Atlantic Ocean, creating what amounts to a ring of death around Nightingale Island (the most remote populated island in the world). Home to a population of 20,000 endangered rockhopper penguins, the island is surrounded by the spill from the Olivia, a freighter that ran aground offshore. Read more
here.
Jan 23 / Feb 10 2011
Safe, clean, inexpensive natural gas: two more explosions - One more death. Philadephia. Eastern Ohio.
Story here.
Another BP Pipeline Screwup in Alaska:
From the geniuses who brought you Deepwater Horizon: the Department of Transportation follows up another leak on the Trans Alaskan Pipeline with an alarming Report
(5) TROUBLE ON THE OIL PIMPLINES:
Two ruptured pipelies in the American midwest and a lethal explosion in San Francisco almost makes it look as the petro pimps can't really control their toxic Genie. There were 2,500 major oil spills in the U.S. over the past decade.
(4) IF IT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN THE U.S., IT DIDN'T HAPPEN DEPT:
Did you miss the major pipeline explosion and oil spill in Dalian China
(5) THE MUD VOLCANO THAT ATE INDONESIA: The deadly Lusi Mud Volcano was caused by sloppy drilling practices, according to U.S. and Canadian Scientists. Exploration company Lapindo Brantas - deeply conneced to the Indonesian Government - denies responsibility as thousands lose their homes and livehood. Erupting continually since 2006, the mud volcano now covers three square miles, has razed four villages and 25 factories.
