September 7, 2010 | Posted by Judy Dugan
Mexico’s huge national oil company, Pemex, has
shut down
a large chunk of its natural gas fields because of the apparent
kidnapping of dozens of employees and contract workers by drug gangs
that are also stealing and selling oil and gas. It’s a situation
increasingly similar to oilfield battles in Nigeria, where a corrupt government essentially rents out its troops to oil companies.
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September 2, 2010 | Posted by Judy Dugan
The new oil platform fire or explosion in the Gulf of Mexico looks minor in comparison to the BP spill, but there are sure some loud echoes in how it's being handled. When word first trickled out about Thusday's platform accident off the Louisiana coast, there were swift assurances from the owner that no oil had leaked, and since the platform pumped mostly natural gas, leaks couldn't be a problem anyway.
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September 1, 2010 | Posted by Judy Dugan
The chief funders of California's anti-regulation Proposition 23 on the November ballot are a pair of Texas-based refiners, Valero and Tesoro. Each of them has two refineries in California and the last thing they want, from a profit standpoint, is regulation of greenhouse gases or any concerted attempt to slow climate change.
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August 15, 2010 | Posted by Judy Dugan
You think you're done being mad at BP? You're over the fact that it's still getting piles of U.S. taxpayer subsidies, including subsidies on its cleanup payments? Think again. Jim Hightower, the Texas populist and scourge of misbehaving corporations, tells us that BP isn't just hiring out-of-work Florida Pandhandle folks--it's using semicamouflaged prison labor, and the scary fellas come with a $2,500 per-head subsidy.
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July 28, 2010 | dugan
Big Coal is planning an anonymous campaign blitz against elected officials (in Kentucky in this case) who dare to favor any restrictions on coal. That's according to an internal coal company memo obtained by Kentucky's Lexington Herald newspaper. This is only a tiny piece of the fallout from the Supreme Court's decision to let corporations pour unlimited anonymous money into political campaigns. How many more memos are still secret?
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