""That [Friday] morning I'd been sitting on the rocks at the spit watching two seals fighting over a salmon, two ospreys diving for something and a stupid little seagull trying to get some of the...
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"The Israeli bombing of a Lebanese power plant has triggered the Mediterranean's worst ever environmental catastrophe, with up to 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil spewing out into the sea and the sludge-covered...
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"Oil producer BP Plc began shutting down on Sunday the biggest oilfield in the United States, Alaska's Prudhoe Bay, after discovering a small pipeline leak, cutting output by 400,000 barrels daily and sending oil prices up nearly 2 percent.
BP, already part of a criminal...
" Global oil prices could hit $200 per barrel if the United States pursues international sanctions against Iran, an Iranian official said on Thursday, although analysts passed the comment off as saber rattling....
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"I can't tell you how it started - this war has been fought since the Levites clashed with the Philistines - but I can tell you why the current mayhem has not been stopped: it's the oil.
I'm not an expert on...
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"NYT is reporting that BP "announced a profit of $7.27 billion in the second quarter, 30 percent more than the comparable period a year ago and the equivalent of more than $55,000 a minute."
I'm going to repeat...
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A growing number of Americans are setting up mini-refineries in their homes to produce biodiesel, a fuel made from waste cooking oil which is cleaner and cheaper than the petrol sold in gas stations.
The...
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"Here is the irony of the Harpocrites international policies, they denounce Kyoto because Canada would be spending millions on European carbon credits, while promoting Canadian investment in Russian Gas and Oil instead. Hmmmm. And this should make us all more wary of LNG...
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"Beirut was silent yesterday morning. Smoke still hung in the blue sky like a vague threat, but after a night of violence - physical and verbal - the port city waited. A few shops in the centre warily raised their...
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As world leaders prepare to meet in St. Petersberg for the G-8 gathering, conflicts in the Middle East are impacting millions of lives. NowPublic is looking for contributors who can document impacts of the latest...
"Declining oil reserves and soaring prices could see desperate nations overturning a ban on drilling in the last untouched frontier -- Antarctica, an oil expert has told a scientific conference. Pressure to...
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Daily News "Citgo Petroleum Corp., Venezuela-owned, recently declared that it has decided to stop distributing gasoline to some 1,800 U.S. stations, shedding a lackluster segment of its business while forcing the owners of those stations to find other suppliers."
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"Suppose you were like this guy and you had devoted nearly a decade of your life to figuring out how to make oil from turkey gizzards. Now suppose this guy and a bunch of pencil-pushers like these guys came along and started challenging the long-term viability of carbon-based...
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We all know that the price of petrol has increased and as a result, and due to new EU legislation, cooking oils are increasingly being collected to be turned into transport fuels. UCO (used cooking oil) is...
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