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World’s Deepest Offshore Drilling Rig Takes Root
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi would do Americans a favor by learning more about the Perdido Regional Development Spar and discarding her misguided talking points about how it would take 10 years or more to reap...Oil Companies Escape Billions in Royalty Payments to Americans; Drilling Expa...
"Statement of Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program A bureaucratic oversight has allowed 24 oil companies to avoid more than $1.3 billion in royalties for the privilege of extracting oil and natural gas from U.S. territory in the Gulf of Mexico - with...
The next OIL Crisis has started! (Oil Prise will go up again!) News!
By Uwe Paschen.Now that Oil prises are slowly going down, after some massive spending in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for a wile the speculator calmed down as news came of a more stable Iraq and maybe because... U.S. News: Peak profits and empty pockets at the pump
As gas climbs to $5 a gallon, the pain is evident everywhere. Buses are packed. GM is closing factories. The airlines are laying off pilots and flight attendants. Independent truckers are going bankrupt. Real wages... 23 people including 10 Taliban killed in Pakistan
Pakistan's innocent residents in the restive border areas along the Afghanistan are getting caught in the crossfire. Today a shell hit house of a resident and killed all his 6 family family. "Thirteen people have been killed when mortar shells fell on two houses in... Golf club ends 113-year sock rule
Men have been given permission to show off their legs at an Essex golf club for the first time in 113 years."Members of Frinton Golf Club were previously required to wear knee-length socks with shorts. But now committee members have relaxed the rule and men can wear short... Canadians ponder cost of rush for dirty oil
Here we get a long and considered article on Canada's oil sand bonanza or environmental disaster depending on how you view it. Alberta as the new Kuwait. John Vidal's piece is a mixture of sound fact and comment and... Cremated remains of show organizer to be shot in fireworks at Indianapolis...
One of the fireworks bursting above the city this year will contain a bit of cremated remains – a fitting tribute, organizers say, to the man who ran the annual event for 40 years." Meredith Smith died in February at age 74. About a half-teaspoon of his ashes will be in...Oil tanker drivers agree 14 per cent pay deal
Tanker drivers in the UK have agreed to a 14 per cent pay deal over two years. Their strike disrupted fuel supplies last weekend."The rise, which will see basic pay increased to £36,000, will be introduced over two...Nigerian Militants Strike Shell Oil Rig
Nigeria has a tragic history of conflict between Shell oil and local interest groups. Today, militants attacked one of Shell's offshore oil rigs."Royal Dutch Shell was forced to shut down production of its Bonga... UK fuel drivers offered 14% pay rise
UK fuel tanker drivers have been offered a 14% pay increase by Shell to be given over two years. This comes after their four-day strike has affected the UK fuel supplies.A second round of strikes was expected to... Talks restart as UK fuel strike ends
The fuel strike in the UK has ended for now, but another is planned for later this week if the talks that are scheduled fail to settle the dispute over pay.NowPublic coverage on the previous fuel strikes can be found... Hundreds of Shell tanker drivers strike over pay
Hundreds of UK tanker drivers began a four-day pay strike on Friday, affecting fuel delivery to nearly 10 percent of UK filling stations. This is just the latest challenge for an already hard-hit fuel industry, as protests have been taking place around the world. See... Israeli fire kills girl in Gaza
" Israeli fire kills girl in Gaza Three Hamas members were killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday Palestinian medical workers say a young...Houston to Shell Out $150,000 to Defend Police Beard Ban
"HOUSTON — The Houston City Council has unanimously authorized spending up to $150,000 to defend the city in a lawsuit challenging the police department's ban on beards. Council members spent more than an hour last night discussing the policy and...
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