Oil Tankers

Bin Laden Files Reveal Idea To Hijack And Blow Up Oil Tankers

AP | By EILEEN SULLIVAN and MATT APUZZO | Posted 07.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden's personal files revealed a brazen idea to hijack oil tankers and blow them up at sea last summer, creating explosions h...

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Message in a Bottle

Chris Genovali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, British Columbia, Humpback Whale, Enbridge Inc., Oil Tankers, Green News
Chris Genovali

As part of an effort to understand ocean currents, and how they would influence the movement of a potential oil spill, scientists recently dropped 'drift bottles' into the Pacific Ocean.

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Vampire Blues: Suckin' Blood From the Earth

Chris Genovali | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tar Sands, British Columbia, British Petroleum, Neil Young, Gulf Oil Spill, Alberta, Oil Tankers, Green News
Chris Genovali

When Neil Young recorded the anti-Big Oil "Vampire Blues" for his brilliant album On the Beach in the mid-1970's, who could have known that the song would end up even more relevant a quarter century later?

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Oil Spill Activism: A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea

Brenda Peterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Alternative Energies, Offshore Drilling Protests, Hands Across the Sand, Gulf Oil Spill, Bio-Fuels, Activism, Oil Tankers, Green News
Brenda Peterson

For those of us who live by water, we should get involved in protecting our own shores from increased offshore drilling and future oil spills.

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