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'Hellfighters' To The Rescue In Potentially Disastrous Gas Leak

Reuters | Posted 05.30.2012

Read More: Video, Wild Well Control Gas Leak, Oil Spill Response, Wild Well Control, Total, Reuters, North Sea Gas Leak, North Sea Total, North Sea, Total Gas, Total Gas Leak, Green News

* Wild Well Control also worked on BP's Macondo disaster * UK's Oil Spill Response also called in By Henning Gloystein ...

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'An Explosion Waiting To Happen'?

Reuters | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Video, Total North Sea, Elgin North Sea Platform, Total, North Sea Gas Leak, Reuters, North Sea, Total Oil, Total Gas Leak, Elgin Gas Leak, Green News

* Elgin may become "an explosion waiting to happen" - consultant * Total shares under pressure * Wind taking gas away f...

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Oil Rig Workers Evacuate As Gas Leaks

AP | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Video, Total, North Sea Gas Leak, Oil Rig, North Sea Oil Rig, Oil Rig Gas Leak, Total E&P, Oil Rig Leak, Ap, North Sea Oil, Green News

LONDON (AP) — Shell UK says it is withdrawing some of its workers from two North Sea platforms near an underwater gas leak from a Total-run rig. ...

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$39 Billion, Just the Tip of the $20 Trillion Oil Iceberg

Jigar Shah | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Energy, Rome-Based Eni SpA, Total, Renewable Energy, Exxon, Oil Drilling, Shell, Caspian Sea, Oil Rig, Oil, Colorado River, KazMunaiGaz National Co., Kazakhstan, Kashagan, Gizitdinov, Green News
Jigar Shah

Our energy needs are in conflict are out of synch with natural systems. In the case of the Caspian Sea's $39 billion oil-drilling project, here are some facts.

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Which Country's Mega-Rich Want To Pay Higher Taxes?

WSJ | Robert Frank | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Lilliane Bettencourt, Société Générale, Taxes, Vat, Tax Rates, L'Oreal, France, Total, Millionaires, Wsj, Klm, Warren Buffet, Video, Business News

By Robert Frank of the Wall Street Journal Warren Buffett is playing well in France. A group of 16 of the richest people in France has signed a ...

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Why Madagascar Matters

Susan Zakin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Total, Andry Rajoelina, Madagascar Political Crisis, Marc Ravalomanana, Areva, Madagascar, World News
Susan Zakin

Madagascar's story is a chess game between the French and the Americans, who have been vying for influence for the past decade. Per usual, the real losers are the people, who have been plunged into unimaginable suffering.

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Oil Companies Financing Nuclear Threat in Burma, Refusing Transparency

Matthew Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aung San Suu Kyi, Human Rights, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Nuclear Weapons, Total, Burma, Environment, Green, Southeast Asia, Oil, Democracy, Natural Gas, Nuclear Proliferation, Chevron, World News
Matthew Smith

It appears both Chevron and Total would prefer to hide their payments to the world's newest nuclear threat.

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News Flash: Oil Companies Sometimes Lie

Matthew Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Transparency, Lies, Aung San Suu Kyi, Human Rights, Total, Burma, Environment, Oil, Green News, Chevron, Green News
Matthew Smith

The yes or no question remains: will Total, Chevron, and PTTEP do something positive for Burma and disclose details of their last 18 years of payments to the junta?

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The Least Ethical Companies In The World (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ryanair, Least Ethical Companies, Slidepoll, Corporate Ethics, Occidental Petroleum, Covalence, Mediaset, Freeport-Mcmoran, Monsanto, Syngenta, Barrick-Mining-Company, Grupo Mexico, Halliburton, Total, Least Ethical Companies in the World, Philip Morris, Chevron, Business News

Can ethics be quantified? Or, better yet, can a lack of ethics be quantified? This week, the Swiss research firm Covalence released its annual r...

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Afghan War Costs US $3.6 Billion Per Month: Data

The Hill | Roxana Tiron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan War, Price of Afghanistan, Pentagon, Troops, Afghanistan, Budget, Troop Levels, Cost Per Soldier, Congressional Research Service, Kabul, Obama, Solder, Cost of Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghan War, Monthly Cost, Military, Army, How Much Money, Mcchrystal, Total, Cost Per Month, Afghanistan Election, US, Afghanistan War Cost, Crs, Politics News

The United States spends about $3.6 billion a month in Afghanistan, according to data provided by the Congressional Research Service. ...

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With Bush Leaving Town, Pity Poor Hugo and King Abdullah

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Chevron, Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Shell, Mexico, King Abdullah, China, Opec, Ali Al Naimi, VLCC Tankers, Total, Nopec, Saudi Arabia, Ft, Russia, India, President Bush, The Administration, Venzuela, Oil Prices, Oil, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

With Bush leaving town, the air is going out of the price of oil.

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Oil Deals

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shell, Total, Bp, OIL DEALS, Mobil, Iraq War, Iraq, Oil, Politics News
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The F Word: Shelling Out for Shell

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Total, Bp, Exxon Mobil, Iraq, Oil, Shell Oil, Grittv, Flanders, Politics News
Laura Flanders

Of 46 international oil companies, including firms from China, India and Russia that had their eye on the first major oil deals in post-Saddam Iraq, guess who got the gig? Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Total and BP!

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