Off Shore Oil Drilling

Chevron's Shareholders Should Say No to Offshore Drilling

Antonia Juhasz | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Offshore Drilling, Off Shore Drilling, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Chevron Off Shore Drilling, Chevron Offshore Drilling, Drilling Off Shore, Green News

If we do not want Chevron to follow, Chevron's shareholders must demand the same protections provided here in California -- a moratorium on offshore drilling -- be provided nationally and, if possible, internationally as well.

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Meet The 'Spillionaires' Who Got Rich From BP's Oil Spill

ProPublica | Kim Barker | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: Profiteering, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Louisiana, Spillionaires, Deepwater Horizon, Hurricane Katrina, Fisherman, BP Oil Spill, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Coastguard, Gulf Coast, Business News

The oil spill that was once expected to bring economic ruin to the Gulf Coast appears to have delivered something entirely different: a gusher of mone...

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Owning Up to Our Oil Addiction

Tom Schey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Oil Addiction, Oil Spill, Climate Legislation, Energy Bill, Clean Energy, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Oil Dependence, Green News

We, vain Americans, blame BP and all the others out there, but it's our addiction providing our neighborhood dealer with the incentives. Our dependency on oil is an addiction we need to break.

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It's Time for President Obama to Have a Serious "Fireside Chat" with the American People

David R. Jones, Esq. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Republican Presidents, BP Oil Spill, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Carl Paladino, New York News

I am concerned that the Obama administration is making a mistake that any parent may recognize: attempting to shield their adult children from harsh realities.

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Moving Forward?

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bp, Corporate Responsibility, Resource-Curse, Deepwater Horizon, Corporate Social Responsibility, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Gulf of Mexico, Energy Policy, Business News

The oil spill highlights the inadequacies of our present system. We need a system where large, systemically relevant firms pay into a transparently managed national clean up and environmental restitution fund.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green News, Green, Climate Change, Green Living, Russia, Energy, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Latin America, Middle East, Oil, Catastrophe, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf Oil Spill, Canada, Canada's Tar Sands, Offshore Drilling, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Oil Dependency, Safety, Mutual Funds, Oil Dependence, Pension Funds, Atlantic Ocean, Exxon Valdez, Chernobyl, Disaster, Deepwater Horizon, Enron, Aig, Oil Gusher, Lehman Brothers, Black Gold, Electric Car, Civilisation, Government, Government Regulation, Man-Made-Disasters, Bp, Contingency Planning, Financial Crisis, Economic Crisis, Risk Management, Crisis Management, Marginal Cost, Risk Profile, British Petroleum, Admiral Thad Allen, Business News

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...While the Oil Gushes

Tina Dupuy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, BP Oil Spill, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Gulf Oil Spill, Drill Baby Drill, Charlie Melancon, Green News

The term "deep water" usually means you're in trouble and "horizon" is what lies ahead. So the ill-fated drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, is aptly named. Doom has arrived on our shores and our prospects are tacky with tar balls.

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Oil Spill: 5 New Rules and Regulations for Talking About BP Disaster

Katie Halper | Posted 05.25.2011

Automatically blaming Halliburton every time you hear of a preventable fatal tragedy due to cutting corners and saving money or a rape cover-up is not paranoia or a knee-jerk reaction. It is a statistical probability.

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Escape Oil Before We Drown

Fernando Espuelas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cap and Trade, Green Tech, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Bp, Renewable Energy, BP Oil Spill 2010, Gulf Oil Spill, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Green Energy, Technology, Green News

In short, we run the risk of drowning in oil, but we don't have a choice. But is that really true? Are we trapped for decades in the grasp of this collective addiction that destroys the nature we depend on for our very existence while emptying our national treasury?

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Gulf Disaster Shows Drilling Is Too Dangerous

Jamie Rappaport Clark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jamie Rappaport Clark, Oil Disaster, Gulf Oil Spill, Mobile Bay, Defenders of Wildlife, Oil Spill, Brown Pelicans, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Green News

If the catastrophe in the Gulf does not wake us up to the need to wean ourselves off oil and move towards clean, safe, renewable energy, I don't know what will.

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Sociologist Says The Right Leader Is Handling the Oil Spill

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Micheal Lindsay, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Admiral Thad Allen, Environment, Jonathan Merritt, Environmentalism, Green Like God, BP Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Healthy Living News

Maybe what we really need isn't a funnel or a cap or a plan to clean-up all the beaches that will doubtlessly turn black in the days ahead. Perhaps we need a few more leaders with the guts to look us in the eyes and tell us the truth.

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Kerry, Lieberman Promote Offshore Oil, Coal, Nukes, Offsets in New "Climate" Bill

Daphne Wysham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Climate Change, Joe Lieberman, John Kerry, Climate Bill, Carbon Offsets, American Power Act, Nuclear Power, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Clean Air Act, Green News

In introducing the "American Power Act" on May 12, 2010, Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) seemed oblivious to the various public relations disasters the industries favored in their bill had suffered in recent weeks.

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Green News Report - July 23, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, India, Clean Coal, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Green News Report, Smart LEDs, E. Coli, Tourism, Biomass, Fish, Missouri, Green News, Climate Change, Hillary Clinton, Sustainable Seafood, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, California Budget Crisis, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Honey, I shrunk the fish!; Off-shore drilling vs. California's budget; "Clean coal" vs. reality; Tourism vs. Safety in Misso...

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Steven Chu, Energy Chief

James M. Gentile | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Steven Chu, Renewable Energy, Secretary of Energy, Green Energy, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, Steven Chu Energy Secretary, Drill Baby Drill, Offshore Drilling, Green News

Chu understands that energy policy is not just about oil, and he has a distinguished history of involvement in the kinds of transformational science that could radically alter U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

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McCain's New Commercial Should Drive Voters to Obama

Mitchell Bard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Prices, ANWR Drilling, John McCain, John McCain Phil Gramm, Gas Tax Holiday, John Mccain Commercial, Off-Shore Oil Drilling, 2008 Election, Frank Rich Mccain Economics, Politics News

What is McCain's next commercial going to be? That Obama is responsible for global warming? The recent outbreak of salmonella? The inability of the Chicago Cubs to win a World Series?

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