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By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer
Rohan Sullivan, Associated Press Writer
– Sat Feb 6, 2010
Whaler, activist ship collide again
off Antarctica
THIS IS ACTION PACKED with reference to urine, acid, arrows, etc..
SYDNEY – The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided Saturday in the icy waters off Antarctica — the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_defenses
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By ROBERT BURNS, AP 1-30-10
US beefing up missile defenses in Persian Gulf
begun upgrading its approach to defending its Persian Gulf allies against potential Iranian missile strikes, officials said Saturday.
The United States has quietly increased the capability of land-based Patriot defensive missiles in several Gulf Arab nations, and one military official said the Navy is beefing up the presence of ships capable of knocking down hostile missiles in flight.
The officials discussed aspects of the defensive strategy on condition of anonymity because some elements are classified.
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Is a Texas town sick because of natural gas pipeline?
Texas city sick because of natural gas pipeline?
Tue Jan 12, 8:29AM PT - AP 3:32 51335 views
A small Texas town located atop one of the nation's most productive natural gas fields is awaiting a new round of test results after state regulators found a cancer-causing pollutant in the air. (Jan. 12) 2010
barnett shale compresor gas location Dish Texas
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http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/04/02/usgs-finds-sources-new-jersey-sized-dead-zone-gulf
USGS Finds Sources for
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_defenses
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By ROBERT BURNS, AP 1-30-10
US beefing up missile defenses in Persian Gulf
begun upgrading its approach to defending its Persian Gulf allies against potential Iranian missile strikes, officials said Saturday.
The United States has quietly increased the capability of land-based Patriot defensive missiles in several Gulf Arab nations, and one military official said the Navy is beefing up the presence of ships capable of knocking down hostile missiles in flight.
The officials discussed aspects of the defensive strategy on condition of anonymity because some elements are classified.
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PUBLIC UNREST
Is a Texas town sick because of natural gas pipeline?
Texas city sick because of natural gas pipeline?
Tue Jan 12, 8:29AM PT - AP 3:32 51335 views
A small Texas town located atop one of the nation's most productive natural gas fields is awaiting a new round of test results after state regulators found a cancer-causing pollutant in the air. (Jan. 12) 2010
barnett shale compresor gas location Dish Texas
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http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2009/04/02/usgs-finds-sources-new-jersey-sized-dead-zone-gulf
USGS Finds Sources forEvery year, excess fertilizers and animal manure flow down the Mississippi River and empties into the Gulf of Mexico, leaving an increasingly large swath of the gulf completely lifeless.
In addition to killing off massive amounts of sea life, the Gulf's dead zone has crippled fishing industries for long stretches of the summer in Louisiana and eastern Texas. Last year, the NOAA predicted the largest-ever dead zone, at 8,800 square miles about the size of New Jersey.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
VIDEO guardian.co.uk,
Monday 2 November 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/nov/02/oil-leak-timor-sea
Oil platform burns in North Sea --updated 7:21 a.m. EST, Sun
November 25, 2007
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Less than three hours after it began, a fire on a North Sea oil platform was extinguished and no one was hurt, Lund in Petroleum said Sunday.
The Swedish independent oil and gas exploration and production company said in a news release that 116 personnel deemed non-essential were taken Sunday morning from the Thistle Alpha platform, 325 miles north-northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland, to other platforms a few miles away.
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091102/australia_fire_091102/20091102?hub=World&s_name=
Australian oil rig and platform catch fire in Timor Sea
In this photo provided by PTTEP Australia, the West Atlas oil rig is seen burning about 250 kilometers off Australia's northwest coast Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.
SYDNEY, Australia — A massive fire erupted on an oil rig that has been leaking into the Timor Sea and Australia's government Monday promised an investigation, the latest drama in a 10-week saga to plug the hole.
Rig operator PTTEP Australasia said no one was injured and nonessential workers were evacuated after the fire broke out on the West Atlas rig and Montara wellhead platform on Sunday.
The blaze started when workers began pumping heavy mud into a leaking well casing. An estimated 400 barrels of oil a day have escaped from the hole since Aug. 21.
Officials on Monday planned to pour more mud into
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/evolving_earth/evolving_earth.html Australian oil rig and platform catch fire in Timor Sea
VIDEO guardian.co.uk,
Monday 2 November 2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/video/2009/nov/02/oil-leak-timor-sea
Oil platform burns in North Sea --updated 7:21 a.m. EST, Sun
November 25, 2007
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Less than three hours after it began, a fire on a North Sea oil platform was extinguished and no one was hurt, Lund in Petroleum said Sunday.
The Swedish independent oil and gas exploration and production company said in a news release that 116 personnel deemed non-essential were taken Sunday morning from the Thistle Alpha platform, 325 miles north-northeast of Aberdeen, Scotland, to other platforms a few miles away.
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http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20091102/australia_fire_091102/20091102?hub=World&s_name=
Australian oil rig and platform catch fire in Timor Sea
In this photo provided by PTTEP Australia, the West Atlas oil rig is seen burning about 250 kilometers off Australia's northwest coast Monday, Nov. 2, 2009.SYDNEY, Australia — A massive fire erupted on an oil rig that has been leaking into the Timor Sea and Australia's government Monday promised an investigation, the latest drama in a 10-week saga to plug the hole.
Rig operator PTTEP Australasia said no one was injured and nonessential workers were evacuated after the fire broke out on the West Atlas rig and Montara wellhead platform on Sunday.
The blaze started when workers began pumping heavy mud into a leaking well casing. An estimated 400 barrels of oil a day have escaped from the hole since Aug. 21.
Officials on Monday planned to pour more mud into
http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange1/current/lectures/evolving_earth/evolving_earth.html Australian oil rig and platform catch fire in Timor Sea
08.24.09
Reuters reports that a leaking Australian offshore oil well will continue to spill oil into the Timor Sea for nearly two months. That's how long it take to fix the blow out -- two miles below the surface -- which occurred last week:
It's going to take three weeks to bring in a new drilling rig from Singapore, then another four weeks to drill a relief well, pour mud in, and stop the leak.
Efforts underway to control the spread of the slick, now 9 miles in length, include spraying dispersant chemicals onto it from aircraft.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://cleantechnica.com/
First Polio, Now Mercury: World Unites Against Global Health Threat
October 24th, 2009
Mercury pollution is next on the list of global health threats to face concentrated action with the goal of elimination. According to Zero Mercury Working Group, yesterday the first significant steps toward a binding treaty to control mercury pollution were announced at a United Nations Environmental Program meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, in advance of negotiations that will take place in Stockholm next summer.
The global nature of mercury pollution lies in its ability to travel long distances from its point of emission through the food chain. In fish it accumulates in its most toxic form, methylmercury. Zero Mercury hopes to achieve a treaty by 2013 that promotes more sustainable alternatives to mercury in products and industrial processes, with the broad goal of addressing all controllable emissions of mercury in the environment.
Read the rest of this entry »
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http://www.texasmonthly.com/2009-11-01/feature3.php#
Below the Surface
Since 1996, a legal battle has raged between ExxonMobil and a powerful South Texas ranching clan that believes the oil company sabotaged wells on the family property. Even after a ruling by the state Supreme Court earlier this year, the bitter feud shows no signs of letting up. Maybe that’s because it’s about something far more important than money.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5289514n&tag=morephotovideo
PUBLIC UNREST --
Civilians Caught in Crossfire CBS VIDEO
September 4, 2009
A U.S. air strike aimed at a group of Taliban fighters resulted in the deaths of Afghan civilians. Elizabeth Palmer reports on the resulting pressure put on America's top commander in Afghanistan.
Note:
Civilians were gathering gasoline from 2 stolen tanker and a missle strike from Las Vegas was called in.. by the time the missle arrived and fired civilians had gathered. up to 100 dead ?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?_r=1
Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security
August 8, 2009
WASHINGTON —
The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration (french humor ^)
pandemics, military and intelligence ---analysts say.
Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_shoe_thrower
'Shoe thrower' freed early
PUBLIC UNREST --
Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush to be released early
Muntadhar al-Zeidi's act of protest during Bush's last visit to Iraq as president turned the 30-year-old reporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, as his case became a rallying point for critics who resented the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation.
"Al-Zeidi's shoes were a suitable farewell for Bush's deeds in Iraq," Sunni lawmaker Dhafir al-Ani said in welcoming the early release. "Al-Zeidi's act expressed the real will and feelings of the Iraqi people.
His anger against Bush was the result of the suffering of his countrymen."
The journalist has been in custody since the Dec. 14 outburst,
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ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION $$$
As immigration enforcement tightens,
the detention system is overwhelmed
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
"Deport me or set me free!" is Patua Wopea's plea after seven years spent caught in the trap that is America's immigration detention system
-----Wopea is among some 400,000 immigrants who are incarcerated nationwide each year under allegations of immigration violations
------The 200 to 300 immigrants who are in detention on any given day in Minnesota are held in jails in Sherburne, Carver, Ramsey, Nobles and Freeborn counties, said the Bloomington office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/08/24/one-start-ups-quest-to-prevent-oil-thefts/
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/
5710
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August 24, 2009
One Start-Up’s Quest To Prevent Oil Thefts
---As the U.S. government cracks down on refineries here that knowingly purchased stolen petroleum products from Mexico, one start-up, Hi-G-Tek Ltd----
----Considering that Pemex pumps enough fuel in a day to fill between 15,000 and 30,000 tanker trucks, the company has a long way to go before the whole fleet is protected.
Petroleos Mexicanos did not respond to requests for comment. Corporación Nacional de Radiodeterminacion declined to comment for this article.
-----Blue estimates that Pemex loses about $1 billion in revenue to theft each year, compared with the estimated $75 billion worth of oil and gas it is expected to sell this year. Other countries lose as much as 30% of their oil and gas revenue to this crime.
------With the global economy in a recession, this problem shows no sign of abating. Hi-G-Tek expects sales from the oil and gas industry to account for about one-third of $10 million in revenue this year, growing to about two-thirds of its revenue over the next two years, Blue said. About 40% of its revenue currently comes from selling to customs agencies for use on shipping containers. The rest comes from co
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Militants claim Russia dam disaster
MOSCOW (AFP) – An Islamist group Friday claimed it carried out deadly attacks on the same day this week against Russia's biggest hydroelectric power station and a police station in the Caucasus that left dozens dead.
Russian investigators strongly denied the claim by Riyadus Salikhiin, a militant group with roots in Chechnya, that it had hit the power station as part of a new campaign of "economic war" in Russia.
Putin orders probe of creaking infrastructure
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for a sweeping probe of Russia's creaking Soviet-era infrastructure on Thursday after a disaster at its largest hydroelectric power station.
A water surge caused aging turbines to explode at a 31-year-old Siberian dam on Monday, starting a chain reaction that sent a cascade of water into a 100-meter (yard) turbine hall and the four floors below it, and dumped 45 tons of fuel oil into the Yenisei River below.
Russian PM Putin wants electricity prices regulated
CHERYOMUSHKI,
Russia,
Aug 21 (Reuters)
- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his government to prepare a draft decree on the temporary regulation of wholesale electricity prices after a disaster at a hydro dam this week.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gC9ocrnNCQH_mjxYVgwQBarIH3nw
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http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news%3Fpid%3D20601109%26sid%3DaBC4ld4jmdV4&hl=en
PUBLIC UNREST--LOGGING PROTESTS SPREAD IN BORNEO AS NOMADS BLOCKADE ROADS
by Survival International Monday Aug 24th, 2009
Hundreds of Penan have blocked roads at three new locations in the interior of Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo. The protestors are demanding an end to logging and plantations on their land without their consent, and recognition of their land ownership rights.
---LONG BELOK, Malaysia — Hundreds of Penan tribespeople armed with spears and blowpipes have set up new blockades deep in the Borneo jungles, escalating their campaign against logging and palm oil plantations.
Three new barricades
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http://climateofourfuture.org/
PUBLIC UNREST--
Exxon Pleads Guilty to Killing Protected Birds from TreeHugger
August 14, 2009
has agreed to pay $600,000 in fines for killing 85 protected birds. The dead birds–hawks, owls, and waterfowl–were evidently exposed to hydrocarbons at drilling facilities and waste water storage plants at a number of Exxon’s natural gas operations across the Midwest. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
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PUBLIC UNREST --
Aug 14, 09
Mexico nabs gas thieves;
US refineries implicated
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- They bleed the fuel lines just about anywhere, drug cartel members and other criminals, sucking millions of dollars of Mexican petroleum from makeshift taps hidden in sheds or on remote desert stretches, with thousands of gallons ending up in U.S. refineries.
Mexican police busted gas thieves stream of stolen petroleum products, millions of dollars worth of which is smuggled across the border and sold to U.S. refineries, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
While Mexican authorities try to patch the leaks, U.S. officials are tracking proceeds from various Texas bank accounts and taking a close look at several Texas companies to que
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_DRUG_WAR_STOLEN_OIL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-14-14-38-02
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_re_us/us_militia_movement
PUBLIC UNREST --
Officials see rise in
militia groups across US
AP 8-11-09
WASHINGTON – Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends.
The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black president are among the causes for the recent rise, the report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says. Conspiracy theories about a secret Mexican plan to reclaim the Southwest are also growing amid the public debate about illegal immigration.
Bart McEntire, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told SPLC researchers that this is the most growth he's seen in more than a decade.
"All it's lacking is a spark," McEntire said in the report.
It's reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s — right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called "sovereign citizens" are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday. The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights group that, among other activities, investigates hate groups.
Last October, someone from the Ohio Militia posted a recruiting video on YouTube, billed as a "wake-up call" for America. It's been viewed more than 60,000 times.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-britain-wildcat-strikes,0,6417240.story
(7)-- PUBLIC UNREST
LONDON (AP)
Oil company Total fires British workers after unofficial strike, protests continue
June 19, 2009 —
British contract workers walked off their jobs at British energy facilities Friday, part of an escalating dispute triggered by the employment of foreign workers.
Tensions flared after French oil and gas company Total fired more than 600 contract workers Thursday for participating in a wildcat strike at its Lindsey Oil Refinery in northern England.
The strikes have spread to other power stations, including Drax, the nation's largest coal-fired plant. Bernard McAulay, an official with the UNITE union, told a crowd of picketers at the parking lot across the Lindsey refinery, about 165 miles (265 kilometers) north of London, that while foreign workers had their place, "the first priority has got to be labor from the local community."
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(6)--PUBLIC UNREST -
Oil Killings
Peru says 9 more police killed by Amazon Indians protesting gas, oil exploration
CARLA SALAZAR Associated Press
June 6, 2009
Indians block a road as tear gas fired by police smokes behind in Bagua Grande in Peru's northern province of Utcubamba,
Friday, June 5, 2009.
Indians protesting oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon Friday, with authorities and Indian leaders reporting at least 30 deaths.
The violence broke out before dawn as officers tried to end a road blockade by some 5,000 Indians in the northern province of Utcubamba.
June 5, 2009)
LIMA, Peru (AP) —
At least nine Peruvian police officers were killed Saturday as soldiers stormed an oil pumping station in the Amazon where Indian protesters were holding police hostage, the country's defense minister said.
The deaths brought to 20 the number of police killed — some with spears — since security forces moved early Friday to break up a roadblock by indigenous Peruvians who oppose government moves to exploit oil and gas and other resources on their lands.
Protest leaders said at least 25 Indians, including three children, died in the clashes. Authorities confirmed only five civilian deaths, but said 109 people were injured. Associated Press writers Tamy Higa in Lima and Frank Bajak in Bogota contributed to this report.
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http://www.energytribune.com/articles.cfm?aid=1827
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PUBLIC UNREST
Royal Dutch Shell Execution Case Set
May. 27, 2009
Activists trying to prove oil giant Royal Dutch Shell was complicit in the 1995 executions of nine anti-oil campaigners, including Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, have brought their case to the US.
Over the last 12 years, the family of the Ogoni poet and playwright has pursued the company through the courts with the support of American environmental and human rights campaigners.
The case is being closely watched in Nigeria, where a younger generation of oil militants has caused chaos in the oil industry, blowing up installations and kidnapping staff. ( NIGERIA HAS ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS) (PDK) http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gESqB9ANbJNUSO0PWep5V39NxbmwD99NJD7G2
Corruption and inefficiency are blamed for the persisting povertyin Nigeria, the world's eighth-biggest oil exporter and fifth-largest source of U.S. oil imports. Nigeria’s Fuel Pipeline Perils Posted on Feb. 19, 2007
Over the last nine years, more than 2,000 Nigerians have died while trying to steal fuel from the country’s network of decrepit fuel pipelines.
The latest conflagration occurred in December, when a gasoline pipeline in Lagos burst intoflames as scavengers collected fuel. At least 260 men, women, and children were burned alive and another
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http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=76d513c2-9f98-40ab-92b7-64b97c1fd5cd
( 4 ) --PUBLIC UNREST ---
EnCana pipeline damaged by bomb in B.C.
RCMP's
national security section is investigating sabotage in a bomb explosion near an EnCana natural gas pipeline which runs about 50 kilometres southeast of Dawson Creek, B.C., near the Alberta border
Reuters reports that a leaking Australian offshore oil well will continue to spill oil into the Timor Sea for nearly two months. That's how long it take to fix the blow out -- two miles below the surface -- which occurred last week:
It's going to take three weeks to bring in a new drilling rig from Singapore, then another four weeks to drill a relief well, pour mud in, and stop the leak.
Efforts underway to control the spread of the slick, now 9 miles in length, include spraying dispersant chemicals onto it from aircraft.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://cleantechnica.com/
First Polio, Now Mercury: World Unites Against Global Health ThreatOctober 24th, 2009
Mercury pollution is next on the list of global health threats to face concentrated action with the goal of elimination. According to Zero Mercury Working Group, yesterday the first significant steps toward a binding treaty to control mercury pollution were announced at a United Nations Environmental Program meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, in advance of negotiations that will take place in Stockholm next summer.
The global nature of mercury pollution lies in its ability to travel long distances from its point of emission through the food chain. In fish it accumulates in its most toxic form, methylmercury. Zero Mercury hopes to achieve a treaty by 2013 that promotes more sustainable alternatives to mercury in products and industrial processes, with the broad goal of addressing all controllable emissions of mercury in the environment.
Read the rest of this entry »
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http://www.texasmonthly.com/2009-11-01/feature3.php#
Below the SurfaceSince 1996, a legal battle has raged between ExxonMobil and a powerful South Texas ranching clan that believes the oil company sabotaged wells on the family property. Even after a ruling by the state Supreme Court earlier this year, the bitter feud shows no signs of letting up. Maybe that’s because it’s about something far more important than money.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5289514n&tag=morephotovideo
PUBLIC UNREST --
Civilians Caught in Crossfire CBS VIDEO
September 4, 2009
A U.S. air strike aimed at a group of Taliban fighters resulted in the deaths of Afghan civilians. Elizabeth Palmer reports on the resulting pressure put on America's top commander in Afghanistan.
Note:
Civilians were gathering gasoline from 2 stolen tanker and a missle strike from Las Vegas was called in.. by the time the missle arrived and fired civilians had gathered. up to 100 dead ?
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/science/earth/09climate.html?_r=1
Climate Change Seen as Threat to U.S. Security August 8, 2009
WASHINGTON —
The changing global climate will pose profound strategic challenges to the United States in coming decades, raising the prospect of military intervention to deal with the effects of violent storms, drought, mass migration (french humor ^)
pandemics, military and intelligence ---analysts say.
Such climate-induced crises could topple governments, feed terrorist movements or destabilize entire regions, say the analysts, experts at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies who for the first time are taking a serious look at the national security implications of climate change.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iraq_shoe_thrower
'Shoe thrower' freed earlyPUBLIC UNREST --
Iraqi who threw shoes at Bush to be released early
Muntadhar al-Zeidi's act of protest during Bush's last visit to Iraq as president turned the 30-year-old reporter into a folk hero across the Arab world, as his case became a rallying point for critics who resented the 2003 U.S. invasion and occupation.
"Al-Zeidi's shoes were a suitable farewell for Bush's deeds in Iraq," Sunni lawmaker Dhafir al-Ani said in welcoming the early release. "Al-Zeidi's act expressed the real will and feelings of the Iraqi people.
His anger against Bush was the result of the suffering of his countrymen."
The journalist has been in custody since the Dec. 14 outburst,
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http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2009/08/27/11163/as_immigration_enforcement_tightens_the_detention_system_is_overwhelmed PUBLIC UNREST--
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION $$$As immigration enforcement tightens,
the detention system is overwhelmed
Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009
"Deport me or set me free!" is Patua Wopea's plea after seven years spent caught in the trap that is America's immigration detention system
-----Wopea is among some 400,000 immigrants who are incarcerated nationwide each year under allegations of immigration violations
------The 200 to 300 immigrants who are in detention on any given day in Minnesota are held in jails in Sherburne, Carver, Ramsey, Nobles and Freeborn counties, said the Bloomington office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2009/08/24/one-start-ups-quest-to-prevent-oil-thefts/
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5710
PUBLIC UNREST--
August 24, 2009
One Start-Up’s Quest To Prevent Oil Thefts
---As the U.S. government cracks down on refineries here that knowingly purchased stolen petroleum products from Mexico, one start-up, Hi-G-Tek Ltd----
----Considering that Pemex pumps enough fuel in a day to fill between 15,000 and 30,000 tanker trucks, the company has a long way to go before the whole fleet is protected.
Petroleos Mexicanos did not respond to requests for comment. Corporación Nacional de Radiodeterminacion declined to comment for this article.
-----Blue estimates that Pemex loses about $1 billion in revenue to theft each year, compared with the estimated $75 billion worth of oil and gas it is expected to sell this year. Other countries lose as much as 30% of their oil and gas revenue to this crime.
------With the global economy in a recession, this problem shows no sign of abating. Hi-G-Tek expects sales from the oil and gas industry to account for about one-third of $10 million in revenue this year, growing to about two-thirds of its revenue over the next two years, Blue said. About 40% of its revenue currently comes from selling to customs agencies for use on shipping containers. The rest comes from co
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Militants claim Russia dam disaster
MOSCOW (AFP) – An Islamist group Friday claimed it carried out deadly attacks on the same day this week against Russia's biggest hydroelectric power station and a police station in the Caucasus that left dozens dead.
Russian investigators strongly denied the claim by Riyadus Salikhiin, a militant group with roots in Chechnya, that it had hit the power station as part of a new campaign of "economic war" in Russia.
Putin orders probe of creaking infrastructure
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called for a sweeping probe of Russia's creaking Soviet-era infrastructure on Thursday after a disaster at its largest hydroelectric power station.
A water surge caused aging turbines to explode at a 31-year-old Siberian dam on Monday, starting a chain reaction that sent a cascade of water into a 100-meter (yard) turbine hall and the four floors below it, and dumped 45 tons of fuel oil into the Yenisei River below.
Russian PM Putin wants electricity prices regulated
CHERYOMUSHKI,
Russia,
Aug 21 (Reuters)
- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his government to prepare a draft decree on the temporary regulation of wholesale electricity prices after a disaster at a hydro dam this week.
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gC9ocrnNCQH_mjxYVgwQBarIH3nw
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PUBLIC UNREST--LOGGING PROTESTS SPREAD IN BORNEO AS NOMADS BLOCKADE ROADSby Survival International Monday Aug 24th, 2009
Hundreds of Penan have blocked roads at three new locations in the interior of Sarawak, in the Malaysian part of the island of Borneo. The protestors are demanding an end to logging and plantations on their land without their consent, and recognition of their land ownership rights.
---LONG BELOK, Malaysia — Hundreds of Penan tribespeople armed with spears and blowpipes have set up new blockades deep in the Borneo jungles, escalating their campaign against logging and palm oil plantations.
Three new barricades
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http://climateofourfuture.org/
PUBLIC UNREST--Exxon Pleads Guilty to Killing Protected Birds from TreeHugger
August 14, 2009
has agreed to pay $600,000 in fines for killing 85 protected birds. The dead birds–hawks, owls, and waterfowl–were evidently exposed to hydrocarbons at drilling facilities and waste water storage plants at a number of Exxon’s natural gas operations across the Midwest. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
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PUBLIC UNREST --
Aug 14, 09Mexico nabs gas thieves;
US refineries implicated
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- They bleed the fuel lines just about anywhere, drug cartel members and other criminals, sucking millions of dollars of Mexican petroleum from makeshift taps hidden in sheds or on remote desert stretches, with thousands of gallons ending up in U.S. refineries.
Mexican police busted gas thieves stream of stolen petroleum products, millions of dollars worth of which is smuggled across the border and sold to U.S. refineries, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
While Mexican authorities try to patch the leaks, U.S. officials are tracking proceeds from various Texas bank accounts and taking a close look at several Texas companies to que
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/L/LT_DRUG_WAR_STOLEN_OIL?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-08-14-14-38-02
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090812/ap_on_re_us/us_militia_movement
PUBLIC UNREST --
Officials see rise in
militia groups across US
AP 8-11-09
WASHINGTON – Militia groups with gripes against the government are regrouping across the country and could grow rapidly, according to an organization that tracks such trends.
The stress of a poor economy and a liberal administration led by a black president are among the causes for the recent rise, the report from the Southern Poverty Law Center says. Conspiracy theories about a secret Mexican plan to reclaim the Southwest are also growing amid the public debate about illegal immigration.
Bart McEntire, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, told SPLC researchers that this is the most growth he's seen in more than a decade.
"All it's lacking is a spark," McEntire said in the report.
It's reminiscent of what was seen in the 1990s — right-wing militias, people ideologically against paying taxes and so-called "sovereign citizens" are popping up in large numbers, according to the report to be released Wednesday. The SPLC is a nonprofit civil rights group that, among other activities, investigates hate groups.
Last October, someone from the Ohio Militia posted a recruiting video on YouTube, billed as a "wake-up call" for America. It's been viewed more than 60,000 times.
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(7)-- PUBLIC UNRESTLONDON (AP)
Oil company Total fires British workers after unofficial strike, protests continue
June 19, 2009 —
British contract workers walked off their jobs at British energy facilities Friday, part of an escalating dispute triggered by the employment of foreign workers.
Tensions flared after French oil and gas company Total fired more than 600 contract workers Thursday for participating in a wildcat strike at its Lindsey Oil Refinery in northern England.
The strikes have spread to other power stations, including Drax, the nation's largest coal-fired plant. Bernard McAulay, an official with the UNITE union, told a crowd of picketers at the parking lot across the Lindsey refinery, about 165 miles (265 kilometers) north of London, that while foreign workers had their place, "the first priority has got to be labor from the local community."
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Peru says 9 more police killed by Amazon Indians protesting gas, oil exploration
CARLA SALAZAR Associated Press
June 6, 2009
Indians block a road as tear gas fired by police smokes behind in Bagua Grande in Peru's northern province of Utcubamba,
Friday, June 5, 2009.
Indians protesting oil and gas exploration on their lands battled police in Peru's remote Amazon Friday, with authorities and Indian leaders reporting at least 30 deaths.
The violence broke out before dawn as officers tried to end a road blockade by some 5,000 Indians in the northern province of Utcubamba.
June 5, 2009)
LIMA, Peru (AP) —
At least nine Peruvian police officers were killed Saturday as soldiers stormed an oil pumping station in the Amazon where Indian protesters were holding police hostage, the country's defense minister said.
The deaths brought to 20 the number of police killed — some with spears — since security forces moved early Friday to break up a roadblock by indigenous Peruvians who oppose government moves to exploit oil and gas and other resources on their lands.
Protest leaders said at least 25 Indians, including three children, died in the clashes. Authorities confirmed only five civilian deaths, but said 109 people were injured. Associated Press writers Tamy Higa in Lima and Frank Bajak in Bogota contributed to this report.
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PUBLIC UNRESTRoyal Dutch Shell Execution Case Set
May. 27, 2009
Activists trying to prove oil giant Royal Dutch Shell was complicit in the 1995 executions of nine anti-oil campaigners, including Nigerian writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, have brought their case to the US.
Over the last 12 years, the family of the Ogoni poet and playwright has pursued the company through the courts with the support of American environmental and human rights campaigners.
The case is being closely watched in Nigeria, where a younger generation of oil militants has caused chaos in the oil industry, blowing up installations and kidnapping staff. ( NIGERIA HAS ALL KINDS OF PROBLEMS) (PDK) http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gESqB9ANbJNUSO0PWep5V39NxbmwD99NJD7G2
Corruption and inefficiency are blamed for the persisting povertyin Nigeria, the world's eighth-biggest oil exporter and fifth-largest source of U.S. oil imports. Nigeria’s Fuel Pipeline Perils Posted on Feb. 19, 2007
Over the last nine years, more than 2,000 Nigerians have died while trying to steal fuel from the country’s network of decrepit fuel pipelines.
The latest conflagration occurred in December, when a gasoline pipeline in Lagos burst intoflames as scavengers collected fuel. At least 260 men, women, and children were burned alive and another
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EnCana pipeline damaged by bomb in B.C.
RCMP's
national security section is investigating sabotage in a bomb explosion near an EnCana natural gas pipeline which runs about 50 kilometres southeast of Dawson Creek, B.C., near the Alberta border
RCMP said the explosive device damaged the 30.5-centimetre diameter steel pipeline, but did not rupture it.
The blast left a 1.8-metre crater in the ground.
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---FACTBOX-Ships held by Somali pirates
Latest News News Desk http://www.bartamaha.com/?p=5106
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JULY 25, 2009
Behind the Honduran Mutiny =
In 2007, Honduras was hit hard by record high oil prices. The country imports all its fuel needs, and also has no refining capacity. That means four companies -- Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and the local Dipsa -- control the market, importing the fuel directly and distributing it through their own service stations.
As oil prices climbed, Honduras, whose power plants run on fuel, was forced to hike electricity prices, and ration power.
At first, Mr. Zelaya, desperate for relief, tried to lower the cost of imports by buying oil products in bulk, but the plan failed because the government didn't have its own oil-storage facilities.
So, in 2007, Mr. Zelaya decreed a cut in fuel prices. But this move led to fuel shortages as importers complained that the price cuts undermined revenues.
By mid 2008, the oil companies threatened to halt all new investment in Honduras.
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(1)--PUBLIC UNREST
Power cuts feed anarchy in Pakistan
by Hasan Mansoor Hasan Mansoor – Sat Jul 25, ET KARACHI (AFP) – Away from the killing fields between army and Taliban, violent riots triggered by chronic power cuts engulf Pakistan, underscoring government weakness and playing into the hands of extremists.
Burning tyres and throwing stones, mobs rampage daily in financial capital Karachi, where the first monsoons dumped 8.6 centimetres (3.4 inches) of rain, killed 30 people and brought power transmission to a virtual collapse.
Riots have been even worse in Punjab, the country's most populous province.
Mobsters held up a train in the volatile town of Jhang, ordered passengers onto the platform and set three coaches on fire in their fury.
"At least 25 of our public dealing offices have been attacked, our employees have been beaten and many vehicles burnt," said Naveed Ismail, head of the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation (KESC). "Such attacks on our facilities delay restoration work as it makes staff afraid to go to affected areas for repairs," Ismail said.
Pakistan faces a catastrophic energy crisis, able only to produce 80 percent of the electricity it
needs, suffocating industry
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Behind the Honduran Mutiny =
In 2007, Honduras was hit hard by record high oil prices. The country imports all its fuel needs, and also has no refining capacity. That means four companies -- Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and the local Dipsa -- control the market, importing the fuel directly and distributing it through their own service stations.
As oil prices climbed, Honduras, whose power plants run on fuel, was forced to hike electricity prices, and ration power.
At first, Mr. Zelaya, desperate for relief, tried to lower the cost of imports by buying oil products in bulk, but the plan failed because the government didn't have its own oil-storage facilities.
So, in 2007, Mr. Zelaya decreed a cut in fuel prices. But this move led to fuel shortages as importers complained that the price cuts undermined revenues.
By mid 2008, the oil companies threatened to halt all new investment in Honduras.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090726/wl_asia_afp/pakistaneconomyelectricityriots_20090726034740
(1)--PUBLIC UNRESTPower cuts feed anarchy in Pakistan
by Hasan Mansoor Hasan Mansoor – Sat Jul 25, ET KARACHI (AFP) – Away from the killing fields between army and Taliban, violent riots triggered by chronic power cuts engulf Pakistan, underscoring government weakness and playing into the hands of extremists.
Burning tyres and throwing stones, mobs rampage daily in financial capital Karachi, where the first monsoons dumped 8.6 centimetres (3.4 inches) of rain, killed 30 people and brought power transmission to a virtual collapse.
Riots have been even worse in Punjab, the country's most populous province.
Mobsters held up a train in the volatile town of Jhang, ordered passengers onto the platform and set three coaches on fire in their fury.
"At least 25 of our public dealing offices have been attacked, our employees have been beaten and many vehicles burnt," said Naveed Ismail, head of the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation (KESC). "Such attacks on our facilities delay restoration work as it makes staff afraid to go to affected areas for repairs," Ismail said.
Pakistan faces a catastrophic energy crisis, able only to produce 80 percent of the electricity it
needs, suffocating industry
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