oil
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Water & oil: How natives & neighbors of the Sacred Headwaters battled drillers and won
In remote B.C., tribal elders, fishermen, hunters, and ordinary folks won a six-year fight to kick Big Oil out of their salmon-bearing backyard. Our three-part series explores what we can learn from their climate win.
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14 questions for Exxon from an oil spill expert
Exxon’s tar sands pipeline spill in Mayflower, Arkansas is highlighting concerns about the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, and raising questions about the risks of existing pipelines transporting diluted tar sands crude. In a familiar pattern for the oil industry, Exxon is impeding access to the spill, controlling information about the impacts, and threatening reporters with […]
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You can see North Dakota’s oil fracking fields from space
What a handy signal to alien races that they should have nothing to do with us.
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Watch a pool of oil magically turn into a Christmas tree
NPR's Robert Krulwich calls this "the perfect tree for an oil billionaire.”
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Genius ad finally says it out loud: Exxon hates your children
This ad could be on TVs across the country in just a few days.
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Conceptual artist Christo is building a gigantic sculpture out of oil barrels
It is not a pyramid (although it will be taller than the Great Pyramid at Giza), and it's not a comment on the oil economy.
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By 2015, you could own an electric Batmobile
Rigid fuel efficiency standards and a willing auto industry offer promise that the electric Model T -- a car that will change the way the world drives -- is coming. But it'll probably look like the superhero car of the future.
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Russian rivers are clogged with frozen oil
Whatever terrors the U.S. oil industry might come up with, the Russian oil industry is worse. Greenpeace’s Jon Burgwald recently visited Usinsk, a frigid city that’s a major Russian oil outpost. The oil pollution is so bad in this area that thawing rivers run black with oil. There’s even oil ice, which you can see […]
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Critical List: Eating organic makes people judgey; U.S. selling drones to Iraq to protect oil
Eating organic food makes people more judgmental about others’ actions and less altruistic, according to a totally bogus study. The U.S. is selling drones to Iraq to protect oil exports. White-tailed deer are eating so many leaves, they’re keeping migratory birds from being able to build their nests.