Deepwater oil moratorium
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With drilling stalled in the Gulf, Big Oil sets its sights on the Arctic
Drilling is on hold in the Gulf of Mexico, but it's about to hit high gear in the Arctic. It's accessible because climate change is melting the polar ice
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Does anyone take science seriously?
Politicians ignore them. Journalists distort what they say. No wonder scientists complain about getting no respect.
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Bloomberg News Refuses to Correct Blatantly False Drilling Ban Story
Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, the answer is no. On Thursday I documented a blatantly false Bloomberg news story designed to mislead readers about the level of support for President Obama’s temporary moratorium on deepwater drilling. Bloomberg’s poll (PDF), which the story was based on, asked the following (bottom of page five): “Do […]
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Good news for deepwater-oil junkies
We’ve all heard that we’re addicted to oil. But in the wake of the BP spill we might do well to take the oil-as-a-drug metaphor a little more seriously. For starters we need to understand that deepwater oil is the really bad stuff, the petrochemical heroin – high risk, costly, deadly. Sooner or later we […]