Take a look at America's dependence on coal, and the politics behind it. Half of America's electricity is generated by coal, producing 40 percent of the country's greenhouse gases. Leading climate scientists have called for a moratorium on new coal-fired power plants.America's black gold part 1America's black gold part 2
NEW MUSIC: Check this out! Eric Ronick (Ambulance Ltd and Panic at the Disco) andThan Luu (M Ward, Shushshush and Rachel Yamagata) areBLACK GOLDWith a remarkably catchy sound that's more than just pop, Brooklyn's Black Gold are in full force (commandeering elements of techcno, rock, Seventy's soul with near ease). Black Gold is the new collaboration between Eric Ronick (Panic at the Disco, Ambulan
Exxon Mobil Corporation is a U.S.-based oil and gas company that maintains an employment level approximately 82,100 employees in over 100 different countries (ExxonMobile, 2007). These different countries and locations bring together tens of thousands of people from different backgrounds and cultures. ExxonMobile must manage these differences and coordinate the work of these individuals in order
Better late than never for a review for a show. In the past years shows similar to this have come out, and have been a success for the network that airs it. This show will be a hit for truTV because they were smart enough to campaign for it and promote it. Let me tell you they didn't have to do that. If you like Ice Road Truckers you'll love this. Being on an oil rig is serious business. You can d
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By JAD MOUAWAD
Published: March 4, 2008
Capping a relentless rise in recent years, oil prices hit a record high during the day on Monday, then pulled back to close below the record.
The day’s highest trading price, $103.95 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, broke [...]
A Visit to the City of Black Gold
YOU may never have heard of the Brazilian town of Ouro Prêto, but in the 18th century, its population was three times larger than was that of New York City, and its revenues once provided the funds to rebuild the earthquake-leveled city of Lisbon in Portugal. In 1980, [...]
SCIENCE has long known that Indonesia's 20 million hectares of dense, black tropical peat swamps, formed when trees, roots and leaves rot, are natural carbon stores. Now investors around the world are dreaming of the billions they could rake in as the world battles global warming. Peat bogs are the new black gold, some say."They are 50 to 60 per cent carbon. Peat stores more carbon than all of the planet's vegetation combined," Professor Jack Rieley, a peat expert from the University of Nottingham, said. Marcel Silvius, of Wetlands International, a non-governmental organisation, said peat was a potential gold-mine. He was the co-author of a report that found Indonesia's peatlands emitted two billion tonnes of each year - more than the annual greenhouse gas emissions of Japan or Germany. Years of lucrative deforestation of timber and palm oil plantations has entrenched the practice of burning vast areas of Indonesian land, smothering neighbouring Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei in
================Story : Land of Black Gold (Tintin au pays de l'or noir)The world is on the verge of war when car engines begin exploding all over the world. The root cause appears to be tampered fuel supplies. Following different leads, Tintin and Thomson and Thompson set off for Khemed (a fictional country in the Middle East) on board a petrol tanker. Upon arrival, the three are arrested by the authorities under various charges. The Thompsons are cleared and released, but Tintin is kidnapped by Arab insurgents.In the course of his adventures, Tintin comes across an old enemy, Dr. J.W. Müller (see The Black Island for back story). He also meets his old friend Senhor Oliveira da Figueira. When the local Emir Ben Kalish Ezab's young son is kidnapped, Tintin suspects that Müller is responsible. He goes after Müller and in the process discovers that the doctor was the agent of a foreign power responsible for the tampering of the fuel supplies.
I want to thank those who have made some comments here so far and made me feel just a little less alone...sniff sniff. Seriously though, it feels great when someone says they're following my posts and even better when they take the time to share their thoughts and experiences.Some highlights from the comments I've had thus far:According to Jimmy in Redmond, Martha Stewart knows a little something about worm poop and its benefit to plants.Akemi in Tokyo laments that fact that Japanese politicians don't exactly walk the walk of eco-consciousness.An anonymous reader also got hosed by the "quirky" hybrid tax credit guidelines.What's going on in your part of the world?
Dallas, Texas (CaymanMama.com) -- In the US, lawmakers and numerous oil companies are asking for more drilling areas as only a fraction of the US is used presently. According to sources from the oil industry and Democrats, 90 million acres of offshore areas have been leased to Gulf of Mexico, ...
