Will Fracking Ruin German Beer? (VIDEO)
Germany’s association of beer brewers said Thursday it has warned politicians against hydraulic fracturing, citing concerns that any threat to the water supply is a threat to the purity of the country’s beer.
The Environment
ExxonMobil Still Isn’t Saying How Much Oil Is Still In the Pipeline
Cleanup Workers Collect Oil Faster than Media Collect Information Ten days after the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline burst, spewing thousands of barrels of Canadian tar sands oil into the North Woods residential development in Mayflower, Arkansas, much of the oil spill has been collected, although it continues to spread slowly, seeping into wetlands and nearby Lake […]
The Press and Public Are Contained, Even if the Tar Sands Oil Isn’t
The first “Tar Sands Oil Arkansas” [1](earlier today)[1] discussed a number of questions raised by the ExxonMobil Pegasus pipeline that burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, on March 29, pumping tar sands oil – technically Wabasca Heavy crude oil – into a residential neighborhood for almost an hour. Among the questions touched on in that piece were […]
Tar Sands Oil Arkansas Raises Some Serious Questions
National Security Demands Secrecy in the Heart of Arkansas Within a week of the ExxonMobil tar sands oil pipeline burst in Mayflower, Arkansas, ExxonMobil was in charge of the clean-up, the U.S. government had established a no-fly zone over the area, some 40 residents were starting their second week of evacuation, ExxonMobil was threatening to […]
Keystone Pipeline: U.S. Pays Foxes To Assess Henhouse As Delicious
By William Boardman [email protected] What Is It Called When You Outsource Your Autonomy? So it turns out that friends of the oil industry wrote the environmental impact [1]statement[1] issued by the State Department about the Keystone XL pipeline on March 1. That’s the report that assured people tar sands oil was going to be developed […]