Despite the BP Disaster, Big Oil Has Its Eye on the Arctic

by RogerShuler

Cross Posted at Legal Schnauzer

With an environmental catastrophe evolving in the Gulf of Mexico, you might think big-oil companies would be restrained in their thinking about future exploration. You also might think that the Obama administration would be hyper vigilant about any future oil drilling in vulnerable ecosystems.

According to a new report inRolling Stone, you would be wrong--on both counts.

Believe or not, Rolling Stone reports, BP could start drilling in the Arctic Ocean this fall, certainly in 2011.

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No more trust for BP on dispersants.

by the girl

It's time we talk about dispersants. We need to rip into this. Pull it apart. Look at it. Examine it. Turn it over. Upside down. Inside out. We know this oil clean-up is a total clusterfuck. We know that. We see it. Dead guys signing off on clean-up plans. Walruses in the Gulf and magic fairies. We know this. We know BP can't lay boom correctly. It had no plan. None. Nada. Nothing. We KNOW this. WE KNOW THIS ABOUT BP. We know it has lied, covered up, bullshitted, spun and screwed us. So why, in the name of everything on this planet ARE WE TRUSTING IT WITH THESE DISPERSANTS?

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Rolling Stone nails BP & Others on the Gusher

by Phil S 33

This is not a traditional diary in which I link to 6-7 different sources; and give brilliant analysis; but one in which I highlight just two snippets from a MUST READ piece in the current (online) Rolling Stone magazine. http://www.rollingstone.com/... My sole purpose here is to get more eyeballs to read the article, so that we all can be more informed about the disaster in the Gulf.

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When will Ken Salazar be given the "don't let the door knob hitcha'" treatment?

by icebergslim

Ah, wake up call!!!  That is what the worst environmental catastrophe will do to you!!! And we have a horrible piece by Rolling Stone towards the Obama Administration and their practically business as usual attitude.... But before we go ballistic on Rolling Stone for writing such an article, remember they were our FRIENDS... This Week With Barack Obama and Daily Kos

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