There's a lot of speculation these days over who is to blame for our rising gas prices. But one thing is for certain: drilling for oil off our coasts won't get us out of this predicament. Yet the threat of offshore drilling.........
OIL WELL NO. 1, Nigeria-Three decades after pumping its last drop, the first oil well in Nigeria is marked by a decrepit signboard bearing what would seem an uncontroversial statement Oloibiri Well No. 1, drilled June 1956, 12,008 feet.
A federal appeals court refused Thursday to make a resistant Bush administration speed up a decision on whether greenhouse gases and global warming threaten public health and welfare.
Farley Mowat Attacked by Mob of Angry Fishermen
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's ship, the Farley Mowat, was attacked by a mob of 30-40 angry fishermen. The attack took place while berthed in the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon.
Under debate is the Water Restoration Act of 2007. This Act threatens to greatly expand the Federal Government's roll in water management. This Act would define waters of the U.S. as "all interstate and intrastate waters".
Gasoline prices have reached $4 per gallon in the US . And now they are saying we may see $6 per gallon by summer's end. Some analysts are saying gasoline prices will eventually reach $12 to $15 per gallon.
What is going on?
Imperial Oil Ltd again has all the approvals it needs to go ahead with its C$8 billion (US$7.8 billion) Kearl oil sands project after Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) reinstated its authorization, revoked in March during a legal battle.
TOKYO - The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday.
Just imagine: a proposed coal mine threatens to destroy the drinking water supply for your small town and surrounding communities. Wouldn't you want the state government to step in and stand up for you? That is what the Village of Barnesville, in
Landmark global warming legislation is in danger of being hijacked by Senator John McCain.Senator McCain has made it known that he would support the "Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act" if specific nuclear subsidies were added.
That's right, guns in parks. LOADED guns in parks. For some reason, the NRA thinks it's a great idea to let anyone and everyone posses loaded weapons in our national parks.
The big green machine has finally successfully lobbied enough FUD to get the thriving polar bear listed as a threatened species. Never mind the fact that the arctic sea ice has melted before in the last 100 years.
The Spanish government will go ahead fishing immature red tuna in the Mediterranean Sea, as General Director of Fishery Resources and Aquaculture, Fernando Curcio spoke out defending the legality to this over-fishing as 'issue of minor importance'.
