Shell will drill for oil off the coast of Alaska, and is attempting to receive an advance US Environmental court spill-response ruling. Shell is suing environmental organizations known to bring such lawsuits, top of the list Center for Biological Diversity (CBD). The story is in the links.
The following is a fund raising letter from CBD. Remember CBD, the organization intent on tearing-down our Sharp Park Golf Course? You may prefer to send a donation to a Shell charity.
The following is a fund raising letter from CBD. Remember CBD, the organization intent on tearing-down our Sharp Park Golf Course? You may prefer to send a donation to a Shell charity.
"Stop Shell's Strong-arm Tactics -- Donate Today
It seems the oil giant thinks it can intimidate us with threats so that it can push through dangerous new drilling in the fragile Arctic ecosystem.
Please stand with the Center and help us defeat this obnoxious, anti-free-speech lawsuit.
A generous Center supporter has agreed to match all emergency donations if we can raise $50,000.
Shell Oil is suing the Center because we’ve stopped every offshore drilling proposal in the Arctic since 2007. Shell knows we’re effective, so it’s trying to take us out with its preemptive attack.
But we’re not leaving. We’re fighting back, and we need your generous support today.
The Shell game is all about intimidation and shutting down free speech. Please, help us take a stand against Shell’s strong-arm tactics with a gift to our Emergency Legal Defense Fund to save the Arctic. We've been top-rated by the American Institute of Philanthropy, and you can trust us to make the most of your donation.
Reference Shell Lawsuit, filed 2/29/12, 23 pages.
Related news articles - Emviroment, Health and Safety Magazine, 3/2/12. LA Times, 2/29/12..
Huffington Post, 3/1/12. NY Times. 3/4/12.
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Posted by Kathy Meeh
17 comments:
Priceless.Let me fill up my tank with Shell now!
I think everyone should send these clowns the Trib article about our sewer fees going up 11%. Bay Guardians, Center for Bio-Bullshit, they're all the same.
I've been on the fence about arctic drilling and think we need some kind of Manhattan Project to eliminate our oil dependency, possible funded by gas taxes. However, CBD and their cronies are such kookoo extremists that it makes me want to rethink my position because being on the same side of anything with them has got to be wrong.
What is a "court spill response ruling"?
"Under the guise of saving the environment from global warming and climate change, armed enforcers reportedly burned locals’ houses to the ground — along with at least one child who was inside his home when it was set ablaze. The goon squads also reportedly terrorized and beat the residents, threatening to murder anyone who resisted.
“We were beaten by soldiers. They beat my husband and put him in jail,” Naiki Apanabang, who obtained her family’s land in recognition of her grandfather’s military service, told Oxfam investigators. “The eviction was very violent.” Apanabang and her eight children no longer have enough food to eat — let alone money for schooling.
Ugandan authorities granted the UN-accredited carbon-trading firm a license to plant trees on the land in 2005. So-called “carbon credits” earned from the plantation would then be sold to companies to offset their emissions of CO2. The problem was that tens of thousands of people had been living off of the land for decades.
According to officials and New Forests Company, the residents were “illegal encroachers.” The locals, however, provided a very different account. Some of them had been given the land after fighting for the British Army during World War II. Others were invited to settle there by then-dictator Idi Amin some 40 years ago."
http://thenewamerican.com/world-mainmenu-26/africa-mainmenu-27/9133-climate-eu-world-bank-brutalize-africans-for-carbon-credits
Anon (1029) not sure what point you are making about oil drilling off the shore of Alaska, and the court system making an advance drilling spill policy there. The country you are talking about is Uganda. Also from your reference:
"According to officials and New Forests Company, the residents were “illegal encroachers.” The locals, however, provided a very different account. Some of them had been given the land after fighting for the British Army during World War II. Others were invited to settle there by then-dictator Idi Amin some 40 years ago.
Legal cases to resolve the issues are still ongoing. And the High Court had even granted restraining orders against the evictions before many of them happened. But now, it might be a moot point: Residents’ homes, farms, livestock, schools, hospitals, and churches have already been demolished. Apparently no compensation has been provided, either."
Do you know what you're talking about? Remember "carbon credits" was originally a Republican idea.
...as was the idea that everyone should be required to buy health insurance in the private market, since it would eliminate health care freeloaders.
"...buy health insurance in the private market..." (Steve, 1053)
... or better let those who do not buy private insurance die on the streets. That's what happened in the "good 'ol days". What happened to the moderate thinking Republican Party?
Personally, I don't care how health insurance is funded, everyone needs to be covered. Oh, including the "illegals". Now this is off-topic.
90% of what you post is off-topic.
"90% of what you post is off-topic."
Insult Anon (1236), if you're the one who posted that 10:29am "if its Shell or CBD, it must Uganda" comment, you wouldn't know what's on-topic or off-topic anyhow. But, consider this comment to apply to your 10% on-topic reasoning.
Thanks for clarifying. Let me rephrase:
90% of what you post is off-topic, and the other 10% is utterly incomprehensible.
"90% of what you post is off-topic, and the other 10% is utterly incomprehensible."
Anon (315), professionals are available with or without a medical plan. See one.
It would be beneficial to all of us, except some eco-attorneys, if there was better off-shore oil spill law in advance of such occurrence. Although it isn't clear whether you agree or disagree, you may have dropped-in from a satellite reality.
This entire thread is incomprehensible.
Can't help you.
No drinking and posting even on St. Patrick's Day.
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN
Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.
Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night." So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.
Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.
Then Congress said, "How will we know the Night Watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"
So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people.
One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.
Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?" So they created two positions: a Time Keeper and a Payroll Officer then hired two people.
Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"
So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an
Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.
Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and
we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."
So they laid-off the Night Watchman.
NOW, slowly, let it sink in.
Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the
Department of Energy during the Carter administration?
Anybody?
Anything?
No?
Didn't think so!
Bottom line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency ... the reason for which not one person who reads this can remember!
Ready??
It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.
The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.
Hey, pretty efficient, huh???
AND NOW IT'S 2012 -- 35 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS
"NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000
FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND
LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!
(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")
34 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.
Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.
NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE,
AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?
Hello!! Anybody Home?
Signed ...
The Night Watchman
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China is rushing its trade agreement with Brazil
China, Russia, Brazil, India, and now South Africa are moving to trade more in their own currencies (not the US Dollar)
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