Posts on ‘November 5th, 2006’

Some cry �conspiracy� as cost per gallon drops before election Sunday, November 05, 2006 Steve Raabe THE DENVER POST � A few days until elections, and gasoline prices are down 83 cents a gallon from their record high in August. Coincidence or conspiracy? Economists and financial analysts scoff at the notion that anybody has the [...]

Sunday, November 5, 2006 In his 2006 book, �American Theocracy,� conservative political writer Kevin Phillips makes the case the Bush administration invaded Iraq for oil. The administration � the first where the president, vice president and secretary of state are from big oil (Rice: director, Chevron Oil) � planned a 2001 invasion prior to 9/11. [...]

(As part of the annual health survey process, a random sampling a random sampling of Bioko Islandchildren under 15 years of age are tested for signs and symptoms of malaria. All children under the age of 15 and pregnant women are treated with combination therapy medications that are provided free to the patient as part [...]

By Liam Halligan, Economics Editor Last Updated: 11:28pm GMT 04/11/2006 With the clocks now back and the cold weather drawing in, our leaders’ minds are turning to the possibility of an energy shortage this winter. Last week, while all eyes were on Sir Nicholas Stern’s climate change report, the Commons debated whether we were in [...]

Last Updated: 11:28pm GMT 04/11/2006 Robert Watts assesses which big companies would face the highest taxes over CO2 emissions The message from the Government could not be clearer. Last week’s seismic report on the economics of climate change by Sir Nicholas Stern has paved the way for a range of new taxes on the businesses [...]

EXTRACT: When it was launched last year, carbon trading was trumpeted as a way to curb the damage big business does to the environment. But the oil company Shell has made �49.9 million selling its unused allocation and BP has made �43.1million, while public bodies are struggling to break even. THE ARTICLE By Melissa Kite [...]

EXTRACT: The No campaign is, unsurprisingly, led by oil companies such as Shell, Chevron and Exxon/Mobil. THE ARTICLE November 05, 2006 A referendum over weaning Americans off their dependence on oil has divided the state, reports William Kay from Pasadena� � BILL CLINTON adopts his most sincere expression as he prepares to deliver the punchline [...]

November 05, 2006 � A DISTURBING feature of the Corrib gas dispute has been gross misrepresentation of the Shell to Sea campaign by the Irish press. I participated recently in one of the daily protests in Rossport, and can say that the �Shell to Sea thugs� and the technophobic troglodytes of Rossport are, in fact, [...]

Big names may find monday tempting, but they enter a corporate minefield in a system where the Kremlin calls the shots Conal Walsh Sunday November 5, 2006 Another week, another attack by the Kremlin on Shell and TNK, the Russian oil business half-owned by BP. The British companies are accused with increasing regularity of mishandling [...]

Kidnappings escalate as Niger Delta militants say violence is their last resort Matthew McAllester in Port Harcourt Sunday November 5, 2006 Oil wells poke out of the greasy, caramel-coloured waters of the Niger Delta only yards from where Owbellem Joseph Harry and his men train. Like most of the 20 million people in the Niger [...]