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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Shell Oil ditches conservative group that fuels climate change deniers, while drilling for oil in the Arctic

Aug 13th, 2015

August 12, 2015 | By Joel Connelly

Royal Dutch Shell is severing its ties with the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative groups that has worked in states to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan to curb coal plant emissions.

Shell has cited ALEC’s stand on climate change as the reason for not renewing its membership, a decision made as its drilling rig the Polar Pioneer begins controversial drilling of exploratory wells in Alaska’s Chukchi Sea.

The oil giant joins such firms as Microsoft, AOL, Google, Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Occidental Petroleum and — lately — the Canadian National Railroad which have quit the Council over its climate stands.

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Shell’s repaired icebreaker arrives at Arctic Ocean drilling site

Aug 13th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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Asaf Shalev: August 12, 2015

A key emergency response vessel arrived at Royal Dutch Shell’s drill site in the Arctic Ocean Tuesday night, inching forward the oil giant’s plans for digging an exploratory well this summer.

With arrival of the Fennica, a leased Finnish icebreaker, final federal approval is the only hurdle remaining before Shell can expand its operation off Alaska’s northwest shore and begin drilling into the layer of oil-bearing rock, which lies some 8,000 feet below the ocean floor.

Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Chukchi Sea, Climate Change, Environment, Gulf of Alaska,Oil Spill, Pollution, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Environment · Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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Greenpeace Protesters Could Each Face $5,000 Fines for Blocking Shell Ship

Aug 13th, 2015

by John Donovan.

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by M. ALEX JOHNSON

Five Greenpeace protesters who tried to stop a Shell oil ship from reaching Alaska last month could be fined $5,000 apiece for interfering with safe operations, the Coast Guard told NBC News on Wednesday.

None of the protesters was identified. They have 30 days to either pay the fines or contest the civil citations before a Coast Guard hearing officer.

The enforcement action comes after 13 people lowered themselves on ropes from the St. Johns Bridge over the Willamette River in Portland, Oregon, on July 29 and 30 to block the icebreaker MSV Fennica from passing on its way to the Alaska coast.

Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Chukchi Sea, Climate Change, Environment, Greenpeace,Litigation, Oil Spill, Pollution, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Environment · Royal Dutch Shell Plc

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NEW HAMPSHIRE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY-MARCH AND AUGUST 2015

Bernie Sanders via Facebook.com

Yesterday at 4:09pm ·

"There’s a reason we are doing so well in this campaign, and that’s because Bernie is telling the truth about American life today — about the reality in which almost all the wealth and income is going to the top one percent. We are going to change that, but only if we continue standing together." - Jeff Weaver, Campaign Manager

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$250 million taxpayer dollars on a lavish new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team.

Robert Reich via Facebook.com

Yesterday at 12:39pm ·

Three weeks ago Wisconsin Governor and presidential candidate Scott Walker signed into law a new state budget that slashes $250 million from the University of Wisconsin, one of the country’s great public institutions of higher education, cuts the budgets of most public schools in the state, and eliminates the one program designed to counter segregation in the public schools and improve opportunities for African-Americans. (Not incidentally, Walker signed the budget in Waukesha County, an overwhelmingly white county that is among one of the wealthiest and most conservative in the entire United States.)

Why did Walker slash education? Because he wanted to show he’s a fiscal hawk? Not a chance. Yesterday Walker signed legislation to spending $250 million taxpayer dollars on a lavish new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team. The owners had threatened to leave for another state unless Wisconsin came up with the dough. The team’s ownership group includes a real estate billionaire who’s one of Walker’s top campaign fundraisers (as well as a hedge-fund billionaire who’s raising money for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid).

Walker isn’t a fiscal hawk. He’s a right-wing fanatic intent on making the rich richer, the poor poorer, and everyone who's not wealthy less educated.

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Bernie Rattles Hillary—and The Donald!

Brent Budowsky: For more evidence that American politics is engaged in the summer of Sanders and not the summer of Trump, witness the fun and fascinating events that unfolded on Wednesday.

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Is Trump the Zsa Zsa Gabor of American Politics?

Peter Dreier: Reporters and editors are stuck in the herd psychology of covering Trump like he's a serious candidate, when what he really is—a celebrity candidate, the way that Kim Kardashian is a celebrity on TV. She has no talent and nothing to say, but she's famous for being famous.

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Raynette Turner, Sandra Bland and the Invisibility of Black Women

Yohuru Williams: Perhaps if Sandra Bland, Raynette Turner, and the other women who have died were lions, then the majority of Americans could understand why the deafening indifference to their deaths wounds our pride.

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Bernie Rattles Hillary—and The Donald!

Brent Budowsky: For more evidence that American politics is engaged in the summer of Sanders and not the summer of Trump, witness the fun and fascinating events that unfolded on Wednesday.

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Let California Pick the Next President

Joe Mathews: The Central Coast is growing heart-healthy fruits and vegetables. And having candidates and voters drinking lots of California wine is probably the only way today’s crazy American politics could begin to make sense.

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Kentucky's GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Draws Line at Cockfighting

Berry Craig: Come on, Kentucky Democratic Party. Cut poor Matt Bevin some slack with your online petition against cockfighting and the GOP gubernatorial hopeful.

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