Shell Heads for Alaska While Awaiting Final Drilling Permits

Jun 26th, 2015

by John Donovan. 

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Shell Heads for Alaska While Awaiting Final Drilling Permits

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Jun 26, 2015, 3:42 PM ET

By DAN JOLING Associated Press

One Royal Dutch Shell offshore drill rig is headed to Alaska and a second is poised to leave, despite lacking final federal permits that would allow exploratory drilling and possible confirmation of rich oil reserves under the Chukchi Sea.

A spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC said that’s routine. But an attorney for Oceana, one of dozens of groups objecting to Arctic offshore drilling, said seeing Shell’s flotilla sail north puts pressure on federal agencies to sign off on the permits.

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Posted in: Alaska, Arctic, Associated Press, Bidness Etc, Chukchi Sea, Environment,Greenpeace, Oil, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Shell, Shell Project Delays, Shell Project Overruns, United States.
Tagged: Alaska · Arctic Ocean · Chukchi Sea · Environment · Oil · Royal Dutch Shell Plc ·Shell

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Shell’s Secret Sale of Oil, Gas Reserves In Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Jun 26th, 2015 

by John Donovan. 

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Shell’s Secret Sale of Oil, Gas Reserves In Bayelsa State, Nigeria

“We just woke up one morning and started reading in the newspapers and the electronic media that our oil fields have been sold by Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited (SPDC) and acquired by an unknown company – Aiteo Eastern Exploration and production company limited…”

BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK: JUN 26, 2015

The Elders and Traditional Rulers of Nembe Kingdom, in Nembe Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State, have sent a protest letter to President Muhammad Buhari. The letter exposes secret sales of oil and gas reserves from the Area by the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) without the involvement of the indigenes. The Nembe kingdom is one of the biggest on-shore oil producing communities in the Niger Delta, with the oil mining lease (OML) 29 producing over 150, 000 barrels of crude oil per day. The oil block covers an area of 983 square kilometres.

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The Constitution guarantees a nationwide right to same-sex marriage

Robert Reich

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This morning a majority of the Supreme Court – the four Democratic appointees plus Anthony Kennedy (who wrote the majority opinion) – decided that the Constitution guarantees a nationwide right to same-sex marriage, under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. The four other Republican appointees dissented, saying the Constitution says nothing on the subject of same-sex marriage. (Of course not; it says nothing on the subject of black children in segregated schools, either. The document was intended to be interpreted.)

Any of you still cynical about the capacity of this nation to embrace social justice should think again. Not long ago, same-sex marriage was abhorrent to a majority of Americans. (In 2002, when I ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Massachusetts and came out for same-sex marriage, not just civil union, my campaign advisors told me I’d just lost the race.) Yet polls now show most Americans approve of it, 36 states now allow it, and more than 70 percent of Americans live in places where gay couples can marry. Rarely in American history has positive social change on this scale happened so quickly.

There’s another lesson here. The Supreme Court is a powerful agent for good or ill. It often reflects changes in social norms, but not always. Four of the current Supreme Court Justices are over 70 years old. The next president will almost certainly be appointing one or more to replace them. Scalia, Alito, and Thomas are rabid reactionaries, and Roberts isn’t far behind them. If nothing else moves you to become more politically active in the run-up to the 2016 election, this reality alone should.

What do you think?

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THE HIDDEN GOOD NEWS THE SUPREME COURT DELIVERED TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS TODAY

THE HIDDEN GOOD NEWS THE SUPREME COURT DELIVERED TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS TODAY

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19 HYSTERICAL PASSAGES FROM SUPREME COURT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE DISSENTERS

HERE IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT WORD IN TODAY'S HISTORIC MARRIAGE EQUALITY OPINION		THE HIDDEN GOOD NEWS THE SUPREME COURT DELIVERED TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS TODAY

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Californians Have No Idea How Important Public Universities Are

Californians Have No Idea How Important Public Universities Are Joe Mathews: Another state budget, accompanied by an eight-month-long controversy over the University of California, demonstrated once again that we Californians don’t have a clue about what our public universities mean to the state. READ MORE shared from

FRIDAY, 26 JUNE 2015 Californians Have No Idea How Important Public Universities Are Joe Mathews: Another state budget, accompanied by an eight-month-long controversy over the University of California, demonstrated once again that we Californians don’t have a clue about what our public universities mean to the state. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Medicare for All: Dead as a Doornail Tina Dupuy: Now in this wake of this second Supreme Court decision upholding the existing compromised ACA law, the public option is cremated, buried and gone. There’s no political will for Medicare for all. READ HERE Anger Triggered by Rachel Dolezal Affair: Puzzling, but Illuminating Edward Wasserman:The larger question, to me, was less why she did what she did, but why everybody seemed to care so much, and why her case provoked so much anger. READ MORE Raising the White Flag Yohuru Williams:Somewhere between the tragedy of the Charleston shooting and the comedy of the faux conservative horror over President Obama's use of the n-word is a profound statement on the power of white privilege in 21st century America. READ MORE Obama’s Whistleblower War Leaves Dangerous Legacy John Hanrahan: The current administration has set a floor, rather than a ceiling, on the number and types of whistleblower espionage cases a future President can bring. READ HERE

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