Archive for the 'natural disaster' Category
How Does One Say “BP” in Japanese?
Because god-damn, it sure looks a lot like BP with nukes instead of oil.
Tokyo Electric Power Company began dumping more than 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Monday, mostly to make room in storage containers for increasing amounts of far more contaminated runoff. The [...]
Destruction in Japan
Horrifying.
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Why do the people on my teevee keep calling the Gulf Coast Oil Chernobyl a “spill”?
“Spill” isn’t the right word at all: it’s not even a case of minimizing the disaster, like calling a sucking a chest wound a paper cut, although that is also true.
An “oil spill” at least as most people define it [...]
Offshore Oil DRilling Banned Again
Well, THAT was quick:
No new offshore drilling will be authorized until authorities learn what caused the explosion of the rig Deepwater Horizon, an aide to President Barack Obama said Friday as oil oozed ashore in Louisiana.
Senior adviser David Axelrod also defended the administration’s response to the April 20 accident in the Gulf of Mexico, [...]
Coming to Your Coastline!
Obama Administration, march 30, 2010:
The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.
The proposal — a compromise that will please oil [...]
AIG Gets a Bailout. Hurricane Victims Must Sink or Swim.
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Big tip of the hat to Richard at All Spin Zone for covering the government and media blackout of the Hurricane Ike aftermath:
It’s been almost five days since Ike ripped through southern Texas. This past Saturday, the media was wall-to-wall Ike, as the huge storm came ashore in Galveston, and tore a path [...]
