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The controversial offshore oil project in the mouth of the Amazon river could pose significant spill risk to nearby countries, according to documents from drilling giant Total.
The findings have led to the company to disown key parts of its own Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA).
In a statement to Energydesk, Total said: “The countries and numbers you mention refer to a scenario in a specific location where Total will never drill.”

One of the crucial reasons behind the crisis in north-east Asia is that the Trump administration are terrified of losing influence in this massive energy producing region. North Korea have long been the fly in the ointment, with United States officials dearly wishing they could overthrow Kim Jong-un and install a client regime.

Originally appeared on RussiaFeed
ERBIL (Sputnik) – “In more recent months the KRG signed contracts with several oil and energy companies in Russia and this is developing into a much more solid relationship with Russia and we are quite happy with this,” Safeen Dizayee said.
Dizayee said he was referring, in particular, to the contracts with Russia’s Gazprom and Rosneft energy companies.

From Ochelli.com
The Host of Porkins Policy Radio joins us for the first hour where North Korea Fire and Fury The Likes of Which The World has never seen is discussed. One insane regime to another , we compare the Trumpster to K.J. Un.
https://porkinspolicyreview.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/the-ochelli-effect-2017-08-08.mp3

Iraqi Kurds unfurl a giant Kurdish flag during Nawruz celebrations in Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo)
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Analysis) — Years before the U.S. illegally invaded and then occupied Iraq, plans were circulating within the Pentagon to partition the country along “sectarian” lines, with the express purpose of allowing the U.S. and its regional allies to better control oil resource production and movement within the Middle East.

Originally appeared at RussiaFeed.com
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has revised upwards its expectations for Russia’s crude and condensate output this year by 0.04 million barrels daily (mb/d) to amount 11.11 mb/d, the organization said Thursday in its monthly report.

The “Oil to School” pipeline, the fossil-fuel industry’s effort to pour pro-petrol propaganda into K-12 classrooms, is more widespread and pernicious than previously thought, a new investigation shows.
Oil can exploit the fact that schools are underfunded, and provide resources and then take the opportunity to write the resources which somehow manage to omit the dangers of climate change and pollution. The results are story book characters like “Petro Pete” who warn of the catastrophe life would be without the help of the mighty oil and gas industry.

“Light, feeling, and sense will pass away; and in this condition must I find my happiness […] Polluted by crimes and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
—Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, Chapter 24
On 25th July, a united Congress issued a new round of economic sanctions against Russian, Iranian, and North Korean industries, ignoring US President Donald Trump’s provisions, and after last month’s attempts stalled due to unintended economic consequences.

Police prepare to remove a protestor from the top of a vehicle waiting to enter an exploratory drill site for the controversial gas extraction process known as fracking at Barton Moss in Manchester, England, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. (AP/Jon Super)
Fracking companies in Britain privately admit they are “suffering” and struggling to secure finance, according to government documents obtained via freedom of information.

(ANTIMEDIA) Bastrop County, TX — A crude oil pipeline spill in Bastrop County, Texas, Thursday morning released an estimated 1,200 barrels of oil — over 50,000 gallons — prompting evacuations of residents closest to the rupture.