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Gulf of Mexico oil spill spirals towards New Orleans, photo NASA Earth Observatory image |
12 May 2010
Gulf of Mexico disaster: nationalise the oil giants
AFTER THE explosion which sank the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, causing eleven deaths and threatening an environmental catastrophe, many people must be wondering what is to be done with the oil companies - not least the relatives of the workers killed in the explosion, writes Pete Mason.
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Oil slick from the Deepwater Horizon disaster (right) |
5 May 2010
Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster: Stop the polluters!
AN ENVIRONMENTAL catastrophe threatens the US coastline surrounding the Gulf of Mexico following an explosion and sinking of the BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil rig on 20 April.
As 240,000 gallons of oil each day gushes out of the destroyed oil well and with no immediate prospect of capping three major leaks, then the environmental and economic effects in the region will be severe and long lasting...
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21 April 2010
Fast news
What they don't say: TENS OF thousands of low paid council workers, NHS workers, teachers, etc, face the sack as part of a 500,000+ jobs cull during the next five years as the next government slashes public spending to curb the £167 billion budget deficit...
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10 February 2010
Fast news
Energy price shock: AHEAD OF its expected announcement of an "embarrassingly high" record £540 million profit for 2009, British Gas has announced a small cut in consumer prices of 7%...
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Climate change demo December 2007, photo Paul Mattsson |
9 December 2009
Climate change summit: Coming up short in Copenhagen
Paying the price of global warming: TENS OF thousands of people marched through central London to the Houses of Parliament on Saturday 5 December to demand action from the Labour government, and the world's leaders, ahead of the Copenhagen summit on climate change, writes Dave Carr.
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2 December 2009
Fast news
Unauthorised greed: THE SUPREME Court ruled last week that the UK's high street banks can continue to apply excessive charges on customers' unauthorised overdrafts...
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18 November 2009
Labour pushes nuclear plants
THE GOVERNMENT has fast-tracked the building of ten new nuclear stations - riding roughshod over the objections of local communities, and ignoring cost and safety concerns...
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20 May 2009
Construction workers walk out
Stop press: In a continuation of the battle to stop large construction firms bringing in workers on lower than the trade union negotiated wages and conditions, workers at the South Hook liquefied natural gas site in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, walked out on 19 May...
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18 February 2009
Isle of Grain picket
On 11 February, around 70 workers staged a demonstration on the Isle of Grain in Kent, outside the site of a new gas-fired power station where the main contractor, Alstom, is using Polish sub-contractors with no trade union agreement on their pay and conditions, writes Ken Douglas.
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21 January 2009
Fast news: My Lords, Ladies and cash dispenser
DIGBY JONES, life peer, is stepping down from his post as the government's business minister...
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