Take that Mother Nature! Hundreds of barrels of crude oil spilled into Montana’s Yellowstone River after an ExxonMobil pipeline beneath the riverbed ruptured, sending a plume 25 miles downstream and forcing temporary evacuations, officials said. The break near Billings in south-central Montana fouled the riverbank and forced municipalities and irrigation districts Saturday to close intakes. […]
The UN report on climate change has come out and says global warming is now “unstoppable”. So who do we thank for getting to this point? Here is a starter: Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major […]
The Boston Herald reports today that Exxon is expected to make more than $10 billion in profits for this quarter. Kind of nice for a company that has not felt the crunch of Hurricane Katrina like all other Americans are. Oil companies came under new fire yesterday when it emerged that ExxonMobil’s profits are likely […]