Tag: oil workers

A couple of stories have my blood really boiling this morning over the whole oil spill mess. First we have BP ignoring EPA orders to not use the toxic dispersant. BP just ignored them time and time again and the EPA finally threw their arms up and caved: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson said […]

The latest in the wave of anti-globalization and anti-Americanism in South America is taking the form of striking oil workers in Ecuador: QUITO, Ecuador (Reuters) – Petroecuador said on Wednesday it expects production will climb to near normal levels in three or four days after troops fired tear gas to clear out strikers who have […]