Word Press Tags: BP, Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Oil Spill
“The two types of dispersants BP is spraying in the Gulf of Mexico are banned for use on oil spills in the U.K. As EPA-approved products, BP has been using them in greater quantities than dispersants have ever been used in the history...
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Word Press Tags: BP. Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill, Deepwater Horizon
“John Lapoint of Packgen in Auburn, Maine, says he’s got plenty of floating oil containment boom and can make lots more on short notice. There’s just one problem: no one will buy it from...
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“Suddenly, creating jobs is out, inflicting pain is in. Condemning deficits and refusing to help a still-struggling economy has become the new fashion everywhere, including the United States, where 52 senators voted against extending aid to the unemployed despite the highest rate of...
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Potentially toxic waste is being transported for dumping in a sewer near the Phoenix Park because the €500,000 plant built to treat it "doesn’t work", say councillors.
It has...
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Word Press Tags: Louisiana, Gulf Oil Spill, Deepwater Disaster, BP, Deepwater Oil Spill
“The ecological destruction of the oil disaster in the Gulf is perhaps most aptly embodied in the...
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Word Press Tags: ICTU, Croke Park Deal, Croke Park Agreement, SIPTU
“The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU)’s public service committee voted last week to formally agree a four-year strike...
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