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Blog Entries by Kevin Grandia from 06/2010

Say What?! BP Says its Newest Plan is a Better Plan

| Posted 06.02.2010 | Green

So far BP has tried Operation Top Hat, Operation Siphon, Operation Top Kill and all have failed. Now we have Operation "Cap and Cut" in whic...

Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup (VIDEO): The Hay Solution

| Posted 06.02.2010 | Green

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Logging loophole gets spotlight at Bonn climate talks

| Posted 06.02.2010 | Green

With media rightly focused on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster it's understandable that the climate talks under way in Bonn, Germany this week ar...

Climate financing: put the money on the barrel at the Bonn climate talks

| Posted 06.02.2010 | Green

One of the major issues at the climate treaty talks underway in Bonn, Germany this week is a big idea encapsulated in a simple phrase: "climate financ...

Fiddling in Bonn While the Gulf Oil Spills

| Posted 06.04.2010 | Green

It seems like there is a firewall between the disaster in the Gulf and the pace of the climate treaty negotiations underway in Bonn, Germany, this week. The two are very much intertwined.

Canada owns the podium for inaction at Bonn climate talks

| Posted 06.07.2010 | Green

With international climate treaty negotiations underway again in Bonn, Germany this week, a fossil-of-the-day award has been handed to Canada by the I...

BP Didn't "Spill" Milk in the Gulf of Mexico

| Posted 06.09.2010 | Green

It's quite a coup for BP to have such a massive disaster on its hands to be described as a "spill," a word that implies accidental and minor in scale. "Oops, I spilled my milk" comes to mind.

The Inside Scoop on the "Climate War"

| Posted 06.14.2010 | Green

The first question I had for author Eric Pooley after I finished reading his new book, The Climate War, was whether he had set up hidden cameras all o...

BP Oil Slick Now Threatens 60 Percent of America's Tidal Marshes

| Posted 06.17.2010 | Green

New data released shows that the oil slick is contaminating one protected ecoregion containing more than 60 percent of America's tidal marshes, and is threatening at least two more.

Shocking Oil Disaster Video: Visualizing 25,000 Barrels of Oil

| Posted 06.18.2010 | Green

This video, using gaming graphic physics is going viral today and it shows in a very disturbing way, exactly what 25,000 barrels of oil looks like.

Who Are the Spindoctors Behind the Attack on Gasland?

| Posted 06.22.2010 | Green

I guess the dinosaurs in the dirty fuel lobby don't like videos of people who can light their tap water on fire after their wells are contaminated with methane gas.

On BP's Planet Locals are "Prospering" from the Oil Disaster

| Posted 06.23.2010 | Green

Despite the billions that will be lost this summer in tourism and fishing dollars, British Petroleum cannot help but try and somehow paint a pretty pi...

Leaked Memo: World Leaders Plan to Backtrack on End to Oil Company Handouts

| Posted 06.23.2010 | Green

A leaked draft agenda for this year's G20 summit has emerged outlining a plan that will water down the earlier commitment to ending handouts to oil companies by making it voluntary for to do so.

Top Man in Washington Slams Canada's Tar Sands

| Posted 06.24.2010 | Green

When former US President Bill Clinton went for an "unofficial" visit to North Korea to negotiate the release of two imprisoned American journalists he...

What the Frack: Is Pumping Glass Cleaner Into the Earth Okay?

| Posted 06.28.2010 | Green

While the natural gas companies might think hydraulic fracturing (or "fracking") is great for their bottom line, the process involves pumping thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals down into the earth.

Canadian Oil Lobby Trying to Kill U.S. Clean Energy Policy

| Posted 06.30.2010 | Green

Who knew the tentacles of the Canadian oil lobby could reach all the way down to Washington, D.C.? And who knew they were so powerful?