Group Bookmarks tagged
You are here: Diigo Home > Groups > nuke.news > Bookmarks > Group Bookmarks tagged oil
The McCain/Palin push for endless oil drilling is being used as a smokescreen to gouge a half-trillion or more taxpayer dollars in subsidies and loan guarantees to build new atomic reactors. The mega-theft could be approved by the US Senate this week. Green activists throughout the nation are calling their senators, as should you. The atomic power industry can’t get private financing to build new reactors. So while Wall Street plummets into catastrophe, it is using the “drill, drill, drill” mantra to hide this latest raid on the depleted federal treasury.
more from onlinejournal.com
With Congress about to jet out of town and a pile of more pressing legislation awaiting action, several measures that would directly affect Utah -- from mining safety law reform to a foreign nuclear waste ban to a federal crackdown on polygamy -- are being punted to next year. Congress is set to adjourn Sept. 26, and it's unclear whether lawmakers will return after the November election to tackle myriad items still left on the docket. What is clear, though, is that some legislation will remain stuck in committee.
more from www.sltrib.com
The chief executive of the world's largest energy company has issued the most dire warning yet about the soaring the price of oil, predicting that it will hit $250 per barrel "in the foreseeable future".
more from www.independent.co.uk
Energy Net (5077)