...yeah I got nothing
Jun. 22nd, 2010 12:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciroccojSo nice to see that some things transcend the 49th parallel. Where's the vomiting smiley when you need it?
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Oil firms challenge U.S. deepwater drilling ban
NEW ORLEANS/LAFITTE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Oil services companies went to court on Monday seeking to overturn President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
District Court Judge Martin Feldman said he would decide by Wednesday whether to temporarily lift the ban while the case is heard. More than a dozen companies involved in offshore drilling operations filed the lawsuit, calling the ban "arbitrary and capricious."
"The government's unchecked authority has shut down this entire industry," argued lawyer Carl Rosenblum, representing the oil industry.
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Arbitrary and capricious. I can only reply in Princess Bride-ese: "These words. They do not mean what you think they mean."
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Alberta apologizes to oilsands critics
EDMONTON - Legal pressure has forced a senior Alberta government scientist to retract highly public statements saying two prominent oilsands critics lied and fudged their data.
In a letter to the scientists he questioned, Preston McEachern — head of oilsands research for Alberta Environment — now says he was the one who was wrong.
"The statements in my presentation that you did these things were false and I regret very much that I made these statements," he said in a letter to Peter Lee of Global Forest Watch and independent biologist Kevin Timoney.
rest of the story
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You mean he lied? My shock knowsno many bounds.
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Oil firms challenge U.S. deepwater drilling ban
NEW ORLEANS/LAFITTE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Oil services companies went to court on Monday seeking to overturn President Barack Obama's six-month ban on deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the worst oil spill in U.S. history.
District Court Judge Martin Feldman said he would decide by Wednesday whether to temporarily lift the ban while the case is heard. More than a dozen companies involved in offshore drilling operations filed the lawsuit, calling the ban "arbitrary and capricious."
"The government's unchecked authority has shut down this entire industry," argued lawyer Carl Rosenblum, representing the oil industry.
rest of the story
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Arbitrary and capricious. I can only reply in Princess Bride-ese: "These words. They do not mean what you think they mean."
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Alberta apologizes to oilsands critics
EDMONTON - Legal pressure has forced a senior Alberta government scientist to retract highly public statements saying two prominent oilsands critics lied and fudged their data.
In a letter to the scientists he questioned, Preston McEachern — head of oilsands research for Alberta Environment — now says he was the one who was wrong.
"The statements in my presentation that you did these things were false and I regret very much that I made these statements," he said in a letter to Peter Lee of Global Forest Watch and independent biologist Kevin Timoney.
rest of the story
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You mean he lied? My shock knows
