While British Petroleum fights to pin blame on others for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, they somehow have convinced one of its Japanese business partners to pay for part of it.
MOEX, a unit of Japanese trading firm Mitsui and Company, will pay just over $1 billion to cover damages and clean up. […] Continue Reading…
Tokyo Electric Power Company president, Shimizu Masataka, has resigned, and will step down in June.
TEPCo has lost $15 billion. $12 billion of that is directly due to dealing with the ongoing nuclear disaster at their Fukushima Daiichi plant.
In order to pay compensation to people affected by the radiation disaster, TEPCo will sell off $7 […] Continue Reading…
20 May 2011, Tokyo Electric Power Company says they will resume nitrogen injection in Fukushima Daiichi’s reactors 2 and 3. There is a fear that hydrogen gas is building to explosive levels.
The explosions of the reactor buildings, back in March, is blamed on hydrogen gas build up. TEPCo also said they were installing lead […] Continue Reading…
Scotland has oil, lots of it. And the Scottish people say they’re tired of the English controlling it. After all they were told they would benefit, but they haven’t. Scottish rebels point to Norway as an example: “Scotland and Norway discovered oil at the same time. Some years ago, Scotland was turned into […] Continue Reading…
President Barak Obama wants to write off $1 billion in debts that Egypt owes the U.S. Then he wants to give Egypt another $1 billion in credit!
Here’s two reasons taxpayers of the United States should be pissed off: According to the U.S. Department of State: “U.S. military aid to Egypt totals over $1.3 billion […] Continue Reading…
Canadian Imperial Oil (a subsidiary Exxon Mobil Corp) has massive equipment, called modules, stuck in Lewiston, Idaho. They need to get it to their Kearl oil sands project in northern Alberta, Canada.
The problem is their size. Idaho Transportation Department has yet to approve transportation of the equipment through Idaho, one of the problems is […] Continue Reading…
The J.A. and Kathryn Albertson Foundation is donating $21 million to help fund the Idaho SchoolNet program.
The Albertson Foundation is a supporter of current Idaho education reforms. They felt the donation was necessary after state legislators cut taxpayer funding for the SchoolNet program.
The Foundation says the $21 million donation is part of a total […] Continue Reading…
“Those whose certificates are suspended or revoked can no longer be employed by an Idaho public school.”-Tom Luna, Superintendent of Public Instruction
Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna, is warning educators they could lose their jobs if they continue to use public property to promote their personal politics.
Luna claims his office has received reports […] Continue Reading…
Voice of America reporting that farms along the Mississippi flood zones are destroyed. Some farmers were able to harvest some of their crops before the flooding.
Many farmers did not have crops to harvest, but were about to plant, and now that’s not going to happen: “…this is unprecedented because of the amount of water […] Continue Reading…
Israeli media reporting that Facebook group Third Palestinian Intifada, is calling for a massive pro-Palestine demonstration after Friday prayers, May 20.
Reports say Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank are planning to demonstrate as well.