BP Plc last September tapped into a new oilfield called Tiber, estimated to hold at least 3 billion barrels of crude, or six months’ worth of U.S. consumption. Discovered through seismic imaging and data crunched on a supercomputer, the field is almost six miles (9.6 kilometers) beneath the Gulf of Mexico’s floor, in a spot […]
2013, The Year of Jubilee — Our 12-Month Sabbatical from Entitlement and Greed
by Donald Croft Brickner Let’s try our hands at a little bit of imagination-driven time travel, what do you say? Picture yourself living in (on) January 1, 2013 (…which, I might throw in as aside, is five full days before my 66th birthday). Yes. So, I’m there — how about you? The face of America […]
Oil rises in Asia as Gustav to hit US
Oil prices rose Monday in Asia to above $116 a barrel on expectations Hurricane Gustav will damage drilling and refining operations as it approaches the Louisiana coast. Light, sweet crude for October delivery was up $1.04 at $116.50 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange by midday in Singapore. The contract […]
John McCain tore up the script for his Republican National Convention on Sunday
As rain started to fall on this city’s empty streets Sunday night nearly 2 million people from the Louisiana coast evacuated. McCain orders convention curtailed for Gustav. Officials said that as part of the convention’s opening night, Laura Bush and McCain’s wife, Cindy, would speak from the podium and describe ways to help victims of […]
Tropical Storm Hurricane Edouard: Bad News for Houston, TX
Tropical Storm Edouard is gaining strength in the Gulf of Mexico as it moves towards the coast of Texas and western Louisiana. Meteorologists forecast that the storm could become a hurricane, or at least maintain its tropical storm classification, when it makes landfall near Galveston and moves towards Houston on Tuesday. Tropical Storm Edouard currently […]
Unions Lend Helping Hand to Midwest Flood Victims
By James Parks for AFL-CIO NOW As last month’s devastating floods in the Midwest crept toward Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Dean Shannon, secretary of Communications Workers of America (CWA) Local 7101, came home to find a Weather Channel van parked in front of his house. “Dean, this can’t be a good sign,” Joie Welsh, the local […]