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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 7, 2016, 8:12 pm
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[center]Record Year for VLCCs in Port of Rotterdam
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January 6, 2016 by gCaptain
The Port of Rotterdam has reported a record number of very large
crude carriers in port in 2015 helped by growth in full oil
supply in northwest Europe and Russian stockpiles flowing into
the region.
The Port of Rotterdam Authority said Monday that in 2015, no
fewer than 51 VLCCs called at the port to discharge and/or load
fuel. That is 22 more VLCCs, ranging from 200,000 to 320,000
dwt, than in 2014 and 12 more than in the record year of 2012.
In 2015, a total of around 28.3 billion liters of fuel oil was
shipped from Rotterdam, the Port Authority said.
“The increase in the transport of fuel oil is due to a slight
growth in its supply in the Northwest Europe region on the one
hand,” says Ronald Backers, Business Intelligence Advisor for
the Port of Rotterdam Authority. “The refineries here are
operating at full capacity due to this year’s high margins.
In addition, Russia saw a large build-up of fuel oil stocks in
2014. At the beginning of 2015, this stock ‘flowed’ in the
direction of Rotterdam and other ports. On the other hand, the
demand for fuel oil is slightly lower. This is partly due to the
introduction, in January 2015, of the requirement to use bunker
fuel in the North and Baltic Seas with a maximum sulphur content
of 0.5%. This was achieved by using Marine Gas Oil. All in all,
this has led to a surplus of fuel oil, which had to be shifted
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With last year’s 51 VLCCs, 283 of the world’s largest tankers
visited Rotterdam in the last ten years. Two thirds of these
discharged crude oil before leaving again with fuel oil, the
Port Authority says.
“75% of the loading of the VLCCs takes place at the terminals in
Rotterdam, 25% at the Caland Canal and Maasvlakte2 dolphins,
Backers adds. “There is often a combination of both locations,
with most of the loading taking place at a terminal and the
loading being completed at the dolphins.”
The Port Authority says that average cargo volume of the mammoth
tankers has increased over time by about 30,000 tonnes to
280,000 tonnes. The record in this field is still held by the TI
Europe, which sailed with 353,000 tonnes of fuel oil in August
2013.
Incidentally, there was also a record number of Suezmax tankers
(120,000-160,000 tonnes deadweight) in Rotterdam, the Port
Authority also reported. With a total of 45, this was 4 higher
than in 2014.
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[size=12pt][i][b]And, as NIGHT follows DAY, the pollution just
keeps on ADDING UP. [/i][/b][/size]
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[center]Map of oil spills listed in Table 1. [/center]
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Table: Table 1A. Top 20 major oil spills from oil tankers since
the Torrey Canyon in 1967, update as of 2012.[/center]
Oil Pollution in the Marine Environment I: Inputs, Big Spills,
Small Spills, and Dribbles
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 8, 2016, 6:49 pm
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[center] What fossil fuel companies knew and when they knew it
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The fundamentals of global warming have been well established
for generations. Fossil fuel companies have almost certainly
been aware of the underlying climate science for decades.
As early as 1977, representatives from major fossil fuel
companies attended dozens of congressional hearings in which the
contribution of carbon emissions to the greenhouse effect was
discussed. By 1981 at least one company (Exxon) was already
considering the climate implications of a large fossil fuel
extraction project.
In 1988, the issue moved beyond the scientific community and
onto the national stage.
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Full article:
The Climate Deception Dossiers (2015)
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 13, 2016, 6:32 pm
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Schlumberger (SLB), as I said a year and a half ago, is in
serious financial trouble. However, they DO NOT plan to accept
responsibility for their pollution or their mistakes. >:(
SLB, true to it's excellent corruption connections with the
fossil fuel bought and paid for government, has had a GIANT
merger with CAM PRE-APPROVED by the "Justice" Department. No
sir, no risk of a monopoly here. LOL! Think about that, sports
fans.
SLB has shed 22,000 jobs in the last year and has announced that
it will lay off more people this year. It's stock is in the
tank. It has lost BILLIONS! It's business model is threatened,
not just by lower oil prices, but by pollution lawsuits and
damage claims from people and various levels of government AND
the coming carbon taxation AND the end of it's subsidy welfare
queen gravy train.
So what does SLB do? It fires the "salt of the earth" employees
that it had promised to take care of and be loyal to (and so on
;)) on the bottom of the rubber meats the [s]road[/s] rig totem
pole. AND it plans a merger with CAM to throw off the wages bus
a bunch of middle mangers too! Of course this WILL constitute a
reduction of competition and an IN YOUR FACE monopolistic
practice. But SO WHAT? They've got the "Justice" Department in
the fossil fuel government to "take care of the legal business"
for them.
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The fact is that SLB has its ass in a giant crack and is being
BABIED to enable it to survive. Do you see where I'm going with
this, sports fans? The Fossil fuelers and their pals in Houston
love to talk about RESPONSIBILITY and COMPETITIVE energy prices
and WELFARE WHINERS that MILK THE SYSTEM. Yet that is EXACTLY
what the fossil fuel industry WEFARE QUEENS in Houston have DONE
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But more to the point, what SLB is doing is an attempt to
manipulate the energy field they are in by merging for price
"control"
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This is IRRESPONSIBLE. They SHOULD NOT be allowed to merge and
they SHOULD go bankrupt because of their incorrect management
decisions and their failed business model (creating polluting
messes wherever they go that generate damages claims). BUT THAT
ISN'T HAPPENING! WHY NOT!!!? You won't get an answer from the
trolls defending fossil fuels, who think all this crooked
welfare queenery is fine and dandy "corporate fiduciary
responsibility", when it is exactly the opposite.
Also, Conocophilips id up to no good. I mention them here
because that is MORE interesting financial information: That
corporation is planning on making a killing in DIRTY (Fracked)
LNG profits within the next year.
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Do your part. HELP profit over planet fossil fuel industry
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 16, 2016, 2:41 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: To be filed under SOCIAL ENGINEERING that is
quite acceptable to those who claim they are "skeptical" of
social engineering.
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What these
Capitalist/Libertarian/Game Theorists REALLY mean by that is
that they are SELECTIVELY skeptical.
You see, it's fine and dandy for we-the-people to
Disproportionately Subsidize Polluting Predators 'R' US [img
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Welfare Queens ;)) for government money to be used to help in
feeding the poor, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless,
caring for the sick or other "financially unsound" examples of
altruistic "nonsense" that "SUCCESSFUL Apex Predators" should
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01/15/2016 03:52 PM
[center]Little Known Fact: Renewable Energy Companies Pay Way
More Than Fossil Firms to Lease Public Land[/center]
SustainableBusiness.com News
When fossil fuel companies are allowed to lease our public lands
to extract oil, gas and coal, they pay close to nothing for the
privilege of disrupting our climate and destroying wildlife
habitat.
But for renewable energy developers it's another story. They pay
top dollar to put solar or wind arrays on public lands.
For solar, costs per acre have a huge range. The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) charges between $16.50 and $6,897 and rates
rise each year, but oil and gas leases are set in stone at the
bargain price of $1.50 per acre per year, according to Renewable
Energy World.
"It's almost embarrassing what we charge," Dick Bouts, energy
program analyst at BLM told Renewable Energy World. "It's
certainly pocket change for these companies that will spend
millions of dollars developing a lease to get it in production,
and the rent is almost nothing."
[quote]And while solar and wind projects produce energy forever,
once the oil and gas is pulled from the ground, it's gone.
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[center]Mineral Leasing Act of 1920
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It all goes back to the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920, when
Congress set the rates. Congress raised the fee from $1 per acre
in the 1980s, but since then Congress has refused to act. Cattle
and sheep ranchers can graze their animals on public lands for
bargain prices for the same reason.
"Even if we were to try to do a rule making and try to raise the
rate for oil and gas, BLM would get beat up so bad by the
industry and by certain members of Congress," he told Renewable
Energy World.
But Congress does allow BLM to set rates for renewable energy.
These market rates rise every year and are based on population
and GDP.
In addition to paying rent for the land, there are royalty fees.
Oil and gas companies pay 12.5% of the value of what they
extract, but various loopholes reduce it to more like 5%.
Solar pays a per-megawatt fee, and the bigger a project is, the
price goes up for every megawatt of energy produced. Fees are
lowest for solar PV ($5,256 per MW), followed by concentrating
solar without energy storage ($6,570 per MW) and are highest
with energy storage ($7,884 per MW), reports Renewable Energy
World.
The only other fee BLM is allowed to set rates is for oil and
gas pipelines and transmission lines for renewables
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This is one more sweetheart deal that continues to subsidize
fossil fuels at the expense of renewable energy. >:(
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Agelbert NOTE: Please repeat after me, Fossil Fuels are NOT a
REsource because the CANNOT be use more than ONCE. ONLY
RENEWABLE ENERGY is a RESOURCE of energy. Fossil Fuels are a
SOURCE of (polluting) Energy, NOT a RESOURCE. This corruption of
the language to describe energy sources by the polluters is
worthy of Machiavelli in general and Game Theory in particular.
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There is absolutely NO JUSTIFICATION (unless you are into game
theory, of course
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wildlife for this ONE SHOT DEAL of sucking fossil fuels out of
the ground while you kill every bit of wildlife that gets in
your way!!!
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[move]And what do the fossil fuelers/game theory
worshippers/SELECTIVE Skeptics of social engineering say to
above? See below.[/move]
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 20, 2016, 8:42 pm
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Exxon Mobil, which operates a refinery in Torrance, above, has
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Ivan Penn •Contact Reporter
January 20, 2016, 3:00 AM
California Atty. Gen. Kamala D. Harris is investigating whether
Exxon Mobil Corp. repeatedly lied to the public and its
shareholders about the risk to its business from climate change
— and whether such actions [I]could amount to securities fraud
and violations of environmental laws[/i].
Harris' office is reviewing what Exxon Mobil knew about global
warming and what the company told investors, a person close to
the investigation said.
The move follows published reports, based on internal company
documents, suggesting that during the 1980s and 1990s the
company, then known as Exxon, used climate research as part of
its planning and other business practices but simultaneously
argued publicly that climate-change science was not clear cut.
Those documents were cited in stories by reporters for Columbia
University Energy and Environmental Reporting Fellowship,
published in partnership with the Los Angeles Times. The
nonprofit InsideClimate News also published several stories
based on the documents.
Shortly after the news reports, Harris' office launched the
investigation in response to the findings, the person said. New
York's attorney general also is investigating the oil company as
a result of the published reports.
[font=times new roman]Special Report Investigation: How Exxon
went from leader to skeptic on climate change research [/font]
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Exxon Mobil did not respond to several requests for comment made
by telephone and email.
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A spokesman for Harris declined to confirm the investigation.
U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu
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(D-Torrance), who has called on federal authorities to
investigate Exxon Mobil, praised Harris' decision.
Lieu said the investigation means that any damages won from
Exxon Mobil could benefit Californians. ;D
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Lieu said he has sent letters to U.S. Atty. Gen. Loretta Lynch
and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission calling for
federal investigations of securities fraud and violations of
racketeering, consumer protection, truth in advertising, public
health, shareholder protection or other laws.
Lieu said he hopes the decision by Harris, representing a state
with the eighth-largest economy in the world, will prompt other
states and the Justice Department to investigate.
"I think this action will be taken very seriously by Exxon Mobil
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" Lieu
said.
Richard Keil, an Exxon Mobil spokesman, previously said that the
company denies any wrongdoing in regard to the climate-change
reports.
"We
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climate change research contained in media reports," Keil
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October by Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier (D-Concord). Keil issued a
statement with the same quote in early November when the New
York investigation became public.
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Exxon Mobil continues to face calls from several current and
former U.S. lawmakers for criminal investigations based on the
media reports. They include Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and
Al Gore.
It is unclear what approach Harris intends to take in
California's investigation.
Harris' office is casting a wide net and looking at a variety of
issues, according to the person familiar with the matter.
[font=times new roman]What Exxon knew about the Earth's melting
Arctic[/font]
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Legal experts say the SEC requires that companies disclose the
risks of climate change to their business operations but that
the agency has taken almost no action to enforce it.
The moves by California and New York are seen as a step to fill
that void.
Exxon Mobil already has received a subpoena for documents dating
from 1977 from the office of Eric Schneiderman, New York's
attorney general.
Schneiderman has at his disposal New York's Martin Act, a law
that gives the state's attorney general broad power to prosecute
companies for financial fraud.
Unlike federal securities law, the New York statute does not
require the state to prove that a company intended to defraud
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it from investors.
The law applies to any company doing business in the state.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 25, 2016, 7:43 pm
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[center]6 Ways to Kick Fossil Fuel Money Out of
Politics[/center]
Cassady Sharp, Greenpeace USA | January 25, 2016 2:46 pm
Last week marked the sixth anniversary of the Citizens United
Supreme Court ruling, which unleashed unlimited corporate
spending on our elections. Thinking about the widespread impact
of this ruling, it’s easy to get pretty down on the state of our
democracy. In addition to the immediate wreckage Citizens United
caused in our democracy, there was a simultaneous attack on
voting rights, leaving people in this country with less access
to the polls than in 1965.
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[center]Activists dressed as $100 bills representing “The Money”
have a tug of war with activists as “The People” in front of the
Supreme Court. Photo credit: Greenpeace / Robert Meyers
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For instance, in this election cycle alone, employees from oil
and gas companies have contributed nearly a million dollars on
just three candidates, Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. Jeb Bush and Sec.
Hillary Clinton, respectively.
Yeah, that can be pretty disheartening.
The good news is the American people are not putting up with any
of this. People from Florida to Washington are determined to
build a democracy in which everyone has equal voice and can rest
assured that their vote won’t be immediately squashed by
corporate money.
The best part is they’re winning.
There is still a lot to be done to fix our democracy. Feast your
eyes on these six beautiful reasons that solutions are possible.
6. In Tallahassee, Florida voters overwhelmingly supported a
sweeping set of ethics and campaign finance laws in 2014. The
reforms included the creation of an ethics board, public
campaign financing and a lower cap on individual contributions
to candidates.
5. A unanimous state court in Texas ruled that a voter ID law
that discriminated against African-American and Hispanic voters
was unconstitutional. This law had disenfranchised more than
500,000 voters.
4. Maine voters showed their support for clean elections by
passing campaign finance reforms that would strengthen public
financing for legislative and gubernatorial races, increase
fines for violators of campaign finance laws and require groups
to disclose political ad spending.
3. Meanwhile, voters in Seattle passed by a vote of 60 to 40
percent public financing of the city’s elections. This will
initiate new system in which voters can distribute up to four
$25 “democracy vouchers” to candidates. Who wouldn’t want a
democracy voucher?
2. Hawaii typically has the lowest voter turnout nationwide.
State legislators recently passed a much-needed bill that will
allow residents to register and vote on the same day starting
this year. This bill should increase voter participation with
easier access to the polls.
1. If you listened to President Obama’s State of the Union
address last week, you may have heard his tough talk on fixing
democracy—“fixing our politics” to be exact. The White House
reassured us this week that his strong rhetoric was not just lip
service when officials said the president is seriously
considering a “dark money” executive order that would require
companies with government contracts to disclose their political
contributions. If passed, the law would be a major step forward
in increased transparency in political spending.
Now it’s time for the 2016 candidates to follow the lead of our
current president by proposing real solutions to our broken, but
fixable, democracy.
Send a letter today asking all the candidates to take the
#fixdemocracy pledge.
Citizens United certainly damaged our democracy, but by working
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Agelbert Comment: Cancel all fossil fuel subsidies and cheap
leases on government lands and outlaw flaring at both land and
sea based oil rigs and fracking rigs. Then they will ALL [i]go
bankrupt.[/I] Then they will have NO MONEY to corrupt
politicians with. It's really quite simple. They are welfare
queens. Their "business model" cannot survive without their hand
out gravy train and their externalized pollution piggery.
Then the ZIP CODE in Texas that is responsible for the MOST
"campaign contributions" (percentage wise) on behalf of the
fossil fuel industry (for the past several DECADES) will not be
able to BUY our democracy on behalf of oligarchic profit over
planet FASCISM.
2013 money - but that is the routine and continues to this day:
[quote]More oil and gas-related federal political donations have
originated in Fort Worth 76102 this election cycle than in any
other U.S. ZIP code.
But consider that there are about 43,000 ZIP codes in the United
States, meaning this tiny plot of Texas turf packs some awfully
concentrated political power. And that roughly quarter-million
dollars from the 76102 ZIP code is an impressive slice of the
overall $15.7 million in oil and gas-related money to so far
this cycle pour into the coffers of federal-level politicians
and political committees.[/quote]
Epicenter of Oil & Gas Industry’s Political Influence Lies Deep
in the Heart of Fort Worth, Texas
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By: AGelbert Date: January 26, 2016, 10:13 pm
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[center]Polarcus Sets Record With Largest Man-Made Moving Object
On Earth :P
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January 25, 2016 by gCaptain
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[center]Polarcus Amani doing its seismic thing. They, OF COURSE,
claim it is "environmentally sound" (and painted it GREEN for
good measure! [img
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Dubai-based ;) Polarcus is in the process of acquiring an
ultra-wide 3D marine seismic project offshore Myanmar, and is
breaking acquisition performance records with the largest
man-made moving object on earth.
The company’s vessel, Polarcus Amani, is towing an in-sea
configuration that measures 1.8km wide across the front ends.
With each of the 10 streamers separated by 200m, the total area
covered by the spread is 17.6 sq.km.
This is the largest in-sea configuration ever towed by a single
seismic vessel as well as the largest man-made moving object on
earth, according to Polarcus.
The company is delivering up to 190 sq.km per day, a production
rate that is currently unrivalled in the seismic industry.
“Such industry leading operational efficiency in Myanmar by one
of our right-sized 3D seismic vessels exemplifies Polarcus’
strategy to deliver fit-for-purpose geophysical solutions to our
clients. We work closely with all clients to ensure both their
efficiency and data quality objectives are met and exceeded,”
Polarcus COO, Duncan Eley stated.
Writing by Nadeem (c) gCaptain
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Agelbert NOTE: WHAT do these "environmentally sound" seismic
vessels DO?
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[center]To be filed under breathtakingly ORWELLIAN claims.
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[quote]Polarcus Limited OSE: PLCS is an offshore geophysical
company operating a fleet of seismic research vessels worldwide.
The company describes itself as having a strong environmental
focus that aims to decrease emissions to both sea and air.[1]
Polarcus vessels have received high energy efficiency and
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Polarcus provides worldwide seismic data acquisition services
and Multi-Client library data as well as seismic data imaging to
help energy companies find oil and gas reserves offshore.
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By: AGelbert Date: January 27, 2016, 2:31 pm
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[quote][center]Polarcus Sets Record With Largest Man-Made Moving
Object On Earth :P
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January 25, 2016 by gCaptain
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[center]Polarcus Amani doing its seismic thing. They, OF COURSE,
claim it is "environmentally sound" (and painted it GREEN for
good measure! [img
width=30]
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Agelbert NOTE: WHAT do these "environmentally sound" seismic
vessels DO?
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/> You will never guess.
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To be filed under breathtakingly ORWELLIAN claims.
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[quote]Polarcus Limited OSE: PLCS is an offshore geophysical
company operating a fleet of seismic research vessels worldwide.
The company describes itself as having a strong environmental
focus that aims to decrease emissions to both sea and air.[1]
Polarcus vessels have received high energy efficiency and
environmental performance ratings.[2][3] [img
width=80]
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Polarcus provides worldwide seismic data acquisition services
and Multi-Client library data as well as seismic data imaging to
help energy companies find oil and gas reserves offshore.
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The company was founded in 2008 in Dubai, UAE.
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I laughed out loud (ruefully) when I read this.
But, as you point out, it IS painted green, so it MUST be
"environmentally sound."
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Yep. sneaky bastards, aren't they? They really do believe that
PRoPI (profitable return on propaganda invested) trumps ERoEI
(which, when environmental costs and subsidy swag is figured in,
is below 1:1 - i.e. they do NOT have viable business model or a
competitive product). Unlike these profit over planet welfare
queens, the reality based community of scientists have other
views.
Here's some news from those reality based scientists that keep
trying to point out the INSANITY of the BASTARDS in the M.i.C.
(and their fossil fuel industry war profiteering, price shock
engineering and massively polluting subsidiary :
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[center]I may be the king of beasts but Homo SAPS own the title
of King of Stupidity. [/center]
[move][font=courier]Doomsday Clock Stays at Three Minutes to
Midnight: At the ‘Brink’ of Man-Made Apocalypse[/font][/move]
With “utter dismay,” the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
announced Tuesday that the symbolic Doomsday Clock will hold at
three minutes to midnight—at the “brink” of man-made
apocalypse—because world leaders have failed to take the
necessary steps to protect citizens from the grave threats of
nuclear war
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runaway climate change
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View various charts at link:
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“Three minutes (to midnight) is too close. Far too close,” reads
the statement by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board.
The decision not to move the hands of the Doomsday Clock “is not
good news,” it continues, “but an expression of dismay that
world leaders continue to fail to focus their efforts and the
world’s attention on reducing the extreme danger posed by
nuclear weapons and climate change. When we call these dangers
existential, that is exactly what we mean: They threaten the
very existence of civilization and therefore should be the first
order of business for leaders who care about their constituents
and their countries.”
The Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with
its Board of Sponsors, which includes 17 Nobel Laureates, ruled
last year to move the clock forward from five minutes to
midnight to three in response to the competing threats of
“unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations
and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals.”
The board acknowledged some bright spots over the past year,
namely the Iran nuclear agreement and the Paris Climate Accord,
but said that “they constitute only small bright spots in a
darker world situation full of potential for catastrophe.”
The statement continues:
Even as the Iran agreement was hammered out, tensions between
the U.S. and Russia rose to levels reminiscent of the worst
periods of the Cold War. Conflict in Ukraine and Syria
continued, accompanied by dangerous bluster and brinkmanship,
with Turkey, a NATO member, shooting down a Russian warplane
involved in Syria, the director of a state-run Russian news
agency making statements about turning the U.S. to radioactive
ash and NATO and Russia repositioning military assets and
conducting significant exercises with them. Washington and
Moscow continue to adhere to most existing nuclear arms control
agreements, but the U.S., Russia and other nuclear weapons
countries are engaged in programs to modernize their nuclear
arsenals, suggesting that they plan to keep and maintain the
readiness of their nuclear weapons for decades, at least—despite
their pledges, codified in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
to pursue nuclear disarmament.
Speaking at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, the
presenters repeatedly called attention to U.S. President Barack
Obama’s plan to modernize
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/>the country’s nuclear arsenal.
“What message does this send to non-nuclear nations about our
intention to build smaller, more useable weapons?” asked
Lawrence Krauss, chair of the Board of Sponsors and foundation
professor at the School of Earth and Space Exploration and
Physics departments at Arizona State University. “There is no
sane strategic use of nuclear weapons. We need to reduce our
nuclear arsenal, not make a new generation of weapons.”
Further, the panel described the COP21 agreement as merely a
“tentative success.”
Sivan Kartha, a member of the Board and senior scientist and
climate change expert with the Stockholm Environment Institute
(SEI), said national pledges to reduce carbon emissions are
“manifestly, unequivocally inadequate.”
“The voluntary pledges made in Paris to limit greenhouse gas
emissions are insufficient to the task of averting drastic
climate change,” he continued. “These incremental steps must
somehow evolve into the fundamental change in world energy
systems needed if climate change is to ultimately be arrested.”
Since the clock was first introduced in 1947, the hands have
moved 22 times. As Rachel Bronson, executive director and
publisher of the Bulletin, explained, the clock represents a
“summary view of leading experts deeply engaged in the
existential issues of our time.”
It has become a “universally recognized indicator of the world’s
vulnerability” and is a symbol of “how close we are to
destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our
own making,” the Bulletin states. Such dangers include nuclear
weapons, “climate-changing technologies, emerging
biotechnologies and cybertechnology that could inflict
irrevocable harm, whether by intention, miscalculation or by
accident, to our way of life and to the planet.”
The clock does not move every year. In fact, prior to 2015, the
countdown hadn’t changed since 2012, when it ticked ahead one
minute.
A broadcast of this year’s announcement can be viewed
[font=times new roman]here.[/font]
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Doomsday clock history video at the end of the above story.
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Re: Fossil Fuels: Degraded Democracy and Profit Over Planet Poll
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By: AGelbert Date: January 27, 2016, 9:19 pm
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[center]ExxonMobil: Global energy demand to grow by 25 percent
by 2040
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Staff Writers January 27, 2016
Global energy demand is expected to grow by about 25 percent by
2040
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The report projects that energy demand in the coming decades
will be driven by China, India and other non-OECD countries
while demand and emissions in the United States, Europe and
other OECD nations are expected to decline, even as economic
output grows.
“This is a significant increase, but would have been far higher
(exceeding 110 percent) if we did not foresee steep improvements
in energy efficiency across all demand sectors,” the report
said.
Exxon expects China and India to account for almost half of
projected global demand growth to 2040 while Brazil, Mexico,
South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Thailand and Indonesia will account for about 30 percent of
projected demand growth.
The report forecasts that global liquids output will rise to 112
million barrels a day in 2040, up from 93 million barrels per
day in 2014, enough output to meet projected demand growth.
Natural gas liquid production is expected to expand
“significantly” through 2040, with deepwater natural gas liquid
production forecast to grow by about 70 percent from 2014 to
2040.
Oil is expected to remain the top energy source in the world to
2040, but the report said that there will be a “marked shift
toward cleaner fuels, particularly natural gas.”
Unconventional oil and gas are projected to meet about one-fifth
of the world’s energy needs by 2040.
“We expect that oil, natural gas and coal – the three fuels that
together built the modern economy – will continue to meet almost
80 percent of the world’s energy needs through 2040,” the report
said.
Global demand for oil and other liquids is projected to grow by
about 20 percent from 2014 to 2040 while demand for natural gas
is poised to rise by 50 percent during the same period.
“We expect 40 percent of the projected growth in global energy
demand from 2014 to 2040 will be met by natural gas,” the report
said.
Nuclear and renewable energy sources are likely to account for
nearly 40 percent of global energy demand growth 2014 to 2040.
The majority of oil and gas exports through 2040 will likely go
to the Asia Pacific region, where demand will outstrip local
production growth.
North America is now on track become a net exporter around 2020
and the United States is expected to become a net liquids
exporter around 2025, the report said.
Flat production growth and growing demand in the Asia Pacific
region will boost that region’s net imports by more than 50
percent between 2014 and 2040.
“Europe is likely to remain the second-largest oil importing
region, with imports meeting 75 percent of demand by 2040,” the
report said.
Oil exports from the Middle East should continue to grow as
production outpaces demand in the region, allowing the Middle
East to remain the largest exporting region in the world.
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By: AGelbert Date: February 9, 2016, 1:48 pm
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