Monthly Archives: October, 2011
Oil escaping from central blaze threat
The New South Wales Government says a huge fire in a power station south of Newcastle could cost taxpayers more than $ 15 million. Firefighters, who spent the night fighting the fire at the Eraring Power Station are now working to stop oil escaping from the site. The fire broke out in the channel number [...]
Nigerians Seek $ 1 billion in compensation from Shell
Nigerians in the oil-rich Niger Delta is asking a U.S. court to grant them $ 1 billion in compensation from Shell for damages from oil spills.The suit – for people from the Ogale community in Rivers State – requires a court in Michigan to award damages against Shell Oil Company for decades of pollution by [...]
Security official convicted in W Va mine disaster
The only person so far prosecuted in the worst U.S. coal mining disaster in decades, was convicted Wednesday of lying to investigators about the 2010 explosion that killed 29 people in the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia. It took jurors about six hours to my former security chief, Hughie Elbert Stover, guilty of [...]
House OKs massive copper-mining land swap in southeastern Arizona
The House voted Wednesday to more than 2,400 acres of the copper-rich federal land in Pinal County, Arizona’s swap with a mining company that plans to develop the third-largest undeveloped copper resource in the world. Resolution Copper Mining said the project would be 3,700 jobs and $ 61 billion in the region more than 40 [...]
Interior asks for 20-year ban on uranium mining near Grand Canyon
The Bureau of Land Management is recommending a 20-year ban on new uranium mining claims on more than 1 million acres of federal land near the Grand Canyon. The recommendation must be officially published Thursday in the Federal Register, would allow mining to continue at all current me whether my claim in the region, but [...]