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Arctic Oil Party by Shell
Shell is starting a dangerous adventure to drill oil in the Arctic. It is a risky business to operate in that harsh environment, and quite impossible to clean the environment, if an oil spill happens. Also, our warming climate doesn’t need any excess fossil coal emissions.
Not everybody is happy about the Arctic oil drilling. For [...]
Posted in Environment
Tagged action, arctic, climate, energy, fossil fuel, lakes and seas, multinationals
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Mining companies invade Finland
Poor environmental legislation and spineless politicians have made Finland a paradise for mining companies.
The nickel and zinc producer, Talvivaara Mining Company has so far gained reputation by ignoring environmental regulations. Huge emissions of sulphate, sodium and manganese have turned nearby freshwater lakes salty. The company has also been plannig something bigger. Behind closed doors it [...]
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Tagged chemicals, lakes and seas, multinationals, natural resources, politicians, technology, uranium, waste
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Nokia and Microsoft have a new smart CEOsystem
Finnish mobile phone company Nokia dumped open source Linux based Meego and jumped what they call “a new ecosystem”, that is Windows operating system. Good luck Nokia, you’re gonna need it.
Tomi T Ahonen writes: That is the Elop Effect and it will destroy your company in less than a year, guaranteed.
Engadget: Nokia CEO Stephen Elop [...]
GM canola escapes into the wild
Genetically modified canola has escaped into the wild. Actually, two varieties of it have – one modified to be resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, and the other to Bayer Crop Science’s Liberty herbicide. Scientists have also found out that these two transgenic verieties have interbred, so a brand new brand of canola has been born [...]
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Tagged agriculture, chemicals, genetic engineering, multinationals
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Enormous leak of brand new PB logos
British Petroleum BP has gained plenty of publicity for its actions with tar sands in Canada and also with Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Here’s my suggestion for a better up-to -date logo for BP. There are many more nice proposals for a new BP logo to be seen at Greenpece UK’s site.