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My latest on the pending BP criminal settlement that could occur as early as today:  http://this-small-planet.com/2012/circle-of-trust-at-bp-did-not-include-the-government/...

http://this-small-planet.com/2012/shell-begins-drilling-in-the-chukchi-sea-the-details/...

Arthur Berman is one of the few voices who has continually warned of the poor economics of shale drilling.  I'm a personal fan of his work and courage to speak out.  He was interviewed a couple of weeks ago by CBS News about Chesapeake's meltdown.  Have a look:You can find his work at the Petroleum Truth Report....

President Obama speaks regularly about how the United States government should encourage the development and deployment of clean technology to reduce our dependence on oil, especially the oil imported from countries that hate us. I couldn't agree more. The problem is, though, that no matter who sits in the White House, there are thousands of nameless unaccountable career bureaucrats who arbitrarily stonewall the development of the very resources that the President himself is promoting. That...

http://gcaptain.com/petroleum-safety-authority-flags/?45641...

My soldier had confirmation last week that he would indeed be deploying to Afghanistan next year. Bear in mind that we are supposedly going through a 'drawdown' in Afghanistan through 2014. But then again, we've now signed an agreement with Afghanistan to help them 'police' things for ten years (at least) after that.When will we figure it out?Did you know that one of the largest deposits of lithium in the world is supposedly in Afghanistan?...

Here's a video of the interview I did with Rachel on the second anniversary of the blowout of BP's Macondo Well:...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/04/24/151284311/first-criminals-charges-in-bp-oil-spill-filed-against-a-bp-engineer...

Tonight at 9:50 pm central time marks the exact time that BP's deepwater well named Macondo blew out, killing eleven workers, destroying Transocean's Deepwater Horizon, and putting 5 million barrels of oil into the water 5,000 feet below the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.  Most of the world has moved on since then, thinking that everything in the Gulf is okey-dokey, and anxious to hear the latest news on Janet Jackson and Dancing with...