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Saturday, July 17th, 2010The Piper Alpha Memorial, Aberdeen, Scotland.
Deep sea oil drilling can be safe. You only have to look at Britain’s North Sea today to know this. Britain has exploited its oil and gas reserves in the North Sea for over 50 years. But that was not always the case. It took the tragic loss of 167 […]
BP Oil Spill and the Failed Federal Response Raises the Ghost of Katrina
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010BP’s high risk 18ft “three ram capping stack”. BP’s senior Vice President, Kent Wells said “hope and pray.”
US news media reporting from the Gulf is, sadly, disappointing. Their collective failure was never to move beyond being ciphers for a finger-pointing President. Perhaps the word “anchor” is more closely linked to the marine deadweight than all the US news organizations […]
BP and The Man Who Broke It
Thursday, July 8th, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon
No, it is not Tony Haywood, the most vilified man in America. It is now apparent that he is taking the bullet for someone else. That man is Lord Browne, the previous, discredited CEO of BP. And it can now be seen that his tenure as CEO has wrecked the company.
If you […]
CIA Guantanamo Bay Intelligence To Be Published in Britain
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009The British High Court has rejected the British Government’s argument not to publish sensitive CIA intelligence, but sensitive to who?
Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, was an inmate at Guantanamo Bay. US Intelligence links Mr. Mohamed with the Taliban and was detained in Pakistan in 2002. But Mr. Mohamed says he was innocent and that […]
Fitch Sees British House Prices Set to Plunge.
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Fitch, the credit ratings agency sees the stabilization of British House prices as a false dawn. The Agency predicts house prices will drop at least 30 % from the 2007 highs. So far prices have dropped just 13%.
The Agency’s report focuses on the debts of British house builders’ debts of over $11 Billion that mature […]
Autistic Pentagon Hacker faces Extradition to US.
Sunday, October 11th, 2009 Gary McKinnon
Gary McKinnon will not be allowed to appeal against his extradition to the United States. McKinnon, 41, finds himself a victim of imbalanced law between the United States and the UK.
President Bush and the, then Prime Minster, Tony Blair agreed a mutual extradition treaty to allow speedy trial of terrorists. While Blair could […]