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http://act.commondreams.org/go/659?akid=60.124981.vhiFFW&t=2

Ignoring Calls for Moratorium, Shell Seeks to Drill in Arctic Seas This Summer
http://act.commondreams.org/go/660?akid=60.124981.vhiFFW&t=4

BP's Moby Dick?
http://act.commondreams.org/go/661?akid=60.124981.vhiFFW&t=6

BP's Haste Lays Waste to Gulf Waters
http://act.commondreams.org/go/667?akid=60.124981.vhiFFW&t=18

BP's Nuke-Powered Liability Cap
http://act.commondreams.org/go/670?akid=60.124981.vhiFFW&t=24

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How Bush's DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe Into BP That Threatened to Net Top Officials

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Mention the name of the corporation BP to Scott West and two words immediately come to mind: Beyond Prosecution. West was the special agent in charge with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) criminal division who had been probing alleged crimes committed by BP and the company's senior officials in connection with a March 2006 pipeline rupture at the company's Prudhoe Bay operations in Alaska's North Slope that spilled 267,000 gallons of crude oil across two acres of frozen tundra - the second largest spill in Alaska's history - which went undetected for nearly a week."

http://www.truthout.org/how-bushs-doj-killed-a-criminal-probe-into-bp-that-threatened-net-top-officials59648

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Are Americans addicted to oil?

Foundation for Economic Education
by William L. Anderson

05/19/10

The American political elite tell us we are addicted to oil. Whether it’s from former President George W. Bush or the present administration, Americans for years have been admonished to break the oil habit and use alternative fuels that meet Washington’s approval. An online dictionary defines ‘addiction’ as ‘the state of being enslaved to a habit or practice or to something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming, as narcotics, to such an extent that its cessation causes severe trauma...

http://tinyurl.com/3yc2pp4


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Help Stop the Arctic Offshore Oil Disaster
http://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=HxdTXIp8vMmQS4sBkmUIbA..

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Tell Secretary Salazar to Just Say "No" to Shell's Alaska Drilling
http://us.greenpeace.org/site/R?i=RlSM7yuQ6GG7CVXKz8-oSQ..



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