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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on November 21, 2011, 08:01:21 AM
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Oh. This explains it:
Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Sun Nov-20-11 08:55 PM
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Chevron Admits Guilt in Brazil Offshore Oil Spill
Source: Yahoo News
Chevron Admits Guilt in Brazil Offshore Oil Spill
By Rachel Bogart | Yahoo! Contributor Network – 3 hrs ago..
Chevron has admitted to causing an off spill off the coast of Brazil. Although the spill began more than a week ago close to where Chevron was drilling, the oil giant had not acknowledged with certainty that its drilling, 230 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro, was what caused the oil to begin seeping from the bottom of the ocean.
Chevron began plugging the exploratory well with cement and most of the leaked oil is floating about 3 feet below the ocean's surface while moving away from the coast. Here are some facts about the spill:
* The Global Post reported Brazilian federal police began probing the spill and found Chevron had drilled 1,500 feet deeper than the government had allowed.
* According to the Washington Post, Brazilian officials noted the energy company was not prepared for the leak and that Chevron personnel told investigators the company was "completely unprepared to handle an emergency such as this."
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/chevron-admits-guilt-brazil-offsh...
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Remember how the GUlf spill was supposed to end life as we know it?
Remember how BP was supposed to be publically hung for mass murder?
Remember how that was supposed to be a world-altering catastrophe not seen since Algore bolotted out the sun, killing off all the dinosaurs?
I guess it's not pollution when commies do it.
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Isn't Chevron owned by Hugo's government?
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Isn't Chevron owned by Hugo's government?
I think that's Citgo, but I am not sure.
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I think that's Citgo, but I am not sure.
:thatsright: You're right.
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:thatsright: You're right.
+ :thatsright:
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Point still made. Brazil, while it does have elected officials, is essentially a plutocracy and has been for decades on end. It's a very well functioning plutocracy, is stable, and there's no indication is will not continue to be stable. But this whole OWS thing is about "corporate plutocracy," so a plutocracy of the core families of Brazil and an oil spill related to a gov't that would permit such drilling, should still gain their ire. It didn't.
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