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Contributor: Asdza Nadleehe Posted: 08/28/2012 12:00:00 AM EDT | 2 In the light of the recent tragic events at PDVSA's Amuay facility in Venezuela, Oil & Gas IQ looks at the Date: May 5, 1988 Location: Norco, Diamond County, Louisiana, USA Casualties: 7 fatalities, 42 injured Estimated cost: $ 706 million
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Roger Payne first came to prominence more than 40 years ago, when he and a colleague made the discovery that whales sing eerily beautiful songs as a way of communicating. Their 1970 recording of whale sounds, Songs of the Humpback Whale , helped to galvanize the global anti-whaling movement, which led most countries to scrap their whaling fleets. Payne, the founder of the conservation group, Ocean Alliance , has continued his groundbreaking work on whales, including recent landmark studies showing how whales worldwide have high levels of pollutants — including DDT — in their bodies.
'The whalers have won absolutely everything': veteran activist | Environment
Professor blog proudly presents a new great contribution by Jennifer Robinson, the acclaimed media and human rights lawyer. She also is a legal adviser of WikiLeaks founder – editor and journalist Julian Assange. Jennifer Robinson participated in these days in the forum at the University of Technology in Sydney “Don’t shoot the messenger: WikiLeaks, Assange and Democracy”. We publish here a transcript of her lecture at the event, in agreement with Jennifer. We acknowledge on behalf of the author that she has not reviewed the transcript published here, which is credited to Green Left .
What Julian Assange does with WikiLeaks is not only right. It is morally right, it is ethically right and it is legally right. By Jennifer Robinson
Human Rights and the internet at Livewire
Exploring how the human rights and high-tech sectors can better plan for and manage the human rights implications of new technologies. (c) By Widney Brown, Senior Director, International Law and Policy, Amnesty International Technology companies have built their businesses squarely in the sphere of human rights.
This Reporters Without Borders opinion column was published on the Nouvel Observateur’s website Le Plus on 2 February. “Twitter Revolutions” – the term is widely used and has been applied to the Arab spring, not only on the virtual “walls” of Facebook but also on the real walls of Middle East capitals where messages of support and thanks to the social networking website have appeared. But could it already be becoming obsolete?
Dictators can thank Twitter for its new censorship policy
Frack Off Shell! Egyptians Launch Anti-Fracking Campaign
The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights have condemned fracking by Shell, Apache and Dana Petroleum in Egypt as dangerous and called for an immediate end to the practice Fracking has faced criticism worldwide due to concerns that it contaminates drinking water and triggers earthquakes. Now, Egyptians have launched a campaign against Shell’s hydraulic fracturing operations in three wells in Egypt’s Western Desert. In a press release the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) state that Shell has failed to carry out an environmental impact assessment and is putting local freshwater resources at risk of contamination.<a href="http://adserver.adtech.de/adlink|3.0|995.1|0000000|0|1744|ADTECH;loc=300;alias=SA_Energi_Toppbanner_980x150;cookie=info;grp=398103357;kvweathers=3;kvbrokername=" target="_blank"><img src="http://adserver.adtech.de/adserv|3.0|995.1|0000000|0|1744|ADTECH;loc=300;alias=SA_Energi_Toppbanner_980x150;cookie=info;grp=398103357;kvweathers=3;kvbrokername=" alt="Alt-Text" /></a> <a href="http://adserver.adtech.de/adlink|3.0|995.1|0000000|0|16|ADTECH;loc=300;alias=SA_Energi_PopBack;cookie=info;grp=398103357;kvweathers=3;kvbrokername=" target="_blank"><img src="http://adserver.adtech.de/adserv|3.0|995.1|0000000|0|16|ADTECH;loc=300;alias=SA_Energi_PopBack;cookie=info;grp=398103357;kvweathers=3;kvbrokername=" alt="Alt-Text" /></a> The suit shows Shell going on an offensive to protect its $4.5 billion investment in two projects off the coast of Alaska it says will create hundreds of jobs.
Shell sues Greenpeace to stop Arctic protests
Apple’s iPad and the Human Costs for Workers in China
When workers in the cafeteria ran outside, they saw black smoke pouring from shattered windows. It came from the area where employees polished thousands of cases a day. Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt. As the injured were rushed into ambulances, one in particular stood out. His features had been smeared by the blast, scrubbed by heat and violence until a mat of red and black had replaced his mouth and nose. “Are you Lai Xiaodong’s father?”
Sri Lanka: A child is summarily executed - Asia - World
The short clip dates from the final hours of the bloody 26-year civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the secessionist rebels of the Tamil Tigers, the LTTE. A 12-year-old boy lies on the ground. He is stripped to the waist and has five neat bullet holes in his chest. His name is Balachandran Prabakaran and he is the son of the LTTE leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran.If the headline doesn't concentrate the world's efforts to find alternatives nothing else will.
