1. thepoliticalnotebook: Picture of the Day: Port Harcourt, Nigeria. An aerial shot of an illegal oil refinery along Awoba Creek north of Port Harcourt, an oil hub city. The illegal oil industry in Nigeria is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. Will you look at that oil sheen on the water.. Fun fact: Over the last five years, Shell Oil has dealt with an average of 172 spills a year. 63 of them last year were “operational,” or over 100kg. Shell has announced that it paid $1.1 million in reparations to affected communities last year.  Bonus: Read this report on environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria. Credit: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters. Via. View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

    thepoliticalnotebook:

    Picture of the Day: Port Harcourt, Nigeria. An aerial shot of an illegal oil refinery along Awoba Creek north of Port Harcourt, an oil hub city. The illegal oil industry in Nigeria is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars yearly. Will you look at that oil sheen on the water..

    Fun fact: Over the last five years, Shell Oil has dealt with an average of 172 spills a year. 63 of them last year were “operational,” or over 100kg. Shell has announced that it paid $1.1 million in reparations to affected communities last year. 

    Bonus: Read this report on environmental and human rights abuses in Nigeria.

    Credit: Akintunde Akinleye/Reuters. Via.

    View more Picture of the Day posts. Submit a photo.

  2. climateadaptation: Oil pipeline in Alberta Canada busts a nut. Company not even aware of the leak until locals called to complain. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada river watershed polluted. Dirty details from Canadian Press. Photo: Common Ground Magazine. Update: Story broke yesterday. Seems the photo is older. Follow Climate Adaptation.

    climateadaptation:

    Oil pipeline in Alberta Canada busts a nut. Company not even aware of the leak until locals called to complain. Red Deer, Alberta, Canada river watershed polluted.

    Dirty details from Canadian Press. Photo: Common Ground Magazine.

    Update: Story broke yesterday. Seems the photo is older.

    Follow Climate Adaptation.

  3. »   MPG of a Human - Do the Math

    jtotheizzoe:

    A walking human gets about 75 MPG (miles of travel per gallon of food energy). A biking human? Even better, at 290 MPG.

    But when you factor in all the fossil fuels that go into making that food, we only get 18 MPG walking and 70 MPG on a bike. Check out the full rundown of the energetic calculations at Do The Math.

  4. »   Fracking May Have Polluted Wyoming Aquifer, EPA Investigation Finds

  5. revkin: NYT editorial and graphic on fat subsidies that prop up fossil fuels and ethanol compared to other options.

    revkin:

    NYT editorial and graphic on fat subsidies that prop up fossil fuels and ethanol compared to other options.

  6. climateadaptation:

    PBS takes on fracking. 20 minutes. Watch it. 

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