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Nigeria's agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill

In fact, more oil is spilled from the delta's network of terminals, pipes, pumping stations and oil platforms every year than has been lost in the Gulf of Mexico, the site of a major ecological catastrophe caused by oil that has poured from a leak triggered by the explosion that wrecked BP's Deepwater Horizon rig last month.

Read the rest of this sobering reminder here

BP and Feds Withheld Videos Showing Massive Scope of Oil Spill - ABC News

New videos show more clearly than ever how BP, with little resistance from the Coast Guard or other federal agencies, kept the public in the dark about just how bad things were beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

via abcnews.go.com

Middlesex news: Devastating replies to VC Driscoll's latest email

Devasting replies to VC Driscoll's 28 May email to MDX staff by Professor Mine Dack, on the disciplinary process, and by Dr Stella Sandford on the budget issues. The replies are models of clarity and accuracy, the original by Driscoll a typical farrago of half-truths, distortions, and dissimulations. 

Campaign update Tuesday 1 June | Save Middlesex Philosophy

1. This evening at least one further student has been suspended, ‘because of [his] alleged part in the occupation of the Mansion earlier this month and, despite the terms of the injunction served, [and because he has] further disrupted University business by occupying the Library at Trent Park.’  His hearing is scheduled for Tuesday morning, 8 June. We should have more details about this soon, along with a report from the hearings last Friday.

via savemdxphil.com

CNN: Federal criminal oil spill investigation

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into the massive oil spill spreading through the Gulf of Mexico.

Holder said the investigation, which began "some weeks ago," would be comprehensive and aggressive. He promised that the federal officials will prosecute anyone who broke the law.

"We have begun both a criminal as well as a civil investigation as is our obligation under the law," Holder said. "We have what we think is a sufficient case to have begun a criminal investigation."

Holder emphasized that the investigation will cover all aspects of the oil spill, including the deaths of 11 workers in the April 20 explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon rig that started the leak.

via www.cnn.com