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Local propaganda, environmental news, Red Head church


I really don’t understand how you can run a text and a headline like this and still call yourself a newspaper.
Irving's refinery study partner BP a green giant
Energy: London-based firm has made major investments in alternative power projects
DAVID SHIPLEY
Telegraph-Journal
Published Saturday March 22nd, 2008
Appeared on page C1

BP Plc is about as green as oil companies can get.

Even its logo is green.

Europe's second-largest oil firm, BP has major investments in alternative energy, in addition to its traditional oil and gas business.

For heaven's sake we are talking about the company that was named among the world’s ten worst corporations in 2001 and 2005; a company that is going to be among the first to drill in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge) in Alaska; company that is implicated in fueling unrest and human rights abuses in volatile regions of the world from Azerbaijan to Sudan, to Colombia. I found this out by googling “BP corporate record” and “BP environmental record.” You have to be either stupid or a liar to write the kind of bullshit we could read this weekend in the provincial paper.

Meanwhile in real newspapers:
The Globe and Mail: Lessons from Germany’s energy renaissance
The Independent: The rise of British sea power
BBC: Call for delay to biofuels policy
Christian Science Monitor: Sea under Siege
New York Times: Melting Pace of Glaciers Is Accelerating, Report Says
The Guardian: Scientist warn of soot effect on climate
Toronto Star: Airsick: Industrial Devolution

And this is just a quick scan of my daily reading.

This Red Head church was for sale when I photographed it sometime last year. It’s in the area close to the proposed second oil refinery site.

Croatian word of the day: novinarstvo: journalism



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