[Noisebridge-discuss] BP Busted altering photos !!!!! (ARCTIC drilling) brainfart

[Walter Funk]

Sorry Arctic is what I meant to say, MY BRAINFART, anyhow this is this shit they are up to ------

Ny Times - "But BP’s project, called Liberty, has been exempted as regulators have granted it status as an “onshore” project even though it is about three miles off the coast in the Beaufort Sea. The reason: it sits on an artificial island — a 31-acre pile of gravel in about 22 feet of water — built by BP. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/24/us/24rig.html


Business Week - " A moratorium on offshore drilling imposed by ..........

Liberty is “not covered by the moratorium,” BP spokesman Steve Rinehart said today in an e-mail. “It’s a land-based rig on a gravel island in shallow water and is not exploration.”

The project is moving forward, he said, with plans calling for the first well to be drilled in the fall."

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-24/bp-s-liberty-oil-well-in-alaska-to-face-new-safety-rules.html



--- On Fri, 7/23/10, John Magolske <listmail at b79.net> wrote:

> From: John Magolske <listmail at b79.net>
> Subject: Re: [Noisebridge-discuss] BP Busted altering photos !!!!! (Antarctic oil drilling??)
> To: noisebridge-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Date: Friday, July 23, 2010, 8:49 AM
> > By the way, BP & our
> administration is working hard behind the
> > scenes to start drilling in the Antarctic, as soon as
> January.
> 
> Could you please provide more details? My understanding is
> that
> the Protocol to the Antarctic Treaty on Environmental
> Protection
> states "Any activity relating to mineral resources, other
> than
> scientific research, shall be prohibited". If I'm reading
> the
> following correctly, this protocol was agreed upon in 1990,
> and
> is to remain in effect for 50 years from that date (till
> 2040):
> 
>   "In 1988, the Convention on the Regulation of
> Antarctic
>   Mineral Resource Activities (CRAMRA) [1] was
> negotiated
>   to allow and regulate mining. All countries party to
> the
>   Antarctic Treaty would need to sign the treaty for
> it to
>   go into effect. After an intense environmental
> campaign,
>   Australia and France refused to sign and they were
> later
>   joined by other nations. Two years later, the
> Protocol on
>   Environmental Protection [2] to the Antarctic Treaty
> [3]
>   was agreed on, which bans mining on Antarctica for
> at
>   least 50 years." [4]
> 
> [1] http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/texts/acrc/cramra.txt.html
> [2] http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/register/reg-025.rrr.html
> [3] http://sedac.ciesin.org/entri/texts/acrc/at.txt.html
> [4] http://www.wbur.org/special/antarctica/mapsfacts/
> 
> John
> 
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