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The U.S. Agency for Environmental Protection (EPA) has banned any federal agency from entering into new contracts with British oil giant BP. This administrative penalty is in addition to the judicial sanction for which BP has been ordered to pay $ 4.5 billion in fines and penalties for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in 2010.
However, current contracts are not affected. Last year BP supplied the Pentagon with more than $ 1 billion worth of (...)

The Obama Administration and senior BP officials are frantically working not to stop the world’s worst oil disaster, but to hide the true extent of the actual ecological catastrophe. Senior researchers tell us that the BP drilling hit one of the oil migration channels and that the leakage could continue for years unless decisive steps are undertaken, something that seems far from the present strategy.
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Pipelineistan goes Af-Pakby
Pepe Escobar

Nothing of significance takes place in Eurasia without an energy angle. In this insightful analysis, global reporter Pepe Escobar focuses on the ongoing energy struggle across "Pipelineistan" and the Great Game of business, diplomacy and proxy war between Russia and the U.S. He delves into tumultuous Central and South Asia and the "AfPak" battleground. There, U.S. planes and unmanned aerial drones are killing combatants as well as civilians, while, in Afghanistan, Washington continues to build new military bases. Under the carnage of war, courses the Liquid War. Just how the energy flows and through which territories controlled by whom can make - quite literally - a world of difference, even though it rarely captures our attention.

In order to keep Russia away from the interests of the Caspian Sea (energy reserves), oligarchs and oil moguls have favored the Chechnya conflict and have imposed a puppet regimen in Azerbaijan, where the largest oil pipeline is located. The same thing was done in Georgia. The Aliyev clan, the first dynasty after the collapse of the Soviet empire, operates there along with the oil company BP-Amoco. By driving the focus of tension into Russia, oil moguls manipulate the Caucasian conflicts, although their main interest is to take the oil of the Caspian Sea to western markets.

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