Instead of secret bank accounts, entire secret banks: offshore data havens tucked into satellites or old dead oil rigs or blast-proofed caves outside Kandahar.
Warren Buffett retells the story of the dead oil prospector who gets stopped at the pearly gates and is told by St Peter that Heaven's allocation of miners is full up.
It was an ecological disaster, with dead and oil-laden birds as a painful reminder.
Aid agencies offer free building materials to those who will help clear up the dead conger eels, oil drums and concrete girders that litter newly drained parts of the town.
This suit sends a strong message to oil drillers that the country is dead serious about environmental responsibility.
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For years, U. S. oil exploration has been considered a dead end.
Weeks after the Apr. 22 explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is facing oil-slicked coastal swamps, dead fish, grieving families and howling environmentalists.
The disaster began with an April 20 explosion aboard the oil rig Deepwater Horizon that left 11 men dead.
Moreover, rising oil prices can do nothing to keep inflation dead and buried with what we thought was a stake through its heart.
And they must be really active in Argentina (despite its nationalized oil companies), where environment ties for dead last among the eight issues, and only 5.9 per cent of the respondents ranked it as the most important environmental problem. (Weirdly enough, it ranks absolute lowest in Israel).
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The brief criticizes BP for, among many other things, downplaying the plight of sick dolphins in Barataria Bay, La, of dead and dying deep-sea corals and of coastal marshes still matted with oil.
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He said McCain was "dead wrong" about Iraq leading up to the war, alleging that the Arizona senator said that oil would pay for the conflict and that Sunni and Shiite Muslims got along with each other.
And because the bacteria use oxygen in the water as they digest oil, scientists are concerned that process could cause an oxygen-depleted area underwater a "dead zone" that could choke off a variety of undersea life.
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