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Source: Daily Telegraph (April 2007)

QFT: Cleaning up is a costly business

By tigtog on July 12, 2011

Over the last few years, the idea of treating the atmosphere with the same level of care as we (now) treat our neighborhoods and our waterways has become an ideological football.

Posted in culture wars, environment, media, Science | Tagged climate change, pollution | 12 Responses

Endangered Sunday: BP = Brown Pelicans

Endangered Sunday: BP = Brown Pelicans

By tigtog on July 4, 2010

Yet another threatened species put under even more threat from BP’s Mexican Gulf Oil Spill is the Brown Pelican, and BP is trying to sanitise the news you find online about the Gulf oil spill by sponsoring search term results

Posted in environment | Tagged activism/charity, photography, pollution | 1 Response

Shame Shell – we all sip from this glass

By tigtog on May 21, 2010

While Shell toasts $9.8billion profits, people of the Niger delta are having to drink polluted water.

Posted in arts & entertainment, environment | Tagged activism/charity, exploitation, photography, pollution

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