Author: Jerome a Paris

Total May Use Atomic Power At Oil-Sand Project (WSJ, behind subscription wall) PARIS — French oil giant Total SA, amid rising oil and natural-gas prices, is considering building a nuclear power plant to extract ultraheavy...

this was posted as a comment on k/o’s recent diary, but as it ended up being a lot longer than i expected, I am posting it again here as a stand alone diary. More meta navel gazing… I have not been around here so...

This has been originally written for dKos, but I expect it could interest you guys here as well. Jerome There have been various diaries outlining plans for the Democrats to recapture power (the most recent and remarkable one...

The above picture is an oil spill in Murphy, from the Chalmette refinery, taken from the report by Environmental News Service which has little additional information. The only other widely read sources I have found are an...

[From the diaries by susanhu. Thank you, Jerome, for telling this story, and for your deep concern. It’s almost impossible for us in the U.S. to grasp, let alone write about. Btw, Anderson Cooper is doing a CNN special...