The Daily Blog Open Mic Thursday 2nd April 2015

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  1. National’s corporate representatives to parliament and Labour fifth columnists (such as Nash) will cheerfully tell you that Deep sea fossil fuel extraction and refining is the future. Despite oil not being found in commercial exploitable quantities in the Great South basin, there are plans for offshore gas liquification facilities. How do these work in practice?

    Four oil rig workers were killed and 16 injured when a fire broke out on an oil production platform in the Gulf of Mexico early on Wednesday morning…

    The explosion on Wednesday brings the total number of those killed in fires at Pemex facilities to 64 in less than three years. In 2013, at least 37 people were killed by a gas explosion at the Pemex headquarters in Mexico City. Another 26 were killed at a gas plant in 2012.

    Charlie Kronick, oil analyst for Greenpeace UK, said: “This tragic accident … once again demonstrates the true cost of our addiction to oil, whether in the Gulf of Mexico, Nigeria or the Arctic. The sooner we end our dependence on dirty and dangerous fuels like oil and shift to clean energy, the better.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/four-workers-killed-gulf-mexico-oil-rig-explosion

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