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...described "scorched" and damaged buildings radiating for four kilometers in all directions from the station. Rescue operations had apparently ended. Xinhua, quoting the North Korean in charge of the rescue efforts, Jang Song-gun, said the disaster occurred because an electrical pole was "knocked down after an oil tanker collided with two carriages loaded with ammonium nitrate...
...scandals: a high-profile corruption trial that last month sent former top managers to jail, allegations that in the mid-'90s, the company used forced labor to build a gas pipeline in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the regime) - which Total vigorously denies - and the 1999 wreck of the tanker Erika, which created a devastating oil spill that polluted some of France's best-loved beaches. "They had a lot of dodgy relationships [with governments] and the whole system was opaque," says Gavin Hayman of U.K.-based Global Witness, a fierce critic of Big Oil's behavior in Africa. But Total...
...Brent Spar oil rig in the North Sea. Both sparked huge international protests and boycott calls that led to a change of management and a complete revamp of Shell's ethical standards and operating behavior. Disaster is also behind Total's ethical epiphany. In December 1999, when the oil tanker Erika sank off Brittany, spewing Total oil up and down the French Atlantic coast, French TV showed agonizing pictures of oil-drenched beaches and suffocating seabirds. For two long weeks, Total stood behind the thin excuse that the tanker did not belong to the company. "What we didn't know...
...hope of gaining far greater access to telephone records, prisoner interrogations and other intelligence about Yemeni al-Qaeda operatives that have been involved in a series of major terrorist incidents, including the October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden harbor; last year's attacks on a French tanker off Yemen's coast and an Israeli tourist hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; and the May 12 bombing of Western residential compounds in Riyadh...
...decade use the fuel. Meanwhile, U.S. production of natural gas has remained stagnant at 19 trillion cu. ft. a year, about the same as a decade ago. But the U.S. consumed 22 trillion cu. ft., up 8% during that time. Because natural gas moves more efficiently by pipeline than tanker (for which it needs to be liquefied), the difference comes mostly from Canada. Now the Canadians are running low, and exports to the U.S. are expected to be flat, or possibly even decline...