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Rescuers Begin Drilling to Free Chilean Miners
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- Engineers in Chile have begun work on a rescue shaft to free 33 men stuck in a mine thousands of feet beneath the Atacama Desert. A massive, 31-ton drill began to bore into the earth early Tuesday morning, three weeks after a landslide trapped the men inside the San Jose copper and gold mine Aug. 5 in Copiapo, a remote area in northern Chile. Engineers plan to slowly increase the bit size on the drill until the hole is just large enough for the men to crawl through one by one, according to The Associated Press. The rescue operation could take months and is already the ...
South Korea Launches Drills Despite Threats From North
By not in system - AOL NewsABOARD THE ROK DOKDO (Aug. 5) -- South Korean troops fired artillery and dropped sonar buoys into the Yellow Sea as naval drills kicked off Thursday near the spot where a warship sank four months ago. Some 4,500 South Korean troops aboard more than 20 ships and submarines as well as about 50 aircraft were mobilized to take part in the five days of naval exercises off the west coast, including spots near the two Koreas' maritime border, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. North Korea called the drills a military provocation that threatened to re-ignite war on the Korean peninsula. "If the puppet ...
North Korea Vows 'Nuclear' Response to US Drills
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 24) -- North Korea threatened today to use its "nuclear deterrent" in a "retaliatory sacred war" against military drills by the U.S. and South Korea, set to kick off this weekend in retaliation for Pyongyang's alleged role in the suspicious sinking of a South Korean warship. The military exercises are slated to begin Sunday in the Sea of Japan, involving 20 ships – including the USS George Washington, one of the world's largest aircraft carriers – plus 100 aircraft and about 8,000 American and South Korean troops. Lasting through Wednesday, the drills demonstrate tight ...
Newt Gingrich Joins House Protest
By Dave - Politics DailyVia a RNC memo, the GOP caucus in the House of Representatives is successfully attracting some names to their protest: House Republican leaders confirmed today that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) will join House Republicans' ongoing national protest over the decision by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to adjourn the House without a vote on legislation to lower gas prices and increase American energy production. The former Speaker will join House Republicans in the Capitol on Wednesday morning to deliver a message of on behalf of the 1.4 million Americans who have signed a petition ...
Cracks Appear in Dem No Drilling Wall
By Dave - Politics DailyToday a "gang of 10" senators showed up in the news putting together a plan that puts conservation together with, yes, drilling offshore. Here's Neil Abercrombie, a Democratic Senator from Hawaii: "If we're going to go to talk to the American worker and say we're looking out for their interests, to automatically dismiss the idea that it's possible to drill in the OCS in a way that will be environmentally safe...I think that will harm us politically," Abercrombie said in an interview. Speaking on this proposal, Barack Obama himself appears to be at least preparing to throw his ...
The Price Point for Drilling
By Dave - Politics DailySorry about being a sort of one trick pony with my last few posts about drilling, but it is the salient political issue of the summer and it is generating a lot of good political theater. This one is from Mitch McConnell, who ran this little maneuver yesterday: Obviously this is political theater, Ken Salazar was certainly not going to agree on behalf of the entire Democratic party to drill at a set price. In fact his only role here is to represent his party to stop anything real from happening. But Mitch McConnell takes the opportunity to point out that the current Democratic position ...
Drilling Between a Rock and a Hard Place
By Dave - Politics DailySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to get to a middle path that responds to voter anger about high gas prices and does not tick off the environmental lobby.A group of influential Senate and House Democrats has sided with environmental groups against Reid to call exploration in new areas unnecessary.The legislation, drafted by Reid and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), would open nearly a billion new acres off the coast of Alaska to study for drilling. It would also dramatically accelerate oil leases in the western and central Gulf of ...
Congressional GOPers in Alaska
By Dave - Politics DailyWhile Obama is fact-finding in Iraq, a congressional GOP delegation is in Alaska, highlighting the plight of the caribou pointing out that we have $1 trillion dollars worth of oil in them thar hills. From the KC Star: "It's still a long road," said Steve Hansen, a GOP spokesman on the House Natural Resources Committee, where Rep. Don Young of Alaska has long pushed for drilling. "But right now the chances for opening ANWR for drilling are better than they have been for years." Would more drilling in Alaska, in the end, move prices at the pump? Barely, suggest experts. Still, geologists ...
Don't Hope For More Energy
By Dave - Politics Daily...vote for it. Excellent tagline. While the rest of the blog world is trying to figure out who Nouri al-Maliki is going to vote for, let's remember that the most Americans probably don't know who Maliki is. The only thing that can be said for sure about the current Iraq kerfuffle is that it won't matter in this political cycle. Love him or hate him, Bush picked a strategy that for now, has taken Iraq off the political table. It won't be a silver bullet for McCain, and it won't be the hammer it was in 2006 for the Democrats. All Americans know is that gas is $4 a gallon, and food and energy ...
Dems Getting Nervous About Drilling Bans
By Dave - Politics DailySome Democrats may be just now waking up to the fact that there is huge frustration over high energy prices and they see danger in allowing too much time without addressing this issue. Specifically, Harry Reid and Dick Durbin: "I'm open to drilling and responsible production," Senate Majority Whip Richard Durbin told The Wall Street Journal, adding that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could also support the move. However, Durbin said his support for opening new areas to drilling was contingent on setting requirements that oil and gas companies begin production within a specified time ...
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