Posts Tagged ‘Refinery’

Why Venezuela Is Concerned About The American Base At Curaco

Curaçao Faces Friction With Chávez Over U.S. Planes — New York Times

HATO, Curaçao — This small island in the Netherlands Antilles might go unnoticed by its neighbors if not for the importance of the foreign interests it hosts: an American Air Force installation pivotal in fighting the region’s drug trade and a huge refinery that turns Venezuelan oil into gasoline.

Chafing at the American military outpost just 40 miles from Venezuela’s coast, President Hugo Chávez is testing Curaçao’s nerves by repeatedly claiming that the Dutch government, which oversees defense issues here, is letting Washington use Curaçao as a base for planning a possible attack on Venezuela.

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My Comment: It is silly to believe that such a small U.S.

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This Symbolizes What Is Wrong In Iraq

Poverty is rampant in Basra, Iraq, despite its oil fields. Few area residents can find jobs at the nearby refinery.

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Army Aims To Build “Zero Footprint” Camps

Green for Victory: The Tactical Garbage to Energy Refinery, or TGER, at Camp Victory, Iraq can convert solid and liquid waste into electricity.

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VIDEOS: Saxby Chambliss Turns Election Frustration on Cameraman

By GottaLaff

(This is a really short video, about 25 seconds)

Oh that Saxby, always causing a ruckus. He’s probably just upset about his name.

Facing a runoff election in a few weeks — and recently hit with a subpoena to testify about his ties to the sugar company whose refinery exploded in February, killing 14 — the Georgia Republican has turned his frustration on the media, giving a light shove to a cameraman yesterday who appears to get to close to the embattled senator.

The Democrats are hoping to make the subpoena (not to mention the shove) an issue in Chambliss’s Dec.

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