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Saturday March 12, 2011
Eleven years ago, flight attendant Sandy Hoby, now 39, had her lower colon removed due to bowel cancer. Five years later, while trekking in Nepal, she met engineer Brad Jackson, 38. Within six months they had bought a house together. Last year, they climbed Mount Everest.BP spin doctors pour water on oily spills
Friday March 4, 2011
Gulf spill statements are a self-serving textual symphony of carefully worded indulgence.BP's mea culpa a sorry tale of spin-doctoring and promises not to repeat mistakes
Friday March 4, 2011
After a 'profoundly painful' year, BP says it finally gets why it is so reviled, writes Leonie Wood.The gulf oil spill's toxic legacy
Saturday February 26, 2011
SMALL trucks noisily patrol the beach behind Steve Fourrier's home in Grand Isle, Louisiana. From his deck he watches them dump sand into screening machines. Crews follow close by, dragging rakesTop 10 Films
Saturday February 12, 2011
1 SWING TIME (103 minutes) GBlue-collar nerves of steel
Saturday November 7, 2009
The youthful and outspoken leader of Australia's biggest union regrets leaving his own life to chance.BACKTHEN
Saturday October 24, 2009
This photograph captures activity on the drilling floor of a floating oil rig in Bass Strait.... AND ANOTHER THING
Wednesday October 21, 2009
WITH reports that thousands more Tamils are seeking to escape Sri Lanka, one wonders why Western governments don't stem the flow at its cause by intervening in the ongoing conflict. Oh wait €” they don't have oil. Jenny Ejlak, ParkvilleEight Seized Off Nigerian Oil Platform
Sunday June 4, 2006
URGENT efforts are underway to secure the release of six Britons and two other hostages abducted in an overnight raid on an offshore oil rig in Nigeria.Hopes High Oil Workers Will Be Freed
Sunday June 4, 2006
NEGOTIATORS in Nigeria's oil-producing southern delta were seeking the release of eight foreign workers kidnapped from an oil rig by gunmen demanding jobs and development for their community.Rig Workers Fear Lonely Families, Broken Homes With Roster Plan
Saturday March 20, 2004
Contractors are fighting a plan for them to spend 14 days at a time on Bass Strait oil rigs. Esso says jobs are at risk if they don't agree. Paul Robinson reports.New Project An Environmental Winner For Bhp
Friday July 31, 1998
BHP Integrated Steel and the Port Kembla Port Corporation have joined forces in a land reclamation project that will create up to 100 jobs. Some 30ha of inner harbour land will be reclaimed by dumping more than 1.2million tonnes of slag into the casting basin where the Esso oil rig platforms wer$3000 Fine For Sale Of Fake Gp Tickets
Tuesday September 3, 1996
A chronic gambler who sold forged Grand Prix tickets to pay his debts was yesterday given a suspended prison sentence. John William Huckaby, 50, a fruiterer, of Chetwynd Street, North Melbourne, sold the tickets at discounted prices, telling customers he and his friends were oil-rig workers who Radical Agreement Ensures Jobs For 520
Friday December 2, 1994
The construction of a concrete gravity platform for Esso's 33- storey-tall oil rig - employing 520 workers, including 160 formerly long-term unemployed -has helped revive the fortunes of Wollongong, says Mr Paul Matters, secretary of the South Coast Labor Council. But to ensure the $750 milOne Doctor's Research
Friday May 26, 1989
TAKING steroids helped one professional underwater diver secure a lucrative job on a Middle Eastern oil rig. The fit 28-year-old diver went to Tasmanian anaesthetist Dr Gavin Dawson who used to prescribe steroids, asking for the muscle-building drug to help him "look the part". <Ultimatum For Strikers
Sunday January 24, 1988
LABOURERS on the oil rig drilling the deep-ocean sewerage outfalls off Malabar, who walked off the job last Tuesday, are to be given an ultimatum -abandon the strike or face the sack. Up to 100 jobs will be at stake on Wednesday when rig-owner, Sidco Fourex International Drilling Company, meeMutineers Go Back To Their Oil Rig
Friday September 12, 1986
PERTH: The workers whose mutiny on the North-West Shelf last month upset the international oil and gas industry will be ferried back to their platform today. All 330 have agreed to sign undertakings that will guarantee safety on and continuity of gas supplies from the rig, 130 kilometres off Kar