Global Public Media Alert (Ritawatch #1) - 23 September 2005
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Global Public Media is running special coverage of Hurricane Rita, currently a category three storm with twenty foot storm flooding surges possible. Rita is now heading straight for the middle of the Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon producton system. At the time of time of this alert, the main hurricane path has veered east to miss a direct hit on Houston. However, this means that the refinery complexes of Port Arthur and Lake Charles may now take a direct hit. Whatever this means for the refinery situation, it now looks very likely that Rita will travel through one of the densest collections of natural gas rigs on Earth. Most media attention remains focussed on oil refineries, but this new development dramatically increases the likelihood of a natural gas crisis in North America. Please watch GPM for further developments
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RITAWATCH SPECIAL COVERAGE
RitaWatch 1: Category 5 Heads Toward The Heart of America's Oil Infastructure: An early report by the "Voice of America News" Report on the Potential Crisis... Update: 25% of America's Domestic Production Facilities are in the path of the storm trajectory. Over half of the platforms and refineries in the area have already been evacuated. Developing...
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RitaWatch 2: 175 mph Winds Heading For Gulf Refineries:The first report in Global Public Media's special coverage of Hurricane Rita. Kéllia Ramares reports on the likely effects on the Gulf of Mexico still barely recovering from Katrina
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Ritawatch 3: Chris Skrebowski discusses the Hurricanes: The second special report in Global Public Media's series on Hurricane Rita. Dave Room speaks to Chris Skrebowski, Editor of "Petroleum Review"
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Ritawatch 4: Hurricane Rita Threatens Massive Oil & Gas Disruption : As expected Hurricane Rita has reduced to Category Four - still a hurricane of fantastic ferrocity. As part of our special Ritawatch series, Kéllia Ramares reports on some of the expected impacts of Rita and some of the less obvious but serious consequences, especially as it follows in the wake of Katrina.
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Coming Soon:
Ritawatch 5: James Howard Kunstler on the wider impacts of the hurricanes
Ritawatch 6: Natural gas market expert, Andy Weissman, on the worsening natural gas crisis
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CONTINUING HURRICANE KATRINA COVERAGE
6. Katrina, New Orleans, and Peak Oil: The scenes were heart-wrenching and mind-boggling: an entire modern American metropolis had effectively ceased to exist as an organized society...when it came to reporting on the damage to oil production and refining facilities, most media outlets took at face value the glib and non-specific assurances of the petroleum industry... And all of this is occurring at a time when the global supply of oil is barely able to meet demand... By Richard Heinberg
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7. When Government Fails: A Heart Wrenching Look at Katrina's Reality: Even though New Orleans has been almost totally evacuated, the BBC's Gavin Hewitt spent a day on boat patrol in the flooded streets, finding - and rescuing - survivors. Hewitt also discovers corpses hanging from balconies and orphaned children, their mother dead in the bedroom. This report will become icon for our age: it shows what happens when the modern industrial system fails completely.
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8. Timeless Lessons for Rebuilding New Orleans: 5 Point Strategy for Sustainable Rebuilding: What do New Orleans and suburbia have in common? Both need to be rebuilt... By Richard Register
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9. Katrina: a global economic shockwave: An analysis of the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the global economy from French Newspaper, "Liberation FR"
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