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Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has resumed export operations at the Forcados Oil Export Terminal, where repair works on the pipeline went in for weeks. The SPDC’s media relations manager, Abimbola Essien-Nelson, confirmed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Lagos. SPDC had said that the Forcados Oil Terminal would resume export operations by the end of October, when the repairs would have been completed. The Forcados Export pipeline which has a capacity to export over 400,000…

In the same leaked audio clips posted to Reddit in which former Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made racist remarks about Black people and Oaxacans, she also made crude remarks about Jewish people and Armenians. Martinez said Tuesday that she would take a leave of absence from the Los Angeles City Council, two days after a recording surfaced on which she was heard deriding some of her colleagues and making racist remarks. Martinez stepped down as L.A. City Council president a day earlier.In an audio clip…

In this surreptitiously recorded conversation from October 2021, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez — while speaking with Councilmembers Kevin de León and Gil Cedillo as well as Los Angeles County Federation of Labor President Ron Herrera — made racist remarks and insults about various elected officials.Martinez focused in particular on Councilmember Mike Bonin, who is white, and Bonin’s young son, who is Black. At one point, Martinez called Bonin a “little bitch” and referred to his son as “Parece…

It's always upsetting to see images of seabirds covered in crude oil, as the result of an accidental spill. According to a new study, however, even tiny amounts of routinely released waterborne oil may seriously damage such birds' feathers.Led by researcher Emma Murphy, a team at Ireland's University College Cork started by collecting feathers from live Manx shearwaters, which are a type of seabird believed to be threatened by oil pollution.In lab tests, the scientists proceeded to measure how quickly water would pass…

Despite efforts to pivot toward renewable sources of energy, oil remains the backbone of modern society. It provides fuels for heat and transportation, and chemicals for everything from plastics to pharmaceuticals. But all these uses require separating crude oil into its various components. That separation process—which traditionally relies on heat—takes a tremendous amount of energy and accounts for roughly 1% of global greenhouse gas emissions each year. Now, chemists say a…

Apple's Tony Blevins, a key player in the company's supply chain operations, is leaving the iPhone maker, the company confirmed on Thursday, without providing a reason.The move comes after a TikTok video of the executive making a crude remark about women went viral. Bloomberg first reported Blevins' departure.In a video on TikTok published earlier this month, Blevins can be heard saying, "I have rich cars, play golf, and fondle big-breasted women, but I take weekends and major holidays off" in response to a question on…

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One of Apple's top executives has been fired after being caught making a crude joke in a viral TikTok video.As reported by Bloomberg, Tony Blevins, Apple's vice president of procurement, is leaving the company after a TikTok video that features the executive went viral, showing Blevins making a crude remark. The video was taken by Daniel Mac who makes a series of TiKTok videos where he asks people with expensive cars what they do for a living.In the video, published on Sept. 5, Apple’s Tony Blevins was approached by…

Apple’s vice president of procurement, Tony Blevins, has been fired from the company after his crude remarks in a TikTok interview went viral, according to a report from Bloomberg. Earlier this month, creator Daniel Mac posted a video where he asked Blevins what he does for a living, which showed Blevins responding: “I race cars and play golf and fondle big-breasted women. But I take weekends and major holidays off.” The video doesn’t identify Blevins by name and doesn’t reference his position at Apple, though Blevins…

The environmental and social damage Bitcoin inflicts on the world is comparable to notoriously polluting industries such as beef production and crude oil burned as gasoline, according to new a new study published today in the journal Scientific Reports. The research found that every $1 in Bitcoin market value generated an average of 35 cents in global climate damages between 2016 and 2021.For comparison, gasoline generated 41 cents, and beef production was responsible for 33 cents in damages. When it comes to both their…