Ferries could be watched as possible terrorist target
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... assessment analysis said one man showed up in three incidents, and was ... 11, 2001, videotaping locations such as the Tesoro oil refinery in Anacortes, flight ..
Cheney addresses Lee Enterprises officials, newspaper editors
We’re now at the point where it’s difficult to import the proper blends from overseas if you’re going to rely for example on European refineries to satisfy domestic requirements. They don’t produce the blends in the way we need them here at home to meet our quality requirements. Add to that the complexities that we’ve encountered when a hurricane hit the Gulf Coast. We shut down production in the Gulf of Mexico, and all of a sudden the only oil that is available is increased Saudi production which tends to be sour crude. Sour crude is tougher to refine, some refineries aren’t equipped to use that or process that. So again we continually add to the complexity of our whole process and mechanism regulatory structure was increasingly difficult and for us to meet these short-term demands for the problems that occur when there’s a shutdown in the Nigerian field, whether it’s a strike or a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. All of this adds to and puts pressure on prices here at home. And there’s other things we can do. The administration supported opening up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge)..
http://www.qctimes.com/internal.php?story_id=1037086&l=1&t=Local+News&c=2,1037086
Aging tanker focus of spill inquiry
Company that owns ship is the subject in 3 Alaska investigations
The Polar Texas is owned by Polar Tankers, a subsidiary of ConocoPhillips
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/198553_spill06.html
Fire shuts down Petrojam
JAMAICA yesterday scurried to Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela for finished petroleum products after an explosion and fire at the government's Petrojam oil refinery put the plant out of commission and raised the prospects of scarcity in the local market.
Officials could not immediately give the cause of the explosion and what was described as a "small fire" in one of the refinery's processing towers, but said that the incident happened at about 12:10 yesterday morning.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20041027T230000-0500_68379_OBS_FIRE_SHUTS_DOWN_PETROJAM.asp
Here we go!
Nov. 8, 2004 23:51
Palestinians prepare for Arafat to be buried on Temple Mount
By YAAKOV KATZ
A small group of Palestinians gathered in a corner of the Temple Mount on Monday, peering into two inconspicuous rooms that have been tagged by Palestinian officials as the only acceptable burial site for Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat.
"Inshallah (with God's help) Arafat will be buried on the Temple Mount," declared Abu Nabil, head of security for the Wakf, who is charged with overseeing the holy Muslim sites on the Mount. "There is no other resting place for Arafat and Israel knows it," he added, spreading out his arms in a prayer-like position towards heaven.
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Palestinians roaming the Temple Mount compound on Monday seemed apathetic regarding Arafat's condition, with some claiming he was dead the moment he boarded the helicopter for Jordan a week and a half ago. But they all warned violence would erupt if Israel refuses to allow his burial on the compound.
"If Arafat is not buried here then Israel will need to prepare itself for an outbreak of Palestinian violence," asserted Ahmed, who has been giving tours on the Mount since before the Six Day War. "The Palestinian people love him and he is like our father."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1099887821335