“I hate whale meat.”

Japan’s Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama says he doesn’t like the meat which proves so controversial for his country (Sankei Shimbun, via AFP).

“The CSIRO is currently maintaining they have the right to ban the written version of this paper from publication by myself as a representative of the organisation and by myself as a private citizen.”

Clive Spash, of Australia’s CSIRO science agency, says his employer is trying to gag him (The Australian).

“The fact that there are so many still outstanding life-threatening problems at this plant indicates that they still have a systemic safety problem.”

Jordan Barab, acting assistant secretary of labour for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, explains why BP has been hit with a huge fine after allegedly failing to deal with faults unearthed after an explosion at its Texas City refinery four years ago (WSJ).