Our friends at Greenpeace captured some images of cleanup at the surface of the oil plume, which has been revised upward to a flow rate of over 200,000 gallons a day. Finally some cleanup is being done, but with weather conditions anticipated to get worse, unlikely this will be able to continue. Unsure if attempts […]
BP Oil Drilling Disaster: New Shots from the Sheen Read More »
BP and the Coast Guard should have been more prepared to deal with a deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The following summary of a year 2000 intentional deepwater oil spill research experiment undercuts the Coast Guard’s claims that the Deepwater Horizon spill is something that no one could have been prepared for.The
Deepwater Spill Experiment Refutes BP/Government Excuses Read More »
Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary Landry admitted tonight that the BP oil drilling disaster is pumping over 200,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf. Given that the rig sank on the 22nd, we can now estimate that somewhere close to 1.5 million gallons of oil have been released into the Gulf. This spill
BP Oil Drilling Disaster: Spill 5 Times Worse Than First Thought Read More »
It was just two days before Earth Day, and a few weeks after President Obama’s call to increase drilling in off-shore areas, when an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Breton and Delta National Wildlife Refuges.Tragically, it appears that 11 missing crewmembers have been killed.
BP Oil Drilling Disaster – Help Protect Marine Wildlife Read More »
As the consequences from the massive BP oil drilling disaster in the Gulf continue to unfold, proponents of increased offshore drilling have remained remarkably silent about how “safe and environmentally friendly” offshore drilling can be. However, some drilling supporters do like to point out how rarely accidents like this occur.Oil drilling disasters of this magnitude
Oil Spills in the Gulf: Not the First, Not the Last Read More »
Not quite sure how to respond to this just yet. Today’s daily briefing from the Unified Command rolled out this idea. It’s terrifying on its face, lighting up a 2,000 square mile area of the Gulf that’s being expanded by uncontrolled, twin gysers of oil from the sea floor 5,000 feet down.More details are necessary
Controlled Burn Considered for Gulf Spill Read More »
Just two days before Earth Day, a few weeks after President Obama’s call to increase drilling in off-shore areas, an oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, 45 miles off of Louisiana’s coast, near the Breton and Delta National Wildlife Refuges.Tragically, it appears that 11 missing crewmembers have been killed. In addition to the
Gulf Oil Tragedy – Time for our President to Act Read More »
The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues to grow at a disturbing rate and the latest news from BP officials isn’t exactly reassuring. In fact, the chief operating officer of BP Exploration and Production said that they intend to lower a huge dome over the ocean bottom to capture the leaking oil.
Gulf Oil Spill – As Seen from Space Read More »
Yesterday I was able to fly out over the BP oil spill site, thanks to our partners at Southwings, and pilot Tom Hutchings out of Fairhope, AL.We were shocked at what we saw. The main spill was at least 8 miles across, creating a kind of peninsula from what was presumably the site of the
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