Posts Tagged ‘offshore drilling’
Emails show struggle to estimate size of Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Associated Press: The Obama administration struggled behind the scenes to determine how much oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from a BP well this year and defended estimates that for months were inaccurate, according to thousands of government emails.A senior scientist who led the federal effort, Bill Lehr of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric [...]
Feinberg to lay out details on BP spill claims
Associated Press: The deadline to make an emergency Gulf of Mexico oil spill claim is over and the administrator of the $20 billion fund is laying out more details about what happens next.Kenneth R. Feinberg is going to talk to reporters Wednesday about how the process will move forward from initial emergency payments to interim and final [...]
US reopens more Gulf of Mexico fishing waters – BP Oil Spill Updates
AFP: The US government reopened nearly 30 percent of federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico that were closed to fishing following the BP oil spill after tests showed that seafood there is safe to eat. The area covers 6,879 square miles (17,800 square kilometers) off the coasts of Florida and Alabama, and is the ninth reopening of waters since [...]
Deepwater drilling: risks and consequences – BP Oil Spill Updates
Guardian: What if, as in Hungary’s red sludge disaster, oil executives faced possible prosecution for spills that result in loss of life? On 11 October, the Christian Science Monitor reported that Hungarian police had arrested an executive connected to red sludge spill, which had killed eight people. For months, we’ve heard of Deepwater [...]
Collateral damage: Oil drilling is still banned in Alaska's offshore water
EditorialThe federal government’s offshore oil drilling program in the Arctic remains the victim of collateral damage from the Obama administration’s over-reaction to the Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico.When the administration lifted the moratorium on deepwater drilling Tuesday, it left the ban in place for waters off Alaska. [...]
BP Oil: Gulf Sediment At Risk, Oceanographer Claims – Science News
Most of BP’s spilled oil remains in the Gulf — with little sign of degrading, according to Ian MacDonald of Florida State University. And much of this surviving oil could be in sediment or on its way there, the scientist reported at a September 27 meeting in Washington, D.C. This sediment link is hardly idle speculation. In her recent [...]
After spill, offshore drilling slows to a halt – US Gulf of Mexico …
The drilling moratorium enacted after the BP oil spill applies only to the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Yet energy exploration in the Gulf’s shallow waters has come to a virtual standstill as drillers grapple with tougher federal rules since the spill.Read more on The Desert Sun Tags: After, Drilling, halt, offshore, slows, spill After spill, [...]
President Barack Obama's response to Gulf of Mexico oil spill gets …
Nola News: A month into the BP spill disaster, outspoken Democratic consultant James Carville called the Barack Obama administration’s response "lackadaisical," and said that the president was "naïve" to trust the oil company to manage efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. View full sizeDavid Grunfeld, The Times-Picayune …View [...]
New batfish species found under Gulf oil spill
Reuters: Researchers have discovered two previously unknown species of bottom-dwelling fish in the Gulf of Mexico, living right in the area affected by the BP oil spill. Researchers identified new species of pancake batfishes, a flat fish rarely seen because of the dark depths they favor. They are named for the clumsy way they "walk" along the [...]
Gulf Coast Residents Angry Over Oil Dumped In Local Landfill
Waste Management, a national sanitation company that has tried to position itself as "green" through advertising, recycling initiatives, and sponsorship of the Greenopolis website, has angered Gulf Coast residents by dumping oil waste in Mississippi landfill.As the BP oil spill spreads throughout the Gulf Coast, residents of Harrison County, [...]
