Why did a parliamentary committee suddenly destroy drafts of a final report on tar sands pollution? Here’s what they knew. By Andrew Nikiforuk, www.TheTyee.ca 15 Jul 2010 Just two weeks ago the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development abruptly cancelled a big report on the tar sands and the project’s extreme water impacts. The […]
RICHMOND, Vt.— More than six months after the Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition to close all federally managed bat caves in the lower 48 states, the U.S. Forest Service has indicated it intends to close caves on federal forests and grasslands in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and most of Wyoming and South Dakota. A […]
By JUSTIN GILLIS and LESLIE KAUFMANPublished: July 17, 2010 On the rocky beaches of Alaska, scientists plunged shovels and picks into the ground and dug 6,775 holes, repeatedly striking oil — still pungent and dangerous a dozen years after the Exxon Valdez infamously spilled its cargo. More than an ocean away, on the Breton coast […]
Prayer service for the Gulf of Mexico By Roy Hoffman, Press-Register Published: Sunday, July 18, 2010, 4:07 PM As first light filled the sky over the Gulf of Mexico, a small band of worshippers gathered at Gulf State Park Pavilion on Sunday to pray for the Gulf and those affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil […]
By Kristen Hays and Tom BerginMon Jul 19, 2010 4:04pm EDT HOUSTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Energy giant BP Plc said on Monday that seepage near its Gulf of Mexico well was unrelated to the massive oil leak that has at least temporarily been capped. BP shares, which had dropped more than 6 percent after engineers detected […]
By Greg Mankiw This recession looks very different, and much more troubling, than those in the recent past. I wonder how this dramatic change in the nature of unemployment will alter traditional macroeconomic relationships, such as Okun’s Law and the Phillips curve. Some research suggests that the long-term unemployed put less downward pressure on inflation. […]
By Colleen Long and Harry R. Weber of The Associated PressSunday, July 18, 2010, 4:56 PM NEW ORLEANS — A federal official said Sunday that scientists are concerned about a seep and possible methane seen near BP’s busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. Both could be signs there are leaks in the well […]
By Brad Johnson15 July 2010 As experts warned, Bobby Jindal’s “obvious” response to the BP oil disaster is failing. Since the beginning of May, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has pushed a crash effort to build artificial “barrier islands” from dredged sand to prevent BP’s toxic oil from reaching Louisiana’s fragile coastline. He and other Louisiana […]
“official time of choke fully closed 2:25 this afternoon (well fully closed)” Starting the Testing Program and Open Thread By Katherine Sayre, Press-RegisterPublished: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 2:51 PM MOBILE, Ala. — A BP official said oil stopped flowing from a well in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:25 p.m. as testing began on a […]
Paris (AFP) July 13, 2010 – The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster is likely to cost far more than cleanup and compensation for lost income once damage to ecosystems is factored in, a top expert said Tuesday. In an interview coinciding with a UN-sponsored report on the link between business and biodiversity, economist Pavan […]
