By Ben Raines, Press-Register5 April 2012 The stench of death was heavy along the rocks of Dauphin Island’s Katrina Cut last week. Midway across the mile-wide rock wall, wedged between two boulders at the water’s edge, a dolphin carcass washed back and forth in the gentle waves. Most of its backbone protruded from skin bleached […]
By Joshua Zaffos and Daily Climate2 April 2012 The U.S. military’s elite forces have always pushed the envelope. And this summer will be no exception, as the Navy deploys SEALs with $2 million of new gear on missions to save hostages, combat pirates, and counter terrorism around the world. What sort of next-generation weaponry, armor, […]
By Guy Busby, Press-Register27 March 2012 GULF SHORES, Alabama — State and federal health officials are asking anyone who worked on the BP oil spill cleanup to sign up for what has become the biggest study of its kind. More than 16,000 people, including beach cleanup crews, Vessels of Opportunity operators, support personnel and others […]
By LESLIE KAUFMAN23 March 2012 Dolphins in Barataria Bay off Louisiana, which was hit hard by the BP oil spill in 2010, are seriously ill, and their ailments are probably related to toxic substances in the petroleum, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration suggested on Friday. As part of an ongoing assessment of damages caused […]
6 March 2012 (BBC) – A fire that killed two workers and destroyed a gas exploration rig off Nigeria’s south-east coast has gone out after 46 days, Chevron has said. It stopped burning by itself after rock fragments within the underground natural gas well sealed off the leak. The US oil and gas firm, which […]
By Harry R. Weber and Michael Kunzelman, from Associated Press wire2 March 2012 NEW ORLEANS – BP agreed late Friday to settle lawsuits brought by more than 100,000 fishermen who lost work, cleanup workers who got sick and others who claimed harm from the oil giant’s 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster, the worst offshore oil […]
By Emma Amaize and Sam Oyadongha2 March 2012 Forty-eight days after the January 16, Chevron Nigeria Limited, rig gas explosion in Bayelsa State, natives of Koluama I, Koluama II, Tamazo, Ebidouama and other communities in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of the state are now living in fear of being submerged because of the effects […]
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press27 February 2012 KOLUAMA 2, Nigeria – Nigeria’s president attempted to calm anger in villages Monday near a Chevron Corp. offshore natural gas rig that has been engulfed in a raging fire for weeks, though no official could say when the inferno will be extinguished. President Goodluck Jonathan offered few […]
Berlin/Bonn, 27 February 2012 (DHL) – With its release of the study of the future, Delivering Tomorrow: Logistics 2050, Deutsche Post DHL is taking a far-reaching look into the future of trade, business and society. The study examines five different scenarios of life in the year 2050. These five visions of the future are based […]
By Jef Feeley and Laurel Brubaker Calkins25 February 2012 BP Plc (BP) officials overseeing the Macondo well that spewed millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico ignored questions about whether safety tests done hours before a fatal blast on the drilling rig were flawed, lawyers for Transocean Ltd. (RIG) said in a […]
