By Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent, BBC News 19 October 2011 It is a picture that seems at first to be quite beautiful. Only as the eye lingers do you fully realise its shocking context. This image of brown pelicans smothered in oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill has earned Daniel Beltrá the title of Veolia […]
October 20 (NZN) – With a new booster pump in place, salvage experts will remain on board the stricken vessel Rena overnight to keep extracting oil from the ship. The operation hit a hiccup earlier on Thursday when the original booster pump’s circuits blew. Salvage unit manager Bruce Anderson says the setback didn’t stop the […]
October 19 (Sky News) – More oil has leaked from the stricken container ship the Rena after the boat was battered by poor weather off the New Zealand north coast. Maritime New Zealand says a small amount of oil was released from the bow of the vessel on Tuesday morning, and a light sheen of […]
By Derek Cheng, James Ihaka, Jamie Morton, and Paul Harper 18 October 2011 Salvage workers are bracing for the death of the “creaking, groaning” MV Rena, now sitting precariously on Astrolabe Reef and expected to flood more oil into the sea. The same pancake-sized blobs of oil that have blotted the Western Bay of Plenty […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register 12 October 2011 DAUPHIN ISLAND, Alabama – A dolphin carcass, bloated and violet in the morning sun, was found on Fort Morgan early Saturday, bringing the number lost since the BP oil spill to more than 400. Three other dolphins have washed up in Alabama in the past week, including a […]
An oil spill from a stranded cargo ship off New Zealand is the country’s worst environmental disaster in decades, the government says. Officials say 350 tonnes of oil may have leaked from the 775ft (236m) Rena, which ran aground on the Astrolabe Reef off the port of Tauranga on Wednesday. Bad weather has halted work […]
By Faimon A. Roberts, Advocate Florida Parishes bureau11 OCtober 2011 This year’s white shrimp harvest in the waters off Louisiana’s southeastern coast is significantly lower than in the past, forcing some people in the industry to look elsewhere for product and scale back operations while others blame the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. “I […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register27 September 2011 MOBILE, Alabama — The U.S. Coast Guard announced Tuesday that it would require Transocean, owner of the drilling rig that exploded and unleashed the Gulf spill, to determine the source of the BP oil found floating above the wellhead. The announcement came one month after the Press-Register collected samples […]
By Ben Raines, Press-Register 26 September 2011, While the source of the oil bubbling up around the Deepwater Horizon site remains a mystery, a Louisiana State University scientist says further chemical analysis has confirmed that the oil originated in BP’s well, and not from other nearby sources, as federal officials have suggested. Federal officials said […]
By Margaret Cronin Fisk and Laurel Brubaker Calkins20 September 2011 BP Plc (BP) said it didn’t hide information about a possibly dangerous condition in the Macondo oil well before or after it blew out in April 2010, killing 11 people and triggering the biggest U.S. offshore oil spill. BP personnel determined that a sand layer […]
