By JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press Tue Feb 15, 3:14 am ET HOUSTON – A former official with BP’s drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico resigned just months before last year’s oil spill because of disagreements with the oil giant over its commitment to safety, according to a class-action federal lawsuit related to the […]
Paper has implications for oxygen depletion, provides photographic evidence of plumes By Sam Fahmy, sfahmy@uga.eduFeb 13, 2011, 13:04 Athens, Ga. – A new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge has found that up to 500,000 […]
February 14, 2011 (Reuters) – A court in Ecuador’s Amazon jungle ordered Chevron Corp to pay more than $8 billion in damages on Monday in a closely watched environmental suit, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said. But the U.S. oil company vowed to appeal, meaning the long-running case dating from drilling in the South American nation during […]
By Kate SpinnerThursday, February 3, 2011 at 1:00 a.m. From a distance the toxic goo looks like oil, but up close it smells like rotten eggs and wiggles like jelly. Scientists have no idea what it is or how it wound up in the northern Gulf of Mexico, near Perdido Pass. Just off the Florida […]
[We have other reports of increases in fish populations following the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Desdemona has been assuming that the oil/dispersant mixture selectively removed predator species and, possibly, entire trophic levels from the ecosystem, allowing some prey species to reproduce with greatly reduced predation pressure. Time will tell.] By Gigi DoubanFebruary 4, 2011 Dauphin Island–Since […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2011) — To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking […]
By Matt Sedensky of The Associated Press Published: Wednesday, January 26, 2011, 7:10 PM More sea turtles were killed or injured in the Gulf of Mexico in the months following the BP oil spill than in any similar period during the past two decades, a report released Wednesday found. While the report suggested many of […]
By Jonathan TilovePublished: Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 12:34 PM WASHINGTON — Marcia McNutt, director of the U.S. Geological Survey, and retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, agreed Wednesday that the politics of boom overrode the logic of response during the effort to contain and clean up the BP oil spill. Allen, who was the National […]
By Jonathan Tilove Wednesday, January 12, 2011, 9:30 PM About of a third of the way through the National Oil Spill Commission’s 400-page report, there is a 43-page chapter on the oil spill response and containment efforts that suggests that berms and boom were pretty much a bust, collecting more headlines than oil. Along the […]
Added On January 7, 2011 Frustrated Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser yells at a Coast Guard commander on an oil-coated beach. Nungesser blasts oil disaster cleanup Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,wetland,Gulf of Mexico,North America,conflict
