Archive for the 'Environment' Category
“These Are Company Towns”
June 11th, 2010Via: ABC News: Reporting is often about access, but journalists along the Gulf Coast covering the BP oil spill have had some trouble getting it. As BP faces more pressure from the government and from its own shareholders unhappy with the company’s falling stock price, it seems to be clamping down on who can talk […]
Experts Double Estimate of BP Oil Spill Size
June 11th, 2010Experts also tell us what the unemployment numbers are. So, double or triple it again and maybe we’ll be in the ballpark. Via: BBC: As many as 40,000 barrels (1.7m gallons) of oil a day may have been gushing out from a blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, doubling many estimates. The US Geological Survey says […]
Coast Guard Admiral Sees Game Changer as Oil Awaits Atlantic Hurricanes
June 10th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: Coast Guard Rear Admiral Mary E. Landry was up early on Saturday, April 24, preparing to brief news reporters on the deadly explosion at the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig when BP Plc called with bad news: The well was leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico, 5,000 feet below the surface. She dashed […]
Fisherman Exposed to Mustard Gas
June 9th, 2010Via: WBZTV: A doctor treating a commercial fisherman who was sickened after his clamming boat pulled up munitions tainted with chemicals says tests show he was exposed to mustard gas. Dr. Edward Boyer, a toxicologist at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, said blood and urine tests that confirmed mustard gas exposure came back Monday […]
Another Rig Leaking Near Near Deepwater Horizon?
June 9th, 2010Via: AP: Photographs showing a sheen of oil in the Gulf of Mexico southwest of the big BP spill are evidence only of government-approved work long under way, not a second leak, an energy company said Tuesday. Site owner Taylor Energy Co. LLC said in a written statement that a production platform about 70 miles […]
“Are you fucking happy? Are you fucking happy? The rig’s on fire! I told you this was gonna happen.”
June 8th, 2010Via: The Atlantic: A prominent Houston attorney with a long record of winning settlements from oil companies says he has new evidence suggesting that the Deepwater Horizon’s top managers knew of problems with the rig before it exploded last month, causing the worst oil spill in US history. Tony Buzbee, a lawyer representing 15 rig […]
New Oil Plume Evidence Uncovered
June 7th, 2010Via: CNN: As if the pictures of birds, fish and animals killed by floating oil in the Gulf of Mexico is not disturbing enough, scientists now say they have found evidence of another danger lurking underwater. The University of South Florida recently discovered a second oil plume in the northeastern gulf. The first plume was […]
BP Chief Tony Hayward Sold Shares Weeks Before Oil Spill
June 5th, 2010Via: Telegraph: The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse. Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing […]
BP Puts Containment Cap on Gushing Gulf Well Pipe
June 4th, 2010This seems like good news, but all we really have to go on is what BP and the government are saying. CNN reports, “Early Friday morning a non-stop cloud of oil was still spewing from the pipe.” Via: Reuters: After failing days ago to plug the well, BP Plc managed on Thursday to shear away […]
James Cameron on BP Oil Spill: “If you’re not monitoring it independently, you’re asking the perpetrator to give you the video of the crime scene.”
June 4th, 2010Via: Reuters: Film director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said on Wednesday that BP Plc turned down his offer to help combat the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “Over the last few weeks I’ve watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking […]
