Archive for the 'Environment' Category
“Five Leaks in and Around BP’s Well”?
July 21st, 2010Via: Washington Post: Five leaks in and around BP’s well are more like “drips” and aren’t yet reason to worry, said retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the national incident commander. He extended testing of the experimental cap by another day, which means the oil will remain shut in. Seepage two miles from BP’s oil […]
BP Had Blow Out Preventer Modified in China to Save Money
July 20th, 2010Via: Guardian: BP ordered the owner of the Deepwater Horizon rig, whose explosion led to the worst environmental disaster in US history, to overhaul a crucial piece of the rig’s safety equipment in China, the Observer has learnt. The blow-out preventer – the last line of defence against an out-of-control well – subsequently failed to […]
Engineers Detect Seepage “A Distance” from BP’s Capped Oil Well
July 19th, 2010For weeks, Matt Simmons has been saying that there’s much more to this than the riser we’ve all seen in the videos. Still… We have no idea what’s actually happening down there. Note: Simmons is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, according to Wikipedia (which doesn’t provide any source), and this ASPO bio […]
“If the sea floor doesn’t crack”
July 16th, 2010Via: AP: The oil has stopped. For now. After 85 days and up to 184 million gallons, BP finally gained control over one of America’s biggest environmental catastrophes Thursday by placing a carefully fitted cap over a runaway geyser that has been gushing crude into the Gulf of Mexico since early spring. Though a temporary […]
U.S. Company Set to Ship Billions of Gallons of Water from Alaska to India
July 14th, 2010Tell me this is a hoax. Via: TreeHugger: India is hurting for water. With rapidly growing populations of people and a rising middle class that is mimicking the wasteful water consumption habits well known here in the United States, coupled with poor water management practices, India is set to be one of the first parts […]
Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture
July 13th, 2010Don’t Miss: Sepp Holzer’s Permaculture on richsoil.com
Thousands of Old Wells Possibly Leaking in Gulf of Mexico?
July 10th, 2010Via: AP / CBS: More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one – not industry, not government – is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows. The oldest of […]
Relief Payments Get Slashed if Fishermen Refuse to Work for BP
July 8th, 2010That’s life in a company town. Via: Raw Story: Any relief payment plan established in the wake of the worst environmental accident ever was bound to have its flaws, but this goes to a whole new level of wrong. According to Gulf resident Kindra Arnesen, who turned whistleblower and full-time activist when she saw how […]
Corexit
July 8th, 2010Research Credit: JoKerHill
Coast Guard Bans Reporters from Oil Cleanup Sites
July 6th, 2010Flashback: U.S. COAST GUARD THREATENED CBS NEWS CREW WITH ARREST FOR FILMING OIL SPILL DISASTER; COAST GUARD SAID THAT THEY WERE ACTING UNDER AUTHORITY OF BRITISH PETROLEUM; “THIS IS BP RULES. IT’S NOT OURS.” Via: Raw Story: Journalists who come too close to oil spill clean-up efforts without permission could find themselves facing a $40,000 […]
