Archive for the 'Energy' Category
BP Remains Key Pentagon Fuel Supplier
July 5th, 2010So it goes… Via: AFP: Despite its role in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, energy giant BP remains a key supplier of fuel to the Pentagon, The Washington Post reported. Citing data from the Defense Logistics Agency, the newspaper said BP had contracts with the US Defense Department worth at least 980 million dollars […]
“Should BP Nuke Its Leaking Well?”
July 3rd, 2010Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result Via: Reuters: His face wracked by age and his voice rasping after decades of chain-smoking coarse tobacco, the former long-time Russian Minister of nuclear energy and veteran Soviet physicist Viktor Mikhailov knows just how to fix BP’s oil leak in the Gulf […]
Warning To Gulf Volunteers: Almost Every Cleanup Worker From The 1989 Exxon Valdez Disaster Is Now Dead
July 2nd, 2010At least they have some nice accommodations: Banned FEMA Formaldehyde Trailers Return for Latest Gulf Disaster. Via: Business Insider: Are you sure that you want to help clean up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? In a previous article we documented a number of the health dangers from this oil spill that many […]
Independent Video and Images from Gulf of Mexico Disaster
July 1st, 2010Via: bpslick:
Alex to Become Hurricane as Swells Reach Gulf Spill
June 29th, 2010Via: Bloomberg: As officials and residents in Texas braced for a strike from Tropical Storm Alex’s most ferocious side, energy companies worked to evacuate offshore rigs. The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 70 miles (110 kilometers) per hour, was 355 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas, heading northwest at 12 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane […]
BP Worker Found Dead of “Natural Causes”
June 29th, 2010Via: nfwdailynews.com: A BP cleanup worker was found dead in his Village Inn room Sunday afternoon. The 48-year-old man’s identity has not been released. “There are no signs of foul play,” said Michele Nicholson, spokeswoman for the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office. “I don’t think there was anything suspicious about it.” A spokeswoman at Mobile’s Unified […]
Bill Clinton: Blow Up The Well
June 28th, 2010Via: CNN:
So Far, 400 Have Sought Medical Care After Visits to Escambia County Beaches
June 28th, 2010Via pnj.com: The Escambia County Health Department lifted a health advisory on Pensacola Beach on Friday on the advice of a beach official and against the advice of a federal environmental official. But the advisory was not lifted for Gulf Islands National Seashore’s Fort Pickens beach, immediately west of Pensacola Beach or Johnson Beach on […]
DARPA Push: Solar Cells Tough Enough to Handle a War
June 26th, 2010Via: Wired: For years, the military has made on-again, off-again attempts to find eco-friendly ways to get power war-zones, bases and drones. And lately, they’ve seemed willing to try almost anything to do it. In the last year alone, the military’s funded projects that’d turn ocean water into liquid fuel and use dye inspired by […]
Oil Spill: The Situation Off Bon Secour
June 21st, 2010Via: Press Register:
