Archive for the 'Energy' Category
US-Canada Pipeline Leaks Oil Into Michigan River
July 28th, 2010Via: BBC: A pipeline carrying oil from the US state of Indiana to Ontario, Canada has spilled more than 800,000 gallons (3m litres) of oil into a creek which flows into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan. A spokesman for the firm running the pipeline, Enbridge Energy Partners, said a malfunction had caused the leak. The […]
Tug Vessel Hits Abandoned Gas Well in Barataria Waterway
July 28th, 2010Via: WWLTV: The Coast Guard and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office are maintaining a two mile safety perimeter around a damaged wellhead in the Barataria Waterway south of New Orleans. A mix of natural gas, contaminated water and light crude oil is spewing 100 feet in the air. According to the Coast Guard, the tug […]
Corexit: “People who work near it are hemorrhaging internally.”
July 26th, 2010Via: Democracy Now: Well, Corexit is one of a number of dispersants, that are toxic, that are used to atomize the oil and force it down the water column so that it’s invisible to the eye. In this case, these dispersants were used in massive quantities, almost two million gallons so far, to hide the […]
Big Picture Gallery: Oil Spill in Dalian, China
July 22nd, 2010Via: Big Picture: Five days ago, in the northeastern port city of Dalian, China, two oil pipelines exploded, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and burning for over 15 hours, destroying several structures – the cause of the explosion is under investigation. The damaged pipes released thousands of gallons of oil, which flowed […]
“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 […]
Chinese Oil Pipelines Explode
July 18th, 2010Via: Telegraph: More than 2,000 firefighters worked overnight to control flames and further blasts on a second pipeline after the initial explosion. China Central Television showed flames raging among tanks at the port in the northern city of Dalian, and state media described flames 30 meters high. The cause of the initial blast was not […]
“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 […]
Questions, Questions: Terawatt Research
July 15th, 2010How many “free energy” companies have a former Director of the CIA and FBI on their payrolls? By my math, there’s just one: Terawatt Research, LLC. Here is William Webster’s bio on the Terawatt Research website: Judge William H. Webster (Milbank Tweed Hadley & Mc Cloy) Strategic Advisor William H. Webster was sworn in as […]
