Archive for the 'Energy' Category
“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 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 […]
Caught In The Oil: BP Really Doesn’t Want You To See This
June 4th, 2010Via: Boston Globe – Big Picture: A short entry – AP Photographer Charlie Riedel just filed the following images of seabirds caught in the oil slick on a beach on Louisiana’s East Grand Terre Island. As BP engineers continue their efforts to cap the underwater flow of oil, landfall is becoming more frequent, and the […]
Nuclear Option on Gulf Oil Spill? No Way, U.S. Says
June 3rd, 2010Via: New York Times: This week, with the failure of the “top kill” attempt, the buzz had grown loud enough that federal officials felt compelled to respond. Stephanie Mueller, a spokeswoman for the Energy Department, said that neither Energy Secretary Steven Chu nor anyone else was thinking about a nuclear blast under the gulf. The […]
BP Rig Atlantis “An Even Bigger Disaster In The Making”
June 3rd, 2010Via: CNN: Could things get any worse for BP? Maybe. As the oil continues to flow, some are charging that another BP operation in the Gulf is an even bigger disaster in the making. For six months, Ken Abbott managed BP’s engineering documents for “Atlantis,” BP’s deep water platform nearly 200 miles south of New […]
Next Up for BP Oil Disaster: Hurricane Season
June 1st, 2010Via: Miami Herald: If the growing oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t contained soon – and the latest efforts suggest that’s unlikely – then the damage to the fragile region will intensify over the coming summer months as changing currents and the potential for hurricanes complicate the containment and cleanup efforts. “It’s all […]
Detonating Nuclear Bomb at BP Oil Spill Site… Might Produce a Bad Result
May 31st, 2010See: Obama Sends Bomb, Mars Experts to Fix BP Oil Spill: U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu signaled his lack of confidence in the industry experts trying to control BP Plc’s leaking oil well by hand-picking a team of scientists with reputations for creative problem solving. Dispatched to Houston by President Barack Obama to deal with […]
BP Collects Billions in U.S. Government Contracts
May 31st, 2010Via: Muckety: Daniel Gross of Slate poses the question: How do we punish BP? The options he suggests – boycotting BP products, charging for the cleanup, even nationalizing the company – are less than satisfying. Here’s another possibility: How about barring BP from the federal trough? According to USASpending.gov, BP has received more than $9 […]
