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Conservation, Health, Nature, Pollution, Wildlife & Flora, Aug 10th, 2010,
This summer has been pretty crazy for the south, dealing with the oil spill clean up, the seafood industry, and threatening storms in the area. Sounds like a great way to spend a summer vacation, right? Fortunately, the end to the whole fiasco is drawing nearer (hopefully), but before I go into that, let’s check out some other things that have happened recently, first. To start with, Texas filed a lawsuit against BP, claiming the oil giant put profits before environmental safety. Surprisingly, this doesn’t have so much to do with the oil spill as it does with a refinery,…
Tags: blue crab, BP, drill, food chain, Gulf Coast Oil Spill, indicator species, lawsuit, oil change, relief well, Texas, updates
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, Jun 16th, 2010,
The history of oil drilling and oil spilling in the United States is riddled with disasters, political decisions as reactions to those disasters and then subsequent resumptions of drilling. The US has drilled deeper and further offshore as drilling technology has developed. Unfortunately, cleanup technology has not likewise progressed. Proper offshore oil drilling in the US began after the Second World War. Previously, ocean drilling was carried out on wharfs, the longest of which stretched 1,200 ft (400 meters) into the Pacific. By 1949 there were 44 exploratory oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico. By the 1950s oil production…
Tags: cleanup, drill, drilling, Gulf, history, Maddow, Mexico, ocean, offshore, oil, Rachel, Santa Barbara, spill, spilling, technology, United States, US
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Wildlife & Flora, May 6th, 2010,
There has been a huge amount of writing on the Gulf oil spill in recent days; from business analyses to stories highlighting the natural catastrophes caused by the massive leak – to rationalizations, political opinions, updates on BP’s efforts to staunch the flow and even the odd bit of weird news – or weird bit of odd news as the case may be. Here are just a few examples of the variety of coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster. The New York Times Environment section has a decent selection of articles on the spill. Here is a quote from…
Tags: BP, Deepwater Horizon, disaster, drill, gallons, Gulf, hair, london, mess, Mexico, New York, news, oil, spill, spill baby spill, Times, weird
Nature, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, May 3rd, 2010,
Environmental disasters tend to happen at really inconvenient times. Just after you open up a coastline to offshore drilling, a bothersome oil rig explodes and starts spilling a daily volume of hundreds of thousands of gallons of crude into a wildlife sanctuary. Awk-ward! US President Barack Obama’s cross-party overture regarding offshore drilling didn’t please many of his core supporters when he enacted it. Now that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is looking worse and worse every day, those feelings are strengthened. Obama has understandably put drilling plans on hold, effectively also putting domestic energy policy reform even more in…
Tags: disaster, drill, drilling, Gulf, inconvenient, Obama, offshore, oil, Politics, spill, US
Climate Change, Nature, Politics, Apr 2nd, 2010,
I just knew everyone was going to resurrect Sarah Palin’s gung-ho pro-oil mantra from the 2008 US presidential campaign as soon as I read about Barack Obama opening up America’s coastlines for oil drilling. Apparently both John McCain and Palin tweeted it. McCain was simply supportive, while Palin snuck in some barbs about ‘job-killing’ and ‘Cap & Tax’. Sarah: chill, baby, chill. Cap and trade was renounced by interior secretary Ken Salazar and besides, isn’t this what you wanted? In contrast President Obama’s other fruitless attempts at bipartisanship, the move is being heralded as politically brilliant by some. From an…
Tags: baby, Barack, drill, drilling, environmental, environmentalists, Obama, oil, Palin, President, republicans, Sarah, US
