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Pollution, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 19th, 2011,
On Sunday a Russian oil platform capsized between Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Sea of Okhotsk off far eastern Russia. The oil rig, which was manned by 67 people subcontracted by Russian oil giant Gazprom, was being towed during a storm when heavy winds toppled it into the sea. So far Russian authorities have confirmed 16 deaths and a rescue raft with 15 people has been spotted, but it is not known how many on the raft – if any – are alive. According to regional emergency services, the accident poses no environmental threat, since the drilling…
Tags: death, France, fuel, oil, okhotsk, platform, rig, Russia, ship
Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Sep 1st, 2010,
Early this morning Greenpeace activists occupied a Cairn Energy exploratory oil rig in the Arctic Ocean off of the coast of Greenland. Four Greenpeace activists, who are also expert climbers, avoided Greenland police and the Danish navy to climb the rig and suspend themselves in tents. The activists’ behavior has caused a temporary shut down of Cairn Energy’s drilling efforts. From a report in the Telegraph: The campaigners, who are protesting against what they claim are the ”huge risks” energy companies are taking with the environment by drilling for oil in deep water, say they have enough supplies to occupy…
Tags: activists, arctic, Cairn Energy, climber, Danish, deep sea, drilling, greenland, Greenpeace, Navy, oil, police, rig
Climate Change, Politics, Pollution, Jul 2nd, 2010,
Is there is just too much revenue in big oil to stop dangerous deep sea drilling? The oil industry, like the massive investment banks behind the financial crisis of 2008, is considered by some to be ‘too big to fail’. Yet also like financial crashes, disasters are calculated by those in charge as risks worth taking. Sure, a tragedy on the scale of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico wasn’t expected, but the industry and the government – and everybody – knew that spills happen. Also like the banks, the oil industry is largely self-regulating, so they…
Tags: blowout, BP, Brazil, British, dangerous, deep, Deepwater, disaster, government, Gulf, Horizon, industry, Mexico, north, oil, P-52, platform, rig, risk, risky, sea, spill, too big to fail, UK
Climate Change, Politics, Videos & Documentaries, May 14th, 2010,
It turns out that deepwater drilling off the coast of the United States is a pretty experimental thing. In recent years the industry has been largely self-regulatory, which has allowed them to cut corners and take advantage of loopholes in the law. For example, the Deepwater Horizon rig, leased by BP, owned by Transocean and built in Korea, is officially a vessel of the Pacific nation the Marshall Islands – because of that country’s lax maritime regulations. In other words the rig flies what’s called a ‘flag of convenience’. Corporate greed and our thirst for oil have facilitated compromises in…
Tags: BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf, leak, loopholes, Marshall Islands, oil, rig, spill, video
Climate Change, Videos & Documentaries, Dec 7th, 2009,
![]( "<!--:en-->Black gold in Tinseltown: The surprising tale of Los Angeles")
' src='http://gf2.statico.be/wp-content/themes/greenfudge/thumbnails/2368.jpg' alt='black-gold-in-tinseltown-the-surprising-tale-of-los-angeles-oil-fields' class='art-teaser' width='95' height='95' /> There are oil fields in Beverly Hills. In West Hollywood too, right under the famous Farmers Market. Despite L.A.’s fame for being a city driven by film and entertainment, it began principally as an oil town. From the late 19th century and into the present day, the Los Angeles metropolitan area, home to the third largest oil field in the contiguous United States, has had a flourishing oil industry. The enclave of Signal Hill, within the city of Long Beach, just 20 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, used to be known as ‘Porcupine Hill’ because it was covered with…
Tags: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, oil, oil field, oil well, rig, Signal Hill, tower
