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Danger from oil spill may remain for turtles

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 01 July 2012 in Oil Spill

By Harvey Rice Ninety-four tiny members of the world’s most endangered sea turtle species struggled across the beach to reach the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday as park rangers waved away gulls looking for a quick meal. Only a handful of the 3-inch Kemp’s ridley turtles will avoid predators and other ...

Gulf Oil Spill Anniversary: BP Disaster's Impact On Children

Posted by Angel on Friday, 20 April 2012 in Oil Spill

SOUTH PLAQUEMINES PARISH, La. -- Julie Creppel raises six children here, steps away from the lapping waves of the Gulf of Mexico. Her modest mobile home, on a narrow peninsula roughly an hour and a half south of New Orleans, puts her about as close as anyone to where, two years ago today, ...

BP Oil Spill Blame Game on Trial

Posted by bensor on Saturday, 25 February 2012 in Oil Spill

A massive trial over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill heads for a New Orleans federal courtroom on Monday, to determine how much BP Plc and others should cough up for the worst U.S. offshore oil spill. The case is perhaps the most complex environmental lawsuit in history, and could leave c...

The Effects of the BP Oil Spill on Animal Life

Posted by bensor on Tuesday, 21 February 2012 in Oil Spill

The BP Oil Spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010 has affected an incredible number of human lives, in various ways, but we must also consider the negative impacts of the BP Oil Spill on Animals as well. When animals are affected, human beings become affected as well. We are all...

BP could reach settlement for Gulf oil spill this week

Posted by Wolf on Monday, 20 February 2012 in Oil Spill

BP PLC, operator of the Macondo well that caused the United States’ worst oil spill, may reach a settlement for the disaster this week after a partner agreed on fines, an Oppenheimer & Co. analyst said. Mitsui & Co.’s MOEX Offshore 2007 LLC will pay $90 million to the U.S. and five ...

BP may agree $25 billion oil spill payout

Posted by plantitfilm on Sunday, 22 January 2012 in Oil Spill

BP is likely to agree next month to pay $20-$25 billion to settle all charges around the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, according to a leading analyst, double the figure the company has set aside and more than other analysts expect. BP and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) have been silent ...

Oil Spill on Christmas Island

Posted by voice on Thursday, 12 January 2012 in Oil Spill

Hundreds of thousands of juvenile land crabs are being threatened by an oil spill on Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean. On Sunday, a Panamanian-flagged cargo ship, MV Tycoon, was pushed against the sea wall of the island's Flying Fish cove by a giant swell. Severe weather conditions ...

Gulf Drilling Expected To Surpass Pre-Oil Spill Levels

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 01 January 2012 in Oil Spill

By early next year, there will be more deepwater drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico than there were in the days leading up to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, Jonathan Fahey of the Associated Press (AP) reported on Friday. On April 20, 2010, and explosion onboard the BP-leased Deepwater Hori...

Gulf Oil Spill Multiple Safety Violations by BP, Transocean and Halliburton

Posted by GreenDog on Thursday, 15 December 2011 in Oil Spill

Safety slighted before blow out was the conclusion of a new independent report by the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council citing multiple flawed decisions from a deficient overall systems approach to safety among the corporations that ran the drilled of the Macondo well. Th...

BP Accuses Halliburton of destroying evidence

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 06 December 2011 in Oil Spill

BP in a high-stakes court filing on Monday accused Halliburton of destroying damaging evidence about the quality of its cement slurry that went into drilling the oil well that blew out last year and caused the worst U.S. offshore oil spill. BP accused Halliburton of having intentionally des...

Evidence shows Gulf oil spill caused widespread ecological damage

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 07 November 2011 in Oil Spill

Evidence is mounting that the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster caused wide-ranging ecological damage in the northern Gulf of Mexico. Since the blown oil well spewed 186 million to 227 million gallons of crude into the Gulf last year, several species of fish have developed skin ulcers in what app...

Film “Greedy Lying Bastards” Exposes the Fossil Fuel Industry

Posted by EarthDude on Monday, 31 October 2011 in Oil Spill

“Greedy Lying Bastards” is a new feature length documentary, scheduled to be released in 2012, investigating the role the oil industry plays the world over in all facets of people’s lives from politics and economics to the environment. Filmmaker Craig Rosebraugh traveled the globe includ...

Dolphin Deaths in Gulf Raise Alarm Over Cause

Posted by Angel on Sunday, 30 October 2011 in Oil Spill

Scientists investigating a plague of 580 marine-mammal deaths, nearly all bottlenose dolphins, in the northern Gulf of Mexico have identified a specific bacterial infection as a possible culprit. The deaths, declared an "unusual mortality event" requiring intensive study by the National Oceanic and...

Oil in the Gulf: Lost profits are just the beginning.

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 in Oil Spill

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill will forever be a part of history, and has recently been a major driver for a change of protocol and regulation. One aspect of this disaster that is a direct consequence is how marine life has been impacted since April 20th, 2010. Marine mammals have be...

Dead Dolphins Still a Concern on Gulf Coast

Posted by amir on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 in Oil Spill

Dead dolphins have washed ashore in the hundreds along the central Gulf Coast, prompting federal officials to launch an open-ended investigation. Since February 2010, 567 dead or distressed whales and dolphins have washed ashore in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. Of those, 274 washed...

BP Gets Back to Gulf of Mexico

Posted by August on Monday, 24 October 2011 in Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- U.S. regulators said a supplemental exploration plan was approved for BP's work in the Gulf of Mexico, its first since the Deepwater Horizon accident in 2010. An explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 led to one of the world's worst oil spills and led...

BP back to Buying Gulf Rights

Posted by Davis on Monday, 24 October 2011 in Oil Spill

Despite the fact that the federal government issued citations against BP that said it failed to protect safety and the environment in regards to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill disaster (trial date February 2012), they are allowing the company to bid for new oil drilling leases in the Gu...

Offshore drilling contractors to be regulated under the same rules as rig operators

Posted by peter.gephart@gmail.com on Wednesday, 12 October 2011 in Oil Spill

The effects of Deepwater Horizon disaster are still being felt in the Gulf Coast region. However, there have been steps made to keep this from happening again, and not just in the Gulf. These types of disasters will be much less likely to happen off of U.S. waters everywhere, thanks to new e...

Oyster Season delayed by test

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 09 October 2011 in Oil Spill

NEW ORLEANS Louisiana may delay the start of the oyster season on most public seed grounds while scientists collect oysters and sediment to check for any damage from last year's BP PLC oil spill. National Resource Damage Assessment teams will begin next week to look for informati...

New Zealand Wildlife Feeling the Oil Spill

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 09 October 2011 in Oil Spill

Four oil-covered little blue penguins have been found off Papamoa Beach this afternoon, as the Transport Minister admits he isn't under any illusions about the job ahead to salvage the Rena from a reef off Tauranga. Oiled Wildlife Response member Kerri Morgan said the oil-covered penguins...