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Sweden's Oil Spill worst in area since 1987

Posted by bensor on Monday, 19 September 2011 in Oil Spill

Rescue teams have been working around the clock to clean up an oil spill in waters off the coast of Tjörn, an island community of around 15,000 people, in southwestern Sweden. It's the worst spill in the area since 1987. Coastguards on nine ships are using brush skimmers to remove oil fr...

Building Machince to Clean Up Oil Spills

Posted by bchristo on Monday, 12 September 2011 in Oil Spill

When the Exxon Valdez was wrecked off the coast of Alaska in 1989, cleanup crews were able to recover only about 14 percent of the spilled oil. Twenty-one years later, when the Deepwater Horizon disaster spilled oil into the Gulf of Mexico, recovery efforts had improved shockingly little: Responders...

Spill an unstoppable disaster

Posted by 20minutesto9 on Saturday, 10 September 2011 in Oil Spill

Any serious oil spill in the ice of the Arctic is likely to be an uncontrollable environmental disaster despoiling vast areas of the world's most untouched ecosystem, one of the world's leading polar scientists says. Oil from an undersea leak will not only be very hard to deal wit...

ConocoPhillips struggling with China oil spill

Posted by plantitfilm on Monday, 05 September 2011 in Oil Spill

The oil spills from offshore wells operated by ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay are posing political and technical challenges for the oil company far messier than the crude and drilling mud seeping from the seabed. The company said Monday that it had complied with a government order to s...

BP Seeping Oil in Gulf

Posted by EarthDude on Wednesday, 31 August 2011 in Oil Spill

The Press-Register of Mobile, Alabama discovered new BP oil seeping just a mile from the site of last summer’s debacle. BP wasted no time at all in claiming that the oil wasn’t theirs… but the facts prove otherwise. The fingerprint is clear, as is the location of the oil — exac...

BP 'to be sued over oil spill'

Posted by bensor on Monday, 29 August 2011 in Oil Spill

Oil giant BP is set to take another battering after a US judge ruled thousands of fishermen and business owners hit by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster could sue for punitive damages, it has been reported. Judge Carl Barbier, who is considering some 500 cases against BP and its main co-defenda...

Lessons learned from the two worst oils spills in U.S. history

Posted by bchristo on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Oil Spill

One year after the notorious BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and two decades after the Exxon Valdez spill in Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska the scientific lesson is clear – microbes matter! Despite vast differences in the impacted marine ecosystems and the circumst...

9 new leaks in China oil spill

Posted by EarthDude on Sunday, 21 August 2011 in Oil Spill

US oil giant ConocoPhillips, already facing legal action and mounting public anger over a huge oil spill off China's northeast coast, has found nine new leaks in the same area, authorities said. The State Oceanic Administration said on Saturday ConocoPhillips had reported the leakages near a pl...

Polluters Should Pay but Can We Make Them?

Posted by grant on Thursday, 18 August 2011 in Oil Spill

Shell’s oil spill in the North Sea this week is the worst in a decade, but compensation for any environmental damage could be in short supply says Susie Wilks from ClientEarth What is the difference between a sea bird dying because its feathers are coated in crude oil, and a sea bird starving to de...

Shell spills over 50,000 gallons of oil off Scotland

Posted by grant on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 in Oil Spill

Jeremy HanceAugust 16, 2011 Yesterday, Royal Dutch Shell estimated that to date 54,600 gallons of oil had spilled into the North Sea off the east coast of Scotland, spreading some 19 miles wide (30 kilometers) at its maximum. While the company stopped the initial leak on Thursday, it has now announ...

North Sea oil leak biggest in decade

Posted by amir on Monday, 01 August 2011 in Oil Spill

An oil spill from a platform off Scotland in the North Sea is the biggest in the region in a decade, the British government said Monday as energy giant Shell battled to close off the leak completely. The spill from the Gannet Alpha platform, 112 miles (180 kilometres) east of Aberdeen, likely...

BP Wins a Big One in Oil Spill Litigation

Posted by amir on Monday, 20 June 2011 in Oil Spill

Ruling in favor of Transocean and BP, a federal judge on Thursday dismissed third-party environmental claims in a giant pleading bundle in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill litigation, saying the fact that the oil flow has stopped makes those lawsuits irrelevant. "Th...

Chemical Dispersants More Harmful Than Effective

Posted by henryfool on Wednesday, 01 June 2011 in Oil Spill

New findings about the BP Oil Spill. The chemical sprayed in the Gulf to break up the BP oil spill may not have been effective and could be damaging the ecosystem more than the oil alone, according to preliminary findings by University of West Florida researchers. When mixed with oil, Corexit, the ...

Wide-Ranging Oil Spill Scenarios

Posted by EarthDude on Tuesday, 26 April 2011 in Oil Spill

After millions of gallons of oil spilled and billions of dollars spent, Mark Cohen figures the United States is ready to handle a spill like the deepwater blowout that fouled the Gulf of Mexico a year ago. But it's probably not prepared for the one that happened in 1979. Ixtoc was a nine-month spi...

Has BP really cleaned up the Gulf oil spill?

Posted by Wolf on Wednesday, 20 April 2011 in Oil Spill

There are few people who can claim direct knowledge of the ocean floor, at least before the invention of the spill-cam, last year's strangely compulsive live feed of the oil billowing out of BP's blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. But for Samantha Joye it was familiar terrain. The intersection of...

Drilling in the Gulf

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 08 April 2011 in Oil Spill

Federal regulators on Friday gave Statoil permission to drill a deep-water well - the 10th project approved since such work was halted after last year's Gulf spill. Under the permit, Statoil will be allowed to drill a new well in 7,813 feet of water in its Logan prospect, 219 miles off the Louisian...

Day of Direct Action Against Extraction: April 20th

Posted by ep-admin on Tuesday, 08 February 2011 in Oil Spill

Take Action for the Earth and our Communities April 20.1 year anniversary of the BP Oil Spill The BP oil spill was unfortunately just one of an endless string of disasters born of an economic system that must endlessly consume the Earth’s resources.Extraction is the act of taking without givi...

How The National Commision Let BP Get Away?

Posted by plantitfilm on Wednesday, 19 January 2011 in Oil Spill

What failures of the BP board of directors and its senior management led to the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? Although the recent report of the National Commission on the catastrophe (http://www.oilspillcommission.gov/) purports to provide "thorough analysis and impa...

Christmas in the Gulf is a Mixed Bag.

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 24 December 2010 in Oil Spill

Christmas in the Gulf is a Mixed Bag. For many people along the Gulf Coast, there won't be much holiday cheer this Christmas. It's been more than five months since the well was finally capped after spewing millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf. Many shrimpers and oystermen are catch...

BP Oil Spill Commission Staff: "Production Trumped Safety"

Posted by ep-admin on Friday, 10 December 2010 in Oil Spill

The staff of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling said today that “production trumped safety” at the ill-fated Macondo well and that public oversight was hamstrung by "political and industry pressure.” In response, Peter Lehner, executive director of th...