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ARCTIC DRILLING Native leaders join climate activists targeting BP’s Denver headquarters

Posted by GreenDog on Wednesday, 22 May 2019 in Climate Change

By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Native Gwich’in leaders joined climate activists in Denver, London and Aberdeen, Scotland, on Monday to demand the fossil fuels giant BP back off plans to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Trump administration officials are pushing for a ...

'Missing Oil' from 2010 BP Spill Found on Gulf Seafloor

Posted by Jrramos1337 on Friday, 06 February 2015 in Ocean/Seas/Coastlines

Up to 10 million gallons (38 million liters) of crude oil from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has settled at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, where it is threatening wildlife and marine ecosystems, according to a new study. The finding helps solve the mystery of where the "missing" oil ...

Gulf Oil Spill Left Rhode Island-Sized Oily 'Bathtub Ring' On Seafloor, Study Finds

Posted by Jrramos1337 on Thursday, 06 November 2014 in Oil Spill

The BP oil spill left an oily "bathub ring" on the sea floor that's about the size of Rhode Island, new research shows. The study by David Valentine, the chief scientist on the federal damage assessment research ships, estimates that about 10 million gallons of oil coagulated on the floor of the Gu...

Dolphins in Bad shape after BP oil spill

Posted by Wolf on Sunday, 02 February 2014 in Earth Violators

Bottlenose dolphins with missing teeth, lung disease, and abnormal hormone levels were found swimming in the Gulf of Mexico a year after the BP oil spill, US researchers say. Pneumonia, liver disease and a pregnant female carrying a dead foetus were also reported in the first major study of dolphin...

Some NGOs ‘sell out’ to corporate money

Posted by thatsenough on Saturday, 24 August 2013 in General Environment

hold back on environmental campaigning. Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is “very excited” about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. “They’ve made such a difference,” Miller told The Toronto Star, “and to be part of an organiz...

BP to Improve Spill Response Preparedness

Posted by henryfool on Friday, 28 September 2012 in Oil Spill

BP Products North America, Inc. will pay a $210,000 penalty and implement an enhanced oil spill response program at its oil terminals nationwide, as well as a comprehensive compliance audit to resolve alleged violations of oil spill response regulations at its Curtis Bay Terminal in Maryland, the U....

No Eureka! BP oil found on Louisiana coast post Isaac? Area closed

Posted by lillianbarbeito on Tuesday, 04 September 2012 in Oil Spill

by Bayoubuzz StaffOne of the big concerns post BP oil spill has been the existence of large oil concentrations spilling upon the Louisiana coast land after a major storm such as Isaac. That concerned just might be realized as oil remnants have been found on certain parts of the Loui...

Trout Problem the Result of Oil Spill

Posted by amir on Monday, 20 August 2012 in Oil Spill

As BP's oil approached the coast in 2010, many marina operators and fishing guides who had been wiped out by Hurricane Katrina found themselves looking back at that disaster with something akin to longing. Experience had taught them that although hurricanes could beat them down, at least they left ...

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 ...

Green future for algae bio-fuel

Posted by plantitfilm on Thursday, 28 June 2012 in Biofuels

The clear sunny days and ready access to water offered by Karratha in Western Australia make it an ideal place to grow algae, it's such a good spot that Aurora Algae has just tripled the amount of money it wants to spend on a commercial algae bio-diesel plant in the town. The company announced a $1...

Big Oil's Big in Biofuels

Posted by bchristo on Friday, 25 May 2012 in Biofuels

BP (BP) has invested $7 billion in alternative energy since 2005. ExxonMobil (XOM) is spending $600 million on a 10-year effort to turn algae into oil. And Royal Dutch Shell (RDS/A) has invested billions of dollars in a Brazilian biofuels venture, buyin...

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, ...

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 ...

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...

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...