During the Exxon Valdez crisis, we were saying the same thing – we don’t know how to effectively handle an oil spill. The same holds true for BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster; meanwhile, Sarah Palin encourages drilling using her trademark slogan, “drill, baby, drill.” Video Rating: 5 / 5
www.cycle9.com . As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the gulf contributes to environmental disaster, Elise gets on her soap box about environmentalists who scream Stop Drilling! but keep driving. Go ByBike is a daily video series that talks about electric bikes, electric kits, cargo bikes, bike safety, getting motivated to bike, and how to ride more and use your car less. Using your car less reduces your carbon footprint, saves energy, helps the environment, gets you in shape, and makes your community a nicer place to live. Elise Giddings is owner of Cycle 9, a store dedicated to providing the information, products, and support needed by others to integrate bikes into their lifestyle.
Dolphin swimming at the deepwater horizon spill site
Video and Editing by Jim Webb TheWebbWorks.com – Digital Video and Audio R/V Bellows Returns from Loop Current By Vickie Chachere ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (Updated May 24, 2010) As scientific models show oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill entering the Gulf of Mexicos Loop Current, USF’s R/V Bellows and a team of scientists ended a five-day voyage to the current Monday, but still have much work to do on water samples drawn from those waters. The Bellows is the second USF ship involved in the oil spill response. The R/V Weatherbird sailed Saturday for its second trip into the spill zone, a six-day mission to determine if oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon well has pooled in the depths of the gulf. The Bellows voyage involved collecting water samples from the Loop Current to determine if oil below the gulfs surface is present in the fast-moving current that runs the length of the state of Florida. Scientists used high-tech underwater sensors to explore in depths that cannot be examined by satellite images. Scientists also were on the lookout for tar balls and deployed drifters to estimate eastward movement of the oil in the Loop Current. No visible oil was seen on the current’s surface, the scientists reported during their journey. The gulf Loop Current is about 80 to 100 miles from Floridas west coast. USF PhD students Peter Simard, who studies whales and dolphins, and Brian Barnes, an optical oceanographer who studies the coral reefs near the Florida Keys, were on board … Video Rating: 0 / 5
Following the Deepwater Horizon disaster, Clean Skies Dan Goldstein takes a look at the practice of deepwater drilling. It’s a technique the oil industry is using more and more to find oil deep under the seabed. But is the payoff from this technique worth the risk – to the environment and the sea? Video Rating: 0 / 5
www.doyleraizner.com | 888-571-1001 | Doyle Raizner LLP Wherever the investigation of the cause of the off shore oil rig explosion and sinking of Transoceans offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon points to as the ultimate causes of this particular explosion, it points to an overwhelming need for closer oversight of the companies operating offshore. Both the Mineral Management Service (MMS), the Department of Interior agency primarily responsible for leasing and overseeing hydrocarbon operations on the Continental Shelf of the United States, as well as the United States Coast Guard, need more resources to meet the challenges of better and more consistent inspections and investigations. Unfortunately, the Coast Guard is already overworked, charged not just with safeguarding our coastline but also with leading roles in the War on Terrorism and trying to get a handle on the flood of imported containers and shipping that marks modern commerce. The lawyers at Doyle Raizner LLP offer experienced legal representation on behalf of people who have been hurt or killed in offshore oil rig platform explosions. We assist victims in their families to recover benefits and other forms of compensation to which they may be entitled as a result injuries caused by explosions on offshore oil drilling platforms or units. http
Plane Sprays Dispersant Over Oil Spill Image by NWFblogs
Judge blocks Gulf offshore drilling moratorium
In a Tuesday, June 8, 2010 photo, a deepwater drilling rig operates near the site of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Read more on News Chief
Federal judge in New Orleans blocks Gulf offshore drilling moratorium
NEW ORLEANS (AP) A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday blocked a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling projects imposed in response to the massive Gulf oil spill. Read more on The Oshkosh Northwestern
Judge lifts offshore drilling ban as ‘overbearing’
A federal judge struck down the Obama administration’s six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded,… Read more on KION 46 Salinas
Far offshore, crews drill into Gulf of Mexico to stop oil
ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Fly by helicopter above the patchy wetlands along the Mississippi River Delta and past the floating boom and skimmers that have failed to protect the Gulf Coast from the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Read more on Rockford Register Star
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