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Under Mandate to Get Results, Minerals Service Led Way Into Deep Water
New York Times At a rally in Houma, La., in June, workers opposed a ban on deep-water drilling imposed after the BP oil spill in the gulf. By JASON DePARLE NEW ORLEANS … |
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Oil, Water and Videotape
Huffington Post (blog) Still, it's hard to measure the long term impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster on the Gulf of Mexico. By my second trip to the region last week there … Deepwater Horizon as global tipping point: our readers write Deepwater Horizon rig explosion came from greed: Jarvis DeBerry Scams emerge in wake of BP oil spill |
Coast Guard, BP test giant oil skimmer, hope it can scoop millions of gallons of tainted water
NEW ORLEANS – Gulf of Mexico cleanup crews working to block millions of gallons of oil from reaching land may soon have a giant on their side, if a weekend test of a new skimmer goes well.
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The town of Grand Bayou, Louisiana, has no streets and no cars, just water and boats. And now the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico threatens the very existence of the Atakapa-Ishak Indians who live there. “We’re facing the potential for cultural genocide,” says one tribe member.
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Gov’t to issue more shallow water drilling permits
An Interior Department official says the government is expected soon to issue more permits for drilling in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
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Two months after an explosion on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 people, Panorama’s Hilary Andersson tells the story of America’s ‘greatest environmental disaster.’ Dubbed an environmental ‘9/11’ by President Obama, the leak caused by the explosion is still releasing thousands of barrels of crude oil a day into the waters of the Gulf – livelihoods and ecosystems are threatened, fishermen are unable to work and billions have been wiped off the value of BP shares. Panorama examines the full consequences of the disaster amid a mounting war of words between the Obama adminstration and an embattled BP, asking what went wrong and who is really to blame. www.bbc.co.uk
Deepwater spill survey: Smoke on the water, burnt oil in the sky
Editor’s Note: A team of researchers led by John Kessler , Texas A&M College of Geosciences chief scientist and assistant oceanography professor, traveled to the Deepwater Horizon disaster area to study the methane leaking into the Gulf of Mexico (along with tens thousands of barrels of crude oil) daily at the site of the damaged Macondo 252 well. Kessler, along with David Valentine (a professor …
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