Category Archives: Containment Efforts
BP’s renewed denials of our allegation that oil is rising from its Macondo Well are withering under damning new evidence. With all eyes once again on the site that launched the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, experts from LSU to UC Berkeley are weighing in on what is quickly becoming a brutal reality for BP, our federal government and, tragically, the beleaguered people of the Gulf Coast. Prompted by [...]
Read More »If there was ever any doubt that BP’s “cleanup” would be a monumental failure, we now have the scientific data to prove our allegations and to support our calls for additional cleanup efforts. In late March 2011, Paul Orr and his team from the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper conducted a 50-mile boat patrol and sampling tour of Breton Sound, which lies just off the southeast coast of Louisiana. The excursion was [...]
Read More »For Immediate Release, April 20, 2011 Contact: Chris Pincetich, Ph.D., Sea Turtle Restoration Project, (415) 663-8590 x102, cell (530) 220-3687, chris@tirn.net Teri Shore, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (415) 663-8590 x104, tshore@tirn.net Todd Steiner, Turtle Island Restoration Network, (415) 663-8590 x103, tsteiner@tirn.net Photos of current Gulf conditions and B-roll available U.S. Earns Failing Grades for BP Oil Spill Response and Repair in Gulf of Mexico Environmental Report Card Finds Business As [...]
Read More »The state’s struggle to deal with the remains of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill can be seen in miniature in a broken stand of roseau cane in Pass a Loutre Wildlife Management Area, Wildlife & Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham said Tuesday morning. When Barham scooped up a handful of earth, what oozed from between his fingers was a mixture of soil and oil. “They made an attempt to try [...]
Read More »You can’t measure what you can’t see. For all the non-stop news coverage of the massive oil spill that fouled the Gulf of Mexico after an explosion at an offshore rig a year ago Wednesday, there is still much about the damage that’s not visible to the naked eye — at least not yet. The explosion, the flames, the glops of oil that smothered and killed not just birds but [...]
Read More »A Press-Register examination of response plans for the first deepwater drilling permits approved since the Gulf oil spill suggests companies continue to make unrealistic projections about spill-fighting abilities, and are drilling without ready access to basic spill response equipment that is required by law in Alaska and South America. In addition, a spill response plan for a newly permitted well, jointly owned by Noble Energy Inc. and BP PLC, forbids [...]
Read More »As the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill approaches next week, areas along the Gulf Coast are still plagued by “chronic re-oiling” from balls of oil and sand that wash ashore after breaking free from submerged mats of degraded oil and sediments, according to officials overseeing federal cleanup efforts. The “surface residue balls” – yet another term in an ever-expanding oil-spill lexicon that includes tarballs and oil mousse – [...]
Read More »MOBILE, AL – One week before the anniversary of the BP oil spill disaster, RestoreTheGulf.gov released data that depicts the oil spill response by the numbers. RESPONSE FACTS: 4.9 million barrels of oil discharged; 47,829 responders at peak; 9,700 vessels at peak; 6,500 government and commercial vessels; 3,200 vessels of opportunity; 3.8 million feet of hard boom deployed; 9.7 million feet of soft boom deployed; 1.8 million gallons of dispersants [...]
Read More »BP Plc, its drilling partners and 11 contractors who made or applied chemical dispersants to attack the 2010 Gulf oil spill should compensate boat owners, cleanup crews and residents injured by contact with the toxic substances, lawyers suing the firms said. Cleanup workers suffered health problems after accidentally touching or being sprayed with the dispersants, according to an amended master complaint filed in New Orleans federal court today as part [...]
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