You’ll never believe what federal drilling rig inspectors told President Obama’s oil spill commission? Try this from the commission co-chair: “When we asked about cementing and centralizers, they said very freely, ‘We don’t know about that stuff; we have to trust the companies,'” William Reilly said. “All they get is on-the-job training. It really is...
NEW TEST RESULTS: 8 out of 8 Blood Samples from BP Cleanup Workers Test Positive For Toxic Chemicals Found in BP Oil
Talk about “making it right” is cheap: If you want to know BP’s real priorities, look at where the oil giant spends its money. A hundred million plus for its own PR spin, then millions more for state-based PR to placate local officials…but when it comes to things like health care for local workers and coastal indigents – many of whom were doing fine until BP destroyed...
Drilling returning to Gulf
With the post-Deepwater Horizon drilling moratorium lifted, new offshore drilling is slowly returning to the Gulf of Mexico at a pace that is expected to gain speed in the near future.
Shetland drilling could trigger spill worse than BP’s
Chevron has admitted its new deepwater drilling campaign off the Shetland Islands could cause an oil spill worse than BP’s accident in the Gulf of Mexico.
Drilling rig inspectors had vast gaps in knowledge, oil spill panel finds
Members of President Barack Obama’s Oil Spill Commission said this week that they were shocked to learn during their months of investigation that federal drilling rig inspectors generally know little or nothing about the process of safely lining and sealing an offshore oil well.
‘The Spill’: Tracing BP’s safety record
Not long after the explosion that resulted in one of the largest oil spills in history in the Gulf of Mexico this spring, the culprit, BP, committed public-relations gaffes, the most disturbingly memorable of which involved the company’s chief executive at the time, Tony Hayward, proclaiming, “I’d like my life back.”
3-D version of Gulf oil spill is being crafted by Pixar Animation Studios (PHOTOS)
The Oil Spill Commission will unveil on Nov. 8 a three-dimensional, computerized depiction by Pixar Animation Studios of how BP’s Macondo oil well failed on April 20, resulting in explosions that killed 11 workers and led to the nation’s worst-ever oil spill, the commission’s co-chairmen said Monday.
New BP CEO Bob Dudley Blusters About “Rush to Judgment” by Media and Others; U.S. Rep. Ed Markey Blasts Back Saying “BP” Stands for “Blame Passed”
It seems BP has another winner in its new chief executive, Bob Dudley, who is blaming news reports and competitive oil companies for a “rush to judgment” – which he claims made the disaster worse. In a telling story run by Yahoo News, Mr. Dudley says: “I watched graphic projections of oil swirling around the gulf, around Florida, across and around Bermuda to England – these...
Former EPA regional administrator named director of Gulf ecosystem task force
John H. Hankinson Jr. was named executive director of the new Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Task Force by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson.
Six Months After the Spill, Oil and Money in the Gulf
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