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Gulf Oil Spill: BP Report Spreads the Blame Around
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyBP's internal investigation of the gulf oil disaster blames "multiple companies and work teams" for the April 20 explosion that triggered the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S history, CNN reports. Though the report, released Wednesday morning, did not identify "any single action or inaction that caused this accident," it did point a finger at rig owner Transocean, noting: "Over a 40-minute period, the Transocean rig crew failed to recognize and act on the influx of hydrocarbons into the well until the hydrocarbons were in the riser and rapidly flowing to the surface." Those ...
Another Oil Platform Blast in Gulf: No Injuries, No Leaking
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyAn apparent explosion at an offshore oil operation hit the Gulf of Mexico Thursday as a platform caught fire about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. But this time there were no fatalities and no sign of oil in the ocean waters. All 13 crew members aboard the platform were rescued after they jumped into the water. The burning platform, owned by Mariner Energy of Houston, was spotted Thursday morning by a commercial helicopter, west of the site of the April explosion that wrecked the DeepWater Horizon and killed 11 of its crew members. The Coast Guard said the 13 crewmen on the Mariner's ...
Bill Clinton: Consider Blowing Up Deepwater Horizon Well
By Michelle Ruiz - AOL News(June 29) -- Former President Bill Clinton suggests that blowing up BP's gushing oil well may be necessary to stanch the leak in the Gulf of Mexico. "Unless we send the Navy down deep to blow up the well and cover the leak with piles and piles and piles of rock and debris, which may become necessary ... we are dependent on the technical expertise of these people from BP," Clinton said at a panel discussion in South Africa hosted by CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer. "You don't have to use a nuclear weapon, by the way," Clinton added. Visiting South Africa for the World Cup, Clinton said blowing up ...
Oil Spill May Spread Up Atlantic Coast This Summer, Says New Computer Model
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyBP oil may soon be coming to a beach near you. A computer modeling study released today by the National Center for Atmospheric Research shows crude from the Gulf oil spill could reach the open Atlantic Ocean -- and then thousands of miles of Atlantic coastline -- later this summer. "I've had a lot of people ask me, 'Will the oil reach Florida?'" NCAR scientist Synte Peacock said. "Actually, our best knowledge says the scope of this environmental disaster is likely to reach far beyond Florida, with impacts that have yet to be understood." The computer simulations show that once the oil ...
Offshore Drilling Projects Move Forward Despite Moratorium
By David Sessions - Politics DailyGovernment regulators have granted seven permits for various types of drilling and five environmental waivers since President Obama announced a moratorium on offshore drilling projects, the New York Times reports. On May 14, in response to the massive oil spill at a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico, Obama announced a halt to new deepwater drilling projects and the end of the full waiver of environmental review BP received for its Deepwater Horizon rig. Since the well exploded on April 20, the Department of the Interior has granted 19 environmental waivers for gulf drilling projects and 17 ...
Gulf Oil Spill: Cancellations and Worry Along the Coast
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyNEW ORLEANS -- Bearing out many peoples' worst fears during a month of heightening anxiety, thick oil is now coming ashore on stretches of Louisiana's gulf coast, especially the barrier islands. In some cases, the toxic sludge has also entered the inner salt marshes that nurture so much of the Bayou State's marine life, and thus its seafood industry. Patches of oil can be found from the Louisiana's eastward Chandeleur Islands, due south of Biloxi, Miss., to Marsh Island, due south of Lafayette, La. (Both sites are National Wildlife Refuges.) Measured in a relatively straight line along ...
Oil Spill: White House on Defense as Management Criticism Mounts
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyOne month after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion, as hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil continue to flood into the Gulf of Mexico, the situation just keeps getting messier. This week, the Obama administration came under fire for its handling of what some have posited may be one of the worst environmental disasters in the modern era. In congressional testimony on Wednesday, leading scientists criticized the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for "failing to conduct adequate scientific analysis of the spill and allowing BP to obscure the spill's true scope." At ...
U.S. and Cuba Hold Talks on Gulf Oil Spill
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyThe United States and Cuba are holding rare "working level" talks to discuss the response to the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The talks reflect concern that currents could carry the slick as far as the Florida Keys and the beaches along Cuba's northern coast. "It is incumbent upon us to inform all of our neighbors, not just the islands, but those countries that could be affected by disasters that happen within our territorial waters," State Department Spokesman Gordon Duguid told reporters Wednesday. Duguid said U.S. diplomats have informed the Cuban government about the ...
Workers in the Gulf Succeed in Effort to Funnel Some Oil to Tanker
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyWorkers struggling to contain the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill succeeded Sunday in connecting a mile-long tube to the gushing deepwater well and were funneling the escaping crude to a tanker on the surface, according to the Associated Press. While the tube is extracting only some of the oil and gas, BP, which was leasing the oil rig that drilled the well, called it an "important step" in reducing the amount of oil spreading in the Gulf. It was a rare bit of good news in the weeks-long effort to contain the spill, especially coming a day after scientists said they had detected huge ...
Oil Spill: New Attempt to Plug Well With Tube Under Way
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyA mile-long tube was being put in place Saturday as BP sought to siphon oil from a broken underwater pipeline in the latest attempt to stop the flow of oil fouling the water of the Gulf of Mexico and threatening wildlife, fisheries and beaches. The oil company had to pull the siphon tube back up Friday night and readjust its connection to a tanker that will collect the oil at the surface if the fix works, the Associated Press said. The tube was then sent back down to be inserted in the pipeline by robotic submarines in the hope that oil can be sucked up through it like a straw. Even if it ...
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