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Two Oil Spills, Two Government Responses: Lessons From the BP and Exxon Valdez Disasters
By Catherine Ngai - Politics DailyA little after midnight on May 24, 1989, the Exxon Valdez struck a reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of crude oil spilled from the 978-foot oil tanker, wreaking devastation on wildlife and residents along 350 miles of shoreline. More than two decades later, an offshore oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers and injured 17 others. Thousands of jobs were lost as oil leaked for months; the environmental impact was massive and is still being assessed. The BP spill escalated public distrust of the oil industry and the government, which was ...
BP Experts: Everything You Know About Oil Spill Is Wrong
By Selena Ross - AOL News(Aug. 1) -- With engineers ever closer to finally stopping the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some experts who have been hired by BP as response consultants shared with AOL News their view from the inside and discussed what they see as several misconceptions about the oil spill and the cleanup technology. Alan A. Allen is a field supervisor with over 40 years experience in controlled burning, skimming and other types of mechanical cleanup. He has worked on numerous other oil spills, including the Ixtoc blowout off Mexico and the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Alun Lewis is a ...
Full Scope of Legal Action Against BP Starts to Emerge
By Laura Parker - AOL News(July 23) -- The fast-growing stack of lawsuits filed against BP over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill will likely soon be consolidated before a single federal judge. The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation will convene Thursday in Boise, Idaho, to hear arguments to combine the suits and avoid the legal chaos that could engulf what promises to be one of the biggest civil suits since the 19-year, $250 billion court fight over asbestos. Attorneys for both sides favor the consolidation, although they disagree on which federal court and judge should get the case. BP and its partners ...
Gulf Oil Spill Update: Flow Rate Could be Double Previous Estimates
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHow high will it go? Government appointed teams have once again raised official estimates of just how much oil is spewing forth from the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. In what has become an all-too-common act of revision, the new staggering amount of oil believed to be pouring into the gulf each and every day is anywhere between 25,000 and 30,000 barrels. The precise amount of leaking oil is a matter of debate among the Department of the Interior's Flow Rate Group, however, with low estimates closer to 20,000 barrels per day and higher ones hitting 40,000 barrels. ...
Sarah Palin Implicates Environmentalists For BP Oil Spill on Facebook
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIf "extreme environmentalists" were not successful in prohibiting land based oil drilling in the United States, then companies like BP would not have to resort to looking for oil in the deep oceans. It's an argument that's been made recently by the likes of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. And now, the same "blame-environmentalists-for-the-Gulf-oil-spill" conclusion is the one that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is pushing on her Facebook page. This afternoon, Ms. Palin lashed out at those who seek to protect the environment from the evils of oil drilling in a post titled, ...
It's Official: BP Gulf Oil Spill Worse Than Exxon Valdez
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyThe latest word from scientists analyzing on the BP Gulf oil spill is not good: According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the spill size has vastly exceeded that of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, setting a new record for the worst of its kind in U.S. history, reports the Associated Press. The new estimate puts the spill amount at 19 - 39 million gallons of crude, significantly eclipsing the 11 million that poured into Prince William Sound when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck a reef there. It is also far, far greater the previous (and now clearly low ball) estimate of 3.9 million made ...
GOP Blocks Bill to Raise Oil Companies' Liability to $10 Billion
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyRepublican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska objected Thursday when a group of Democrats tried to pass a bill to increase oil companies' liability after an oil spill from $75 million to $10 billion. With Murkowski's objection to the bill, the measure is stalled for now. Murkowski, the top Republican on the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, told the three Democrats that she shares their empathy for Gulf Coast residents who are suffering from the effects of the British Petroleum spill, especially because her own state struggled to recover from the devastating results of the Exxon ...
Charting the World's Worst Oil Spills
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(April 28) -- The crude that's pouring into the Gulf of Mexico from last week's rig explosion off Louisiana has the potential to cause widespread environmental damage, but it's a far cry from the world's worst oil spills. These disasters are usually the result of accidents involving tankers or oil platforms. However, the biggest oil spill in history was deliberate. Iraqi troops sabotaged an offshore terminal and several tankers as they fled Kuwait in January 1991. An estimated 380 million to 520 million gallons of oil was released in the Persian Gulf (shown in red on the chart below). The ...
Drilling Fever
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWith the price of gasoline topping $5 a gallon in some parts of the country, America suddenly finds itself gripped by what might be called "drilling fever." Yesterday, the president reversed his father's executive ban on exploratory drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, and urged Congress to ditch the legislative restrictions that have kept the oil rigs within a limited parameter off our coasts. Here in Florida, a state often mentioned as a prime candidate for future drilling, the idea of drilling is a hot topic in Republican circles. Two nights ago, I listened in on a telephone "town hall" ...
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