Oil seeping from Gulf floor near well, but Coast Guard allows cap to stay in...
Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune, July 18, 2010Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen on Sunday evening agreed to allow a cap to continue to block the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead,...
View ArticleOil Rig’s Siren Was Kept Silent, Technician Says
By ROBBIE BROWN, New York Times, July 23, 2010KENNER, La. — The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon was not fully activated the day the oil rig caught fire and exploded, killing 11 people and...
View ArticleOil companies' gulf spill history is a dirty secret
St. Petersburg Times, July 26, 2010The oil and gas industry's offshore safety and environmental record in the Gulf of Mexico has become a key point of debate over future drilling, but that record has...
View ArticleMitigate That! - Tankers in Douglas Channel
Pipe Dreams, CBC TV News, July 20, 2010Most news gets stale with time, but this one gets better. Listen to Enbridge's John Carruthers blather on about Enbridge's "learnings" in Wisconsin where it had...
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Oil spill in Michigan's Kalamazoo River has echoes of Gulf of Mexico disaster
By Kari Lydersen and David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post, August 6, 2010MARSHALL, MICH. -- In the Summer of the Spill, history is already repeating itself, this time in Michigan.Highlight: 2 read more
View ArticleOil from BP spill moved faster than expected through Gulf's food web, study
Seth Borenstein, Washington— The Associated Press, Nov. 12, 2010Scientists say they have for the first time tracked how certain nontoxic elements of oil from the BP spill quickly became dinner for...
View ArticleFeds sue BP, other companies over oil spill
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY, Houston Chronicle, Dec. 16, 2010Fines of up to $4,300 a barrel, cleanup costs, other damages soughtWASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Wednesday sued BP and eight other...
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Deep Water - The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling
Report to the President, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, January 2011read more
View ArticleBP Covered Up Blow-out Two Years Prior to Deadly Deepwater Horizon Spill
Greg Palast, Eco Watch, 20 Apr 2012Two years before the Deepwater Horizon blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP off-shore rig suffered a nearly identical blow-out, but BP concealed the first one...
View ArticleGulf oil spill: Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying evidence
Reuters, Guardian.uk, July 26 2013Contractor to plead guilty over deleted computer simulations testing methods used to cement Deepwater Horizon wellHalliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying...
View ArticleMore massive tar mats from BP oil spill discovered on Louisiana beaches
Bob Marshall, The Lens (New Orleans), Dec 18, 2013The 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster was just a month old and BP’s crude oil was still gushing from the Gulf floor when state officials began to grasp...
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