December 2010
16 posts
Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours
By DAVID BARSTOW, DAVID ROHDE and STEPHANIE SAUL ~ Published: December 25, 2010~ The New York Times
The worst of the explosions gutted the Deepwater Horizon stem to stern.
Crew members were cut down by shrapnel, hurled across rooms and buried under smoking wreckage. Some were swallowed by fireballs that raced through the oil rig’s shattered interior. Dazed and battered survivors, half-naked and...
How the Rig Crew Responded to the Blowout Video... →
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This link contains video and diagram showing the final moments of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig.
After Oil Spill Crisis, a Protector Keeps Watch
by Dan Berry ~ The New York Times; Dec. 20, 2010
A daughter of Plaquemines Parish, her camouflage outfit the color of the forest, checks the oil. She checks the steering, the coolant, the gas. She makes sure that everything is tied down or stored away, so that nothing loose will fly into the fanlike propeller at the rear of her airboat. “Maintenance,” she says. “Maintenance.” Then off she...
What do you think of Louisiana's effort to build...
Dec. 17, 2010 nola.com by Times-Picayune The National Oil Spill Commission reported Thursday that Louisiana’s sand berms, built to capture oil from the BP Mocando well, were not effective and the plan was only approved due to political pressure. State and local officials, including Gov. Bobby Jindal and Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, criticized the report, noting that the plan...
Not enough oil left in offshore, deepwater Gulf to...
December 17, 2010 by Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune There’s just not enough recoverable oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout left in most offshore and deepwater areas to warrant additional cleanup operations, National Incident Commander Rear Adm. Paul Zukunft announced Friday. Cleanup operations remain under way along shorelines and in wetland areas in Louisiana, Mississippi,...
Sand islands off Louisiana stopped little oil in...
By David A. Fahrenthold ~ Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 16, 2010; 3:00 PM One of the most controversial tactics used against this summer’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill - the construction of large sand islands off the Louisiana coast - managed to stop only a “minuscule” amount of oil, according to a draft report from a presidential commission. The report, released...
Sand islands off Louisiana stopped little oil in...
By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 16, 2010; 3:00 PM One of the most controversial tactics used against this summer’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill - the construction of large sand islands off the Louisiana coast - managed to stop only a “minuscule” amount of oil, according to a draft report from a presidential commission. The report, released...
Louisiana berms ineffective in capturing oil, new...
By Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune Dec. 16, 2010 Louisiana’s $360 million plan to build sand berms along barrier islands to capture oil from the BP Macondo well was not effective and was approved in large part because of the political pressure from both Louisiana elected officials and President Barack Obama, concludes a new staff working paper of the National Oil Spill Commission....
Vietnamese-American fishers fight for oil spill...
By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch, The Times-Picayune Dec. 15, 2010 For decades the Vietnamese-American fishing community in southeast Louisiana has used fish, shrimp, oysters and crab to feed the community and as currency to barter for other goods and produce. It is a story common to the fishing culture throughout the Gulf Coast, with anglers, trawlers and trappers often distributing portions of their...
Federal government sues BP, other companies in...
by The Associated Press ~ nola.com The Justice Department has sued BP Exploration and Production Inc. and eight other companies in the Gulf oil spill disaster in an effort to recover billions of dollars from the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The Obama administration’s lawsuit asks that eight companies be held liable without limitation for all removal costs and damages caused by...
On Precaution
readersupportednews.org by Naomi Klein~ 12/08/2010 Naomi gave this following talk at the first-ever TEDWomen conference on December 8, 2010, in Washington, DC. A few of the slides that accompanied the talk, are included here.
I just did something I’ve never done before. I spent a week at sea on a research vessel. I’m not a scientist but I was accompanying a remarkable scientific team from the...
Gulf Oil Disaster Sampling Project Update
from LEAN: Louisiana Environmental Action Network
We have all had frustrations with the response to the recent Gulf oil disaster. One such frustration that we at Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper felt early on was the lack of solid data about the impacts from the disaster. This frustration prompted us to begin an environmental sampling project. LEAN/LMRK technical advisor, award winning chemist Wilma...
Federal guidelines for Gulf seafood safety...
by Bob Marshall, The Times Picayune Wednesday, December 08, 2010, 8:40 PM Louisiana residents have long bragged about their prodigious consumption of local seafood, but a survey by an environmental group suggests that government seafood testing programs in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill severely underestimated that rapacious appetite for fish — and may have underestimated...
Oil Prevention Alliance Formed
LEAN: Louisiana Environmental Action Network & Lower Oil Spill Prevention Alliance
Dec. 8, 2010
Purpose & Direction Create an effective collaborative structure for a quicker response in the evaluation, representation, and implementation of ideas and technologies. Such an organization will empower people worldwide to help clean up present and future oil spills. Core Message By using a...
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Consumer...
DATE: Friday, December 17, 2010 TIME: 9:00 a.m. PLACE: Committee Room E PURPOSE: Status update of the state’s sand berms project in response to the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. Review of Office of Community Development Disaster Recovery Unit Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. Presentation from the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries regarding the effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak on...
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