Oil Keeps Coming
When I blogged about the listing oil rig off of Louisiana, I stated that according to ABC News the rig had not hit oil yet. But as the area continued to leak some 42,000 gallons a day everyone...
View ArticleWildlife Refuges in Delta Threatened by More Oil
Not long ago I blogged about an oil leak from a pipe into the Delta Wildlife Refuge that didn’t make the news much. Now the oil slick from the oil rig explosion is heading for the same delta area...
View ArticleFish, Shrimp, Crab, and a Host of Other Critters Threatened in Gulf
The Gulf of Mexico is one of the world’s biggest seafood grounds. Like your fish, shrimp, and crab with oil? The first of the oil slick is reaching the Delta refuge today after fisherman attempted to...
View ArticleBlame for Oil Spill Continues to be a Mix
Petro giant BP didn’t file a plan to specifically handle a major oil spill from an uncontrolled blowout at its Deepwater Horizon project. We know that from my last blog. The whole investigation is...
View ArticleOffshore Drilling Continues; 27 New Drilling Projects Approved w/o...
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, Minerals Management Service (MMS) “continues to exempt dangerous new drilling operations from environmental review. Since the BP oil-rig explosion on...
View ArticleScandals at Dept. of Interior Past and Still Present
My husband is usually pretty up on news. He reads all the different papers at work during break. When I ask him if he heard about just about anything, he usually has. So I was a little surprised...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia to the Rescue for Gulf Oil Leak?
I read articles that hundreds upon hundreds of suggestions for solving the oil leak dilemma have deluged BP from all over, but BP has of yet to try any of them. Today I heard an interesting idea from...
View ArticleDay 85 and Maybe, Just Maybe the Oil Leak is Over
BP’s robots finally managed to cap the oil leak but all is not finished. It’s temporary as BP continues to do tests as to whether the cap will indeed hold. It took 3 days around the clock for the...
View ArticleWeather Wake Up Call for U.S. as Congress Keeps Pushing for More Fossil Fuel...
I know I’m not the only one linking greenhouse gas emissions to global climate change to all the horrendously bad weather pummeling the U.S. lately. The east coast is still without power from Hurricane...
View ArticleHigh Gas Prices Result of Huge U.S. Oil/Gas Exports; New Drilling/Pipelines...
U.S. oil and gas exports are at their highest in 62 years! http://sfgate.bloomberg.com/SFChronicle/ Story?docId=1376-M03ZSG0YHQ0X01-5JR0G692MBGTE60AIHP5SP9EJ8. Demand for oil/gas from foreign...
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