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Louisiana officials accuse BP of abandoning and covering up oil spill
Louisiana state and Plaquemines Parish officials took journalists on a tour of Barataria Bay last week to showcase how oily sludge from BP’s Gulf spill is being covered up and neglected in this and other ecologically sensitive areas of the
Second oil rig explosion in the Gulf underscores danger of drilling
A Gulf Coast still reeling from the April 20 Deepwater Horizon drilling platform explosion, which killed 11 workers and dumped thousands of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for months, braced for another round this morning when reports
Oil rig explosion in Gulf of Mexico
Update #2 (9/02/2010 @ 4:45pm) – Coast Guard Petty Officer Elizabeth Bordelon said there is a sheen on the water at the site of the platform, measuring about 100 feet wide and stretching for one mile. Jindal said the
Oil rig employee testifies to disabled alarm system; workers not warned
At a joint hearing of the Coast Guard and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management today, a Transocean employee who narrowly escaped the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion on April 20, testified a critical alarm system that would have alerted workers to
BP stops the oil completely, waits to see if cap and well will hold
BP announced today that its new cap over the well in the Gulf of Mexico has killed the flow of oil for the first time since April. The company has been gradually closing the vents on the new cap since
BP could remove containment cap tomorrow, take days to replace
At a press conference held today in New Orleans, Ret. Coast Guard Admiral Ted Allen, who is the government’s spokesperson on the Gulf oil spill crisis, said BP may begin the process of replacing the leaky containment cap on its
Oil spill cleanup technology lags dangerously behind
BP and other giant oil corporations have invested billions of dollars to develop means of drilling deeper and farther out to sea, yet they have invested relatively no money in developing effective deep-sea oil cleanup and response methods. Every year,
BP preparing for deep, remote arctic drilling
With all eyes fixated on the oil crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, BP is stealthily moving toward what could easily be this country’s (and the world’s) next environmental catastrophe: Deep-sea drilling in remote reaches of the Arctic. But will
BP developed precise oil flow measuring technology years ago
Kate Sheppard, a Washington-based journalist who covers energy and environmental politics in Mother Jones’ Washington bureau, recently came across an August 2008 article in BP’s magazine Frontiers in which the company boasts of its cutting-edge technological abilities to measure oil
