oil spill
These solutions are perfect (if I don’t say so myself)! They hold the main guilty parties responsible for cleaning up the mess: BP, Halliburton, Transocean, Rush and us… Read the rest.
We all know that the recent Gulf oil spill was bad… really bad. But here’s a new perspective on it; This image was taken nearly a month after the explosion of the Transocean oil rig Deepwater Horizon … Read the rest(which occurred, ironically, on Earth Day). It was also taken from space (by
BP is currently dumping enormous amounts of potentially toxic dispersants on the growing oil spill. The dispersants (chock full of undisclosed ingredients) are surfactants that break oil down into small droplets that sink into the water.
Dirtying it down is not cleaning it up!… Read the rest
You’ve all heard the news: The human and environmental disaster that occurred on April 20 after the Deepwater Horizon caught fire and sank continues to make headlines as the oil spill spreads from the Gulf of Mexico to the coastline. While the President and his administration focus on the political… Read the rest
After reading Sami’s post on Monday about the Chinese freighter that crashed into the Australian Barrier Reef spilling coal and oil, I got to daydreaming about my kids’ future and the news they’re bound to hear about solar and wind spills. I can’t wait until this is our problem…… Read the rest
Oil spills, obviously, are never good news for the ocean or its wildlife. Unfortunately, they happen… a little more frequently than they should. This weekend, a Chinese freighter carrying oil and coal crashed into the Australian Great Barrier Reef, otherwise known as “The King of Barrier Reefs.” As a result,… Read the rest
An 800-foot oil tanker and a small barge collided in Port Arthur, Texas yesterday, causing up to 450,000 gallons of oil to spill into the water. The Coast Guard says the spill was contained to a two mile area, and that no nearby animals were hurt, but no further details… Read the rest
Remember that oil spill off the coast of Australia? Remember how it started spilling 71 days ago? Remember how it was the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island two months ago? Remember how it’s brand-new technology? Remember how they tried to stop the spill at least four times?
Well, now… Read the rest
Oil spills take their toll, and according to the Defenders of Wildlife, the West Atlas/Montara oil rig blowout off the coast of Western Australia that happened in August is creating a “global-scale environmental catastrophe.”
From the Defenders of Wildlife:
The impacts of the nine-week West Timor oil rig blowout are … Read the rest
Remember that oil spill off the coast of Western Australia that started on August 21st?
Well… it’s still spilling.
Great coverage on this over at the SkyTruth blog. They are leveraging NASA satellite photos to track this, those are here.
A few points hit me regarding this spill.
1. No … Read the rest
