I thought somebody was outside, cleaning outside my room or something, so I just went back to sleep. And then I heard an explosion, but I didn’t know it was an explosion, I just heard a loud boom.” – Christopher Choy, Deepwater Horizon rig worker On the night of April 20th the Deepwater Horizon oil […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dawn soap works best for cleaning birds–who knew?” ~ Brian Merchant, treehugger.com Obama’s oil slick is spreading while BP execs come up with ridiculous ideas and oil gushes at a rate now being estimated by some scientists as 70,000 barrels of oil a day. The cleanup is going to be extensive though a lot of […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I wouldn’t say it has failed yet. What I would say is what we attempted to do last night didn’t work.~Doug Suttles the operating officer for exploration and production for BP in reference to the containment dome I’ve been busy lately and even temporarily derailed by a fallen tree on my electricity and internet wires […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Fresh off the success of their recent protest on Wall Street and some well funded campaigns, MoveOn.org has released this video regarding the President Obama’s response to the Gulf oil spill. Off shore oil drilling is still on the table for the president but in this powerpoint styled video that picture of the dead fish […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The lesson for Florida’s legislative leaders is that it’s not a matter of ‘whether’ there will be another accident or spill but ‘when,’ … If Tuesday’s oil rig accident happened in the same exact manner, within 3 to 10 miles of our coast, it’s very likely that we’d have pictures of oil soaked coastlines splashed […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Note: This post was written before the coal mine explosion in West Virginia. 25 coal miners have died after a huge explosion at a Massey Energy mine in Raleigh County in the worst mining disaster in the US in over 25 years. Read more about that at democracynow.org The African American Environmentalist Association was asked […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Years ago Alaska “belonged” to Russia then the United States “bought” it from Russia for $7.2 million on this day, March 30, in 1867. Initially the purchase wasn’t received well. Critics of President Andrew Johnson’s Secretary of State William H. Seward called the largely unexplored territory “Seward’s folly,” “Seward’s icebox,” and Andrew Johnson’s “polar bear […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Photo Credit: AP Photo On this day in 1989 the oil tanker Exxon Valdez spilled over 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound, Alaska. I’ve seen varying estimates of how much oil was spilled, but I have read most estimates are low balled and I wouldn’t be surprised if they were. I know […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
PHOTO CREDIT: Getty Images, NAKHODKA, RUSSIA – DECEMBER 28: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attends the opening ceremony of Transneft’s newly built oil-loading port of Kozmino December 28, 2009 near Nakhodka, Russia. Putin is on a two-day trip to the Russian Far East region of Primorsky Krai. Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken part […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
