Though some of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon has now disappeared, scientists are trying to figure out what the remaining oil is doing to marine life. A damage assessment for a place the size of the Gulf is a huge and complicated job, but out of sight does not mean out of mind. … Read ahead
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Beyond Petroleum”) Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion on April 20. It’s the largest marine oil spill ever in the petroleum industry. Environmental scientists are still assessing the long-term damage that will affect wildlife in the area. “The Phoenix Zoo is proud to be a small part of the effort to save and rescue animals affected by the oil spill,” says Dan Subaitis, Director of Animal Management for the Phoenix Zoo in an official release. A video of the pelicans hanging out in quarantine was just released by the Phoenix Zoo. Check it out … Read ahead
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SunPower, a manufacturer of solar cells and panels, has completed 505kW solar power installation for Horizon Power, a government-owned utility providing power to remote and regional communities and resource operations in Western Australia. … Read ahead
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In an interim report, the Deepwater Horizon Study Group is offering safety measures that could quickly make drilling safer while allowing some rigs to resume operations. The measures would increase oversight of wells, especially those with troubled safety records. They also would improve safety industrywide, especially in blowout preventers, inspection procedures and worker training. … Read ahead
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In the first few days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon wellhead exploded, spewing crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, cleanup workers could be seen on Louisiana beaches wearing scarlet pants and white t-shirts with the words “Inmate Labor” printed in large red block letters. Coastal residents, many of whom had just seen their livelihoods disappear, expressed outrage at community meetings; why should BP be using cheap or free prison labor when so many people were desperate for work? The outfits disappeared overnight. … Read ahead
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St. Petersburg, Fla. – Through a chemical fingerprinting process, University of South Florida researchers have definitively linked clouds of underwater oil in the northern Gulf of Mexico to BP’s runaway Deepwater Horizon well — the first direct … Read ahead
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CJ Warner was at the top of her game when she saw the writing on the wall. Twenty years into a glass-ceiling-busting career at BP, she had risen to the rank of Head of Global Refining for BP, making her one of the highest ranking executives in the oil industry. That was when she realized that she was running towards a dead end. “I had a slow but growing realization that the industry was maturing, the current fields were falling off in volume more quickly than anticipated, and the feats required to find new oil were becoming more and more heroic.” Prophetic words perhaps for someone who left BP a year before the Deepwater Horizon disaster, but she wasn’t so much running away from something bad as she was running towards something better. … Read ahead
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The undersea cloud of “highly toxic” oil emanating from BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster “is undoubtedly poisonous,” according to President Obama’s federal oceans chief. Marine scientist Dr. Jane Lubchenco, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) director, described the … Read ahead
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But those are just some of the words being used as everyone from journalists to scientists struggle to describe the different forms the oil is taking as it floats about in the Gulf of Mexico after rising to the surface from the Deepwater Horizon site. Here are some of the top terms being used so far, as compiled by the mousse paddy-wading staffs of the Press-Register and the Mississippi Press: Orange mousse: As appetizing as this may sound, it generally refers to weathered batches of oil that have been whipped into a gooey froth. No word yet what they actually might taste like. Emulsified oil: This is what a more formal person might call the mousse. Also see: weathered oil. Spill: This is that nice, big umbrella term for the oil leak, as if a coffee cup tipped over (reminiscent of the … Read ahead
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TALLAHASSEE — In the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP publicly touted its expert oil clean-up response, but it quietly girded for a legal fight that could soon embroil hundreds of attorneys, span five states and last more than a decade. BP swiftly signed up experts who otherwise would work for plaintiffs. It shopped for top-notch legal teams. It presented volunteers, fishermen and potential workers with waivers, hoping they would sign away some of their right to sue. Recently, BP announced it would create a $20 billion victim-assistance fund, which could reduce court challenges. … Read ahead
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