MARY FOSTER Associated Press February 5, 2011, 8:54 a.m NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Sales of Gulf of Mexico seafood are getting a boost from the military after being hammered by last year’s BP oil spill, which left consumers fearing the water’s bounty had been tainted. Ten products including fish, shrimp, oysters, crab cakes, and packaged […]
Updated: Friday, January 07, 2011, 11:44 PM By Paul Rioux, The Times-Picayune Standing on a makeshift plywood boardwalk placed atop an oil-choked mat of dead marsh grass in Bay Jimmy, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser blasted the pace of cleanup efforts, saying the wetlands look worse than when BP’s gushing well was capped nearly six […]
By MIKE SORAGHAN of Greenwire Published: February 3, 2011 The future pace of drilling approvals in the Gulf of Mexico might be slowed less by new laws or regulations stemming from last year’s massive spill but by a decades-old law that opens the door to longer environmental reviews and litigation. Read the full article
WASHINGTON (February 1, 2011) – With BP’s announcement today that they intend to restart dividend payments to shareholders, despite losing money in 2010 and tens of billions still outstanding from their company’s spill, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) called on the company to cease their challenge of the size of the spill or cease handing […]
To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking up oil droplets, Woods Hole […]
SEA TURTLE HOMECOMING, CLASS OF 2010: A Proactive Coastal Conservation Agenda for Florida For the people who live near the Gulf of Mexico —– and, indeed, for Americans everywhere —– the catastrophic Deepwater Horizon oil spill during the summer of 2010 will be an event forever etched in our memories. It was a time of […]
Friday, January 14, 2011; 9:18 PM The Jan. 6 news story “As Arctic melts, U.S. ill-positioned to tap resources” highlighted the potential for U.S. exploitation of mineral resources at the top of the world. What it failed to point out is that sites proposed for drilling in Alaska’s Arctic Ocean are some of the most […]
PLEASE SIGN THE NEAR-SHORE OIL DRILLING BAN PETITION TODAY (PRINT AND MAIL TO THE ADDRESS INCLUDED) Petition Form IMPORTANT INFORMATION: FLORIDA’S STATE WATERS EXTEND APPROXIMATELY THREE MILES INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND 10 MILES INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. IF THE PETITION EFFORT SUCCEEDS, FLORIDIANS WILL BE ALLOWED THE CHANCE TO BAN OIL DRILLING IN […]
Commission report warns disaster ‘might well recur’ without significant reform A request by BP to set an “unusually deep cement plug” on the Gulf oil well that subsequently exploded killing 11 people was approved by the then-Minerals Management Service in just 90 minutes, according to a presidential commission report on the disaster. Read the full […]
Switchboard Natural Resources Defense Council Staff Blog Posted December 16, 2010 in Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Reviving the World’s Oceans, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places by Sarah Chasis Read the full report : Florida Keys & the Gulf Oil Disaster: Stories Shared and Lessons Learned The cerulean waters of the Florida Keys are a […]