Tag: Deepwater Horizon
U.S Chemical Safety Board: faulty blowout preventer caused Deepwater Horizon blast, leaves other rigs vulnerable (animation)
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has found that the Deepwater Horizon explosion was due to a Blowout Preventer that failed due to an unrecognized pipe…
Revenge of the BP Barbies
In the weeks after Deepwater Horizon explosion in April 2010, but before the oil and tar balls began washing ashore, BP sent out into the…
BP: ‘Cofferdam’ is ‘Probable Source’
After three days of inspecting the Macondo well, BP has announced that the current oil sheen in the Gulf of Mexico is likely due to…
Where’s the Oil Coming From?
For more than a month, a persistent oil sheen has been seen in the Gulf of Mexico near the site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon…
Miller on Possible BP Settlement Option
The U.S. government and BP are in settlement talks over how much the oil company will be paying as a result of the 2010 spill…
Another Deep Water Deepwater?
For nearly a week, workers have scrambled to stop a gas leak at a drilling platform in the North Sea’s Elgin field. The scene has…
Deepwater Leaking?
Nearly two years after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, pilot Bonny Schumaker is still seeing what looks like oil streaming from the Deepwater…
Bondi Responds to Feinberg’s Freeze
Recently, Gulf Coast Claims Facility Claims Administrator Kenneth Feinberg froze payments following a court order from Dec. 28. The Court in the multi-district oil spill…
New Outrage in the Gulf
My latest article for The Daily Beast is on a new report that shows Congress bears substantial blame for the weak response to largest environmental…
The Daily Beast: Cautious Optimism In the Gulf
The Daily Beast asked that I give their readers some feedback from Pensacola on the new containment cap of the Deepwater Horizon well. Cautious optimism…
We are still looking at August to cap BP well
According to Adm. Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander, BP is in position to move forward, when the weather conditions allow, to put a second…
Say it ain’t so, Bobby Jindal
We found out on Friday that Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has vetoed a bill that would have required him to preserve and make public all…
