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  After a Pause for Breath, Let’s Drill Baby…

  Andy Rowell

  Oct13

  It was always a matter of time before the Obama Administration buckled under the intense pressure of the oil industry and Gulf States and let drilling resume in the Gulf. Weeks earlier than expected, the administration lifted the moratorium on deep-water drilling, that was put in place in the aftermath of the Deepwater disaster. “We…
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  Offshore Safety Inspections Were Compromised

  Andy Rowell

  Oct11

  Ask anyone who works say as a teacher about being inspected by government officials and they say that it is the surprise inspections that matter. If you have weeks of notice about an inspection you by its very nature have to make sure everything is in order.  The kids are all behaving themselves at the…
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  Spill panel slams White House; warns over Arctic drilling

  Andy Rowell

  Oct08

  Back at the height of the BP oil spill, President Obama asked a commission to find out “what worked and didn’t” in the government’s response to the disaster. Well the bad news for Obama is that much didn’t work, making grim reading for the President and forcing the White House to hit back at some…
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• “Deep-water drilling will continue because that’s where the oil is..”

  Andy Rowell

  Sep30

  The Washington Post this morning asks a fundamental question that has been played out in countless meetings of oil companies, government officials and environmental NGOs: “Will the oil spill make a drop of difference regarding our attitudes?” Some five months later, was the spill a game changer like many predicted? And the results seem to…
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• Shell to Increase North American Output by 40 Percent

  Andy Rowell

  Sep29

  BP might be America’s bette noir right now after the Deepwater Horizon spill, but its fierce rival Shell is planning a massive expansion in the region. Shell plans to expand its operations in tar sands and in deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico. So never mind the repeated calls by environmental groups, communities and investors…
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• BP Will Survive, But What About the Others?

  Andy Rowell

  Sep21

  It is not rocket science that fickle City investors responded to the news of BP’s final plugging of the Macondo well by sending the company’s share price rising. BP’s share price rose by just under 2 per cent  to $38.68, helping to recover a small portion of the billions wiped off BP’s market capitalisation during…
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• “Dead Well” is a Just a Bump in the Road

  Andy Rowell

  Sep20

  So finally the well is dead. After 153 days, 5 million barrels spilt and a $10 billion bill so far, BP’s well is officially sealed. Although no crude has leaked from the well since BP capped it on July 15, the only way to permanently seal it was a bottom kill from the relief well….
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• If only BP had stayed true to Beyond Petroleum….

  Andy Rowell

  Sep16

  “If BP had stayed true to its ‘Beyond Petroleum positioning, it is likely that a disaster of this magnitude would not have occurred.” So says the global brand consultancy, Interbrand, in its annual branding report that shows that BP has tumbled out of the world’s top brands due to Deepwater. So BP may be within…
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• No Dead Zones, Just a Dead Bottom

  Andy Rowell

  Sep14

  So there is good news and bad from the latest science from the spill. Last week the US government agencies, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Office of Science and Technology Policy, released a report on dissolved oxygen levels in the Gulf Ocean. Oxygen levels are important – once…
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• Spill Scientists Face Funding Crisis

  Andy Rowell

  Sep13

  So there were no surprises last week when BP published its whitewash into the Deepwater Horizon disaster. “BP report clears BP of blame in BP disaster” was how American comedians saw it. The fallout from the report, that concluded that “No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy,” will continue though. The scientific fall out…
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