First the good news. BP says its “static kill” on its Macondo well has succeeded so far, describing the moment as a “significant milestone”.
The “static kill”, which started yesterday, involved pumping heavy drilling mud from the top of the well slowly down, pushing the oil back down into the reservoir.
The oil was stopped after eight [...]

Disaster One. New estimates put the amount of oil per day pouring into the Gulf of Mexico at one million gallons a day.
If this is so, BP’s disaster may have spilt more oil than the Exxon Valdez, when at least eleven million gallons poured from the stricken tanker.
Disaster Two. There is another ecological disaster on [...]

So the trickle turns into a tide. They are all at it now. There is a sudden rush amongst oil and gas companies in the US to garner grasssroots support to attack the Climate bill.
Just days after Greenpeace released an internal memo from the oil boys at the American Petroleum Institute, detailing plans to launch [...]

Happy World Environment Day! Not so in America, though. It may be the most polluting and dirty oil on the planet, but American refiners are tripping over themselves to make investments to dramatically increase imports from Alberta’s oil sands.
Figures released yesterday show that the oil industry is spending about $53 billion to expand or modify [...]

A US federal appeals court has ruled that the rights of victims in BP’s fatal Texas City explosion in March 2005 were violated by US prosecutors who reached a secret plea agreement with the UK oil group late last year before consulting victims.
The victims insist the plea deal is too lenient and they [...]