Yesterday the US Interior Department approved the first new deepwater drilling permit since BPâs Deepwater disaster last April. The permit for Noble Energy to drill about 70 miles southeast of Venice, Florida, comes more than four months after the Interior Department lifted its deep-water drilling moratorium, and nearly a year after the disaster. âThis permit … Read More
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Oil Industry front group attacks fracking critics
This post by Brendan DeMelle originally appeared on DeSmog Blog. DeSmogBlog has uncovered an industry memo revealing that âEnergy In Depthâ is hardly comprised of the mom-and-pop âsmall, independent oil and natural gas producersâ it claims to represent. In fact, the industry memo we found, entitled âHydraulic Fracturing Under Attack,â shows that Energy In Depth … Read More
Scientists Say Health and Seafood At-Risk from Spill
BPâs spill does pose threats to human health and seafood safety, according to a new study published by the peer-reviewed scientific Journal of the American Medical Association. The report comes days after President Obama swam in the Gulf at Panama City Beach and made of point of eating seafood for the cameras. “Beaches all along … Read More
Deja Vu as Oil Spill Workers Get Sick
One of the ongoing tragedies of the Exxon Valdez oil spill is that thousands of people who worked on the cleanup are sick, have gotten sick, and continue to die from inhaling the lethal cocktail of oil and dispersant. The tragedy is that, like the oil spill itself, the illnesses and deaths were preventable. Move … Read More
Exclusive: No Toxicity Tests on BPâs Dispersant
Whilst the media have been focussing on the untested nature of the 4 story dome or âcofferdamâ that is going to be lowered over BPâs spill at the sea bed, its use of dispersant is also coming under scrutiny. Alarmingly, according to the dispersant manufacturer, no toxicity tests have been conducted on this product. The … Read More
Dying for a Drink?
In these days of climate change it is all too easy to forget about the other pollution that belches from the chimney stacks of our power stations or pours from its pipes into our rivers. So good on the New York Times for running a series called âToxic Watersâ that looks at the worsening pollution … Read More