The oil spill has gone from bad to worse as tar balls begin to wash up on the beaches in Key West, Fl. This coupled with satellite images showing the oil spill has entered the loop current. Jeff Masters, May 17th post at Weather Underground shows the images and explains this unfortunate new twist on [...]
When the Obama Administration announced plans to expand offshore drilling to the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Coast on March 31, 2010, the Minerals Management Service (a division of the Department of Interior) began conducting a series of public scoping meetings. If you weren’t able to make it to one of the seven [...]
The tragic and ongoing Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster provides an opportunity to spotlight a path away from our riskiest sources of oil. Today we’re issuing a Clean Energy Gulf Challenge to demonstrate how the United States can end both offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and imports of Persian Gulf oil. It’s simply [...]
Today marks the 23rd day of the BP Gulf Oil Disaster. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlPPFcy-3Vo As we watch oil gush from a well-head 5,000 feet below the surface of the water because technological fixes have been unsuccessful, residents of the region grow anxious waiting for the full impacts of this environmental catastrophe to be felt. In the coming [...]
I have watched this horrific spill unfold with utter disbelief at the lack of preparedness and clear incompetence of the oil companies’ response. It May Look “Slick” Remember the American Petroleum Institute’s (API) slick ads that have been running to warm the American public to offshore drilling. Take a look: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91rwTd1yocY&feature=player_embedded httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XHcKwfFE0&feature=player_embedded
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, Congress has yet to pass an important extension of the $1.00 per gallon biodiesel blenders tax credit. 2009 has been tough for the industry, and finding real alternatives to oil-derived fuels like petroleum diesel is critical in order to bring our nation’s addiction to dangerous [...]
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv2yKAKX7dk Take Action: Tell the White House to Reverse Offshore Drilling Plans Join SACE in Fighting Offshore Drilling
If the still-unfolding oil disaster in the Gulf has taught us anything, it’s that we have spent 40 years trying to solve the ‘wrong’ problem. When 3 million gallons of crude oil bubbled to the surface and spread into a 800 square mile slick off the coast of Santa Barbara in 1969, the public cried [...]
Once again, the “Nuclear Relapse” hits home. Do these recent headlines inspire confidence in the nuclear industry’s much-hyped “comeback?” “Georgia Judge Rules Against 2 Controversial Nuclear Reactors” “Ruling Questions PSC Certification of New Vogtle Reactors” “Ruling Questions Vogtle Expansion” This time the roadblock hit the lead new nuclear reactor proposal in the United States, Southern [...]
At first glance, the latest forecast image from NOAA shows that the oil spill is significantly smaller than in previous days. The truth is that the amount of oil spewing out of the seafloor has not changed. Experts say that the oil is sinking and breaking up due to the usage of chemical dispersants; which [...]
