BP still has to pay the government for that little slip-up that happened last year. The Clean Water Act imposes punitive damages for any act of pollution carried out in US waters, with fines proportional to the magnitude of the environmental impact. For oil spills, damages are calculated according to the amount of hydrocarbons leaked . . . → Read More: Divvying up BP’s fine for restoration in the Gulf
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By Dr Bik, on  October 11th, 2011  3 comments  Oil Spills  BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill By Dr Bik, on September 15th, 2011 Leave a comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill I can’t say its the most captivating document ever produced (unless you’ve got a thing for regulatory practices and safety recommendations), but it is an important document nonetheless: yesterday, the newly renamed Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) released its “Final Report Regarding the Causes of the April 20,2010 Macondo Well Blowout.” . . . → Read More: BOEMRE Final Report on Deepwater Horizon
By Dr Bik, on July 25th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills, Uncategorized BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Unlike the blown out Macondo well, scientific data surrounding last year’s oil spill has been coming out in a painfully slow trickle. As the oil started flowing, scientists soon realized the unprecedented opportunities arising from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe. Samples collected at the gushing wellhead are now providing new insight into the transport and ultimate . . . → Read More: CSI Macondo: Fingerprinting the oil that got away
By Dr. M, on July 18th, 2011 Leave a comment Conservation & Environment, Environmental Sciences, Oil Spills, Uncategorized, Weather anoxia, deadzone, Gulf of Mexico, hypoxia, Mississippi River, oxygen, rainfall You know that oxygen-less zone that chokes life and forms every year in the Gulf of Mexico at the base of the Mississippi? Currently its about 3,300 square miles, or roughly the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined. Over the last 50 years, humans tripled the nitrogen levels in Gulf. Nitrogen is often . . . → Read More: 2011 Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’ could be biggest ever
By Dr Bik, on June 28th, 2011 One comment Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, NOAA, Oil Spill, restoration, seafood safety I have to say, I’m pretty impressed with NOAA. If you’ve been to their homepage lately, you’ll notice that the key Deepwater Horizon links have been inserted into a nice little banner across the top of the site. The historic archive! Restoration Projects! Seafood Safety! I’d like to think that Deep-sea News had something to . . . → Read More: Deepwater Horizon: Resources and Restoration
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 27th, 2011 One comment Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, oil If the BP oil spill hadn’t happened, where would the oil have gone? This short animation by Chris Harmon gives a sense of the vast scale of our oil-based economy. Best of all, he cites his sources so you can check out the numbers yourself. (Via Ayana J.) Oil’d from Chris Harmon on Vimeo. . . . → Read More: If the BP oil spill hadn’t happened…
By Dr. M, on April 25th, 2011 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Oil Spills BP, corexit, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill Skimmed: Oil skimmed off surface. Captured: Oil captured before escaping into the sea. Burned: 400 burning of concentrated slicks moving barrels from water to air. COREXIT Dispersed: Oil “dispersed” by 1.8 million gallos of COREXIT. Deep-Sea Dispersed: Oil “dispersed” at 1500 meteres through a narrow pipe. Evaporated or Dissolved: Oil that disolved in to Gulf . . . → Read More: Pardon Me If I Don’t Start Celebrating
By Miriam Goldstein, on April 20th, 2011 10 comments Oil Spills Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill One year ago today, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and causing oil to gush into the Gulf of Mexico for three months. Nearly 5 million barrels of oil were spilled, making the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe the biggest spill in world history. The web is filled with resources telling stories and . . . → Read More: One year after the oil started
By Dr Bik, on April 20th, 2011 Leave a comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill One year ago today, all hell broke loose in the Gulf. From scientists’ perspective, last year’s massive oil spill only just unlocked gates of Hades; the full fury and environmental wrath of this catastrophe will besiege the Gulf for years to come. I’m not going to give you a round up of all the news . . . → Read More: Oil Spill anniversary: Show me the money…and data!
By Dr Bik, on April 14th, 2011 One comment Oil Spills BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill The New York Times has a great article out this week, as we near the year anniversary of the Macondo Well blowout and the ensuing horror of the Gulf oil spill. What has emerged in studies so far is not a final tally of damage, but a new window on the complexities of the gulf, . . . → Read More: Deepwater Horizon: Science progresses, a year later
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