This is a time sensitive post. By the time some find it, there may be nothing showing, but right now at 1155hrs EDSL, there’s a…
View More Okeanos Explorer in the Gulf of MexicoCategory: Oil Spills
James Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?
On May 20th, 2010–one month to the day after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig (under lease by British Petroleum) exploded and caught fire in the…
View More James Cameron And The Dawn Of DeepTruth?FEATURED POST: A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn edition
There’s nothing quite like the excitement of moving to a new city and getting your first apartment, and for me as for so many others,…
View More FEATURED POST: A (fetid) river runs through it, the Brooklyn editionTGIF – Steve Earle: Gulf of Mexico
Holy Link Fest, Batman! My cup runneth over with oil spill literature
An e-mail just made me shout a barrage of expletives. In a good way. Some poor intern at Marine Science Review is probably wailing in…
View More Holy Link Fest, Batman! My cup runneth over with oil spill literatureOpen Letter to My Bros at British Petroleum
Dear British Petroleum, WTF I hear you wanna be called Beyond Petroleum, now? Do you think you’re some kind of rap star or something?? Haha!…
View More Open Letter to My Bros at British PetroleumFriday Penguin KEWTNISSS!1!!
This story at The Today Show’s Animal Tracks is just great, knitters banding together to create adorable pullovers to keep penguins warm after their feathers…
View More Friday Penguin KEWTNISSS!1!!New Oil Skimmer Design Wins X-Prize
Story at NPR: A breakthrough in oil cleanup technology allows crews to skim spilled oil off the water’s surface at a much faster rate. The…
View More New Oil Skimmer Design Wins X-PrizeDivvying up BP’s fine for restoration in the Gulf
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…
View More Divvying up BP’s fine for restoration in the GulfBOEMRE Final Report on Deepwater Horizon
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…
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