BP clashes with scientists over deep sea oil pollution
Colin Powell said, the military should step in because the crisis was now “beyond the capacity” of BP to stop.
White House Tries to Regroup, Criticism Mounts Over Leak
The failure of the most recent effort, known as a top kill, which BP officials expressed great optimism about before trying it, has underlined the gaps in knowledge and science about the spill and its potential remedies.
Our Fix-It Faith and the Oil Spill
“Americans have a lot of faith that over the long run technology will solve everything, a sense that somehow we’re going to find a way to fix it,” said Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Tar sands oil extraction spreading rapidly, report warns.
BP is developing tar sands in Alberta and also in Venezuela, the world’s second largest reserves after Canada, where it is active on the Petromonagas block and is also considering the Ayacucho 2 block.
After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger.
There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight.
Gravel beaches trapping oil from 1989 Exxon spill
An engineering professor has figured out why oil remains trapped along miles of gravel beaches more than 20 years after the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster in Prince William Sound.
Gulf leak eclipses Exxon Valdez as worst US spill
As BP labored for a second day Thursday to choke off the leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, dire new government estimates showed the disaster has easily eclipsed the Exxon Valdez as the biggest oil spill in U.S. history.
Take punitive action against BP now
It’s interesting how many people have swallowed the BP public relations’ bait to call the explosion from Deepwater Horizon oil rig the Gulf oil spill. We need to call it what it is: the BP oil spill.
How BP’s ‘top kill’ procedure (might) work
BP’s next attempt to stop the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico will involve a maneuver called “top kill,” in which heavy drilling fluid is to be pumped into the head of the leaking well at the seafloor.