20 December 2011 http://www.publicservice.co.uk/feature_story.asp?id=17518 ITER Organization’s Krista Dulon gives an overview of how the organisation is paving the way for fusion as a viable and virtually limitless energy source In a global context of rising oil and gas prices, decreased accessibility to low-cost fossil fuel sources, and an estimated three-fold increase in world energy demand [...]
Posts under ‘Oil’
Lawsuit asks if science was manipulated in oil spill estimates
Last posted: September 17, 2010 Source: McClatchy An environmental whistleblower group charges in a lawsuit that the Obama administration is withholding documents that would reveal why it issued an estimate on the gravity of the Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout that later was proved to be far too low. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility [...]
The Gulf & BP’s Decision-Making Process: What Happens in the Boardroom
Sadly, this would have been a great deal funnier if it weren’t for the complete disaster it really is.
BP Is Only the Latest Killer of the Gulf
Last updated: July 3, 2010 Source: Truthout The news from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe keeps on worsening. First, we heard about a piddling 1,000 barrels per day. That number was from the Coast Guard. Then, there was a quick rise upward to 5,000 barrels daily. Then, rumors suggested about 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day [...]
Enviro groups stunned that government ignoring 27,000 abandoned oil & gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico
Last updated: July 7, 2010 Source: Yahoo! News Leading environmental groups and a U.S. senator on Wednesday called on the government to pay closer attention to more than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico and take action to keep them from leaking even more crude into water already tainted by [...]
Alyeska CEO Steps Down Following Truthout Exposé
Last updated: July 7, 2010 Source: Truthout Kevin Hostler, the chief executive officer of Alyeska Pipeline, informed company employees Wednesday morning that he “plans to retire to Houston and to spend time with his family.” The announcement comes one day after Truthout published an extensive investigative report that was highly critical of his leadership of [...]
Dangerous Cost Cuts at Alyeska Pipeline: “Yet Another Example of How BP Runs Things”
Last updated: July 6, 2010 Source: Truthout Over the past several months, Alyeska Pipeline and the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Kevin Hostler, have been under intense scrutiny by a Congressional oversight committee and an independent investigator, who has been probing explosive allegations leveled by managers that severe cost-cutting efforts could put the integrity of the [...]
Congo president to visit explosion site; 242 deadCongo president to visit explosion site; 242 dead
Last updated: July 4, 2010 Source: Reader Supported News A government official says that Congo’s president is heading to the site of the massive tanker blast in eastern Congo that killed at least 242 people. Marcellin Cishambo, a Congolese governor, says President Joseph Kabila already has visited some patients in the eastern province of South [...]
Coast Guard Restricts Reporters’ Access to Oil Spill Sites
Last updated: July 3, 2010 Source: Reader Supported News
BP WASTED NO TIME PREPARING FOR OIL SPILL LAWSUITS
Last updated: July 3, 2010 Source: McClatchy In the immediate aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, BP publicly touted its expert oil clean-up response, but it quietly girded for a legal fight that could soon embroil hundreds of attorneys, span five states and last more than a decade. BP swiftly signed up experts who otherwise [...]