Filed under: alternative energy, alternative fuels, Environment, Green, offshore drilling, oil spill, pollution | Tags: alternative fuels, Environment, Green, gulf oil spill, pollution
Until the relief well for the Gulf Oil spill is complete, the oil has been plugged. Here are some updates on the situation.
- Image via Wikipedia
Gulf Oil Spill Stopped? Oil Is Plugged, For Now
NEW ORLEANS (Associated Press) – The Gulf Coast found itself in an odd moment of limbo Saturday: The oil has been stopped, but no one knows if it’s corked for good. The clock expired on BP’s 48-hour observation period and the government …
Publish Date: 07/17/2010 18:31
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/17/gulf-oil-spill-stopped-oi_n_650199.html
Oil seeping from Gulf floor near well, but Coast Guard allows cap …
Dave Martin, The Associated PressThe Helix Producer burns off natural gas as it operates in the area of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico on on July 13. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen on Sunday evening agreed to …
Publish Date: 07/18/2010 18:42
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/07/oil_seeping_from_gulf_floor_ne.html
Florida Releases July 18, 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Situation Update …
On Day 90 of the Gulf oil spill BP reports the well integrity test is ongoing and active monitoring continues. Currently the well remains shut in with no oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico.
Publish Date: 07/18/2010 12:22
http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/florida-releases-july-18-2010-gulf-oil-spill-situation-update-35721.html
———-
We welcome comments. Please join the conversation.
Please subscribe to our RSS Feed for more great outdoors tips and issues (top right corner).
Environmental Responsibility: It Just Isn’t that Simple
Hiking: It’s also Who You Hike with
Learn to tie knots with Knot Playing Cards.
Follow me on Twitter for more great outdoors tips and issues.
Filed under: alternative fuels, Environment, offshore drilling, oil spill, pollution | Tags: Environment, Offshore drilling, oil spill cleanup, pollution
Hurricane Alex 2010: Storm Could Slow Clean Up Or Help With Spill
- Image by lumis via Flickr
VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico (AP) — A strengthening Tropical Storm Alex was expected to become a hurricane Tuesday as it swirled toward the Gulf coast of northern Mexico and southern Texas, where authorities were readying emergency shelters …
Publish Date: 06/29/2010 3:16
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/gulf-oil-spill-alex-could_n_628856.html
Gulf Oil Spill Relief Well: Will It Really Work? More Backup Plans
Experts said it was conceivable that the “kill” procedure would not be effective, particularly if only a single relief well was used and the bottom of the well bore was damaged in the initial blowout. Pumping large quantities of erosive …
Publish Date: 06/29/2010 6:10
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/29/gulf-oil-spill-relief-wel_0_n_628937.html
Florida Outlines BP Gulf Oil Spill Response For June 29, 2010 …
On Day 71 of the Gulf oil spill Tropical Storm Alex is approximately 534 miles southwest of the Deepwater Horizon well head site. Maximum sustained winds are near 70 mph. A general northwest track across the Southwest Gulf and then west …
Publish Date: 06/29/2010 7:58
http://www.thegovmonitor.com/world_news/united_states/florida-outlines-bp-gulf-oil-spill-response-for-june-29-2010-34582.html
———-
We welcome comments. Please join the conversation.
Please subscribe to our RSS Feed for more great outdoors tips and issues (top right corner).
Learn to identify edible wild plants with Edible Wild Plants Cards.
Follow me on Twitter for more great outdoors tips and issues.
Filed under: offshore drilling, oil spill | Tags: BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oil spill
- Image by [ Mooi ] via Flickr
“Responding to federal demands to speed up efforts to contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, BP officials have submitted a revised plan that will allow the company to collect more than 50,000 barrels of oil a day by the end of June — about two weeks earlier than the company had originally planned.
On Friday, Coast Guard Rear Admiral James A. Watson, the federal on-scene coordinator of the disaster response, gave the company 48 hours to speed up its strategy to collect the oil leaking into the gulf. On Monday, Watson issued a statement saying BP, ‘after being directed to move more quickly,’ was ‘now stepping up its efforts to contain the leaking oil.’
The company has been collecting about 16,000 barrels per day from the broken well using a containment cap that funnels the oil to a processing ship. But federal experts have estimated that the well has been spewing at least 40,000 barrels per day.” Read more.
———-
We welcome comments. Please join the conversation.
Please subscribe to our RSS Feed for more great outdoors tips and issues (top right corner).
Solo Backpacking: Antidote for a Frenzied Life
Learn to identify edible wild plants with Edible Wild Plants Cards.
Wholesale Backpacking Equipment
Follow me on Twitter for more great outdoors tips and issues.
Filed under: offshore drilling | Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Offshore drilling, Petroleum industry
- Image via Wikipedia
“Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is reassuring Congress that the Obama administration has pressed what he described as the “pause button, not the stop button,” on all offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere.
Salazar, testifying Wednesday before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, described the recent moratorium that President Barack Obama put in place for offshore deepwater drilling, along with new requirements for shallow water oil drilling.
Gulf residents rely heavily on paychecks from the oil industry and are worried about their economic futures.
Salazar told senators the government pressed the pause button, not the stop button to make sure that drilling can be done in a way ‘that is protective of the people and the Gulf region.’” Read more.
Related articles by Zemanta
- U.S. Offshore Drilling Moratorium May End Sooner, Salazar Says (businessweek.com)
- Drilling Moratorium Challenged by Offshore Company (abcnews.go.com)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=23ca9a5f-586f-471c-a963-7548068631a7)
———-
We welcome comments. Please join the conversation.
Please subscribe to our RSS Feed for more great outdoors tips and issues (top right corner).
For Your Backpacking First Aid Kit
Among the World’s Most Prolific Wildlife Viewing – Close to Home
Acquire survival skills quickly with Survival Playing Cards.
Follow me on Twitter for more great outdoors tips and issues.
