Posts Tagged ‘Gulf Oil Spill’

Gulf Oil Spill: One Year Later and Still Asleep

Filed under: Disaster | Energy | Environment | Oceans — by Will Kirkland 04/20/2011 @ 3:19:06 PM
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Mark Bittman, the NY Times foodie who is branching out to a weekly column on the Op-Ed page, marks the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf Oil disaster with … [Keep reading >>]

Don’t Go Near the Water — Johnny Cash

Filed under: Environment | Water — by Will Kirkland 04/20/2011 @ 2:41:39 PM
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Don’t know how I missed this back when the old man was with us and singing it.  Amy Goodman played it today on her Democracy Now one-year review of the … [Keep reading >>]

Jindal’s Sand Berms Found ‘Underwhelmingly Effective’

Filed under: Science & Technology — by Will Kirkland 12/17/2010 @ 4:37:38 PM
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“Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s plan to block BP Plc’s spilled oil with sand berms, approved after President Barack Obama met with officials, was declared a failure by the staff of a commission … [Keep reading >>]

Gulf Oil Drilling: Deeper, More Distant and Remotely Run

Filed under: Energy — by Will Kirkland 08/30/2010 @ 9:22:59 AM
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Very important front page article in the NY Times by Jad Mouawad and Barry Meir on the enormous, deep-drilling and pumping platforms far out at sea — unknown to most … [Keep reading >>]

Hands Across the Sand

Filed under: Action! | Disaster | Energy | Environment | Marin County — by Norman Solomon 06/24/2010 @ 1:43:29 PM
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Like thousands of other people, I’ll be part of the “Hands Across the Sand” nationwide protests against offshore oil drilling this Sunday (June 27). Local events begin at 11 a.m. … [Keep reading >>]

Oil Spill In Your Backyard

Filed under: Disaster | Energy | Environment — by Joyce Cole 06/8/2010 @ 9:43:17 AM
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See how the oil spill in the gulf would look over your hometown
via In Perspective: Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster. … [Keep reading >>]

Palin and Cronies Pretend They Never Supported Off-Shore Drilling

Filed under: Disaster | Energy | Environment — by Will Kirkland 06/3/2010 @ 7:43:01 AM
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At about 4:20 Rachel begins her segment on Sarah Palin’s memory damaged assertion that she was always about safe, … [Keep reading >>]

Gulf Oil Spill Photos

Filed under: Disaster | Energy | Environment — by Will Kirkland 06/1/2010 @ 3:58:18 PM
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PBS: More Photos
Beyond Petroleum: Photos … [Keep reading >>]

The Oil Catastrophe: One Thing to Do

Filed under: Citizen Action | Climate Change | Energy | Environment — by Will Kirkland 05/30/2010 @ 9:17:42 PM
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Americans spent $20,461,413,000 dollars on gasoline alone in 2009.  That’s at $3 a gallon.  A 10% catastrophe tax would bring in about $2,046,141,200 in a year, or $5,605,800 a day. … [Keep reading >>]

Oil Update: Saturday

Filed under: Disaster | Energy | Environment — by Will Kirkland 05/29/2010 @ 9:48:23 AM
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Update: Jail time, it seems to me…
WASHINGTON — Internal documents from BP show that there were serious problems and safety concerns with the Deepwater Horizon far earlier … [Keep reading >>]

On the Oil Gusher

Filed under: Disaster | Environment — by Will Kirkland 05/27/2010 @ 8:34:53 AM
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Too soon to know but initial impressions, at the top, are that the “top kill” is working; the hydrocarbon gusher is slowing.
“They’ve stopped the hydrocarbons from coming up,” National Incident … [Keep reading >>]

What an Oil Spill World

Filed under: Disaster | Energy | Environment | Music — by Don Cohon 05/24/2010 @ 6:39:09 PM
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With apologies to Satchmo… … [Keep reading >>]

Words for Acts

Perhaps an honest world will never exist. But what's to keep us from dreaming? If each one of us tries to change, maybe we'll succeed.

Rita Atria -- The Sicilian Rebel



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