Is this going to be the demise of BP? NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana, May 8, 2010 (ENS) – The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is keeping lawyers busy. At least half a dozen class action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of fishermen, shrimpers, restaurant owners, real estate brokers, property owners, and other Gulf coast residents affected by the oil a day flowing for the past two weeks from the wellhead left uncapped by the explosion...
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Gulf coast scientists: ‘oil is bad for everything’
Gulf Coast marine scientists agree that the unfolding oil disaster could mean devastation beyond human comprehension. Wonk Room’s Brad Johnson has the story in this repost. In an exclusive interview with the Wonk Room, a team of scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Gulf Coast Research Laboratory in Ocean Springs, MS, discussed the ecological impacts of a three-month blowout from the BP-Halliburton Deepwater Horizon exploratory rig, described as the expected timeline for “ultimate...
Oil Disaster 5X Worse Than Estimated, ‘Churning Slick’ Now the Size of Puerto Rico
The news keeps getting worse from the British Petroleum oil catastrophe in the Gulf. The UK Telegraph reports: The view from space indicates that the oil may be leaking at a rate of 25,000 barrels a day, dwarfing the figure of 5,000 barrels that US officials and the British oil giant BP have used in recent days. That would mean that some nine million gallons may already have escaped from the underwater well following the...
BP warned of rig fault ten years ago – Times Online
BP faces fresh questions over the cause of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill after it emerged that problems with the type of equipment that led to the disaster were first reported a decade ago. In June 2000, the oil giant issued a “notice of default” to Transocean, the operator of the rig that blew up last month. The dispute was over problems with a blowout preventer, a set of iron slabs that should...