Thursday, June 24, 2010

Oil Drilling News - PM Supplement

GULF OIL DISASTER

 

BP/Gulf Oil Spill – Any Backup Containment Devices Ready?

http://blog.skytruth.org/2010/06/bp-gulf-oil-spill-any-backup.html

 

How Important is Gulf of Mexico Oil?

http://www.theenergywatch.com/2010/06/24/343/

 

Pew Research/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management

http://www.pollingreport.com/energy.htm

 

DEEP WATER DRILLING MORATORIUM

 

Judge Won’t Stay Drilling Decision

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/us/25spill.html

 

Jindal keeps up push against drilling moratorium

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/24/1698486/jindal-keeps-up-push-against-drilling.html

 

U.S. Chamber energy chief: Lift drilling moratorium

http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2010/06/21/daily40.html

 

WILDLIFE, HUMAN and ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS

 

Gulf oil leak threatens baby turtles' food

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100624/NEWS01/6240309/Gulf-oil-leak-threatens-baby-turtles-food

 

HANDS ACROSS THE SAND

 

Hope That Spill Will Bring Change (CNN video report)

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/06/24/costello.gulf.environment.cnn

 

Offshore Drilling Foes to Stage Global Demonstrations (NY Times)

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/06/24/24greenwire-offshore-drilling-foes-to-stage-global-demonst-24239.html

 

ALASKA

 

BP's Liberty Oil Well in Alaska to Face New Safety Rules

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-06-24/bp-s-liberty-oil-well-in-alaska-to-face-new-safety-rules.html

 

FLORIDA

 

Crist during Delray Beach visit pushes for more skimmer ships, oil drilling referendum

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/palm/blog/2010/06/crist_during_delray_beach_visit_pushes_for_more_skimmer_ships_oil_drilling_referendum.html

 

USF official: Oil seen near Jacksonville

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jun/24/na-usf-official-oil-seen-near-jacksonville/

"Some of the tar balls may start showing up on the east coast as far as Jacksonville," Bill Hogarth, dean of the College of Marine Science at USF, told members of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association in a telephone conference call. Satellite imagery interpreted by researchers at USF shows the oil continues to be a part of the loop current, the conveyor belt of water that dips from the Gulf and into the Florida Straits before traveling up the east coast as part of the Gulf Stream.”