Oil Drilling News

GULF OIL DISASTER

 

Feds Giving Spill Data to BP—But Public Stays in Dark

http://motherjones.com/environment/2010/08/feds-giving-spill-data-to-bp-not-public

 

Spill investigators want to find undersea evidence

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HE7J9G0.htm

 

As Spill Recedes, Probes Advance

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703309704575413120790515804.html

 

BP well could be sealed for good by next week

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100807,0,1497065.story

 

Minerals Service Had a Mandate to Produce Results

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/us/08mms.html?_r=2&pagewanted=1&hp

 

BP May Return to Ruptured Gulf Well for More Oil

http://www.aolnews.com/gulf-oil-spill/article/bp-may-go-back-to-ruptured-gulf-well-for-more-oil/19584376

Also see: BP considers drilling in same area as Gulf oil spill, could be worth $4 billion in gas and oil

 

Oil-State Democrats Offer Separate Offshore Liability Bills After Failing to Compromise

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/08/06/06greenwire-oil-state-democrats-offer-separate-offshore-li-34390.html

 

Congress puts pressure on blowout preventers

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/deepwaterhorizon/7145005.html

 

Q & A: Chairs of BP oil-spill panel discuss drilling moratorium, response efforts

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/08/AR2010080802628.html?wpisrc=nl_fed

 

WILDLIFE, HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS

 

Scientists Think Gulf Can Recover

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11337200

 

The Crime of the Century: What BP and the US Government Don't Want You to Know, Part I

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-cope/the-crime-of-the-century_b_662971.html

“Over the Gulf from the Source (official term for the Deepwater Horizon spill site) in to shore there is virtually no sign of life anywhere in the vast areas covered by the dispersed oil and Corexit. This in a region previously abundant with life above and below the ocean's surface in all its diversity. For months now, scientists and environmental organizations have been asking where all the animals are. The reported numbers of marine animals lost from BP fall far short of the observed loss. The water has a heavy appearance and the slightly iridescent greenish yellow color that extends as far as the eye can see.”

 

Beauty of the Gulf of Mexico is only skin deep thanks to oil spill

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2010/08/post_2.html

 

With well shut, next worry is health of cleanup workers

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/08/06/98772/with-well-shut-next-worry-is-health.html

 

CALIFORNIA

 

John Laird: Drilling always a threat

http://www.montereyherald.com/opinion/ci_15710473?nclick_check=1

 

SOUTH CAROLINA

 

Oil drilling off SC's coast: risk and opportunity

http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=493559

 

Many questions, few answers on SC oil drilling

http://www.thesunnews.com/2010/08/06/1623659/academics-debate-offshore-drilling.html