GULF OIL DISASTER
U.S. Issues New Rules on Offshore Drilling
API urges ending moratorium once new deepwater rules emerge
"Safety will remain our top priority and ongoing task," Erik Milito, API's upstream operations director, told reporters in a Sept. 29 teleconference. "But it is also important that the industry be able to develop the resources the American economy will demand and produce the jobs and revenue that will flow from that development." Bla bla bla.......What else will "flow" from that development?
Silent treatment in inquiry
"The leaders of a federal probe into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill complained Tuesday that companies involved in drilling BP's doomed Macondo well are stonewalling their investigation."
WILDLIFE, HUMAN AND ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS
U.S. oil spill waters contain carcinogens: report
"Oregon State University (OSU) researchers found sharply heightened levels of chemicals including carcinogens in the waters off the coast of Louisiana in August, the last sampling date, even after BP successfully capped its runaway Gulf well in mid-July.
Near Grand Isle, Louisiana, the team discovered that polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) -- which include carcinogens and chemicals that pose various risks to human health -- remained at levels 40 times higher than before the area was affected by the oil spill. [...]
"In a natural environment a 40-fold increase is huge," said Oregon State toxicologist Kim Anderson, who led the research. "We don't usually see that at other contamination sites."The PAH chemicals, which are often linked to oil spills, are most concentrated in the area near the Louisiana Coast, but levels have also jumped 2 to 3 fold in other spill-affected areas off Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, Anderson said.
Gulf oil spill: research voyage to search for oil can't find any
Isn't it strange that government researchers can't find oil while independent researchers have no trouble finding it?
Ongoing Beach Cleanup of the BP Oil Spill – A Superficial Job, Literally
"After our fifth trip to the Alabama and Florida panhandle beaches since the onset of the spill, we have come to the conclusion that the ongoing beach cleanup is literally a superficial job..."
Drilling Plans Off Cuba Stir Fears of Impact on Gulf
"Ocean scientists warn that a well blowout similar to the BP disaster could send oil spewing onto Cuban beaches and then the Florida Keys in as little as three days. If the oil reached the Gulf Stream, a powerful ocean current that passes through the region, oil could flow up the coast to Miami and beyond."
CALIFORNIA
Threats Posed by Oil & Gas Production Along Coast Focus of Oversight Hearing by Assembly Committee
FLORIDA
