The Gannet spill comes at a crucial time for Shell as the company tries to convince a sceptical public that it can be trusted with oil extraction in the Arctic, writes David Ritter from London.
Oil spills
Baby dolphins washing up dead in the Gulf
Alarming numbers of bottleknecked dolphins are dying in the Gulf of Mexico this season, with a large percentage just babies. Is it due to the infamous BP spill from last year? Scientists aren’t ruling it out.
Timor Sea oil spill inquiry: no research, no findings, no responsibility
The Montara (Timor Sea) oil spill for months last year was amongst the worst in Australia’s history and despite clear scientific advice that the impact to marine mammals would stretch decades, no marine survey will be made, notes Dr Margi Prideaux.
Letters from the Gulf
Dan Horton is working on a barge “four miles off Ground Zero”, unloading the crude oil from skimmer boats that are attempting to clean up the Gulf of Mexico spill. He is allowed to send one email a day.
VIDEO: BP spills a coffee
Yes this video has been viral for awhile now, but it’s such a good one, it’s a shame if you haven’t seen it yet: BP’s board room cope with a coffee spill.
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Deepwater Horizon’s a “nightmare well”
Internal BP emails reveal Deepwater Horizon had known safety problems and deliberate shortcuts were made by BP to cut costs.
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Just how big is the Gulf spill?
The BP oil spill is still leaking out thousands of barrels of crude oil out in the Gulf but there are no exact figures to show how it compares. Either it’s the fourth worst spill ever, or it’s way down at number 16.
Why we open holes in the Earth than we can’t close
The Gulf spill simply draws our attention to the insanity of deepwater oil wells, where oil companies drill tens of thousands of feet under ocean floors. And there’s no known way to plug them.
We’re gonna need a bigger boat…
BP is collecting so much oil from its ruptured pipeline in the Gulf that it doesn’t have a big enough tanker to hold the captured black gold. Is Obama not doing enough to hold BP responsible?
Video of the Day: Same spill, different decade
A massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico can’t be stopped, despite a myriad of attempts to end the flow of crude oil. Except, this oil spill happened back in 1979…
US oil spill a disaster — but more oil is spilt in Nigeria every year
One small positive that may come out of the Deepwater Horizon spill is the slender beam of reflected light cast on the fascinating, tragic story of oil drilling in the Niger Delta, writes Rafiq Copeland.
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BP’s secret memo: a history of corner cutting
BP is taking its time mopping up the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In 2005, an explosion at a BP refinery killed 15 workers and revealed documentation that BP knew workers were at risk. Are there parallels between the two disasters?
The Cape Cod oil spill: 40 years on
It’s been more than four decades since 200,000 gallons of oil were spilled in Florida’s Cape Cod, and the effects are still being felt today. The recent BP spill is hemorrhaging as much as 4,200,000 gallons a day…
Where will BP’s spilled oil go?
It may be known as the “Gulf of Mexico” oil spill, but that fuel isn’t sticking around: it’s going to end up everywhere from the Arctic to deepwater corals.
Spills, hurricanes and a nonchalant BP
The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is even worse then expected, with huge oil plumes found below the slick. Thanks to the hurricanes that plague the area — and BP’s attitude — it may be decades before the spill is fully cleaned.
PHOTO GALLERY: The black stain ocean polluter
Dolphins swim under oily water and workers frantically put oil booms and sand banks into place to prevent further damage from the horrific Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
A Soviet solution to the oil spill: nuke it
Forget your fancy containment domes and underwater pipes, Russian newspaper Komsomoloskaya Pravda has a far simpler solution to cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill: blast it with nukes. That’s how the Soviets would’ve done it.
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REVEALED: How much an oil spill costs
Remaining proven oil reserves will last us an estimated 29 years. Can we really afford to keep spilling it all in the ocean?
Former BP investigator: This is Exxon Valdez all over again
BP knows how to contain an oil spill, says former oil spill investigator Greg Palast. But it’s cheaper to just lie. And that’s something the company has a lot of experience in.
Why drilling companies should be nationalised
If the US wants to stop accidents at offshore drilling rigs, like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the safest bet is to nationalise oil companies. Norway did it and its environmental record is unparalleled.
How to clean oil-covered birds
Celebrities and do-gooders rushing off to “help” clean birds covered in oil after the recent Gulf of Mexico spill will probably do more harm than good. Doing it properly is slightly more complicated than “rinse, lather, repeat”.
The green washes off BP
It only took one of the worst oil spills in history to do it, but the world is finally starting to see through BP’s greenwashing campaigns, as the real environmental impact of its primary product starts to wash up.
BP now slicker than ever
Economically, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is bigger than Hurricane Katrina. So why can’t BP — the world’s fourth biggest company — muster the resources to bring a result of its negligence to quicker resolution? asks Lloyd Bradford Syke.
The Gulf oil spill from space
MSNBC’s Cosmic Log tracks the incredible images of the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, coming via a range of government and commercial.
BP under fire again for another disastrous oil spill
Americans are not likely to trust BP and any explanation it has for the oil spill and accident in the Gulf of Mexico, with this disaster just the latest in a long history of fatal mishaps for the oil giant.
