The longterm fate of the oil spill in the Atlantic

The possible spread of the oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon rig over the course of one year was studied in a series of computer simulations by a team of researchers from the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Eight million buoyant particles were released […]

On World Population Day, population is not the problem

Today’s women have just half as many as their mothers — an average of 2.6. Not just in the rich world, but almost everywhere. This is getting close to the long-term replacement level, which, allowing for girls who don’t make it to adulthood, is around 2.3. Women are cutting their family sizes not because governments […]

New cap attempt for Gulf leak this weekend

If all goes according to plan, the tandem of the tighter cap and the tankers could keep all the oil from polluting the fragile Gulf as soon as Monday. But it would be only a temporary solution to the catastrophe unleashed by a drilling rig explosion nearly 12 weeks ago. It won’t plug the busted […]

Environmental Costs of Producing Shale Gas

Gas producers maintain that the use of horizontal drills to extract gas from under neighboring plots means drillers require less land for well pads and equipment. They argue that chemicals pumped into the ground are benign, aquifers are protected by steel and concrete, drilling requires less water than nuclear power or a coal-fired power plant, […]

More Oil Wells in Gulf Leaking?

A new AP investigation suggests that more than 27,000 abandoned oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico may be leaking.

BP Drilling Of Relief Well Proceeding Ahead Of Schedule

BP’s relief well digging is proceeding ahead of schedule. All eyes are on the progress hoping the oil firm is successful in its attempt to permanently stop a leaking deep-water well. Officials from the company say the target depth may be reached within two weeks. Billy Brown, president of Blackhawk Specialty Tools, said that the […]

AP: Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells

More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one — not industry, not government — is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows. The oldest of these wells were abandoned […]

US Lawmakers Oppose Canadian Pipeline

Facing a decision on a proposed pipeline to bring Canadian crude oil to the United States, the Obama administration is confronting growing resistance from politicians who oppose the project or, at the very least, urge further study before approval. The massive pipeline, known as Keystone XL, would allow Canada to export an additional 1.1 million […]

Bustin’ at the Seams: Let’s Talk Population

I envisioned horror stories of birth limits and Chinese style one-child policies in the US and abroad and could not stomach the idea of government interference into my natural right to parent. But, that is not how it has to be. I had my “Aha” moment last night, while reading the 1992 Al Gore work, […]

BP Oil Spill Silenced Scientists Are Breaking Their Silence

Toxic chemicals are “Killing all life” 50 to 200 miles inland will be “devoid of life” for “unknown number of years”

Michael Rupert: BP Spill is More Toxic than We’re Told

“One issue that has been on the table and I believe is still on the table, which is the use of a thermal nuclear device down in the bedrock. You have to go and find the right place and you probably couldn’t. You can’t use a nuke in softer stone because all you’re going to […]

Worst case scenario – Super Volcano of Methane Erupts in the Gulf

Explosions. Tsunamis. Mass extinction.

VICE Goes to The Gulf, Look at America’s Toll From BP Spill

Not to be Summer bummer but wanted to pass this over for your editorial consideration. It’s the newest episode in our Toxic series. It’s our look at the American tragedy brought on by the BP spill. The Gulf is special and aside from the environmental shit storm, the Gulf is an endangered part of Americana. […]

More oil spills to come, says WUSTL anthropologist

The Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is not simply a random accident. There will be more of these spills to come, as the days of easy oil are over, says an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis. “BP and other oil companies have tried to portray this spill as an […]

SPILL CAM (redux)

We can’t stop the spill, but we can watch it on a live webcam. Peak Oil SPILL CAM

Clinton’s Solution to BP Oil Gusher: Blow it Up

Bill Clinton says the Navy may need to step in and blow up the oil well to stop further leaks.

The Climate Change Thought Police

my position has always been that I accept the scientific consensus on climate change, but also understand that science isn’t static. Therefore, it is important not to shut debate down and short-circuit the scientific process. But many climate change advocates have long sought to do just that by trying to intimidate people into not discussing […]

Matt Simmons Predicts Gulf Evacuation

Buried in an article on Gulf of Mexico scenarios and predictions, Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post quotes Matthew Simmons, founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Company International. In response to a tropical storm brewing in the Caribbean, Simmons says: “We’re going to have to evacuate the gulf states. Can you imagine evacuating 20 […]

The Well from Hell

There are some that think that BP has drilled into an deep-core oil volcano that cannot be stopped, regardless of the horizontal drills the company claims will stop the oil plume in August. Geologist, Chris Landau, for instance, has called for a showing of the mudlogs. A mudlog is a schematic cross sectional drawing of […]

Natural gas, the green choice?

Natural gas is regarded as a relatively environmentally friendly way of generating electricity. Gas burns cleanly without many of the problems associated with coal. Coal is a chemically complex substance. When it is is burnt, it releases oxides of sulphur (SOx) and nitrogen (NOx), traces of mercury, selenium and arsenic, as well as particulates, and […]

More Oil Gushing at Spill Site After Vent Damaged

Even more oil was gushing into the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday after an undersea robot bumped a venting system, forcing BP to remove the cap that had been containing some of the crude. It was yet another setback in the nine-week effort to stop the gusher, and it came as thick pools of oil […]

Methane in Gulf “astonishingly high”

As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday. Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near […]

Ocean ‘conveyor belt’ isn’t as simple as it sounds

Until now, oceanographers have subscribed to the overarching view that a conveyor belt-like system circulates the ocean waters from the poles to the equator and back again. Scientists have known that this was an oversimplification, and new research is showing where the ocean superhighway takes some unexpected twists and turns. Scientists have found evidence that […]

BP estimates spill up to 100,000 bpd

An internal BP document released on Sunday by a senior U.S. congressional Democrat shows that the company estimates that a worst-case scenario rate for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill could be about 100,000 barrels of oil per day. The estimate of 100,000 barrels (4.2 million gallons/15.9 million liters) of oil per day is far […]

Oil Spill a Planet Killer

Minister Lindsey Williams, who once served as a chaplain for the oil companies operating in Alaska, shared what he claimed to be the “real story” behind the Gulf oil crisis. Williams observed that the overwhelming amount of dangerous gasses, which are also being released from the disaster, could be swept along the East Coast should […]

Gasland, talks about the potential dangers of fracking

..benzene, toluene, xylene. You know, the residents on the ground and everywhere that I went where this is a problem, chemicals migrating into the water supply from the drilling process. I mean, the natural gas industry maintains that this was naturally occurring. However, the jury is still out about what kinds of gases liberates. When […]

Matt Simmons Believes Oil Covers 40% Of Gulf Beneath The Surface

Matt Simmons was on Bloomberg earlier, adding some additional perspective to his original appearance on the station, in which he initially endorsed the nuclear option as the only viable way to resolve the oil spill. Simmons refutes even the latest oil spill estimate of 45,000-60,000 barrels per day, and in quoting research by the Thomas […]

WOW

A swim anyone?

Industrial Agriculture Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Modern high-yield farming lowered the amount of greenhouse gases pumped into the Earth’s atmosphere toward the end of the 20th Century by a massive amount, according to a surprising study from researchers at Stanford University. “Our results dispel the notion that modern intensive agriculture is inherently worse for the environment than a more ‘old-fashioned’ way […]

Oil Disaster Will Be End of Life As We Know It

“The media coverage of the BP oil disaster to date has focused largely on the threats to wildlife, but the latest evaluation of air monitoring data shows a serious threat to human health from airborne chemicals emitted by the ongoing deepwater gusher,” the Institute for Southern Studies blog reported on May 10. Any one of […]

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