Tag: Offshore Oil Drilling
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Greenpeace Blocks Two Major Oil Rigs to ‘Save the Arctic’
In the early hours of Tuesday morning, Greenpeace activists from 12 countries blocked two separate oil rigs…
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Federal Study Warns Oil Industry Nowhere Near Prepared for Spill in Arctic
A new study from the National Research Council is warning that neither the science nor the currently available…
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EPA Gives BP ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’ on 4th Anniversary of Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Disaster
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, which killed 11 workers and dumped more than 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period in 2010. [caption id="attachment_331295" align="alignnone" width="500"] BP’s critics say that the Deepwater Horizon disaster and other accidents were not just a run…
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Robert Redford: President Obama, Put the Arctic Off-Limits to Big Oil
Four years ago this week, BP’s Deepwater Horizon drill platform exploded. Eleven workers died that day. Their bodies were never found. Over the next 87 days, 210 million gallons of oil gushed into the Gulf of Mexico. It fouled fishing grounds, ravaged the coastline, and shut down tourism. The world got an ugly look at…
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4 Years After Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, EPA Lifts BP’s Gulf Drilling Ban
Nearly four years after the BP Deepwater Horizon oil and gas disaster in the Gulf of Mexico—an event that blew away the record books for the nation’s worst accidental oil spill—BP is fully back in business, and drilling is booming in the Gulf of Mexico. [caption id="attachment_326438" align="alignnone" width="585"] NASA satellite imgae on May 20, 2010.…