published October 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via Blogspot via CNN Aaaaand here's why we need good citizen and student-lead journalism in the Gulf. BP has launched an 'educational campaign' in Louisiana to give students the most "current information available" about the Gulf spill. Coincidentally, the most "current information available" appears to include explaining, in BP's words, those pesky "myths" out there about "dispersants, subsurfa... ...
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published September 23, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via EarthEcho International Philippe Cousteau, the renowned oceans advocate, has been doing some of the best reporting on the Gulf out there (some of it has been published here on TreeHugger ). I caught up to him at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative, where he'd just launched a student-citizen journalism program called STREAM -- which he discussed further ...
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published September 20, 2010 and has No Comments
Image via USA Today Relief Wells May be Later Used for Drilling While we were all quietly celebrating the news that the Macondo well that spewed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf was finally officially "dead" , there were nagging concerns that nevertheless refused to be silenced. For example, will US policy towards offshore drilling change ...
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published September 14, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via NOLA At first glance, you might not even notice the dead fish in the picture above -- there are too many of them. But no, that's not a gravely parking lot. It's a section of the Mississippi River that has been clogged with thousands of dead fish in the wake of the BP Gulf spill . And ...
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published September 7, 2010 and has No Comments
Photo via NY Daily News It's beyond well-known by now that crucial mistakes and shoddy cost-cutting measures were instrumental in bringing about the tragedy at the Deepwater Horizon drill site. But it's still rather alarming to look at them back-to-back-to-back -- New Orleans Times... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
Ahead of its upcoming report Fossil Foolishness: Utah's Pursuit of Tar Sands and Oil Shale Western Resource Advocates has produced the above short video detailing, as you might imagine from the title, why even though it may be ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Exploiting Utah's Oil Shale Deposits is Fossil Foolishness (Video)
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: Jonathan McIntosh via flickr With all the increased attention Canada's tar sands projects have been getting--both in terms of environmental impact and distributing them through pipeline into the United States--it's not surprising that many people are calling for a boycott on oil and fuel produced from tar sands. But is that really possible in a meaningful sense? ... ...
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published September 1, 2010 and has No Comments
map: Wikipedia The Canadian tar sands industry-government group Regional Aquatics Monitoring Program doesn't much like a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences showing that tar sands projects are responsible for elevated levels of water toxicity downstream from projects. RAMP's Fred Kuzmic maintains that any to... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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published August 30, 2010 and has No Comments
photo: sbamueller via flickr Contradicting previous industry- and government-backed studies about the source of pollution occurring downstream from Alberta tar sands projects, a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences says that high levels of lead, mercury, cadmium, zinc and other pollutants are not naturally occurring. As Cree elders have said for some time,
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published August 25, 2010 and has No Comments
Analysis by Berkeley Lab revealed the dominant microbe in the dispersed Gulf of Mexico oil plume was a new species, closely related to members of Oceanospirillales family. Image: Terry Hazen via Science Daily . In what seems a deus ex machina or perhaps deus ex gaia moment, scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report that the miles-long deep sea ...
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