After the Mother of All Spills, BP Is Still Worth the Risk; Ask Andy
Next week marks the anniversary of the beginning of the BP oil disaster. It should have been a wake-up call for the industry and the federal government. Instead, spills, leaks and explosions still happen every day. A six month CBS News investigation found that spills of crude oil and toxic...
Oil spills, especially in large water bodies, have devastating effects that take decades, even centuries, to reverse. The BP Oil deepwater oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is still a climatic disaster today despite the US government and the company spending $65 Billion to mitigate the ...
Oil spill dispersants: boon or bane? Dispersants provide a reliable large-scale response to catastrophic oil spills that can be used when the preferable option of recapturing the oil cannot be achieved. By allowing even mild wave action to disperse floating oil into tiny dr... RC Prince - 《...
BP’s history of horrendous climate disasters is well-storied. From disastrous oil spills to fossil fuel fiascos, the oil giant has been doing its bit to make climate reversal as challenging as possible for over a century. Way to go!
” according to the company. Today, BPtouts its foray into lower-carbon fuels(opens in a new tab), but these are limited in scope. In 2018,BP invested 2.3 percent of its budget(opens in a new tab)on renewable energies. Its bread and butter is still black oil and gas. What low-...
Another Reason the Media Love Oil Spills:Not only does bad news sell, but bad news also can be good for advertising revenue. Since the oil spill, BP has spent an estimated $200 million on image advertising: in newspapers, on television and on the Web. ...
Environmental groups described the plan as dangerous. “Trump’s trying to turn our oceans into oilfields. His reckless plan would expose more wildlife and coastal communities to devastating oil spills,” said Kristen Monsell, ocean program legal director at the Center for Biological Diversity. ...
Hemp also can clean up oil spills such as occurred in the Gulf of Mexico. Yet the ban continues, so fearful of losing their monopoly on fuel money are these illuminati. Reply Queeny on March 28, 2012 at 10:21 pm I simply wanted to say this: I am extremely humbled to see such a...