BP Oil Spill: How Much Has Bad Weather Hurt the Cleanup?A week of high winds and waves has interfered with some efforts to contain and clean up the BP oil spill. But key activities have continued with little interruption from bad weather.Sullivan, Cheryl...
With the top kill failing to stem BP's oil spill, concern shifts again to the clean-up effort. As crews dab stricken marshes by hand, we have to ask: Are there more innovative solutions to oil spills?
Since the Exxon Valdez oil spill, there have been few advances in technology for cleaning up after an accident. Here is an overview of the cleanup technologies at hand for the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Short-term effects are well-documented—exposure to oil fumes on the coast, both for marine workers and fishermen enlisted in clean-up efforts, resulted in nausea, dizziness, and lethargy that faded as the fumes cleared away. The long-term impact of oil spill pollution and inhalation is still...
Arriving in the Gulf one week after the spill, Beltrá spent 40 hours over the course of two months photographing the spill and cleanup efforts, flying 3,000 feet above the Louisiana coastline in a small, rented Cessna aircraft. Some of the 411 controlled burns used to clean up the spill ...
I’ve just had a meeting with these governors, members of Congress, local officials, as well as Admiral Thad Allen, the National Incident Commander in charge of response efforts to the BP oil spill. Admiral Allen gave us an update, the latest information on both the efforts to plug the ...
BP may have screwed over the entire nation with the Gulf oil spill but it's throwing a lifeline to one of the neediest groups — the unemployed.
Riiight…Why then isMichelle ObamaChairing the Obama Administration Disaster Response Team, receiving an update from the Coast Guard on efforts to contain the BP Oil Spill? What exactly does Michelle O, know about oil spill clean-up? Posted inBarack Obama,BP Oil Spill,Michelle Obama,Obama Admini...
As a result of these efforts, we’ve directed BP to mobilize additional equipment and technology. And in the coming weeks and days, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well. This is until the company finishes drilling arelief well(减压井)later in ...
BP isn't going out of business. It was the world's ninth-largest energy company in terms of revenue in 2023. The company has suffered financially due to the associated clean-up costs of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, however. It's been estimated that the cost to BP for cle...