Comments on: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill – Same Shit, Different Day

By: Craig Mackintosh

Craig Mackintosh — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:51:07 +0000

This may interest some:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8734000/8734610.stm

By: Moe

Moe — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:45:10 +0000

who is this woman? shes awesome! we need more reporting like this.

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 07:59:20 +0000

Today there is a 20 pages big inlet in Aftenposten, the largest newspaper in Norway, arguing for why the oil companies must drill for oil in Lofoten and Vesterålen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofoten

The arguing goes like we have much more advanced technology than BP, more strict rules, that the oil industry has “saved” Norway from the financial crisis, interviews with local people dreaming about all the new jobs the oil industry can create in Lofoten and Vesterålen, and so on.

They have no humility, aggressively arguing for drilling in Northern Europe’s most important marine hot spot in the middle of the crisis of the Gulf of Mexico.

Next week I go to this gem of Europe, I want to see it before it’s spoiled by big money oil industry, using millions of dollars arguing for why we can’t leave this gem, this marine paradise, in peace.

By: Thomas Fischbacher

Thomas Fischbacher — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:56:26 +0000

According to this Reuters article, current Canadian legislation makes it mandatory to drill a relief well in parallel to the primary well when drilling off the coast of Canada. (Relief wells actually do work, in contradistinction to a number of other funny ideas, but take a lot of time if they have to be drilled “after the event”.)

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1326556220100513

Now guess what? BP lobbied against having to drill these:

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In 2008, BP paid C$1.2 billion ($1.8 billion) for rights to explore three parcels in Canada’s Beaufort Sea, north of the Arctic Circle.

It has yet to announce plans to drill in the region but shortly before the U.S. disaster, BP and other oil companies urged Canadian regulators to drop a requirement stipulating that companies operating in the Arctic had to drill relief wells in the same season as the primary well.

Cullen argued the companies had made this request because drilling a relief well within the required time limit would be too expensive, given the difficult Arctic conditions.

“It’s not a question of cost,” said Drinkwater.

“Your submission does say it’s a question of cost. … You cite money because you’re concerned about money,” retorted Cullen, reading from a BP document filed with the NEB, then listing recent disasters BP had been involved in.

Drinkwater — who said BP was not rejecting the option of a relief well — declined to answer reporters’ questions following the hearing.
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By: jean-michel

jean-michel — Sat, 29 May 2010 23:42:47 +0000

http://www.gregpalast.com/smart-pig-bps-other-spill-this-week/

By: Jess

Jess — Sat, 29 May 2010 03:28:34 +0000

All I can say is… WOW.
Also, this blog has gotten AWESOME recently! Keep it up guys!

By: Tim Auld

Tim Auld — Sat, 29 May 2010 00:12:41 +0000

While the world economy is held hostage to fossil fuels it will be impossible to eliminate this kind of activity. Permaculturists should consider integrating liquid fuel crops (ethanol and biodiesel) in their designs to displace destructive exploitation of natural resources. The byproducts of alcohol fermentation are valuable: carbon dioxide and heat to accelerate plant growth, and concentrated nutrient mash for animal feed and fertiliser. I have written an article on this topic and it will be published here soon.

More info here: http://www.alcoholcanbeagas.com/node/518

By: Øyvind Holmstad

Øyvind Holmstad — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:30:22 +0000

In spite of what happened in the Gulf of Mexico, my governments wants to drill for oil here: http://www.michael-voeller.org/galleries/lft/panoramen/

Lofoten and Vesterålen have some of the largest deep water coral reefs in the world, several bird mountains, and is the place where the cod fish of the Barents Sea sponge.