The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) gave consent for BP’s proposed North Uist well, 125km northwest of the Shetland Islands after “detailed and extensive scrutiny” of the oil major’s application, including “the environmental impact and emergency response plans”. The well will be drilled 1,290 metres below the surface of ... Read More

Scientists have released a new report on results of testing Louisiana seafood that further confirms the present dangerous human health situation, especially to children, not just in the Gulf region but throughout the nation, as reported by other doctors such as Dr. Rodney Soto. The new report by Wilma Subra, the ... Read More

When I say shĭt-iz-tōt’l-ē-fŭkd-up........... World-renown doctor who owned Lakeland Veterinary Hospital and conducted research on paralyzed swans and dead birds since onset of the Gulf of Mexico operation has disappeared, just before due to release his research. Citizen reporters trying to locate him continue to be stonewalled, even someone who ... Read More

Please do not forget what BP has done to our Gulf in 2010. ... Read More

Joannie Hughes, Kindra Arnesen and Vicky Perrin, Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana Radio, November 2, 2010: Joannie Hughes, Kindra Arnesen and Vicky Perrin, Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana Radio, November 2, 2010. Listen to the full show here: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/chsl Visit the Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana website: http://www.chslouisiana.org/ ... Read More

The Consequence of Oil from Global Access Media on Vimeo. The first in a 12 part documentary series investigating the the real effects of the BP oil disaster on the people and environment of the Gulf. The BP oil disaster has the potential to shift the entire global energy paradigm - IF ... Read More

Lt. Governor surprised by amount of oil debris on Ship Island, WLOX, November 01, 2010: Lt. Governor Phil Bryant toured Ship Island Monday to get a first hand look at clean-up efforts. … “I didn’t realize that we still had that much work left to do,” Bryant said. … The man in ... Read More

Oil Rally at Capitol, WBRX, October 31, 2010: ... Read More

Scientists talk oil and Naples coastline, WINK CBS, October 29, 2010: Rush Transcript Excerpts Are the worst effects of that devastating spill just around the corner? Scientists gathered in Collier County tonight giving us a look at the possible long-term impacts... Many in Naples are now turning to world renowned scientists ... Read More

Baldwin County oil spill victim who says he’s out of work and was denied a claim threatens to slaughter family pig outside Foley claims office, WKRG, October 29, 2010: WKRG Tosh Peters… worked as a marine contractor, says the oil spill put him out of business. Peters says his claim has ... Read More

Crude Awakening, journeymanpictures, October 24, 2010: Dauphin Island, AL — Catfish caught in tidal lagoon were suffering burns across their heads and bodies.   ... Read More

See also: “Orange oil” for miles, “a signature image of the spill” returns — BP, Coast Guard not responding say captains (PHOTOS) h/t BPGulfLeak ... Read More

Interview with P2S cleanup worker Ashley Elizabeth Richards, hccreekkeeper, October 12, 2010: Full video of interview with Ms. Richards here: ... Read More

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They have good reason to worry. Even though BP claims otherwise, we just don't know for sure and you shouldn't just dump it anywhere (although I suspect they will, anyway): About 35,000 bags — or 250 tons — of oily trash have been carted away from this beach, said Lt. Patrick ... Read More

THE BOROWITZ REPORT – In a new video that is light on his usual threats but heavy on admiration, Osama bin Laden admits that he is “professionally envious” of oil giant BP’s massive oil spill, saying that it puts his efforts to create destruction and chaos to shame. full article ... Read More

Jean-Michel Cousteau on BP Oil Disaster: "We are All Responsible; Stop Talking, Take Action" Jacqui Goddard Jean-Michel Cousteau, one of the world’s leading ocean explorers, has spoken of his “frustration at the human species” over the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster and called for it to become ... Read More

After the BP oil spill last month, BP speculated that the damage was  minimal, relatively speaking.   A picture is worth a thousand words as they say: Don’t they owe us something here?  They could start by being honest with us. Firedoglake reports: A  live video feed of the oil gusher in the ... Read More

Ted Turner: Is God speaking in Gulf Coast spill? Ted Turner has never been one to keep his opinions to himself. Sometimes referred to as “The Mouth of the South,” the CNN founder lashed out against religious believers in the past. He once dubbed Christianity a “religion for losers” and wondered aloud whether the ... Read More

By JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer Justin Pritchard, Associated Press Writer – Sun May 16 LOS ANGELES – The federal agency responsible for ensuring that the Deepwater Horizon was operating safely before it exploded last month fell well short of its own policy that the rig be inspected at ... Read More

By Jacqui Goddard, Miami 15 May 2010 State officials are angry that federal regulators gave the company permission to try out new chemical techniques to break up and hold back the growing tide of oil. Despite registering concerns about the potential implications for the ... Read More

Scientists have raised urgent new concerns over the latest efforts to mitigate the catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico caused by the oil rig explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon. Latest efforts to limit the environmental damage involve an untried deep-water technique, using a toxic dispersant that they believe ... Read More

By Mark Sappenfield, Staff writer / May 16, 2010 From the first moments that the Deepwater Horizon oil rig sank last month, it has been apparent that the blooming Gulf oil spill has been an oil disaster unlike any other. ... Read More

BP is using undersea robots to try to thread a small tube into the jagged pipe that is pouring oil into the Gulf of Mexico in the latest attempt to stem the spill from a blown-out well that has pumped out more than 90,000 barrels of crude. The company was trying ... Read More

These fools don't know what the fuck to do. BP is full of shit. A rubber stopper? GET....THE....FUCK.....OUTTA.....TOWN......CHARLIE BROWN. I won't hold my breath on this one. Where's all the genius minds at? Nobody can solve this oil problem. If that cavern is as big as they say it is....I ... Read More

By CAIN BURDEAU NEW ORLEANS (AP) - For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is pretty hard to pin down. Satellite images show most of an estimated 4.6 million gallons of oil has pooled in a floating, shape-shifting blob off the ... Read More

Watch CBS News Videos Online The president seemed genuinely angry today, on a beautiful spring afternoon in the Rose Garden. Having watched him on a daily basis for about a year and a half, I'm confident he wasn't faking it. He seems deeply upset about the growing calamity in the Gulf, about ... Read More

War, terrorism, economic instability -- these are just a few of the reasons to be concerned about our addiction to oil. May 15, 2010 | A US soldier walks near a Stryker vehicle during a patrol in Shahwali Kot district in Kandahar. The United States and Afghanistan pledged Tuesday to ... Read More

PORT FOURCHON, La. (AP) - Louisiana wildlife officials say huge tar balls have littered the beach at Port Fourchon, some of them 8 inches across. Laura Deslatte, a spokeswoman for the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said Friday that the glossy globs were found along the entire beach at Port ... Read More

US wildlife officials are investigating whether the deaths of six dolphins on the Gulf Coast are related to the massive oil spill. Tests are being run now to clarify if the oil spill was the contributing factor in the dolphins deaths. The dolphin carcasses have ben found in Louisians, Mississippi and ... Read More

Trouble on the Horizon Both options are designed to avoid the formation of methane hydrate, a solid composed of methane (natural gas) and water that clogged the first containment system. (It's believed that methane gas triggered the explosion that caused the spill.) Produced when water molecules form a cage ... Read More

Florida environmental authorities Wednesday declared a final emergency order ahead of the arrival in the state's northwest of the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The order is meant to speed up the measures that can be taken to try to protect rivers and estuaries, Governor Charlie Crist's office said. "Giving local ... Read More

Written by Walter Pierce Sunday, 02 May 2010 A federal judge in New Orleans Sunday heard arguments from lawyers from Louisiana fishermen concerned that agreements they were signing with British Petroleum to serve as compensated volunteers in the cleanup effort from the oil spill would “seriously compromised the existing and future rights ... Read More