With BP closing its book on the oil spill disaster, we’re left to repair the damage – and look at Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s dramatic photos from the last few months, including the Q4000′s oil flaring. [Burtynsky via DesignBoom]
After five months of investigations, soul-searching and naval-gazing, BP’s released its report today summarising exactly how a catastrophe such as their Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster could have occurred. And it’s a doozy.
After a containment cap didn’t work all that well, BP’s making yet another attempt to plug the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf. This time it involves a lot of mud and cement. And you can watch.
The X Prize Foundation, which spurs scientific and technological innovation with the greatest of incentives – a big pile of money – hopes we’ll have a significantly improved method for cleaning oil by this time next year. The carrot: a cool million.
How is the scrappy Plaquemines Parish Inland Waterway Strike Force cleaning up BP’s mess as oil creeps into their backyard – the wetlands of southeastern Louisiana? With dustbusters. And they say they’re “knocking the socks off” BP’s cleanup crews.
