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Science

BP Oil Spill Aftermath: Eyeless Shrimp, Clawless Crabs

Al Jazeera just published an astonishing report on the after-effects of the BP oil disaster, and it’s not pretty. There are an alarming number of deformities in sea creatures: mutated shrimp, fish with sores and lesions, eyeless crabs and more. It’s unlike anything local fisherman have ever seen.

19 July 2011

News

BP Has Another Spill On Its Hands

Seriously? BP admitted today that a pipeline leak on Saturday resulted in “2100 to 4200 gallons” of oil being spilled onto the Alaskan tundra. After last year’s five million barrels spilt, can they really afford even small screw-ups? [Yahoo News]

28 April 2011

News

Trump Offered Obama BP Spill Fix And A Ballroom

Donald Trump. Just a normal man with a normal ego. An ego so mild that he casually asked to be put in charge of BP repair operations. When he was turned down, he offered to build Obama a ballroom. Hoookay!

21 April 2011

News

Gulf Spill Round Up

One year on, we take a look at the technologies used to combat the worst oil spill in US history.

Science

The Cost Of The BP Disaster, One Year Later

Exactly a year ago, the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank to the bottom of the ocean, beginning the slow underwater seep of five million barrels of oil. Today, the Gulf is better – but the disaster’s damage remains.

26 March 2011

Science

Why Capping Blown Oil Wells Is So Difficult

Last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill dumped an estimated 9.8 million litres of oil A DAY into the Gulf of Mexico – you’d think someone would have gotten on that faster. Oh, they did? Fire on the Horizon explains what took so damn long.

26 January 2011

News

BP CEO Thinks Last Year Was Almost The Company’s Best

Ah man, don’t you hate those days where everything goes totally right except for when you, I dunno, step in a puddle? BP CEO Bob Dudley feels like that about BP in 2010, except his “puddle” was an environmental armageddon.

29 October 2010

Science

BP Dispersants Causing ‘Non-Stop Diarrhoea’

Remember when BP was responsible for horrible things, and then they plugged the hole and we moved on to worrying about other horrible things? Things are still horrible! The chemical they used to break down oil is making people ill.

Report: BP, Halliburton Knew Deepwater Cement Was Unstable

Halliburton and BP knew the cement mixture used to seal the Macondo well – the one drilled during the Deepwater Rig explosion – was unreliable but used it anyway, according to a new report from the presidential commission investigating the disaster.

26 October 2010

BP’s Oil Used As Paint For ‘Oil & Water Do Not Mix’ Posters

I love the series of photos of Anthony Burrill using oil from Louisiana beaches left from the BP oil disaster for his posters. From something so horrible comes something pretty eye-catching – and beneficial for the charity the profits support.

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