Posts tagged “oil spill”
BP, Criminality, Accountability
It’s about time that BP get’s held accountable for the human toll of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion: U.S. prosecutors are preparing what would be the first criminal charges against BP Plc (BP/) staff after the worst U.S. oil spill last year, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. [...]
Get Your Plump And Juicy Gulf Of Mexico Shrimp Now!
This little sign of the times is from an email that the Harris Teeter grocery chain sent out to members of the Fresh Catch Club yesterday morning: This week’s Fresh Catch feature item is fresh wild caught 13-17ct Head-On Gulf White Shrimp, harvested from the crystal clear waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The Gulf [...]
The Continuing Saga Of The NOAA’s Clumsy Spin
On August 4, the NOAA — which has not exactly covered itself in glory as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill debacle has unfolded — put out an unexpectedly upbeat report that was widely interpreted as celebrating the end of the clean-up phase of the oil spill. According to the report: …almost three-fourths of the crude [...]
Huge Triumph for BP
After pumping mud into the blown well at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig to perform a successful static kill, BP has now added a cement plug for good measure. This is an unmitigated success for BP. Not so much because they have apparently managed to seal the well for good (though additional [...]
Where Has All The Oil Gone, Long Time Passing
Once BP managed to cap the well that had gushed millions and millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, we started to see media reports that most of the oil had magically vanished. This is the AFP, on July 27: With BP’s broken well in the Gulf of Mexico finally capped, the [...]
Does This Scientific Method Pass The Smell Test?
AP: Even the people who make their living off the seafood-rich waters of Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish have a hard time swallowing the government’s assurances that fish harvested in the shallow, muddy waters just offshore must be safe to eat because they don’t smell too bad. Fresh splotches of chocolate-colored crude, probably globules broken apart [...]
AP’s Thoroughly Misconceived PR Considerations Insinuation
AP, yesterday: With the newly installed cap keeping oil from BP’s fractured well out of the Gulf during a trial run, this weekend offered a chance for the oil company and government to gloat over their shared success — the first real victory in fighting the spill. Instead, the two sides have spent the past [...]
Scenes From A Spill
Here’s Mac McClelland of Mother Jones reporting from the front lines. (On) Grand Isle beach … toddlers splash in the surf. Only after I’ve stepped in a blob of crude do I realize that the sheen on the waves and the blackness covering a little blue heron from the neck down is oil. The next [...]
How Retarded Can One Corporation Be?
BP — like many other corporate behemoths — has claimed for years in its advertisements to be deeply committed to public service, in many different forms. Nice to see them actually living up to such claims. It must be purely as a public service that they are putting on a clinic (for the whole world, [...]
Gleeful Lemonade
On Monday, Fox News aired what — even by their practically non-existent standards — was a thoroughly ridiculous interview with “Michael Brown, who lost his job as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency for mishandling the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005 – days after President Bush’s now-famous televised attaboy, “Brownie, you’re doing [...]