Effects of a Brazilian oil spill 10 years on
• Al JazeeraIt was here 10 years ago that 1.3 million litres of oil leaked from an underwater pipeline smothering in oil birds, sandy beaches, and much of the mangrove swaps that surround Guanabara Bay.
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It was here 10 years ago that 1.3 million litres of oil leaked from an underwater pipeline smothering in oil birds, sandy beaches, and much of the mangrove swaps that surround Guanabara Bay.
Bilderberger Rogoff openly embraces nightmare scenario of hurricanes pushing oil onshore as a way of “exploiting tragedy” to create political momentum behind Obama’s dreaded green economy
First- The OIL on surface and beach or shore is NOTHING as it seeps at water level deep toward land in sand or dirt at tide level unseen unless you use a BACKHOE or shovels on beaches or shore even of the Lake. Second - Oil is Radioactive. Third and
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New Orleans, which managed to escape the oil from the BP spill for more than 2 months, can't hide any longer. For the first time since the accident, oil from the ruptured well is seeping into Lake Pontchartrain, threatening another environmental disa
Bilderberger Rogoff openly embraces nightmare scenario of hurricanes pushing oil onshore as a way of “exploiting tragedy” to create political momentum behind Obama’s dreaded green economy
Obama administration has no motivation whatsoever to cap the leak or clean up the spill
A prehistoric leviathan that represented a more savage Moby Dick once hunted smaller whales around 12 million or 13 million years ago, researchers say.
Gruesome 3-D images of the insides of snakes, alligators and tarantulas have been captured with a new high-tech procedure.
With the cleanup costs associated with the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico climbing above $3 billion, BP is showing some signs of panic. The oil giant sent out demands last month for $400 million to partners in the Deepwater Horizon project, according
A parish has a plan to build rock levees to help keep oil out of inland waterways and after they submitted the proposal to the Army Corps of Engineers they were told it's on hold until the following Monday, because they'll be closed for the weekend.
Lindsey Williams gives a weekly update on the Macondo oil well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. In this update Lindsey reports on the amount of pressure from the well head, how long it may flow, and the fractures in the granite strata.
This is a short video which covers the destruction of drinking water by the ongoing BP oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.
While this would clean vast amounts of water efficiently, the EPA is unwilling to grant a temporary waiver of its regulations.
"A nuclear explosion over the leak," a director at the Institute of Strategic Stability says nonchalantly. "I don't know what BP is waiting for, they are wasting their time. Only about 10 kilotons of nuclear explosion capacity and the problem is solv
BP has confirmed its 45-ton blowout preventer is tilting sideways up to 15 degrees. Rogue scientists point to tilting as evidence of a severely weakened well, and warn it could fall and crash the entire rig through the ocean floor.
The discovery suggested that the force of the erupting petroleum from BP's well on April 20 was so violent that it sent pipe segments hurtling into the blowout preventer, like derailing freight cars.
This video is a week old but it allows us to see what the Main Stream Media is hiding from us.
The federal government has shut down sand dredging that was being done to create protective sand berms in the Gulf of Mexico. The berms are meant to protect the Louisiana coastline from oil.
A news story based on prior experience about how the EPA and labor unions blocked efforts to avert the BP oil rig catastrophe. Some of you must read this to believe it.
Worst case? The methane bubble explodes, causing a tsunami that wipes out 80% of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. Large portions of Texas are also destroyed. The Gulf islands and Mexico will be in the same boat.
“They’re paying all these boats to run around like headless chickens,” Taylor said, as reporters gathered to hear his assessment of the Sound.
In the case of a hurricane hitting the 250-mile wide slick and pushing it over sand dunes and into beach towns, residents fear they’ll face not only mass evacuations, but potential permanent relocation.
In what has to be one of the most disgraceful examples of political, unscientific attacks, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a report, “Expert credibility in climate change,” alleging to show that climate change “denier
Weather forecasters had earlier said the storm by next week could head for the site of the huge oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico unleashed by the April 20 explosion of the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon rig.
It was treated as an oddball twist in the otherwise wrenching saga of the BP oil spill when Kevin Costner stepped forward to promote a device he said could work wonders in containing the spill's damage. Marks a major breakthrough in spill cleanup tec
The Army got stuck with millions and millions of rounds of costly tungsten-based ammo that it has been ordered to not use in the U.S. for fear it poisons water sources. Solution? Expend it on the enemy.
"We're going to have to evacuate the gulf states," said Matt Simmons, founder of Simmons and Co., the unflagging source of end-of-the-world predictions. "Can you imagine evacuating 20 million people? . . . This story is 80 times worse than I thought.
A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls in a public parking lot and a messy trail of sand and water on the main beach road. A few miles away, brown liquid drips out of
It may be a prank -- or it may be raining oil in Louisiana. A videotape posted on the Russia Today news site shows an amateur cameraman filming oil-slicked streets in River Ridge, a suburb of New Orleans.
A cap was back in place on BP's broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after a deep-sea blunder forced crews to temporarily remove what has been the most effective method so far for containing some of the massive spill.