http://www.ecoearth.info/ Custom newsfeed from Ecological Internet Ecological Internet, Inc. info@ecologicalinternet.org (Dr. Glen Barry) http://www.climateark.org/img/ark.jpg http://www.ecoearth.info/ Inter Press Service: Stealthy submarine gliders slide through the depths of the Gulf of Mexico with the precision of birds of prey. Robot-like rovers search for droplets of oil thousands of metres under the surface. Powerful computerised analysers send instant results to scientists on board the ship above. All of this to assess the impact of disaster. The ... http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=52699 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181372 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Inter Press Service: Adrianne Appel) Reuters: An oil and gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico exploded on Thursday, setting off a blaze and a small oil spill, but the accident does not appear to be as serious as BP's deadly rig explosion and oil spill in April. The U.S. Coast Guard said an oil sheen of 100 feet by 1 nautical mile has been reported at the site. All 13 crew ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/us_nm/us_oil_rig_fire http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181368 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill explosion | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Erwin Seba and Bruce Nichols) AP: Four Greenpeace activists who had clung to an oil rig off western Greenland with rock-climbing gear were arrested Thursday after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their environmental protest. Police spokesman Morten Nielsen said the four men -- from the U.S., Finland, Poland and Germany -- faced preliminary charges of violating a ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129604786&ft=1&f=1025 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181363 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic oil rig Greenpeace activists | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AFP: There is no sign of an oil spill after a rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico, a spokesman for rig operator Mariner Energy said. "In an initial flyover by company personnel over the site, there was no hydrocarbon spill that was reported," spokesman Patrick Cassidy told CNN. Everything "appears to be" contained "at this time," he ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100902/ts_alt_afp/usblastoilenvironmentpollution http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181361 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill no leak | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AFP: none given) Reuters: An oil and gas platform operated by Mariner Energy burst into flames on Thursday and unleashed a mile-long oil sheen into the Gulf of Mexico, in the region's first major offshore disaster since BP's oil spill began in April. All 13 crew members were rescued with no injuries from the ocean near the burning platform and were taken to ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100902/ts_nm/us_oil_rig_fire http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181360 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil sheen spreads | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Erwin Seba and Bruce Nichols) Guardian: Another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico suffered an explosion today, raising fears of more pollution just months after the BP oil spill hit the area. There were 13 crew on the rig, of whom one was known to be injured. Most of the crew took to the water when the explosion occurred. The United States Coast Guard said the rig was not ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/02/oil-rig-explosion-gulf-of-mexico http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181337 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST offshore oil rig explode | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: Ewen MacAskill) AP: An offshore petroleum rig exploded and was burning Friday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles south of Vermilion Bay. The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the explosion, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the site around 9 a.m. CDT. All 13 people aboard the rig have been accounted for, with one injury. The ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129603017&ft=1&f=1025 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181329 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST offshore oil rig explode | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AP: An offshore oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. Coast Guard Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the blast was reported by a commercial helicopter company about 9:30 a.m. CDT Thursday. Seven helicopters, two airplanes and four boats are en route to the site, about ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100902/ap_on_re_us/us_gulf_rig_explosion http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181326 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST offshore oil gulf dangerous | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) Business Green: The US ban on deep water oil and gas drilling could be overturned for a second time after a federal judge yesterday rejected the Obama administration's request to dismiss an oil industry lawsuit challenging the six-month moratorium. US district judge Martin Feldman, who controversially overturned the administration's first ban, yesterday ... http://www.businessgreen.com/business-green/news/2269117/legal-challenge-drilling-ban http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181298 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST drilling ban legal challenge | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Business Green: none given) AP: The image of thick crude gushing from a blown-out oil well a mile beneath the Gulf of Mexico was turned off when a tightly fitting cap was secured on top a month-and-a-half ago. Engineers weren't expecting that sight again Thursday when they planned to delicately remove the cap as a prelude to raising the massive piece of equipment ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100902/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181295 02 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf well cap off | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: Harry R. Weber) Reuters: BP Plc expects to remove a failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well by Saturday or Sunday and later plug the leak for good, the top U.S. official overseeing the spill response said on Wednesday. "We believe in the next 24 to 36 hours, we will enter a weather window that will allow us to proceed," retired Coast ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100901/us_nm/us_oil_spill_allen http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181257 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Kristen Hays) National Public Radio: Work should resume later this week to remove the temporary sealing cap and failed blowout preventer from BP's busted oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, the government's point man on the spill said Wednesday. Rough seas have delayed underwater operations intended to kill the well. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said that when conditions ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129586095&ft=1&f=1025 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181237 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill resume kill oil | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Public Radio: none given) National Geographic: Could pollutants from the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico end up as far north as New England? That could happen if a hurricane or tropical storm hits the Gulf region and moves northward. Siddhartha Mitra, Geochemist, East Carolina University "On land, no one's really though about the effect of material coming over from ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/09/100901-nsf-oil-hurricanes-mitra-video/ http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181226 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf hurricanes inlad | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: none given) Reuters: A federal judge on Wednesday rejected the U.S. government's request to dismiss an industry lawsuit challenging its deepwater oil and gas drilling moratorium, dealing another blow to the Obama administration. Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc and other drilling companies sued the administration on June 7 after it first ordered a halt to ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100901/ts_nm/us_oil_spill_moratorium http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181224 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil drilling moratorium courts | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) AP: Oil giant BP says it has spent more than $5 million a week on advertising since the Gulf Coast oil spill -- more than three times the amount it spent on ads during the same period last year. BP PLC told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that it spent a total of $93 million on advertising from April to the end of July. The company ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100901/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_bp http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181206 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP spent $93m | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) Reuter: A federal judge in New Orleans rejected on Wednesday the U.S. government's request to dismiss a lawsuit challenging its original 6-month deepwater drilling moratorium. Hornbeck Offshore Services Inc and other oil companies sued the government when it first ordered a halt to deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in May after BP Plc's ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100901/us_nm/us_oil_spill_moratorium http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181205 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST offshore driling halt | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuter: none given) AFP: Energy giant BP spent more than 93 million dollars on advertising in the three months after the April 20 Gulf oil spill, triple what it spent over the same period in 2009, US lawmakers said Wednesday. Leaders of a key US House of Representatives Committee said the embattled firm, still reeling from the disaster's impact, told them Monday ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100901/ts_alt_afp/usoilenvironmentpollutionadvertisingpolitics http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181204 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP greenwash | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AFP: none given) AP: The federal government's point man on the Gulf of Mexico spill response said Wednesday there is no "significant risk" that more oil will leak into the sea when engineers remove the temporary cap Thursday that first contained the gusher in mid-July. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said vessels will remain on standby just in case to ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100901/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181202 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill downplay risk | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: Harry R. Weber,) AP: A parish official says a Louisiana oil spill command center is shutting down over a dispute with BP over rent and other expenses St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro says the owner of the property that has been home to the operation since May is ordering workers to vacate by the end of the week because BP has failed to make ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100901/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_command_center http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181175 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill center shut | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AP: Developers of a proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm were cleared to move forward Tuesday when Massachusetts' high court rejected a claim that the project sidestepped local opposition to win a key permit. Cape Wind project, a 130-turbine proposal that would be the nation's first offshore wind farm, was given permission last year by a state ... http://www.centredaily.com/2010/08/31/2180060/mass-court-rejects-challenge-to.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181129 01 Sep 2010 11:00:00 PST Cape wind permit | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AP: The federal government's point man on the Gulf oil disaster says work to remove the 300-ton piece of equipment that failed to stop the massive oil spill could be delayed until the weekend or longer because of rough seas. Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said Tuesday that seas were 6 feet or higher and have to be closer to 4 feet for ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100831/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181084 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill raising key | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AFP: Indonesia has demanded 2.4 billion dollars in compensation from a Thai oil company for damages related to a spill off the northwestern coast of Australia last year, a minister said Tuesday. Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi said the claim for 22 trillion rupiah (2.4 billion dollars) had been presented during talks with PTT ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100831/sc_afp/indonesiathailandaustraliaoilenvironmentpollution http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=181046 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill payout Australia | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia info@ecologicalinternet.org (AFP: none given) USA Today: Environmental groups, which failed to get a climate-change bill passed this year in the U.S. Senate, are having trouble getting their message heard on the campaign trail. They tried to sound the alarm that they're losing the fight at two events last week in Wisconsin -- one dubbed a "Carnivoil" -- but didn't draw enough people to fill a ... http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2010/08/environmentalists-climate-fight/1 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180989 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST climate change fight lost | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (USA Today: none given) Guardian: Greenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four climbers began an occupation of the rig just after dawn. The environment campaigners said the four protesters evaded a small flotilla of armed Danish navy and police boats which have been guarding the rigs in ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/31/greenpeace-oil-rig-arctic http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180954 31 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST Arctic oil Greenpeace | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: none given) Reuters: BP Plc delayed retrieval of the failed blowout preventer atop its ruptured Gulf of Mexico oil well this week because of bad weather, the top U.S. official overseeing the oil spill said on Monday. "We are in a weather hold right now," Retired Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, noting seas were 6 to 6 feet high at the site of the Macondo ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100830/ts_nm/us_oil_spill_allen http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180925 30 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf remove blowout preventer | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) AP: The equipment failures blamed for the Gulf oil spill might have been detected if the owners of the Deepwater Horizon continued to have the rig's drilling equipment verified by independent experts -- something federal regulators mistakenly thought was happening offshore. At least three government drilling engineers assigned to the federal ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100830/ap_on_bi_ge/us_oil_spill_inspections http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180910 30 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill drilling | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AFP: A bid to recover a key valve that failed to prevent the blowout of the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico has been delayed because of bad weather, the pointman for the US response to the oil spill said Monday. "We are in a hold pending calming of the current weather," retired coast guard admiral Thad Allen told reporters, adding that it would ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100830/ts_alt_afp/usoilenvironmentpollution http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180908 30 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf blowout preventer | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AFP: none given) AP: High seas on the Gulf of Mexico forced BP PLC on Monday to delay operations for up to three days to raise the piece of equipment from the seabed that failed to prevent the massive oil spill, the U.S. government said. Retired Coast Adm. Thad Allen, the government's point man on the spill response, told reporters in a conference call that ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100830/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180855 30 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) Christian Science Monitor: The people of New Orleans may disapprove of the way President Obama has handled the Gulf oil spill, but when he arrives this weekend to mark the fifth anniversary of hurricane Katrina, he is likely to encounter mainly welcoming audiences. It's not just a matter of Southern hospitality: Residents here know their city's future is still bonded to ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100827/ts_csm/322567 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180844 27 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill Katrina anniversary | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Christian Science Monitor: none given) Fremont Tribune: The recent tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico has focused our nation's attention on the challenge of balancing competing uses of our marine resources. The threat from oil spills, however, is just one of the problems our oceans face today. Fortunately, President Obama recently signed an executive order establishing a new unified national ocean ... http://fremonttribune.com/news/opinion/columnists/article_abbb5d2c-b262-11df-adfd-001cc4c002e0.html http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180813 28 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST helping coral reefs ourselves | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Fremont Tribune: none given) Guardian: In a few days' time, officials at the Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum in Greenland will reveal the winners of a new round of licences to drill for oil and gas in its waters. The announcement promises to be explosive. Among those waiting are most of the world's leading oil companies, including ExxonMobil, Shell and Norway's StatOil. ... http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/aug/29/deepwater-horizon-greenland-oil-drilling-arctic http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180795 28 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST ice melting deepwater Horizon | Arctic/Antarctic | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Guardian: none given) NPR: The last time we spoke to EPA administrator Lisa Jackson in October of last year, she was pretty hopeful that Congress would pass a climate change bill. They didn't, and now the agency is issuing new rules and regulations that will do some of the things it hoped Congress would. Host Liane Hansen asks Jackson how she responds to critics who say ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129506744&ft=1&f=1025 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180767 29 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST climate EPA Congress | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (NPR: none given) AP: At a celebration of BP's centennial last October, CEO Tony Hayward boasted to guests that the oil company "lives on the frontiers of the energy industry." But this week, in the first major sign that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill may have caused lasting damage to the company's long-term strategy of embracing projects with high risks, BP ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100829/ap_on_bi_ge/gulf_oil_spill_bp_s_future http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180733 29 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST energy industry BP | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AP: A timeline of some key moments in BP PLC's drive to operate on the frontiers of the oil and gas industry: 1998 -- British Petroleum acquires Amoco in a $53 billion deal in December, giving the company an even bigger footprint in the U.S. where it already has licenses in the Gulf of Mexico. It adopts the name BP Amoco PLC. 1999 -- ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100829/ap_on_bi_ge/gulf_oil_spill_bp_s_future_glance http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180732 29 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) Washington Post: On Thursday, some of the country's most respected environmental groups - in the midst of their biggest political fight in two decades - sent a group of activists to Milwaukee with a message. We're losing. They put on what they called a "CarnivOil" - a fake carnival with a stilt-wearing barker, free "tar balls" (chocolate ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/29/AR2010082903699.html?hpid=topnews http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180676 29 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST climate debate environmental groups | Worldwide/General | info@ecologicalinternet.org (Washington Post: none given) New York Times: While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems. For 40 days after a piece of equipment critical to the refinery's operation broke down, a total of ... http://www10.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/us/30bprefinery.html?_r=5&partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180671 29 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST toxic spill BP plant | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr. While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf o) New York Times: In a remote reach of the Gulf of Mexico, nearly 200 miles from shore, a floating oil platform thrusts its tentacles deep into the ocean like a giant steel octopus. The $3 billion rig, called Perdido, can pump oil from dozens of wells nearly two miles under the sea while simultaneously drilling new ones. It is part of a wave of ultra-deep ... http://www10.nytimes.com/2010/08/30/business/energy-environment/30deep.html?_r=5&partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180670 29 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil rigs Gulf drill | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (New York Times: none given) National Public Radio: The South has been dealt a heavy blow this summer by BP's gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil has stopped flowing, but Gulf states are still dealing with the ongoing economic and environmental damage. State leaders want to be sure BP cleans up the mess and gets the region back on its feet. It was was one of the main topics being ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129521779&ft=1&f=1025 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180657 30 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP restore | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Public Radio: none given) Reuters: BP Plc's internal probe of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has placed some of the blame on mistakes by its engineers while finishing the deep sea oil well, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the report. The probe also blamed BP engineers for misreading pressure data which indicated a blowout was imminent, the news agency ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100830/ts_nm/us_oil_spill_probe http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180651 30 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill BP | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: none given) NYT: Richard Lynch was walking down the hall in BP's crisis command center in early May when some engineers rushed up, bearing bad news. "We've lost the cofferdam," they said. In fact the cofferdam, a 100-ton, four-story-high steel dome that the company had lowered to try to contain the flow of oil from its out-of-control well, had ... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/27/us/27well.html?_r=5&partner=rss&emc=rss http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180578 27 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf controversy | | info@ecologicalinternet.org (NYT: Clifford Krauss, Henry Fountain and John M. Broder) AP: President Barack Obama will use the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina to reaffirm his commitment to the Gulf Coast amid lingering questions over his administration's response to the BP oil spill. Obama ends his Martha's Vineyard vacation Sunday and heads to New Orleans, five years to the day from when Hurricane Katrina raged ashore, ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100827/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_katrina http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180574 27 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST Katrina Obama | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given) AFP: Efforts this weekend to salvage BP's blowout preventer could bring to the surface a key piece of evidence in the inquiry into the largest maritime oil spill in history. US spill chief Thad Allen said Friday that efforts to "fish" out pipes near the massive valve had failed so far and "it was decided that we go ahead with the removal and ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100827/ts_alt_afp/usoilenvironmentpollution http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180566 27 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill salvage | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AFP: none given) Reuters: On a typical summer weekend in Grand Isle, Louisiana, Frank Besson's small gift shop would be filled with customers picking up a souvenir as they headed back home from a weekend visit to the beach. But this summer, business at the Nez Coupe is down about 95 percent, Besson said, as most of this coastal community's beaches remain shut. ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100827/lf_nm_life/us_oil_spill_louisiana http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180559 27 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill gulf summer | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Anna Driver) National Geographic: Five years after Hurricane Katrina whacked down the population of the invasive, wetland-munching rodents in Louisiana, nutria have bounced back. At the same time, some coastal marshes are rebounding too, because of a boom in Louisiana's nutria trappers. ee "Hurricane Katrina Pictures: Then & Now, Ruin & ... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100826-hurricane-katrina-gulf-oil-spill-five-years-nutria/ http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180495 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST hurricane Katrina alien rodents | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (National Geographic: none given) AFP: Indonesia is seeking more than a billion dollars' compensation for environmental damage from an oil spill at a Thai-run rig off Australia's northwest coast, a report said Thursday. Transportation Minister Freddy Numberi said the claim was for more than 1.1 billion dollars. "The amount is big enough," Numberi was quoted as saying by Dow ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100826/sc_afp/indonesiathailandaustraliaoilenvironmentpollution http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180490 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil spill payout | East/South-East Asia | Indonesia info@ecologicalinternet.org (AFP: none given) AP: A ban on deepwater drilling may no longer be needed now that the oil industry and the government appear to have developed safer drilling regimes, an expert panel said Thursday in a report to the presidential commission investigating the Gulf oil spill. The report by the Bipartisan Policy Center is likely to boost oil industry groups and ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100826/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_moratorium http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180482 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST offshore oil drilling ban | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: Matthew Daly) Reuters: The U.S. government should ensure deepwater drillers meet new safety rules before allowing operations to resume, despite the costs associated with delays, a report requested by the White House oil spill commission said on Thursday. The Bipartisan Policy Center report said companies should be able to start drilling again once they meet ... http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67P59J20100826?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180479 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST deepwater drilling safety | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (Reuters: Ayesha Rascoe) NPR: President Obama's ban on deep-water oil drilling has served its purpose, and oil companies should be able to resume drilling if they meet new government standards, an independent panel said Thursday. The panel of energy and environmental experts said the six-month moratorium, slated to end in November, has already allowed enough time for ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129458450&ft=1&f=1025 http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180477 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST oil drilling moratorium lift | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (NPR: Debbie Elliott) AP: The Panhandle's largest private landowner on Thursday sued a Houston-based company responsible for the drilling fluids that should have cemented BP's failed Gulf of Mexico oil well. Real estate developer St. Joe Co. is seeking unspecified damages against M-I SWACO for a decline in the value of its 577,000 Panhandle acres and in its ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100826/ap_on_bi_ge/fl_gulf_oil_spill_st_joe http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180473 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST gulf oil spill sue | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: Melissa Nelson) AP: The Panhandle's largest private landowner on Thursday sued a Houston-based company responsible for the drilling fluids including mud that should have controlled the pressure in the well and prevented the blowout of BP's failed Gulf of Mexico oil well. Real estate developer St. Joe Co. is seeking unspecified damages against M-I SWACO for ... http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100827/ap_on_bi_ge/fl_gulf_oil_spill_st_joe http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=180470 26 Aug 2010 11:00:00 PST Gulf oil firm sues | North America | United States info@ecologicalinternet.org (AP: none given)