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Day 114 Science & Disgust

August 11, 2010

As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, an online hub which explains science news and implications to laypeople is in the works. And not a moment too soon. For the schist is up to here, folks (you can thank D for this one). While more of the same continues in Washington, the general public [...]

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Day 106 The Oil Hasn’t Vanished

August 3, 2010

The oil has not vanished. I repeat: The oil has not vanished. The Gulf of Mexico’s summertime dead zone is twice as big as last year’s. Think about it: How can 206 million gallons of crude vanish in 19 days? 205.8 million gallons of oil flowed into the Gulf of Mexico = 2.37 million gallons [...]

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Groundhog (Choking On Oil) Day

July 29, 2010

Oil-related catastrophes simply refuse to leave me alone. I mean, WHAT. 840,000 gallons of oil from a corroded Enbridge Energy pipeline have leaked into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River near Battle Creek this past week. More specifically, “The oil is moving from Talmadge Creek into the Kalamazoo River, which flows from near the city of Battle Creek into [...]

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Day 101

July 29, 2010

LiveScience | What Will Happen During the Next 100 Days of the Oil Spill? … scientists say it could take decades to comprehend the toll the last 100 days took on wildlife — from sea turtles to bacteria. Currently, oil covers approximately 638 miles (1,026 kilometers) of Gulf shoreline, according to the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint [...]

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Day 100 Not Yet Dead

July 28, 2010

100 FRAKING DAYS. Christian Science Monitor | From ‘static kill’ to ‘bottom kill’: next steps in Gulf oil spill – best explanation of the Static Kill followed by Bottom Kill methodology I’ve seen yet. [Bottom kill] will come after “static kill,” which has a tentative start date of next Monday. Static kill would deposit the [...]

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Day 99 Failed Boom & Brown Cloudies

July 27, 2010

* Anatomy of an Oil Spill Part I: The Sea Shepherd‘s Bonny Schumaker recently flew New Orleans blogger Dambala out over the Gulf of Mexico’s shelf. He photodocuments the flight from New Orleans over  Raccoon Island, LA (Louisiana’s most important seabird nesting site west of Breton Sound) to the Deepwater Horizon site and then to Horn Island, [...]

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Day 95 The Bonnie Situation

July 23, 2010

LiveScience | What Will Happen to Gulf Oil if Bonnie Strikes? What happens will depend in part on which way the wind blows. Hurricanes move in a counter-clockwise direction and so tend to move water from east to west — the opposite direction from the way the oil has generally been spreading so far. That [...]

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Day 91 Well Integrity & Relief Well

July 19, 2010

A good general primer on WTH is going on with the blown out well’s integrity and the function of the relief well in this morning’s Q&A with John Hofmeister, former Shell president. What needs to happen right away? The near term fix is to release the cap and control the flow of oil to surface ships. [...]

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Day 88

July 16, 2010

Hard-hitting journalism: “Did you feel the earthquake, Mr. President?” I am not for Geology PR at all costs, even if deep fault reactivation on the eastern continental margin is hella cool. BP halts Gulf oil flow for first time since April. Now waiting on test and seal of the dud well and the relief well [...]

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Day 87 “Somebody Actively Takes Steps To Defeat The Safety Protection”

July 15, 2010

Note: Just in case the history books say otherwise, let it be noted here that it took 87 days to cap the Macondo well. Now we wait on the relief well for “final” work. *** Set aside the catastrophic risk aspect of this disaster for a few minutes of preventative analysis. No “comprehensive,” company-wide safety program [...]

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