Last time, at bayou’s edge, Port Fourchon, Louisiana: Having seen way more than they bargained for, and having retreated from the scene of Select Oil Company’s staging area, Port Fourchon PD put a call in to the United States Coast Guard. Wondering if there was “a full moon out or something,” USCG Sector New Orleans […]
Newer studies also indicate possible exposure risk to humans Just three years after BP’s massive Deepwater Horizon disaster, environmental scientists were concerned not only about the ongoing damage done by the petroleum itself, but also about the BP-owned dispersant known as Corexit and its effects on the wide swaths of Gulf waters where the oil […]
Last time at Port Fourchon, Louisiana: After the PFPD had gotten their rocks off via levelling 150 semi-automatic rounds at Big “Papa” Green—the bayou bacteria giant born from a spill of Select Oil Company’s barrels of petroleum-eating microbes—they looked on in dismay as Green walked across the bayou’s edge picking up the globs of slime […]
The Select Oil Company charged the nightshift it cobbled together near Port Fourchon with preparing for the morning’s cleanup. The international petroleum and gas conglomerate had sent out teams of managers in the afternoon to gather local day laborers and whoever else they could find to help unload the 30 semi-trailers headed for different locations […]
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with […]
It’s cynically called “Corexit,” and it’s not “basically dish soap” What does it say about the oil industry in general, and the Standard Oil-Exxon-BP partnership that brought the chemical compound to market in particular, that they call their product “Corexit” (as in “corrects it”)? Do they really think anyone will believe that spraying 2 million […]
In the 21st Century era of global warming, we must cherish our proximate ecologies Some of you who read my ULTIMATE ERROR blog here regularly know about my modest cottage out here in unincorporated Osceola County, Florida, near the shores of East Lake Tohopekaliga. My old haunt with the loose floorboards and front porch with […]
When it comes to the nation’s abandoned mines, cleanup can be anything but clean The varieties of tragedies at the United States’ half-million abandoned mine sites boggle the mind. Each layer of disaster compounds the damage of every other layer. Each of the 500,000 estimated mine sites is a multi-million-dollar clustermuck left for taxpayers and […]
Government regulator seeks to repeal post-Deepwater regulations (because there’s money in doing so) I hope you’ll pardon me for saying this for the umpteenth in not so many words: There exists a breed of narcissist (perhaps he has always existed) who is also psychopathic and pathologically avaricious. Why should we be interested in these […]
Emboldened by deregulation, fossil fuel companies take aim at biodiverse reef As scientists, explorers, and conservationists scramble to get environmental protection for a large coral reef recently discovered near the Brazilian mouth of the Amazon River, oil conglomerates BP and Total have already begun drilling in the area. One of the researchers who discovered the […]