Taylor Energy benefitted from lax regulation, now claims it can’t stop—or clean up—ongoing spill I didn’t know this was even possible. Did you know that an oil company can drill in the Gulf of Mexico and, when things go horribly wrong—as in “multiple wellheads pumping oil into the seawater for 14 years” type of wrong—the […]
Aftermath: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Government ready to roll back regulations even as scientists continue assessment of long-term destruction Shortly after the deadly catastrophes at BP’s Macondo Prospect in the Gulf of Mexico, several government agencies began examining the chain of failures that allowed and caused it to happen. The disaster of the Deepwater Horizon platform explosion and wellhead blowout, […]
carbon emissions, catastrophic error, Deepwater Horizon, fact vs. fiction, fiction book, james tesar, oil pollution, oil spill, ultimate errorFICTION: Night Raid on the Macondo Prospect: Conclusion

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 […]
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Unlike crude oil, what actually does belong in that great gulf? I’ve written often, here in my ULTIMATE ERROR blog, about catastrophic oil spills like “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico. We know what happened there and the costs in dollars and cents. But what exactly is in there, in the Gulf of Mexico, […]
catastrophic error, ecosystem collapse, fact vs. fiction, fiction book, james tesar, oil pollution, oil spill, plutocratic kleptocracy, potential widespread disaster, ultimate errorGreat Balls of Fire: Corexit in Marine Ecosystems

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 […]
catastrophic error, ecosystem collapse, fact vs. fiction, james tesar, marine pollution, money and power, oil pollution, oil spill, plutocratic kleptocracy, potential widespread disaster, ultimate errorU.S. To Roll Back Automobile Fuel Economy Rules

Maybe executives at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ought to pause and take a break from their doubtlessly busy day. Carefully, taking their time, they should read the name of the agency that employs them. If letterhead isn’t readily available, they ought to walk out the front door and read the sign on the building: […]
carbon emissions, catastrophic error, climate change, EPA, fact vs. fiction, fiction book, fuel economy standards, global warming, james tesar, money and power, oil pollution, plutocratic kleptocracy, potential widespread disaster, ultimate errorOil Spill Cleanup Techniques: The Pros & Cons

Claims of “latest technological solutions” mostly overblown, untested My novel, ULTIMATE ERROR, is a fictionalization of an oil spill cleanup gone horribly wrong. After the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010, an environmental scientist brought up a great point during a television interview. All the methods of “clean-up” are in the experimental testing stages, she said. […]
catastrophic error, fact vs. fiction, fiction book, james tesar, oil pollution, oil spill, oil spill cleanup, plutocratic kleptocracy, potential widespread disaster, ultimate errorMid-Year Recap: 2018 Oil Spills

Petroleum hits us coming and going: inbound spills and outbound greenhouse gases It’s time to have a look at year-to-date petroleum disasters worldwide. Not the everyday disasters of burning fossil fuels; the ones that lead Earth closer to extinction. Not the everyday spills that wreak havoc on ecosystems large and small. No, the petroleum industry […]
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After warning from top NASA climatologist to end fossil fuel use, worldwide demand has only increased How’s this for a disconnect? Thirteen years ago, Dr. James Hansen, at the time NASA’s top climatologist, wondered aloud at an American Geophysical Union meeting if there was “still time to avoid dangerous anthropogenic interference with global climate.” A […]
carbon emissions, catastrophic error, climate change, fact vs. fiction, fiction book, global warming, james tesar, oil pollution, plutocratic kleptocracy, potential widespread disaster, ultimate errorFICTION: Creature from the Macondo Prospect: Part IV

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 […]
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