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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last time at Port Fourchon, Louisiana: Sergeant Julius “Mack” McNamara and every other cop on duty in the tiny bayou town made a dusty bee-line toward the Select Oil Company staging site after hearing “shots fired” over their radios. This was a must-attend event in the sleepy community, and no PFPD officer was about to […]
“Mary, grab the baby, the river’s rising Muddy water taking back the land The old-frame house, she can’t take-a one more beating Ain’t no use to stay and make a stand Well the morning light shows water in the valley Daddy’s grave just went below the line Things to say, ‘You just can’t take ‘em […]