Some regions in the Gulf of Mexico affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill are still feeling it’s affects. It was four years ago when BP’s well ignited and pumped oil into the Gulf of Mexico for three months. Six months after the spill, a survey showed severe damage was done to coral up to […]
Comment: Pick your choice for crude transport – pipeline, train, truck or ship
Crude oil is moving around the world, around North America, around pristine wilderness, around our cities and towns. It’s going to keep moving, so what is the safest way to move it? The short answer is: truck worse than train worse than pipeline worse than boat (Oilprice.com). But that’s only for human death and property […]
Spill potential in Great Lakes
A University of Michigan research scientist has created a computer animation of what a major oil spill at the Straits of Mackinac would do to Lakes Michigan and Huron. The Enbridge Corporation’s Line 5 pipeline carries oil from Superior east under the Straits of Mackinac — where Lakes Michigan and Huron meet — and on […]
Little known about how oil spill in Arctic would impact region and if cleanup would even be possible
The Nunavut Planning Commission requested a study be done after approval was given for seismic testing and potential oil and gas development off the coast of Baffin Bay and Davis Strait The report, titled “Oil Spill Detection and Modeling Report in the Hudson and Davis Straits” acknowledges technology has come a long way in detecting and monitoring […]
Social license requires integrity and follow through
If the oil industry isn’t going to operate on a zero spill mandate, when there are issues at sites and cleanups are not done quickly enough to satisfy area residents, a companies social license can be in jeopardy. That’s what’s happening in Louisiana. Many landowners in the southern state have been locked in a battle […]
Oil company prepared to Shell out multi-million dollar compensation package
Royal Dutch Shell is offering more than $50-million in compensation to a Nigerian community. were fishermen, but their livelihoods were wiped out as a result of two oil spills six years ago In 2008, about 300-thousand barrels of oil leaked destroying a thousand hectares of Mangrove swamp channels. About 15-thousand people were affected. They asked […]
BP claims it paid out too much for the Gulf oil spill damages
BP is asking a US court to help retrieve hundreds of millions of dollars the oil giant claims to have overpaid for damages caused as a result of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill four years ago. A month ago BP was successful in obtaining a court order which revised the way losses due to […]