June 23, 2011 — Marine oil spills are usually measured by the amount of oil floating on the surface. But the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, from a deep-sea well, required a different approach. Find out how one fluid-dynamics expert caused estimates to rise sharply practically overnight. © 2011 National Geographic Funded in [...]
www.euronews.net Oil has begun washing up on a popular beach in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty, as salvage workers race against the clock to prevent an environmental disaster. Weather is deteriorating off the coast of Tauranga and Mount Maunganui, where a container ship carrying 1700 tonnes of oil and toxic material grounded. The military has [...]
A key federal report could come out today on who’s to blame for last year’s BP oil spill, the worst offshore oil spill in US History. (Sept. 14)
It has been over a year since a massive 600 tonne oil spill off the coast of Mumbai when the MSC Chitra collided with MV Khadija. An environment panel’s report has pegged the losses to be over Rs 500 crore, out of which only Rs 1 crore has been paid by the ship’s owners. Video [...]
Royal Dutch Shell struggled to contain the worst North Sea oil spill (about 1300 barrels) in a decade, as well as damage to its credibility Tuesday as a second leak was found in an oil line the company had said was „under control.“ (Aug. 16) Video Rating: 3 / 5 An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs [...]
Disaster and emergency relief officials are attempting to contain environmental damage caused by a ruptured oil pipeline in the US state of Montana. 150000 litres of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River as a result of the leak, and there are reports of oil 160km downstream from where the spill occured. Al Jazeera’s John [...]
Exxon Mobil told several lies regarding their oil leak in the Yellowstone River in Montana. Michael Shure explains. The Largest Online News Show in the World. Facebook: www.facebook.com Subscribe: bit.ly TYT Mobile: bit.ly Twitter: twitter.com www.theyoungturks.com FREE Movies(!): www.netflix.com Read Ana’s blog and subscribe at: www.examiner.com Read Cenk’s Blog: www.huffingtonpost.com Video Rating: 4 / 5 [...]
The oil that is leaking from a grounded container ship off the coast of New Zealand is the country’s worst environmental disaster, according to the country’s Environment Minister. Video Rating: 4 / 5
Ventura looks into rumors that the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was a staged event by companies like BP and Halliburton to reap profits from the cleanup, as well as administer toxic agents into the Gulf coast waters as part of a larger depopulation program, inspired by the Hurricane Katrina disaster, to modify the world’s ocean [...]
In 2008 an oil pipeline owned by Shell, failed and began spilling oil in Bodo Creek. Oil kept pouring out for more than two months before it was repaired. By then, many of the 70.000 people living in Bodo village had lost an important means of livelihood. The pollution killed much of the marine life [...]