Deepwater Horizon - Containment Efforts
USA Today, June 8, 2010
Oil spills escalated in this decade
By Alan Levin, USA TODAY, June 8, 2010
The number of spills from offshore oil rigs and pipelines in U.S. waters more than quadrupled this decade, a trend that could have served as a warning for the massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico, according to government data and safety experts.
Door kept ajar on drilling
By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, June 4, 2010
Despite the spectre of environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- where oil is spewing from a destroyed BP well -- the federal and provincial governments aren't closing the door on oil drilling off B.C.'s coast or supertankers plying the province's tricky northern waters.
Feds watered down regulations governing East Coast offshore drilling
By Andrew Mayeda, Vancouver Sun, June 3, 2010
OTTAWA — The Harper government has watered down regulations governing oil drilling off Canada's East Coast so that oil companies don't need a backup plan to drill a relief well in the event of a blowout.
CBC Almanac and Phil Nuytten on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
Mark Forsyth, CBC Almanac, June 2, 2010
Mark Forsyth talks with guest Phil Nuytten about the Deepwater Horizon and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Listen here.
BP Ready for Spill 10 Times Gulf Disaster, Plan Says
Bloomberg News, San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 2010
May 31 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc said in permit applications for drilling in the Gulf of Mexico that it was prepared to handle an oil spill more than ten times larger than the one now spewing crude into the waters off the southern United States.
BP oil spill: death and devastation – and it's just the start
David Adam and agencies, guardian.co.uk, 31 May 2010
It could take months or years for the true impact of the spill on surrounding ecosystems to emerge
No moratorium on offshore oil exploration in Canada's Arctic
ANDREW MAYEDA, Vancouver Sun, May 28, 2010
The federal government is moving ahead with plans to grant new offshore oil-exploration licences in Canada's Arctic, despite the U.S. government's expanding freeze on offshore drilling after the Gulf Coast spill.
Obama Replaces Offshore Agency Faulted in BP Spill
By Jim Efstathiou Jr., Bloomberg Businessweek, May 19, 2010
May 19 (Bloomberg) -- The Obama administration replaced the Minerals Management Service, faulted for lax regulation of offshore drilling before the BP Plc spill last month, with three offices to oversee leases, drilling safety and fee collection.
Shell adds precautions for Arctic drilling
By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times, May 18, 2010
Reporting from Seattle - Facing last-minute questions over its plan to launch exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean, Shell Oil Co. pledged Monday to deploy a prefabricated coffer dam ready for "immediate" use in the event of a blowout, with a full-scale oil spill response within an hour.
The Northwest Passage: crude oil's next toilet?
By L. D. CROSS, The Hill Times, May 17, 2010
Whether it is the Northwest Passage or, the Canadian Arctic Passage, an oil spill on the scale of the Gulf of Mexico disaster would permanently contaminate the top of the world.
Offshore drilling in Canada 'fraught with peril': critics
By HARRIS MACLEOD, The Hill Times, May 17, 2010
House Natural Resources Committee begins hearings into offshore drilling, after massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
Why BP won't pay for full Gulf spill clean-up
By Robert Reich, Christian Science Monitor, May 17, 2010
Oil giant BP has been making public statements about its corporate social responsibility for as many years as it’s behaved irresponsibly.
Tracking the Oil Spill
New York Times, April-May, 2010
See the daily extent of the Gulf of Mexico oil slick resulting from BP's Deepwater Horizon well explosion and sinking, from April 22 to the present.
We're looking at a living monster, brainlessly flexing its muscles and testing its environment, before advancing onto its next victim.
Giant Plumes of Oil Forming Under the Gulf
By JUSTIN GILLIS, New York Times, May 15, 2010
Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, including one as large as 10 miles long, 3 miles wide and 300 feet thick in spots.
Gap in Rules on Oil Spills From Wells
By KATE GALBRAITH, New York Times, May 16, 2010
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill began off the coast of Louisiana - hundreds of miles from Mexico and far from any other country.
A US$13-billion business
Lawrence Solomon, National Post, May 14, 2010
Is it any wonder that the BP calamity occurred? Here’s what has been preoccupying its environmental regulator, the Minerals Management Service,
(http://www.mms.gov/) ever since MMS was established in 1982.
Does Deep Sea Drilling Have a Future?
By Philip Bethge, Alexander Jung, Nils Klawitter and Renate Nimtz-Koester, Der Spiegel, May 13, 2010
The Risky Hunt for the Last Oil Reserves
The oil catastrophe afflicting the Gulf of Mexico underscores just how dangerous offshore oil exploration can be.
No drilling on Georges Bank for 3 more years
By The Canadian Press, Halifax Chronicle Herald, May 13, 2010
A moratorium on oil and gas exploration on Georges Bank has been extended for three years by the federal and Nova Scotia governments.
A History of Major Oil Spills
New York Times, May 10, 2010
Oil slicks have historically been the most vivid examples of the risks inherent in both oil shipping and offshore drilling. While the industry has drawn on lessons from each successive spill, advances in extraction techniques present new challenges.
Drilling clash puts Arctic oil at risk
Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail, May. 13, 2010
NEB to review regulations, prompting protests from energy firms who say exploration will be too challenging
A standoff over drilling regulations between the federal regulator and oilcompanies is putting at risk the development of massive oil deposits under the Beaufort Sea.
West Coast senators move to bar new Pacific drilling
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY, Houston Chronicle, May 13, 2010
WASHINGTON - Senators from California, Oregon and Washington united Thursday behind a plan to ban new offshore drilling along the Pacific Coast in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Big oil eyes B.C. coast
By Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight, May 13, 2001
Since 2004, scientists have been travelling up and down the B.C. coast on the Achiever, a steel-hulled, 22-metre sloop owned by the Raincoast Conservation Society. In this time, they have covered more than 14,000 kilometres, recorded more than 2,000 sightings of marine mammals, and logged almost 15,000 sightings of marine birds.
B.C. Liberals set stage for offshore oil and gas drilling
By Charlie Smith, Georgia Straight, May 13, 2010
Our own reminder of the dangers of offshore drilling
STEPHEN HUME, Vancouver Sun, May 13, 2010
Few are those who may remember, but the Union Oil spill of 1969 was the disaster that triggered B.C.'s 1972 ban
