Sentences with phrase «bp gusher»

In 1969, an oil spill in Santa Barbara, California — of only 100,000 barrels, less than the two - day output of the BP gusher — prompted Richard Nixon to create the EPA and sign the Clean Air Act.

This puts the BP gusher on par with the 1979 IXTOC 1 blowout, also in the Gulf of Mexico, which created a spill dwarfed only by the destruction of Kuwaiti rigs during the Persian Gulf War.

Not exact matches

As bad as it is, BP's Gulf oil spill dwindles compared with gushers of the past.

Chu killed top kill on May 28, worried that BP's efforts would cause a subsurface blowout and make the gusher impossible to control.

As BP drilled the well, its focus was on maximizing profits, the report says, not necessarily on safety or preventing a gusher:

On Friday Science's Richard Kerr published a story in Science on the challenge of drilling a relief well; BP is currently drilling two to hopefully stop the gulf gusher.

First of all, when folded away into the trunk there is very little storage space left, and what there is can be explored only with the type of robotic equipment being used on BP's Gulf oil gusher.

Every time BP delays releasing information on its oil gusher and slick, the company's credibility sinks a bit lower.

A Facebook friend, Kristin Aldred Cheek, pointed me to a pretty wild bit of faux journalism recently concocted by BP as part of its public relations efforts related to the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

His post examining assertions that Aliso Canyon was comparable to the BP oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is particularly valuable.

Now there's an oil opera, «As the Oil Flows,» brought to you by BP via a «spillcam» after lawmakers pressed the company to send its nonstop video feeds from the seabed gusher to the public.

11:50 p.m. Updated Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts has convinced BP to start streaming live video from the seabed oil gusher, he announced on his House Web site tonight.

In a 20 - minute phone conversation on Friday, the film director described the meeting of deep - sea minds, which took place on Tuesday and has resulted in a memo, signed by the participants, that he provided to the Coast Guard and other agencies overseeing BP's efforts to stanch the seabed gusher.

2:30 p.m. Updated President Obama delivered a statement on BP and the seabed oil gusher today, decrying the «ridiculous spectacle» of the three main companies involved in the mess pointing fingers at each other in congressional hearings.

For the moment, BP officials are saying that the oil they're skimming from the Gulf of Mexico and siphoning from the unabated seabed gusher into the Discoverer Enterprise (above) belongs to the company, Times reporters tell me.

BP may shut down the oil gusher in the Gulf by the end of the summer, yet the harms from human - induced climate change will likely plague the world for centuries.

If all goes according to plan, the gusher behind the Gulf spill will be plugged a month earlier than planned, BP says.

The team will attempt to understand the fate and distribution of the methane released in the BP oil gusher.

It's hard to say, of course, and depends largely on whether the relief well BP says will be ready next month is successful in cutting of the deep sea gusher.

And in light of BP's reluctance to release underwater footage of the gusher itself — and then when it is released independent analysis shows official estimates of flow rates and underestimated by at least a factor of ten — it's easy to see some sort of fascist collusion going on, when it all may just be confusion.

Good news for BP Plc. and other oil, coal and chemical companies seeped out last week from New Orleans, barely noticed in the blanket coverage of the as - yet uncontrolled oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.