Sentences with phrase «gulf gusher»

Of course history shows America is highly resistant to big changes in its habits and, even now after the Gulf gusher displays the «shock to trance» approach to energy policy that President Obama pledged to avoid.

Initial findings have been released by the panel convened by the National Academy of Engineering to assess decisions, or the lack of them, that led to the deadly oil rig explosion and gulf gusher.

I e-mailed a batch of researchers and other experts tracking the aftermath of the gulf gusher and others who studied previous oil spills to get their sense of where things go from here.

With music in mind, and reflecting on the unrelenting gulf gusher, I've decided it's time for my first musical Dot Earth post.

The deep - sea engineering experts and other specialists assembled on June 1 in Washington by the filmmaker James Cameron have issued recommendations (pdf file) for stanching the gulf gusher, undertaking an independent forensic examination of the rig wreckage and devising a fast - response system to get deep - diving submersibles to any future seabed disaster.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

Bioremediation — boosting microbial activity by ensuring a steady supply of such nutrients — is quite difficult in a case like the gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

3:00 p.m. Updated The Times Green blog has a piece on efforts to track the condition of a deepwater coral reef threatened by the underwater oil gusher in the Gulf.

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.

Managing risk on an increasingly crowded and human - exploited planet will surely be a prime theme, with the avoidable Gulf of Mexico oil gusher being a prime example.

My Dot Earth post on «Complexity and its Discontents» following the Gulf oil gusher explores these issues, as well.

And please look back at the powerful feature story written for The Times by Adam Nossiter in 2010, when the oil concern here in the United States was not Keystone, but the Gulf of Mexico rig disaster and gusher.

This year's Gulf of Mexico gusher seemed to pose potent political perils just a few months ago, but all along its significance was blunted by the reality that it did not affect oil or gas prices, which have stayed relatively low.

While, as Zeller's piece notes, the problems at the regulatory commission do not appear as bad as those that plagued the Minerals (Mis) Management Service in the run - up to the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, a thorough review of the commission's practices is clearly needed.

Would things have been different on energy policy, I mused, if the spike in oil and gasoline prices had not come in 2008, but instead coincided with the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher?

In the last few days there's been a mix of messages from government officials about whether the Obama administration has the authority to take control of the unrelenting seabed oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

David Brancaccio, a longtime correspondent for public radio and television, has written a fascinating post on his new Economy 4.0 blog for the Marketplace radio show analyzing the economic impacts of the gulf oil spill six months after explosions killed 11 workers and unleashed the gusher in the seabed.

Obama administration officials faced growing challenges over the unabated oil gusher on the Gulf of Mexico seabed on Tuesday as analysis of ocean currents appeared to raise the odds that Florida reefs and beaches could be tainted before the month is out.

It was always inconceivable that President Obama would consider using a nuclear explosion to cut the flow of oil from the unrelenting seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico — no matter how many other options faltered.

They echo discussions following the losses of two space shuttles, the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher and many other realms where low - probability, worst - case outcomes, or unknown unknowns, can up - end the greatest engineering achievements at great cost in lives or wealth.

Much of President Obama's first White House news conference in 10 months was, not surprisingly, dominated by statements assuring Americans that the administration was on the case from the first hours after the eruption of an oil gusher on the Gulf of Mexico seabed.

There are plenty of signs of failed government oversight and hints of corporate malfeasance in the steps that led to the seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

Over the weekend, I published a post exploring our seeming inability to deal well with hazards that are foreseeable, but complex and rare — the gulf oil gusher being the example of the moment.

There have been a host of notable reader reactions to the continuing oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico seabed, the solutions being debated and the potential for us to change our behavior in response.

President Obama, who visited a solar - cell manufacturer in California today in one of his frequent trips focused on clean energy, is scheduled to return to the Gulf Coast on Friday to weigh the damage from dirty energy — in this case, the seabed gusher — and, hopefully, press the case for a new American relationship to oil, and energy more generally.

In regarding the spreading slick and unabated seabed gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, some environmental campaigners and chroniclers are starting to look with concern to the north — at impending efforts to drill for oil in America's Arctic waters.

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.

Assuming the flow rate has been steady since the gusher started on April 20, the gulf spill surpassed the Exxon Valdez in the first four days.

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.

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.

We have been challenged by Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, the Gulf oil gusher, and now this year's tornadoes.