Sentences with phrase «gulf oil gusher»

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

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.