Sentences with phrase «gusher on»

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.

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.

Since I began exploring responses to the unchecked seafloor gusher on May 1, hundreds of readers have weighed in with questions for both company and government officials.

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

The sprinkler broke and spewed a gusher of water, all of which was shown on TV.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has even called in a water main break she spotted on her way home; a gusher just a few blocks from the water department headquarters.

Hours before the stories appeared on 13 and 14 May, White House science adviser John Holdren told an audience in Washington, D.C., that «you can't make direct flow measurements» of the gusher but failed to mention the satellite or video techniques.

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 gusheOn 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 gusheon 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.

With the boom - time's lending gusher now tightly capped, and would - be investors on the sidelines with their cash, a private mortgage arranged between family members may be an attractive alternative to a traditional bank mortgage.

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.

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

But Obama faces a reality that many of these groups seem slow to recognize: While the 20th - century toolkit preferred by traditional environmentalists — litigation, regulation and legislation — remains vital to limiting domestic pollution risks such as the oil gusher, it is a bad fit for addressing the building human influence on the climate system, which is driven now mainly by a surge in emissions mostly outside United States borders in countries aiming to propel their climb out of poverty on the same fossil fuels that generated much of our affluence.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the 1950s you could drill a hole on level ground in Texas, Saudi Arabia or Alberta and get a 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.