But because the media seems to feel that nobody's interested the aftermath of the 2010 BP spill, the biggest
offshore oil disaster in US history, you probably didn't hear about it.
The latest poll, however, shows the opposition snapping back after
the offshore oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Not exact matches
But we can only pursue
offshore oil drilling if we have assurances that a
disaster like the BP
oil spill will not happen again.
«Today, cognitive undersea acoustics is a key wireless communication technology that can be used for a wide range of military, commercial, and scientific applications, including tactical surveillance,
offshore exploration, monitoring of subsea machinery such as
oil - rigs and pipelines,
disaster prevention as well as the study of marine life,» said Stella N. Batalama, Ph.D., principal investigator and dean of FAU's College of Engineering and Computer Science, who is collaborating with Dimitris Pados, Ph.D., co-principal investigator, professor in FAU's Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and I - SENSE Fellow.
The Obama administration has issued new rules governing
offshore drilling, six years after the Deepwater Horizon
disaster killed 11 rig workers and spewed millions of gallons of
oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Directed by Peter Berg, the film is a dramatization of the 2010
disaster in which the
offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon explodes, thus creating the worst
oil spill in U.S. history.
An award winning filmmaker, her most recent project is an interactive web documentary
OFFSHORE that looks at the dark side of offshore oil exploitation in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon d
OFFSHORE that looks at the dark side of
offshore oil exploitation in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon d
offshore oil exploitation in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon
disaster.
Obama took a beating by environmentalists for pushing to open up
offshore oil and gas production, and this
disaster just exacerbates it; I wonder if the loss in credibility with environmentalists because of this spill is enough to substantially undermine future energy policy initiatives.
BP's Gulf of Mexico
disaster indicates that the best efforts of the
oil industry are incapable of preventing environmental calamities from
offshore drilling.
Given that President Obama and other members of his administration have continued to express support for
offshore drilling, provided that additional safeguards are put in place to prevent a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon
disaster, once the gushing
oil is stopped there remains a possibility of expanding
offshore drilling once again.
It comes in three forms: 1) Direct grants of a scarce resource (waivers to SF, ownership to selected unions ala GM, etc.), 2) Subsidies and rebates to favored groups (ethanol,
disaster assistance, etc.), and 3) Restriction / punishment of unfavored entities (ANWR,
offshore oil exploration, CAFE standards, employers, etc..)
It and other
oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of weather
disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten
offshore oil rigs.
It has long been the common practice to grant
offshore oil and gas drillers such exclusions, and it probably had little to do with the
disaster that BP's alleged shoddy drilling practices has precipitated.
Offshore rules softening: The Trump administration is moving to relax some
offshore drilling requirements imposed in response to the Deepwater Horizon
disaster but is rebuffing the
oil industry's plea for bigger changes.
Chris Oynes, an associate director whose role is key to the
oil and gas permitting process at the DOI, had only just begun work on
offshore wind permitting when he became one of the first to resign in the aftermath of the Gulf
disaster.
The 2010 BP
oil disaster gave us a stark reminder of the dangers of
offshore oil drilling.
In May 2010, as
oil continued to gush into the Gulf from BP's Deepwater Horizon
disaster, President Obama canceled a pending lease sale that would have opened Virginia's coastline to the dangers of
offshore oil drilling.
When an
oil production platform caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisiana coast last week, a collective gasp would have been appropriate — from the residents of coastal Louisiana, who are no strangers to
offshore oil rig
disasters, from the fossil fuel industry, which is priming itself for a golden age under the incoming Trump Administration, and from the American public, whose
oil reliance remains unchecked despite increasing awareness of both the massive downside of fossil fuel use and the increasing availability of clean, renewable energy sources.
The environmental effect was only the latest question prompted by the
disaster on the Deepwater Horizon rig, which could shape up to be one of the worst U.S.
offshore oil accidents in a generation.