Sentences with phrase «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.

In a telephone conference call with reporters, Doug Suttles, the chief operating officer of BP, all but ruled out the use of explosives to crimp or implode the seabed oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.

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.

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

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.

10:14 a.m. Updated The unabated oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico is tightening its hold on President Obama, who is returning to Louisiana today to survey the damage after canceling an already - delayed trip to Indonesia and Australia.

Blood's stunning centrepiece — a newly struck oil gusher that erupts into a fountain of flame — echoes the hellish beauty of the locust holocaust in Terrence Malick's just - as - dreamlike Days Of Heaven.

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.

7:43 p.m. Updated There were a couple of days of breathless news stories playing up the threat to operations around the BP oil gusher posed by the brewing storm called Alex. But federal storm forecasters never saw much of a chance of this storm shifting northeast toward the region beset by slicks and oiled shores.

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.

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.

Alarmed by the ongoing oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico, James Cameron, the film director and longtime user and developer of deep - sea technology, helped organize a meeting of experts at the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday and spoke about it Wednesday night at the Wall Street Journal's «D: All Things Digital» conference near Los Angeles.

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.

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.

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.

Another example is Steve Forbert's «The Oil Song,» a ballad about oil spills that he first wrote in 1979 but which has grown with each spill — and now tops 13 minutes in length with a new verse on the BP oil gusher.

Could it be that BP read my post seeking a «Feynman fix» for the unrelenting seabed oil gusher?

What's disturbing, of course, is that if you substituted «gushed» for «burned up,» you could play a similar thought experiment again — basically fast - forwarding from the unabated seabed oil gusher to a time when extraction of oil from the earth's deepest and most remote deposits no longer keeps up with rising global demand (energy forecasters foresee several decades of rising demand even as rich countries» use of the fuel flattens and perhaps declines).

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

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.

When I canvassed marine biologists and other experts late last week to get their forecasts of the long - term environmental impacts of the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher, one scientist, Nancy Rabalais, sent an apologetic note from the cruise charting oxygen levels, saying she had no time to weigh in because the expedition was wrapping up its survey.

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.

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.

When the oil gusher in the gulf was at its worst, I wrote about how anyone, including me, who relies on oil for heat or transportation «owns» some of that mess.

8:21 a.m. Updated As BP sought to test whether a new capping device could fully control the oil gusher that the company and its partners created in the Gulf of Mexico seabed nearly three months ago, musicians from New Orleans responded with a song, «Sorry Ain't Enough No More,» which can be downloaded free of charge:

On May 1, I expressed concern that BP's choices in dealing with the unrelenting seabed oil gusher might be more shaped by corporate interests than the public interest.

You've doubtless heard that BP has, on the 87th day of the oil gusher and in its 10th try, apparently stopped the flow of oil from its Macondo well (the current stoppage is a test of the new system).

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

Photos courtesy of Webby Awards BP got lambasted by Congress with lengthy tirades yesterday after the CEO apologized profusely for the oil gusher's devastation to the

Green energy is going to be the oil gusher of the 21st century, and if we're going to remain the world's economic superpower, we've got to be the pioneers — just as America always has been.

«We have been challenged by Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina, the Gulf oil gusher, and now this year's tornadoes,» says J. Danny Cooper, CEO of the Alabama Association of REALTORS ®.

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