Sentences with phrase «seabed gusher»

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Now there's an oil opera, «As the Oil Flows,» brought to you by BP via a «spillcam» after lawmakers pressed the company to send its nonstop video feeds from the seabed gusher to the public.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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.

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.

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.