Showing posts with label oil spill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oil spill. Show all posts

Sunday, 8 August 2010

Thursday, 8 July 2010

Gulf oil spill reaches Texas as tar balls wash ashore

Oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill reaches all five US Gulf states as tar balls land on a beach in Galveston, Texas.

Source:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10520458.stm

Wednesday, 26 May 2010

11 Victims of Deepwater Horizon Explosion Honored

As anger grows over the continuing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, friends and family gathered Tuesday, united in grief, to pay tribute to the 11 men lost in the explosion of the drilling rig that triggered the underwater gusher.

Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/25/deepwater.horizon.memorial/index.html?hpt=C1

Monday, 17 May 2010

Arianna Huffington Sunday Roundup

This week brought what President Obama termed the "ridiculous spectacle" of executives from three companies involved in the catastrophic Gulf oil spill testifying in front of Congress, each desperately trying to blame the other.

Think "The Three Stooges Go To Washington" -- Moe, Larry, and Halliburton...

Source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/sunday-roundup_b_577558.html

Sunday, 2 May 2010

Experts Oil spill is the ibad one they feared Science

What makes an oil spill really bad? Most of the ingredients for it are now blending in the Gulf of Mexico.

Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36878803/ns/technology_and_science-science/

In Gulf Oil Spill Fragile Marshes Face New Threat

With oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico unabated and officials giving no indication that the flow can be contained soon, towns braced for an imminent environmental disaster. The area can only sustain so many environmental insults

Source:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/us/02spill.html