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The Gulf Oil Spill and Efforts to Cap the Well

Jun 06, 2010 at 11:44 | Strategic Studies

Below is a Q and A Interview with Frank Verrastro, senior vice president and director of the Energy and National Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies…

Will a Tactical Nuclear Weapon be Used to stop the Gulf Oil Spill?

Jun 04, 2010 at 10:30 | Mad Hedge Fund Trader

I have never been able to use my talents both as a securities analyst and a nuclear weapons designer simultaneously, but British Petroleum (BP) has at last enabled me to…

Just How Much Oil is Leaking into the Gulf

May 29, 2010 at 10:00 | Geoffrey Styles

The question of the week seems to be just how much oil is leaking from the damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico. I have steered away from the controversy…

A Detailed Guide of BP’s plan to Stop the Oil Spill: The Top Kill

May 26, 2010 at 08:01 | The Oil Drum

The next attempt to shut off the flow from the leaking BP well in the Gulf is still aimed to occur early Wednesday. The attempt will use the “top kill”…

Could There Be A Bright Side To the Gulf of Mexico Disaster

May 20, 2010 at 07:52 | Michael Economides

Although the US petroleum industry is understandably in a state of panic after the recent spill in the Gulf of Mexico and some, both friend and foe, have even resorted…

White House Covers Up Menacing Oil "Blob"

May 19, 2010 at 10:52 | Wayne Madsen

In an exclusive for Oilprice.com, the Wayne Madsen Report (WMR) has learned from Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers sources that U.S. Navy submarines deployed…

Is There Rehab for This Oil Overdose? Black Tar Has Just Taken on a Whole New Meaning

May 18, 2010 at 09:01 | Carolyn Baker

It’s been almost a month since the sirens of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico lacerated the night with tortured warnings of impending doom. Chief…

Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: Who to Believe?

May 17, 2010 at 16:56 | Allen Gilmer

As we enter a week without further news as to whether BP's efforts to place a containment vessel over the oil leak in the subsurface, two news articles were published...

U.S. to Restructure Offshore Drilling Regulatory Agency in Wake of Oil Spill

May 12, 2010 at 08:22 | Darrell Delamaide

The Obama administration said it will restructure the little-known agency overseeing offshore drilling, splitting is regulatory oversight duties from its lease management responsibilities – a joint task critics say is…

8 Long Term Economic and Environmental Effects of the Gulf Oil Spill

May 11, 2010 at 11:51 | Michael Snyder

As oil continues to pour into the Gulf of Mexico at a staggering rate, many are now starting to realize that the pain from this oil spill will be felt…

Oil Spills: More Oil is Released Naturally Than from Human Errors

May 10, 2010 at 21:12 | Al Fin

The Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound released 10.8 million gallons of oil -- or almost 250,000 barrels of oil. But natural oil seeps off California…

Volcanic Eruptions: Is Nature Set to Crush Global Warming?

May 08, 2010 at 16:53 | Art Horn

The global warming enthusiasts are convinced that as humans inject more and more carbon dioxide into the air we will warm the atmosphere beyond recognition. But nature may be set…

The Cover-up: BP's Crude Politics and the Looming Environmental Mega-Disaster

May 06, 2010 at 11:43 | Wayne Madsen

WMR has been informed by sources in the US Army Corps of Engineers, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and Florida Department of Environmental Protection that the Obama White House and…

Climate Change: Money, Politics & Scandals

May 06, 2010 at 08:10 | Claudio Guler

“With all the hysteria, all the fear, all the phony science, could it be that manmade global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people? I believe…

Some Perspective on the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

May 05, 2010 at 17:23 | Allen Gilmer

Panic time, folks. News stories about impending environmental disasters. A couple of senators calling for hearings. The media calling it "Obama's Katrina". Time for that rarest of things, perspective. 1. Chance that a US…

Gulf Oil Spill Rapidly Expanding Through Region (Picture)

May 03, 2010 at 13:40 | Editorial Dept

The NOAA picture below predicts the potential path the Gulf Oil Spill could take. This is where it could have spread to by the end of the day. At…

The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill - No Easy Economic or Environmental Solutions

May 01, 2010 at 12:41 | Gail Tverberg

We have all been reading about the blowout that led to huge fire and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. Now there is news…

Carbon Sequestration - Is burying Carbon Dioxide underground a realistic option?

Jan 04, 2010 at 18:06 | Editorial Dept

Climate Change is having a great impact on global perspectives, which is leading Governments and Businesses to take a serious look at Carbon Sequestration (CCS.) This means that instead of…

Climate Change: Clean Coal, Nuclear Energy or Simply Energy Savings?

Dec 16, 2009 at 00:53 | Philip H. de Leon

On November 6, 2009 The World Coal Institute released its new report "Securing the Future - Financing CCS in a Post-2012 World." One revealing sentence on the website says “significant…

Speakable and Unspeakable About The Copenhagen Climate Meeting

Dec 11, 2009 at 18:05 | Ferdinand E. Banks

An informative essay by Ferdinand E. Banks on the Copenhagen Climate meeting, Energy Economics, the Nuclear revival and why Global Warming should be uniting us / not dividing as a…

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