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Shale gas may possibly offset the decline in the UK’s North Sea
supplies. But David Cameron and George Osborne’s dreams of an energy
revolution are a dangerous hallucination
Sinkhole prompts road study
State highway officials plan to start early next year with a six-month
study into the feasibility of an alternative route around an 8-acre sinkhole
in northern Assumption Parish.
Telling truth may land BP employee in jail
If the government has its way, Kurt Mix will go to jail for telling the
truth.
That’s the only conclusion that can be drawn by comparing the
government’s claims in two separate criminal cases related to the
Deepwater Horizon – one against BP filed last month and one against Mix,
the rank-and-file BP engineer who had nothing to do with the accident
itself.
Louisiana river project sparks contentious debate
To coastal scientists, releasing thousands of gallons of fresh water
into southern Louisiana’s briny swampland would help revitalize wetlands
that have vanished over the years.
To St. Bernard Parish oysterman Sam Slavich, the thought is like a
noose tightening around his livelihood. Freshwater diversions that were
opened to repel crude from the 2010 BP oil spill may have contributed to
70% of his oyster harvests dying.
Oil Spill Threatens Bird Sanctuary Off Staten Island
Oil from a barge spilled into the waters off Staten Island, spreading to
a bird sanctuary on an island in Newark Bay, the Coast Guard said on
Saturday.
The spill was detected shortly after 11 p.m. Friday at May Ship
Repair, said Petty Officer Erik Swanson, a Coast Guard spokesman. Petty
Officer Swanson said that fuel oil was being transferred from a barge
called Boston 30 to another barge, DBL 25, when workers noticed that it
was also darkening the water between the vessels.
Chevron to pay $155 million for Brazil oil spill