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146,000 barrels per day—but just two days later, BP executives were
estimating the leak at 1,000 barrels per day.
UL researchers studying Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact
Researchers at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette are studying
the effects of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. One team of scientists
will examine how razor clams and ghost shrimp affect the way oil is
distributed and ultimately broken down by bacteria along the coast. The
other will try to to uncover the possible impact of the spill on blue crabs
by looking at their genes.
Chronic oil a greater risk than tanker spill, Nature Canada tells
pipeline panel
Chronic, ship-source discharges of oily effluent pose a larger problem
than large-scale catastrophic oil spills, lawyers for Nature Canada told the
panel weighing the Northern Gateway pipeline.
Brazil Chevron case makes offshore oil workers hard to find
Oil companies are having trouble hiring foreign workers crucial to
Brazil’s booming offshore oil industry because of criminal and civil cases
against Chevron Corp. and Transocean Ltd. employees, the head of an
industry association said on Monday.
Citizen science more than a century later: Ordinary people go
online to track Gulf oil spill
In the summer of 1854 a doctor named John Snow tracked London’s
deadly outbreak of cholera to contaminated water coming from a public
well — the now famous Broad Street pump. But Snow’s observations had
to wend their way through the annals of science and took years to make an
impact on the public health. Now, more than a century later, ordinary
people can go online and report observations about public health problems
and disasters in real time. In a just-published study a researcher at the
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health
Services (SPHHS) reports on this new form of “citizen science,”
concluding that it can help modern-day public health officials assess
health and environmental threats, such as those posed by the 2010 Gulf oil
disaster. The researcher studied reports to an online Oil Spill Map and
discovered that citizen science can red-flag potential hazards quickly and