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Royal Dutch Shell, the massive multinational oil company, badly
wants to be ready to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean next summer. This
year, the company’s plans to begin drilling in the treacherous seas of the
Arctic were thwarted by its late start and repeated failures to get even
basic oil spill response equipment into place.
Oil Spill off Grand Bahama “Not Likely to Threaten Bahamian
Environment”
The oil spill off Grand Bahama on Monday is not likely to threaten
the Bahamian environment, Transport and Aviation Minister Glenys
Hanna-Martin said at a press conference.
After the Spill: Oysters and Oil Consumption
Oysters are a benchmark commercial species harvested along the
shores of lower Alabama’s Gulf Coast. After the Deepwater Horizon Oil
Spill of 2010 dumped almost half a million tons of crude oil into Gulf of
Mexico waters, fishermen and consumers were concerned about the status
of local oyster beds.
Villagers struggle as oil spill destroys food source
IT will not be such a merry Christmas for locals of Waiqanake
Village after damage caused by a recent oil spill affected one of their main
food sources.
Concerned villager and chairperson of the qoliqoli, or fishing
grounds, Asakaia Balawa told this newspaper the amount of small fish,
crabs and food sources had depleted over the course of the year and it was
not getting any better.
Numerical study suggests subsea injection of chemicals
didn’t prevent oil from rising to sea surface
The 2010 blowout of the Macondo well in the waters of the Gulf of
Mexico resulted in the region’s largest oil spill in U.S. history. As the
Deepwater Horizon (DWH) incident unfolded, in an effort to prevent the
oil from coming to the surface and reaching coastal and marsh ecosystems,
chemical dispersants were injected at the wellhead. These powerful
dispersants, typically used to break up oil slicks at the sea surface had
never been used in such large quantities and over such a prolonged period
of time in the deep ocean.