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A federal judge fined Chesapeake Appalachia $600,000 for
destroying a Wetzel County waterfall while constructing a well pad.
Breaking: Cargo Ship Spills Hundreds Of Gallons Of Oil
Minister of Transport and Aviation Glenys Hanna-Martin described
the oil spill, during a press conference at the port department this evening,
as a tier one spill, which she said represents the least threatening type of
spill on a scale of 1-3.
Bahamas: Crews working to contain oil spill from
cargo ship with breached hull
Government officials say a cargo ship is slowly leaking oil off the
northernmost island of the Bahamas.
Transport Minister Glenys Hanna-Martin said Monday that the ship’s
hull was somehow breached off Grand Bahama island and it is unclear
how much oil has spilled into the ocean so far
BP Oil Highly Toxic When Mixed with Dispersants
The two million gallons of the chemical used to break up BP’s
catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 may have made the oil
more toxic to marine life than it already was. In a study published in the
journal Environmental Pollution, the chemical dispersant called Corexit
was mixed with oil taken from the BP spill. The chemical cocktail killed
and reduced reproduction in rotifers, a tiny creature that forms part of the
base of the Gulf food chain.
Future oil permits should require flow-rate gauge-BP spill study
One lesson learned from the deadly 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill is
the need to gauge how much oil is leaking from a blown-out well,
prompting U.S. government scientists to recommend all future drilling
permits require mechanisms to assess the flow rate.
New Report On BP Oil Spill Says Size of Spills
Can Be Determined by “Sniffing” the Air
Today the final three reports in an overview of the scientific
community’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is being
released. One of the authors is University of South Florida biologist Steve
Murawski, who was the chief scientist for the National Marine Fisheries
Service during the disaster.