Articles, tagged with "gulf of mexico", page 1
Hurricanes; What exactly You Can Do in order to avoid Future Trouble for your Home and save money
LocalNet360- June 1 is the beginning of our 2011 hurricane season that continues until the end of November. The plethora of published articles primarily focuses on how to prepare your home for an upcoming storm and also what to do during a storm. There ar...
A Marine Accident Investigation Is Only Valuable When Performed By An Expert
Last year, most of the world became aware that while offshore drilling is an industry that is operated by knowledgeable individuals and organizations utilizing the state of the art technology, there is still plenty of room for error. Because marine accide...
Wastewater Treatment Services - An Overview
What is wastewater?
Wastewater is water which has previously been used by either a household (domestically) or business (industrially). As a consequence of the water use, the water will need to undergo wastewater treatment services prior to reuse. Thi...
7 Ways that Bicycling Can Save the Environment
By Erika Parker Price
We all learned to ride one as a child, but then sometime after we turned sixteen, most of us abandoned that sleek two-wheeled bicycle in favor of a car. If you are thinking about getting green, here are some green facts to show yo...
Another Fine Contestant For Celebrity Jackass
This morning, while drinking some tea and making a "to do" list, I
heard an advertisment for a Spike Lee documentary about the oil
spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Having seen several "Spike Lee Joints,"
I didn't have much hope that he could add anything...
20th Century Disasters - The Amoco Cadiz Oil Spill And The Baia Mare Cyanide Spill
We humans have a seemingly insatiable demand for oil and other natural resources. Aside from the direct damage that we are doing to the Earth in the pursuit of these resources we are also indirectly inflicting a phenomenal amount of damage on our planet....
Oil Spill Report Calls for Lessons to be Learned
Safety experts and environmental campaigners want tougher regulations governing deep water drilling in UK seas following an investigation into last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster which found cost cutting and short cuts were to blame.
While the government...
BP and partner firms made risky decisions before spill
BP AND its partners made a series of cost-cutting decisions that ultimately contributed to the oil spill that ravaged the Gulf of Mexico coast over the summer, the White House oil spill commission said on Wednesday.
In its final report on causes of th...
Oil Spill Cleanup And Containment Solutions Found At Stewart Technology Associates
For many across the country and all over the world, the BP oil leak in the Gulf this past spring and summer seems like a distant memory; however, for some who live on the coast and indeed, for marine wildlife whose habitat was severely damaged by the oil ...
BP Delays Test to determine the oil Well Integrity
Derfor it is important that engineers and scientists have a setup to assess accurately the different types of pressure readings would indicate whether the contents of any breach along 13,000 feet of casing that lines the well. "If we do not have complete ...
Common Questions In regards to the BP claims process
After US President Barack Obama demanded that BP Pic, the third largest power company on this planet and the corporate recognized because the one chargeable for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, pay for the damages resulting from the ...
BP's oil well near death, but disaster is not over
The impending death of BP's blown-out oil well will bring one piece of the catastrophe that began five months ago to an anticlimactic end — after all, the gusher was capped in July.
This, though, is an important milestone for the still-weary residents ...
Beach Cleanup Only Helps After an Event
The beaches along the Gulf of Mexico are beautiful places to enjoy a relaxing afternoon basking in the sun or playing in the waves that crash into the shoreline. However, the beaches can be threatened by erosion or storms or other extreme events that will...
HESCO® Units and Enviro-Armour™ Providing Beach Protection for Gulf Coast
The danger of oil from the BP spill coming onshore to Gulf of Mexico beaches is still present despite the fact that the well from BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig appears to be capped. Some oil has already come onshore and is causing damage to the beaches. ...
Beach Cleanup May Take While After Oil Leak Plugged
The oil leak from the broken well of BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig seems to be plugged for the moment, but the beach cleanup effort is still underway. Tar balls and oil slicks have been coming onshore to beaches located along the Gulf of Mexico and oil s...
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