Blogposts tagged 'Gulf Of Mexico'

Deepwater Horizon - One Year On

Publication date: 26 April, 2011

On March 31, three weeks before the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Barack Obama announced plans to open offshore oil drilling along the east coast of the United States from Virginia to Florida and the eastern Gulf of Mexico, ending a decades-long moratorium.

He further announced research to assess the feasibility of offshore drilling in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas off the north coast of Alaska.

Download the report:

Deepwater Horizon - One Year On

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Deepwater Horizon - One Year On

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 21 April 2011 at 5:25pm - 0 Comments

Scientist Charles Messing in Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida

Thursday marked the one year anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster. 11 rig workers were killed and 16 injured in the initial explosion. And, after nearly 5 million barrels of oil spewed in to the ocean for five months, the long term effects on the Gulf of Mexico are still being uncovered.

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The BP Oil Spill: One Year Later - a video on the US report

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 21 April 2011 at 9:25am - 0 Comments

The BP Oil Spill: One Year Later - a video on the US report

Yesterday marked one year since BP's Deepwater Horizon explosion, what Obama called "the worst environmental disaster the US has ever faced".

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The first time I smelled the oil: remembering the Gulf of Mexico

Posted by jamess - 20 April 2011 at 9:29am - 1 Comment

Heavy crude oil in the wetland grasses on an island in Bay Batiste

Gulf Coast local Lamar Billups writes a poignant guest blog, via our US office:

First I would like to thank Greenpeace for allowing me the honor of writing a blog for the one-year anniversary of the BP oil disaster. You are the best, and, on behalf of the millions of people on the gulf, we thank you for the research and help you gave after us this spill.

I remember the first time I smelled the oil: I was at my son’s baseball game. Part way into the game everyone began to smell something like burning tires.

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BP AGM Live coverage feed

Posted by jamess - 14 April 2011 at 9:42am - 1 Comment

Today was the first BP Annual General Meeting since the Gulf of Mexico oil spill - where both furious investors and protesters voiced their frustrations at BP's abysmal handling of the disaster. Greenpeace were there - here's our live feed of tweets, news, images and videos from the event at Excel London:

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Deepwater Horizon, one year on: BP faces the AGM music

Posted by Gemma Freeman - 13 April 2011 at 6:22pm - 0 Comments

A week before the year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, the worst oil spill in history, BP’s Annual General Meeting tomorrow couldn’t be more poignantly timed. Especially with angry investors preparing to vote against the oil giant’s annual report – in unprecedented numbers.

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Submarines for a healthy Gulf

Posted by jamie - 19 October 2010 at 1:39pm - 1 Comment

Several weeks after BP announced that the leaking well was firmly capped, the Arctic Sunrise is still in the Gulf assessing the damage caused to marine life and habitats. Oceans campaigner John Hocevar is part of the investigation team and his latest blog is below. More blogs, photos and videos from the Arctic Sunrise's expedition can be found on our US website.

A couple days ago, we advanced the cause of science and conservation by throwing someone else's hundred thousand dollar piece of equipment over the side of the ship. It sank to the bottom.

Fortunately, this was all part of the plan. The scientists we are working with, Steve Ross and Mike Rhode from University of North Carolina Wilmington and Sandra Brooke from the Marine Conservation Biology Institute and the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, plan to come back next year to retrieve the equipment, called a benthic lander, and use it to learn how deep sea corals are surviving in a rapidly changing and heavily impacted environment.

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Our ship in the Gulf is now heading for the site of the Deepwater Horizon

Posted by tracy - 20 August 2010 at 10:27am - 0 Comments

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is in the Gulf of Mexico to perform an independent assessment of he Gulf oil spill. Paul Horsman makes his last report from the ship. Photo © Todd Warshaw / Greenpeace

Today, as news of the discovery of a 22-mile plume of oil droplets is revealed in a report in the Journal, Science the first leg of the Greenpeace expedition on board the Arctic Sunrise ended. The scientists, Drs. Jo Lopez and Chuck Messing from Nova University, have spent much time underwater collecting specimens of sponges and recording what they have found in the Dry Tortugas National Park off Florida.

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The oil is still out there

Posted by jamess - 17 August 2010 at 3:55pm - 0 Comments

If you believed the BP-fuelled media spin, you'd think the Gulf of Mexico spill was all cleaned up.

Not so. According to a report today from scientists from the University of Georgia, up to 80 per cent of the oil which leaked from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still out there.

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Research begins on Greenpeace ship in the Gulf

Posted by jamess - 17 August 2010 at 10:33am - 0 Comments

Photo by Flickr user kk+ | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en_CA

While our ship the Esperanza is busy confronting the oil industry, our colleages in the US are on the Arctic Sunrise in the Gulf of Mexico, researching the effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill. Paul - a longtime Greenpeace campaigner and campaign director at TckTckTck - updates us on how it's going.

It is just after five o'clock in the morning. I've just had a slice of toast and a cup of tea. The decks are wet from a recent downpour that has cooled the air somewhat. It is quiet, the ship and crew sleep. The 4 to 8 is the best watch. You get to see the sunrise and the sunset. But just now it is the darkness just before the dawn – just the harbour lights and the occasional lightning flash in the darkness.

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