The Coast Guard Is Investigating A Possible Brand New, Big Oil Spill In The Gulf

Joe Weisenthal Business Insider 3/19/2011

On top of everything else, some potentially troublesome environmental news out of the Gulf of Mexico again.

The Times Picayune is reporting that the Coast Guard is investigating reports of a brand new deepwater oil spill.

Multiple callers have reported that they have seen a huge sheen of oil not […]

Gulf waste heads to landfills, some with problems

In this July 23, 2010 file photo, piles of dirty oil retention booms await disposal at a staging area in Grand Isle, La. More than 50,000 tons of boom and oily debris have made their way to landfills or incinerators, federal officials told The Associated Press, representing about 7 percent of the daily […]

Decades of environmental catastrophes in the Niger delta

Nigeria’s agony dwarfs the Gulf oil spill. The US and Europe ignore it

The Deepwater Horizon disaster caused headlines around the world, yet the people who live in the Niger delta have had to live with environmental catastrophes for decades

John Vidal, environment editor The Observer via The Guardian [UK] 30 May 2010

We reached […]

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