Oil Spill: Salazar Admits Oil Drilling Lapses
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said changes must be made to the Minerals Management Service, the agency in charge of regulating offshore oil drilling. “We need to clean up that house,” Salazar told the Senate Energy Committee Tuesday. Salazar said he plans to “craft a new agency” because of ethical misconduct and regulatory failures. Salazar emphasized […]
Do I Make A Difference? Never Send To Know …
The vastness of the problems we face makes it easy to feel tiny and insignificant. This is true whether we are talking about poverty, racism, environment or ‘other.’ The cause du jour for despair and a sense of futility seems to be climate change, but what I have to say about it applies to any […]
No Real Solution To Stopping Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico
The oil spill that has been slowly taking over the Gulf of Mexico since April 20, has no end in sight. The 100-ton metal box that BP hoped would contain the gushing wellhead 5,000 feet deep in the ocean floor, didn’t do the trick. What’s next?
Environmentalists, Lawyers, And Fishermen Go After BP
Even though a 4-story, 100-ton metal box, also known as a “Coffer Dam,” has been placed on a gushing wellhead of crude deep in the Gulf of Mexico, the disaster here is far from over.
Countless gallons of crude has covered over 2000 miles of water and there is no guarantee that the Coffer Dam will stop the leak 100 percent, which means that more crude will spill into Gulf.
Environmental Politics: Agitate Or Cooperate?
One of my favourite sayings is to the effect that when you can’t decide, do both at once; agitate and cooperate!
