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A Movement Prepares: Goodbye, Limitless Oil. Hello, Primitive Dystopia
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 6th, 2010
New York Times: For Mrs. Wilkerson, 33, a moderate Democrat from Oakton, Va., who designs computer interfaces, the spill reinforced what she had been obsessing over for more than a year -- that oil use was outstripping the world's supply. She worried about what would come after: maybe food shortages, a collapse of the economy, a breakdown of civil order. Her call was part of a telephone course about how to live through it all. In bleak times, there is a boom in doom. Americans have long been ...
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BP cap catches ‘10,000 barrels’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 6th, 2010
BBC: A containment cap on a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico is now funnelling off 10,000 barrels of oil a day, BP's chief executive Tony Hayward says. The amount has risen since Saturday, and implies more than half the estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels leaking each day is now being captured. The spill has been described as the biggest environmental disaster in US history. Mr Hayward told the BBC that BP would restore the Gulf to its original state. Speaking on the ...
BP cap catching ‘about 10,000 barrels a day’
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 6th, 2010
Agence France-Presse: BP's oil spill cap, designed to stop a huge leak from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico, is currently catching around 10,000 barrels a day, its chief executive Tony Hayward told the BBC Sunday. "As we speak, the containment cap is producing around 10,000 barrels of oil a day to the surface," Hayward said, adding that this was "probably the vast majority". He added that another system to try and contain the oil would be put in place over the next week and should be in place ...