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Canada: Imperial Oil official says Gulf spill won’t help oilsands reputation
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
Financial Post: The unfolding ecological disaster off the Gulf of Mexico could damage the reputation of the entire oil industry model, without necessarily benefiting Alberta's oilsands sector, says Imperial Oil Ltd's president. Speaking to a lunchtime business crowd in Ottawa Tuesday, Bruce March, the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Imperial Oil, said he could see "nothing good" coming out of the British Petroleum offshore drilling accident for the oilsands ...
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BP says ‘virtually all’ oil to be captured soon
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
Associated Press: A top BP executive says the company expects to be capturing virtually all the oil leaking from the Gulf floor by early next week. Chief operating officer Doug Suttles told The Associated Press on Tuesday in Gulf Shores, Ala., that the flow should decrease "to a relative trickle" by Monday or Tuesday. President Barack Obama plans to visit the region the same days. Suttles says a second pumping ship should improve the process. And he says a new containment cap being built ...
Fiery La. Politician Leads Fight To Clean Up Oil Spill
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
National Public Radio: One of the areas hardest hit by the BP oil spill is Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish. Located at the state's southernmost end, it runs along the Mississippi for 70 miles as the mighty river empties out into the Gulf of Mexico. Parish residents are weary after more than six weeks of fighting to keep the oil out of their prized marshlands. But they have something in their arsenal that other parishes don't: Billy Nungesser. The parish president is a newcomer to politics who isn't ...
Feds knew of Gulf spill risks in 2000, document shows
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
McClatchy Newspapers: A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater. The disaster scenario -- contained in a May 2000 offshore drilling plan for the Shell oil company that McClatchy has obtained -- is now a grim reality in the Gulf of Mexico . Less predictably, perhaps, the author of the document was ...
To Fix Oil-Fouled Marshes, Some Say Do Nothing
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
National Public Radio: The sensitive salt marshes of Louisiana line the coast, protecting it from storm surges and providing habitat for numerous wildlife. Now those marshes are endangered by oil. The Coast Guard has laid hundreds of miles of protective boom, and even has workers carefully cleaning individual blades of grass. But some scientists say the best cure is to do, well, nothing.
United States: Could the spill restore Jindal as a GOP whiz kid?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
Associated Press: It's a rough schedule for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal -- a near daily grind of military helicopter flights or roaring airboat tours to remote steamy marshes and sun-baked barrier islands increasingly endangered by the BP oil spill. Sweeping sticks or fish nets through chocolate-colored goo to show its cake-batter thickness, Jindal laments a lumbering federal and corporate response to the mess. He repeatedly assures reporters: "We've taken matters into our own hands." The ...
UK to double inspections of drilling rigs
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
Financial Times: The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is transforming the regulation of deep water drilling worldwide, Chris Huhne, UK energy secretary, said on Monday as he announced the doubling of environmental inspections of rigs operating in UK waters. He called the April 20 Deepwater Horizon explosion and the subsequent oil spill "devastating and enduring". "What we are seeing will transform the regulation of deep water drilling worldwide," he said. Even in the UK, which has some of ...
In Alabama, a Home-Grown Bid to Beat Back Oil
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
New York Times: James Hinton looked over a barge jutting into the mouth of a 6,000-acre estuary last weekend and said, "If we can make this work, if the oil don't get in here, 1,275 miles of bay and river coastline will be protected.' A day later, Mr. Hinton said: "I could go to jail for going against unified command. Now, I don't mind going to jail, I just need to make sure it's for doing the right thing.' In a month in which Gulf Coast officials have railed about not being able to protect ...
Obama has strong words as Gulf spill spreads
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
Reuters: President Barack Obama said he wanted to know "whose ass to kick" over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, adding to the pressure on energy giant BP Plc as it sought to capture more of the leak from its gushing well. "I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answer so I know whose ass to kick," Obama said in an interview with NBC News' "Today" to air on Tuesday. They were the angriest ...
Reactions to Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 8th, 2010
Dominion: The announcement of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement has sparked a mix of sweeping pronouncements and passionate reactions. Below, we have compiled a small sampling. See also Dawn Paley's analysis of the agreement itself, published today. Readers are invited to post additions in the comments sections at the bottom of the page. "The Ontario government is encouraged to see environmental groups and forest companies working together to help develop a plan that would lead to ...