Monthly Archives: September, 2011
Gulf to open for oil and gas leases
The Obama holds its first auction since BP oil spill last year. More than 20 million acres in the western Gulf will be offered in December. The Obama announced Friday that its first oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico to hold since the deadly explosion and oil spill Deepwater Horizon. “This [...]
Gulf oil spill can cause permanent damage to fish populations, study finds
Fish in the Gulf of Mexico marshes exposed to oil spill last year have cellular changes that can lead to developmental and reproductive problems undergo a group of researchers reported Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study, which was funded by the National Science Foundation and the BP-funded Gulf [...]
BP looks to get back into deep water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico
After lying low in the Gulf of Mexico for about one year, the British oil giant BP has taken steps back into the deep water oil exploration game from the Louisiana coast, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports. From April 20, 2010, at Macondo blowout of the oil company is 11 employees slain on the drilling [...]
Gulf fish hammered by BP Oil
Although the water in the habitat of the tested killifish is clean, the kind still suffering from the BP oil spill of 2010. Even minute quantities of crude oil, BP has taken a variety of ways fish in the Gulf of Mexico – even if oil in the water were nondetectable. According to a paper [...]
What are the ways to prevent water pollution?
Although we have to ensure that the government strict about ensuring that an adequate treatment plant to treat wastewater, and to ensure that industrial wastewater treatment plants and nuclear power plants have the proper waste storage systems for radioactive material, and so on, there are many things we do individually to prevent water pollution. Here [...]