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Entries in Oil Spill (8)

10:29PM

BP Spills Coffee

Well, yeah.  (Thanks, Michelle, for the link...)

 

5:38PM

British Petroleum, Meet Louisiana Coastline

Updated on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at 11:58AM by Registered CommenterOtter

I've been asked lately in the mailbag (and Twitter) why I haven't responded to the BP hostile takeover of the Gulf of Mexico.

Really, it's because I can't write about BP without profanity.

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7:18AM

BP & The Smoking Gun

Updated on Thursday, May 27, 2010 at 8:25AM by Registered CommenterOtter

The New Orleans Times Picayune (which is becoming the nation's expert at crisis reporting) lays out the case against BP in sum.

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9:19AM

Cure As Bad As Disease In Gulf

Updated on Tuesday, May 25, 2010 at 9:37AM by Registered CommenterOtter

It's as bad as all that. Philippe Cousteau and Sam Champion investigate the way in which the cure is as bad as the disease. 

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2:17PM

An Interlude

Suddenly, everybody standing there was drawing closer together. I didn't see any feet moving, but we were all standing together where before we had each been turned outward, away into our private thoughts.

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3:04PM

Deep Water Rising: What's Love Got To Do With It?

You Did Not Die In Vain: We Have Cheaper Gas

I've (provisionally) defined love pretty broadly here: the energy for creating and sustaining life-giving relationships.  The costs are high, there's no doubt about that.  And it's interesting to see love's basic justice when our lifestyle is so out of balance.

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10:24PM

Gulf / Light

Somebody set the Gulf on fire.  It makes pretty lights.

I mean, really.  Let's just throw a match on that baby and watch it burn.

Bill it as the BP Southern Lights Show.

1:05PM

Lots of Dead Things Grow Old And Then Come To Haunt Us, Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Vanadium Porphyrin

Manufacturing petroleum is a long and difficult process.  First you have to have a lot of biomass, a slow-cooker, and lots of time.

So roughly how much biomass does it take to make a slick eighty by forty miles?