Offshore Energy

North Sea Well Blow-out Spikes Carbon Emissions

Bill Chameides | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Fuel, Energy, Europe, Oil Drilling, Statistically Speaking, Leak, Oil, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Drilling, Elgin Platform, North Sea, Blowout, Offshore Energy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Natural Gas, Green News
Bill Chameides

Crossposted with TheGreenGrok. Déjà vu? Not quite, but certainly some echoes of BP's Deepwater Horizon incident from two years ago. On March 25, the...

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Oil From the Gulf of Mexico

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Energy, Gulf of Mexico, Economy, Consumer Energy Alliance, Barack Obama, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Energy Industry, Oil Industry, Oil Drilling, U.S. Energy Information Administration, U.S. Congress, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Economic Survival Team, Oil, openthegulf.org, Drilling Moratorium, Offshore Energy, Third World America, Green News
Bill Chameides

It is often claimed that President Obama is against big oil, wants to shut down all oil extraction and exploration in the United States. Really? You think so?

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The Gulf Coast One Year After

Bill Chameides | Posted 06.20.2011

Read More: New Orleans, Bp, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, Bay Jimmy, Pollution, Bay Batiste, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Billy Nungesser, Oil Spill, Tar Balls, Bay Wilkinson, Deepwater Horizon, Wetlands, Oceans, Offshore Energy, Seafood, Green News
Bill Chameides

So how's it going one year after the Deepwater Horizon disaster? There's no shortage of info on the topic in the media. But the media can get things wrong. So here are two veterans of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to tell it like it is.

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Curiouser and Curiouser: How the Hill Is Handling Being in the Hole

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, United Nations, Chesapeake Bay, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Air Quality, United States, Pollution, Mike Beard, Betty McCollum, U.S. Military, Todd Stern, John Shimkus, Religion, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Nascar, Oil, Unfccc, Coal Ash, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Offshore Energy, Ted Poe, Air Pollution, Environmental Protection Agency, Global Warming, Green News
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Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.com.In the words of Alice, "It would be so nice if something made sense." Alice, of course, was talking about the strang...

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BP Lands the '2010 Accidental Earth Experiment' Prize!!!

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Natural Resources, Microbes, Bp, Gulf of Mexico, Ecosystems, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Science, Environmental Scientist, Earth, BP America, Methane, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Sunspots, Positive Feedback, Aerosols, Climate Change, Deepwater Horizon, Volcanoes, Oil, Carbon Dioxide, Anthropocene, Greenhouse Gases, Offshore Energy, Oceans, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Ice, Global Warming, Natural Gas, Green News
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Crossposted with www.TheGreenGrok.com. Award Achieved Through Remarkable Corporate Focus on Negligence and Incompetence While BP has distanced itself ...

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Obama and Oil Drilling: How Can You Be Sure?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Michael Leahy, Gulf of Mexico, Policy, Richard Feynman, Legislation, Barack Obama, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Politics, Nasa, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Minerals Management Service, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Challenger Space Shuttle, Deepwater Horizon, Oil, Washington Post, Hurricane Katrina, Juliet Eilperin, Offshore Energy, Climate Bill, Ken Salazar, Columbia Space Shuttle, Green News
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Is the benefit of the extra oil we will get from deepwater drilling (half a year's worth of additional crude) worth the environmental risks of another major accident? The Obama administration has obviously decided yes.

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Putting BP's Oil Spill Into Context

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Australia, Alaska, Bp, Louisiana, United States, China, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Exxon Valdez, Oil Drilling, Oil Spill, Statistically Speaking, Deepwater Horizon, Prince William Sound, Montara, Oil, Ixtoc I, Oceans, Offshore Energy, Green News
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Crossposted with www.thegreengrok.com. How unusual is it for 4.9 million barrels of oil to be spilled into the ocean? The newspapers tell us that the ...

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Oil Sh%& Happens: Is It Worth It?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rex Tillerson, John McCain, Alaska, Bp, Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico, Exxon Mobil, American Petroleum Institute, Policy, Oil Reserves, BP America, Barack Obama, Exxon Valdez, Lisa Murkowski, Politics, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, George Will, Deepwater Horizon, Oil, Oceans, Offshore Energy, Oil Company, Green News
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As the deepwater oil spill arrives on the Gulf Coast, just some quotes to consider ... from John McCain to Barack Obama to George Will.

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Sam Stein

Bill Nelson: Energy Bill With Offshore Drilling 'Dead On Arrival'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Neslons Msnb, Nelson Drilling, Florida Nelson, Bill Nelson White House, Offshore Energy, White House Energy Legislation, Bill Nelson, Nelson Offshore Drilling, Politics News

As an army of workers tries to stem the fallout of a massive oil spill along the Gulf Coast, back in Washington irreparable damage may already have be...

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Statistically Speaking: Offshore Energy Exploitation

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Cape Wind, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Oil, Wind, Offshore Energy, Green News
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Crossposted with www.thegreengrok.com.Offshore energy has been in the news of late. Obama's opening up new coastal areas for drilling (see Grok post);...

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Weathering the Oil Spill: Tar Balls, Streamers, and Eddies

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Hypoxia, Bp, Dead Zone, Science, Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill, Oil Spill Tar Balls, Lindsey Graham, Policy, BP America, Barack Obama, Deepwater Horizon Oil Rig Disaster, Politics, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Jane Lubchenco, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Climate Change, Deepwater Horizon, Oil, Environment, Offshore Energy, Noaa, Climate Bill, Loop Current, Subsurface Plume, Global Warming, Green News
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Today's oil spill news is dominated by Obama's Oval Office speech, but the highlight for me was a quiet update by the head of NOAA yesterday.

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The Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill: Ch-Ch-Changes and Lots of Loose Change

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Economics, Renewable Energy, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Kerry-Lieberman Climate Bill, Emission Targets, Lindsey Graham, Pollution, Policy, Power Plants, Legislation, Transportation, Offsets, Politics, American Power Act, U.S. Congress, Climate Change, Industry, John Kerry, Kerry-Graham-Lieberman Climate Bill, Public Transportation, Oil, Renewables, Carbon Dioxide, Joe Lieberman, Offshore Energy, Climate Bill, Green Energy, Global Warming, Green News
Bill Chameides

Here's an early thumbnail sketch of some of who's getting what in the Kerry-Lieberman (and perhaps Graham) bill.

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