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The offshore drilling unit Q4000 holds position directly over the sunken Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf, as crews work to plug the wellhead using a technique known as “top kill”. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Ann Marie Gorden on May 26, 2010. The blog EnergyBoom reported that BP’s “top [...]
What would you ask an oil company? How many millions of gallons are you going to continue to spew into our marshlands and coastlines? How many thousands of people and animals will be destroyed by your greed and incompetence? The Second City Network has just created this parody of British Petroleum’s vacuous advertisements, entitled “Bringing [...]
The Prairie Island facility near Red Wing on the Mississippi River is one of only two nuclear power plants in Minnesota. In 1994 the state enacted a moratorium on all new nuclear facilities, in exchange for allowing additional capacity for dry cask storage of wastes at Prairie Island. Fortunately, a bid to reverse Minnesota’s nationally [...]
Dr. Rachel Maddow updates the extent of the devastating impact that BP’s increasingly disastrous oil spill catastrophe is having in the Gulf of Mexico. Louisiana’s coastline and sensitive marshlands are being consumed by toxic torrents of crude, and thousands of animals are being killed. The expanding horror of this is nauseating and utterly gut wrenching.
