Showing posts with label Gulf Offshore Drilling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gulf Offshore Drilling. Show all posts

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Offshore Drilling Coming To Florida

The Trump administration is preparing to open the door to oil and gas drilling off Florida’s coast — but will wait until after the November election to avoid blowback in a swing state whose waters both parties have long considered sacrosanct, according to four people familiar with the plan. HERE

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Gulf of Mexico Fracking Dump

Environmentalists are warning the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that its draft plan to continue allowing oil and gas companies to dump unlimited amounts of fracking chemicals and wastewater directly into the Gulf of Mexico is in violation of federal law. more

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Millions of barrels of oil flowing into the Gulf Of Mexico

An oil spill that has been quietly leaking Millions of barrels into the Gulf Of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history. HERE

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Louisiana GOP Bill Cassidy: We Don't Want Your Shit On Our Shores

Florida great Bill Nelson won this round. But a Louisiana colleague sponsoring a measure that encourages states like Florida to open up their waters to oil drilling promises the issue won’t go away. here
We will keep fighting you!

Monday, June 8, 2015

Jeb And Rubio Support Oil Drilling 50 Miles From Tampa Bay

Florida GOP contenders for the White House  Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio 
support an expansion 
(50 miles from Tampa Bay)
 of domestic energy production. That's a flip-flop for Bush, who as governor fought such bids to allow rigs closer to 
Florida's coastline. here

Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson came out as the state's initial defender by recently filing a bill that counters the 
pro-drilling measure.


Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2015/06/07/5838329_squash-latest-lawmaker-push-to.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy


Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2015/06/07/5838329_squash-latest-lawmaker-push-to.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Offshore Oil Drilling 50 Miles From Tampa Bay

There is a Senate proposal that would open up oil drilling as close as 50 miles off of Florida's Gulf Coast starting in 2017. here
Off the California coast, right now, thousands of dolphins, sea lions, and pelicans are drowning in slick rivers of oil. here
More pics here

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Florida 'Under Siege' By Big Oil

Sen. Bill Nelson is promising to vigorously fight a Senate proposal that would open up oil drilling as close as 50 miles off of Florida's Gulf Coast starting in 2017. here
Pic: Refugio State Beach, Calif., Wednesday, May 20, 2015 here

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Don't Go In The Water In Florida

Zachary Motal lost his foot and 
part of his lower leg.
Doctors say it was caused by flesh-eating bacteria that he contacted during a day at Fort Myers Beach. here

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

A Cuban Oil Disaster And The Florida Keys

The scenario is fiction, but the high-level attention it is drawing to a looming Florida threat is real. “The Florida keys awash in Cuban crude. here 

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Gulf Coast, Four Years After The BP Disaster

900: Bottlenose dolphins found dead or stranded
500: Sea Turtles found dead or stranded 
20 percent: Portion of the Gulf’s bluefin tuna exposed 
778 miles: Amount of coastline BP says it cleaned before ending
“active cleanup”
$14 billion: Amount BP says it spent on spill response and cleanup activities
$12.9 billion: Amount BP says it paid in claims, advances, civil settlements, and payments for tourism promotion, seafood testing, marketing,
and health services
$23 billion: BP’s profits in 201
$105 million: Amount BP paid under a partial settlement for the oil spill to fund new healthcare centers and services for the Gulf
17 months: Time period BP was banned from all federal contracts
Two weeks: Length of time after that suspension was lifted before BP
had another oil spill
Five: Number of rigs BP had in the Gulf of Mexico before the spill
10: Number of oil rigs BP currently has in the Gulf
1.3 million: Barrels of oil produced daily in the U.S. Gulf in 2011
2 million: Barrels of oil expected to come from the U.S. Gulf daily by 2020

Saturday, January 25, 2014

Poisoned Gulf Killing Our Whales

Authorities said eight pilot whales have died in shallow waters off Florida's southwest coast. Six others remain unaccounted for. In December, more than 50 pilot whales stranded in Everglades National Park. Several died.......more
Update: 25 Dead Whales Found Near Kice Island, Florida...more>
Pilot whales live in deep water and swim inland if they suffer from toxicity or disease.

Saturday, December 21, 2013

Dolphins Dying In Gulf From BP Oil Spill

A study backed by the federal government and paid for by BP shows that dolphins in some of the worst hit areas by the Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010 are suffering from lung disease and other abnormalities consistent with toxic exposure to oil.......more>

Saturday, June 1, 2013

Good News For The Keys

Zarubezhneft abandons offshore drilling in Cuba, for now
More than one month after the owner of a drilling platform said it would pull its rig from Cuba, state oil company Unión CubaPetróleo (Cupet) announced in a terse official note that Russian state company OAO Zarubezhneft postponed further offshore exploration. The pullout effectively ends all offshore exploratory drilling in Cuba, for now.
here
We must do all we can to discourage Cuba from drilling off it's coast. Venezuela has all the oil they need.
 If they want to resurrect the cash-starved Cuban economy they should find another way.