By Alison@Creekside Four “Rethink Alberta” billboards in Denver, Portland, Seattle and Minneapolis proclaim the “Alberta Tar Sands Oil Disaster” is worse than the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster. There’s also a vid. Alberta Preme Ed Stelmach is pledging $268,000 to mount a public relations offensive against the ads and has settled on a most unusual […]
BP given 10 new Gulf leases since spill began
By Alison@Creekside While waiting for the moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf to be lifted, the Department of Interior’s Minerals Management Services, these guys, have approved five new offshore drilling projects since June 2. An Exxon Mobil site at a water depth of 1,000 feet and a Marathon Oil site at 775 feet were […]
Lessons not learned: deep water drilling post-Ixtoc
By Eric Pettifor On more than one occasion watching American news coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, I’ve heard it referred to as the greatest disaster of its kind in US history. One might think it is the worst in world history. One would be wrong. Reuters has published a piece by Robert Campbell providing […]
Yes, an oil spill could happen in B.C.
By Alison@Creekside Hands Across the Sand began in Florida in February to “protest the efforts by the Florida Legislature and the US Congress to lift the ban on oil drilling in the near and off shores of Florida.” Well it’s a global movement now and here’s the Vancouver Canada page. But don’t we already have […]
