With 90% of up to 4.4 million barrels of oil ‘unaccounted for’, it’s now… still unaccounted for.
Posts Tagged ‘BP’
Fuckin’ Oil, Where Did It Went?
Posted: 28 September 2010 by Little Alex in National NewsTags: BP, BP escrow fund, BP Exploration & Production, corporatism, Deepwater Horizon, eco-terrorism, environment, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf oil spill, Newspeak, NOAA, Obama Administration, Rainer Amon, Suzanne Goldberg, US
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Daily Briefing—15th-16th Sept 2010
Posted: 16 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Amnesty International, Andy Worthington, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, Ayman al-Zawahiri, bailout, Blackwater, Boeing, BP, copyright, drones, drug war, extrajudicial assassination, Gareth Porter, GE, general strike, global economic crisis, GOP, Greece, Gulf oil spill, India, intellectual property, Iraq, Iraq War, Israel, JSOC, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, Khmer Rouge, Lehman Brothers, Matthew Cassel, Middle East peace process, military industrial complex, Myanmar, national debt, night raids, Pervez Musharraf, TARP, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, WTO, Xe, Yemen
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Daily Briefing—8th Sept 2010
Posted: 8 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Africa, airport body scanners, airstrikes, al-Qaeda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, AMISOM, banking, black sites, Blake Hounshell, BP, Bush tax cuts, Charles Hugh Smith, China, CIA, cognitive science, counterterrorism, credit unions, Deepwater Horizon, DR Congo, drones, drug war, experimental philosophy, extrajudicial assassination, for-profit universities, France, free press, Gareth Porter, general strike, gold, Goldman Sachs, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hillary Clinton, IDF, IFEX, India, Iran, Iraq War, ISAF, Israel, Israel-Lebanon War, Joe Biden, Kabul Bank, Kandahar Surge, Kashmir, Kevin Carson, land grabbing, Lebanon, Liz Pulliam Weston, Macondo oil spill, Mahmood Karzai, Mexico, military industrial complex, missile defense, Mullah Omar, NATO, neoliberalism, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philosophy, Poland, PTSD, Robert Fisk, Rwanda, secret prisons, Somalia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Stephen Walt, student loans, Sudan, suicide bombings, Taiwan, Taliban, Transocean, TSA, Uganda, UN, Yemen
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Evening Briefing—7th Sept 2010
Posted: 7 September 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Andy Worthington, anti-depressants, bailouts, banking, BP, cancer, Charles Davis, CIA, cooperatives, Cuba, David Petraeus, Deepwater Horizon, Fannie Mae, FOREX, Fourth Amendment, France, Freddie Mac, general strike, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, habeas corpus, healthcare, human rights, IAEA, infrastructure, Iran, Iraq, Jonathan Turley, London Underground, mortgage crisis, Mozambique, mushrooms, NATO, Obama Administration, Pakistan, police brutality, Russia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, tasers, torture, unemployment, US military, USDJPY, Walter Block, Walter Pincus, Warfare and Conflict
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Daily Briefing—25th-26th Aug 2010
Posted: 26 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, biometrics, BP, CIA, Cordoba House, David Petraeus, drones, extrajudicial assassination, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Gulf oil spill, Halliburton, Hamid Karzai, Hurricane Katrina, Iraq, Iraq War, Jack Hunter, Jeremy Scahill, JSOC, Mossad, NOLA, Pakistan, Park51, Ronald Bailey, SCOTUS, South Africa, Spencer Ackerman, Stephen Walt, Taliban, UN, Wal-Mart, whistleblowers, Wikileaks, Yemen
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Weekend Briefing—20th-22nd Aug 2010
Posted: 22 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Alexander Cockburn, Blackwater, BP, Bushehr, Colombia, Constanza Vieira, Daphne Eviatar, David Sirota, drones, economic crisis, general strike, George Donnelly, Gulf oil spill, Hamid Karzai, Iran, Iraq, Iraq election, Iraq War, Israel, Jason Ditz, Kenya, Lebanon, Middle East, Omar Khadr, Pakistan, Palestine-Israel, peace process, public opinion, Scott Horton, Somalia, South Africa, Stephen Walt, tea party movement, TF 121, TF 373, TF 42, TSA, Wikipedia, Xe, Zionism
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Evening Briefing—19th Aug 2010
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACTA, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War Logs, AIG, Baha'i, BP, China, CIA, Death Penalty, Dennis Kucinich, Eden Abergil, extrajudicial assassination, Federal Reserve, Gaza, Gaza blockade, general strike, Ground Zero Mosque, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, IDF, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Islam, Islamophobia, Jason Ditz, John Robbins, Keith Olbermann, Monsanto, MSNBC, national debt, NBC, NY Times, Pakistan, Park 51, Phillipines, religion, Roderick Long, Sharia Law, South Africa, Taiwan, Task Force 373, terrorism, TF 373, unemployment, Warfare and Conflict, Wikileaks, Zionism
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Report: Government Scientist Concedes 300% More Oil in Gulf Than Estimated, 90% of Gushed Oil ‘Unaccounted For’
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Little Alex in National NewsTags: Bill Lehr, BP, corporatism, Deepwater Horizon, environment, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf oil spill, law, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Newspeak, Transocean, University of Georgia, University of South Florida, US
Today, N.O.A.A. senior scientist told Congress that he was wrong about how much oil gushed into the Gulf, how much remains and conceded almost all of it is not accounted for, days after academic researchers ripped his two-week-old report to shreds. Documents reveal BP is withholding information from Transocean regarding the April 20 explosion that caused the gusher.
Daily Briefing—19th Aug 2010
Posted: 19 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Afghanistan, Arianna Huffington, AU, BlackBerry, BP, Central African Republic, Colombia, Corboda House, David Petraeus, food insecurity, France, Gaza, Ground Zero Mosque, Gulf oil spill, Haiti, IDF, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Jason Ditz, Latin America, Mavi Marmara, middle class, Obama Administration, odious debt, Park 51, privacy rights, public education, RIM, Scott Horton, torture, Uganda, UJ, UN, UN Security Council, United States, universal jurisdiction, World Food Programme
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Study: 79% of Oil Could Still Be in Gulf of Mexico
Posted: 17 August 2010 by Little Alex in National News, Political ScienceTags: bankruptcy, BP, BP Exploration and Production, capitalism, corporatism, Deepwater Horizon, environment, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf oil spill, human rights, libertarian, limited liability, Newspeak, Obama Administration, Transocean, University of Georgia, University of South Florida, US
Specifics of its agreement with the government reveal BP PLC has not agreed, as is widely reported, to set aside a $20bn escrow fund for the Deepwater Horizon explosion that flooded the Gulf of Mexico with millions of barrels of oil. CNN reported Tuesday morning that University of South Florida researchers are calling the floor of the Gulf “a constellation” oil, based on preliminary observations of images (10:47):
Daily Briefing—17th Aug 2010
Posted: 17 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: Afghanistan, arms trading, Blackwater, Bob Herbert, BP, Bretigne Shaffer, China, Chris Hayes, CNN, Cordoba House, David Finkel, David Paterson, David Petraeus, economic crisis, electoral politics, Ethan McCord, Ethiopia, Federal Reserve, Gareth Porter, gay marriage, GOP, Ground Zero Mosque, Guantanamo Bay, Gulf oil spill, healthcare, Horn of Africa, India, Iran, Iraq, Iraq elections, Iraqiya, ISI, Israel, John Bolton, media, Middle East, military contractors, military industrial complex, MP Nunan, News Corp, Nick Clegg, Norman Solomon, nuclear weapons, Obama, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, PSCs, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Ramzi Binalshibh, Republican Party, Republicans, Scott Horton, Somalia, State of Law, Taiwan, three strike statutes, TTP, UK, UN, Wikileaks, Xe
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Daily Briefing—10th Aug 2010
Posted: 10 August 2010 by Editors in Daily BriefingTags: ACLU, Af-Pak War, Afghanistan, Ahmed Moor, AMISOM, BP, Carol Rosenberg, CCR, Chicago, civil liberties, civilian casualties, climate, climate change, criminal justice, democracy, DNA, drug war, EUR, euro, Federal Reserve, George Donnelly, global warming, Gulf oil spill, ICE, India, Iran, Israel, Kashmir, Leslie Lefkow, Los Angeles, Maria Burnett, marijuana, Mel Frykberg, Mexico, Netanyahu, Omar Khadr, protectionism, Robert Gates, sales tax, Sharia Law, Somalia, Taliban, Uganda, USD, war spending, Wikileaks, Zionism
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