Hundreds of lawsuits have flowed from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, filed by citizens, states and the federal government. And someday, perhaps, the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystems will also file suit.
Hundreds of lawsuits have flowed from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, filed by citizens, states and the federal government. And someday, perhaps, the Gulf of Mexico’s ecosystems will also file suit.
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Giving Nature Its Own Rights Might Avert Future Oil Disasters
In this exclusive clip from National Geographic’s new series Shark Men , the doctor explains how the keen underwater senses of a Great White shark enables it to detect even the slightest changes in the water, including the doctor’s own heartbeat.
Operator suspends fracking in state As a natural gas well in Bradford County continued to leak super-salty flow-back water after a blowout Wednesday, well operator Chesapeake Energy suspended all hydraulic fracturing operations in Pennsylvania on Thursday. The leak, which began in an accident Tuesday night, produced water and natural gas until about 10 p.m. Thursday, when Chesapeake said it had stopped the flow. Chesapeake’s Atgas H2 gas well in LeRoy Township, near Canton, suffered a blowout when a piece of equipment failed during hydraulic fracturing just before midnight Tuesday into Wednesday, sending a reported 30,000 gallons of water spilling from the well pad, some of it reaching a tributary of Towanda Creek
Operator suspends fracking in state As a natural gas well in Bradford County continued to leak super-salty flow-back water after a blowout Wednesday, well operator Chesapeake Energy suspended all hydraulic fracturing operations in Pennsylvania on Thursday. The leak, which began in an accident Tuesday night, produced water and natural gas until about 10 p.m. Thursday, when Chesapeake said it had stopped the flow. Chesapeake’s Atgas H2 gas well in LeRoy Township, near Canton, suffered a blowout when a piece of equipment failed during hydraulic fracturing just before midnight Tuesday into Wednesday, sending a reported 30,000 gallons of water spilling from the well pad, some of it reaching a tributary of Towanda Creek
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April 22 News: Chesapeake suspends fracking in PA after blowout and leak; Contemplating the human cost of energy
How to grow coffee indoors, at 189 meters.
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“But what have you done for me lately?” If our planet could ask that question, we’d definitely have a better answer this year than last. Just before Earth Day 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded — a disaster that ultimately dumped more than 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico and wreaked unprecedented havoc on ecosystems, wildlife, and communities. Not a good day for the Earth.
“But what have you done for me lately?” If our planet could ask that question, we’d definitely have a better answer this year than last. Just before Earth Day 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded — a disaster that ultimately dumped more than 200 million gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico and wreaked unprecedented havoc on ecosystems, wildlife, and communities. Not a good day for the Earth.
