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Putting a Freeze on Arctic Ocean Drilling: America’s Inability to Respond to an Oil Spill in the Arctic
Have we learned nothing from the disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? Below is the summary of a comprehensive report on the inadequate disaster response capabilities in the Arctic. by Kiley Kroh, Michael Conathan and Emma Huvos When the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico in the early [...]
Oceana CEO Note: Why Are Our Leaders Still Telling Lies About Offshore Drilling?
© Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. If you watched this week’s State of the Union address, you may have heard President Obama announce that he was opening 75 percent of our “potential offshore oil and gas resources...
CEO Note: The Real Economics of Offshore Drilling
© Oceana/Eduardo Sorensen Andy Sharpless is the CEO of Oceana. If you watched this week’s State of the Union address, you may have heard President Obama announce that he was opening 75 percent of our “potential offshore oil and gas resources.”...
Obama Proposal Could Weaken Key Climate Agency
An Obama administration plan to cut costs by combining several government agencies may make good political sense, coming in the midst of the Republican presidential primary season, with its heated small-government...
Japan Plans to Build Floating Offshore Wind Farm
© Oceana The Fukushima nuclear disaster, sparked by the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan last March, has led the Japanese government to embrace a safer energy source: offshore wind. Japan seeks to expand its wind energy capacity and comp...
Another Report Declares Deepwater Drilling Unsafe
Oil rigs on the horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. © Oceana/Carlos Suarez Last week the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council released a report about offshore drilling safety, and I bet you can guess what it shows: Deepwater dril...
Arctic Attack in House Funding Bill
Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed funding legislation which includes a harmful measure that moves clean air authority for Arctic offshore drilling from the U.S.read more
BP Awarded $27 Million in Leases for Gulf Oil, Gas Exploration
BP is officially getting back into deep water exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, the Interior Department announced on Wednesday. The British energy giant, responsible for the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history last year in the Gulf, won $27 mil...
New Lease Sale Ignores BP Deepwater Horizon Disaster
The federal government ignored the impact of BP’s 200-million gallon oil spill in its assessment of risks and precautions for the Gulf of Mexico before the first new lease sale since the Deepwater Horizon disaster, according to a lawsuit filed to...
