Halliburton Blamed for Shoddy Construction in Gulf Oil Disaster

Staff / Truthdig Oct 29, 2010 Three of four tests showed that the cement mixture used by Halliburton in the construction of BP's ill-fated oil well in the Gulf was unstable, but the mixture was used anyway, a presidential commission investigating the disaster has found. The only successful test, which BP did not know about, has since come under suspicion. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Again With the Offshore Drilling

Staff / Truthdig Oct 12, 2010 After clamping down and imposing a ban on offshore drilling in the wake of last spring's disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Tuesday that the moratorium is over and, as he put it, "We are open for business." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

How Robots Clean Up an Oil Spill

Staff / Truthdig Oct 11, 2010 Those nerds at MIT have come up with something really amazing (not the first time). It's a swarm of autonomous robots that talk to each other as they make their way around a spill, gobbling up the oil. Why didn't we think of that? Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

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BP’s Hayward Says Oil Spill Was Personally ‘Devastating’

Staff / Truthdig Sep 15, 2010 His tenure as BP's chief executive is almost up, and outgoing CEO Tony Hayward has changed his tune about the effect that last spring's cataclysmic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had on him personally, making public statements on Wednesday that sounded (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Blame

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BP Passes the Buck

Staff / Truthdig Sep 8, 2010 That whole Gulf of Mexico oil spill thing? It wasn't just BP's fault -- or so says BP. The oily megacorp released an internal report Wednesday that pointed to "multiple companies and work teams" that also, in BP's humble estimation, shoulder some of the blame for the disaster. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The $8 Billion Oil Spill

Staff / Truthdig Sep 3, 2010 New estimates of the cost of the BP oil blowout in the Gulf of Mexico have jumped to a staggering $8 billion, up $2 billion in August alone as the company announced it had already paid out almost $400 million in claims to individuals affected by the spill. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Spike Lee on BP: Obama Shouldn’t Have Trusted Execs

Staff / Truthdig Aug 23, 2010 It's hardly a surprise that Spike Lee would have something provocative to say about a newsy controversy, but Lee doesn't spare President Obama his criticism over Obama's handling of the BP oil spill catastrophe (continued) . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Cost of Not Drilling

Staff / Truthdig Aug 22, 2010 Previously undisclosed documents have measured the economic impact of the U.S. federal moratorium on deep-water oil drilling at 23,000 jobs lost and billions of dollars in frozen investment. Federal officials went ahead with the ban, now tied up in court, because they distrusted industry safety equipment and standards. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

The Giant Cloud of Oil Hiding in the Gulf

Staff / Truthdig Aug 20, 2010 The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is raining on Uncle Sam and BP's well-capping parade. Researchers at the institute say a 22-mile-long, 1.2-mile-wide oil plume deep under the Gulf's surface is degrading much slower than the government's more optimistic claims. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Fresh Seafood

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