May 21 Live from the Ocean Floor: New Oil Leak Widget Features ‘Spillcam’ By Hari Sreenivasan BP's live video stream of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico is simultaneously tragic and hypnotic. With each passing second, more gallons of crude oil and natural gas escape into the ocean. Until Thursday, BP and NOAA had… Continue reading
May 21 Government, BP to Revise Estimated Rate of Oil Leak By Lea Winerman Phil Radford, executive director of Greenpeace USA, inspects oil-covered reeds along the Gulf of Mexico; John Moore/Getty Images Questions continued to swirl over the size of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak, as BP and the Coast Guard announced Friday that… Continue reading
May 21 Live Video of Gulf Oil Leak Back Online Early Friday morning, BP published these two video streams this video stream online of the Gulf oil leak. This video requires Windows Media Player and works best in Firefox or Internet Explorer. The stream is now hosted courtesy of… Continue reading
May 21 Video: Live Feed of Oil Leak Released, BP Raises Siphoning Estimate By Jason Breslow UPDATE: 1:27 a.m. ET Friday BP has posted a new live stream shown below. This stream is intermittent, and requires Windows Media Player. (updated 6/8/2010 with Ustream.tv feed of the spill.)… Continue reading
May 17 How Much Difference Do 2,000 Barrels a Day Make for Containment Efforts? By Chris Amico With BP reporting some success in siphoning off oil leaking out of the Deepwater Horizon well, we've updated our Gulf Leak Meter to reflect a slightly slowed rate of leakage. Updated May 18, 4:30 p.m. | BP… Continue reading
May 17 Monday: BP Begins Siphoning Oil From Leak; Iran Strikes Deal to Ship Uranium BP took a significant step forward Sunday in the effort to contain the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, connecting a mile-long tube from a ship to the damaged pipeline some 5,000 feet below water. Speaking on… Continue reading
May 14 Extent of Oil Spill Remains Unclear By Lea Winerman Nearly a month after BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico, one question remains unanswered: Exactly how much oil is spilling into the Gulf from the unchecked leak? A 30-second video released Wednesday… Continue reading
May 14 Newshour Connect: Economic Impacts of the Oil Spill on the Gulf Coast By Hari Sreenivasan Beyond the environmental effects of the gulf oil spill disaster, there are several economic ones washing ashore. Along the coast of Louisiana thousands of people in the fishing and tourism industries are suffering. Louisiana Public Broadcasting will include… Continue reading
May 14 Report: Oil Spill Larger Than Thought; Pakistan Arrests N.Y. Bomb Suspect Oil spill workers connect sections of oil booms to protect marshlands in the Gulf of Mexico. Photo by John Moore/Getty Images. When the Deepwater Horizon rig sunk into the Gulf of Mexico last month, officials first estimated that it… Continue reading
May 11 Tight Security at Oil Spill Hearing in New Orleans The U.S. Coast Guard and the federal Minerals Management Service staged the first of two public hearings at the Radisson airport hotel in New Orleans Tuesday, as part of a joint investigation into the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil… Continue reading