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Natural Gas and Oil Well News Across the United Kingdom
Dec 15th
The natural gas revolution has just embarked on in the United Kingdom; the Cuadrilla Resources started its drilling venture sited at the Blackpool tower, the Blackpool tower is four miles away from the Cuadrilla Resources. An examination is performed and a comparison is done between the geological reports of the Dorset and the Isle of Wight with the large yielding Barnett shale, of the Texas. The general manager of the operations group of the Cuadrilla Resources Mark Miller told that, it consists of natural gas and they are planning to extract those resources at cheap rate and the company will take necessary measure to extract it.
A novel deep water drilling projects near the Shetland Islands was granted permission by the Government against the legal dispute with Greenpeace. The Department of Energy and Climate Change is to ready to declare its opinion about the deep water drilling venture and the group of environmentalist are afraid because of the disasters that took place in the Gulf of Mexico. The Chevron, the United States based company will stand first for getting permissions to explore the oil wells and when the officials of the Department of Energy and Climate Change has raised questions about the decisions made by the Government.
The Greenpeace began a fresh campaign with the help of the swimmers to take immediate actions over the Chevron-chartered ship. Stena Carron, in an auction declared to, put an end to its journey towards the Shetlands, Shetlands is the place hoped to be drilled on the Lagavulin prospect. Ben Ayliffe, the spokesperson of the Greenpeace declared that they are going to stretch the campaign against the administration of the David Cameron and they are marching towards the court to get a judicial review. Ben Ayliffe condemns the government’s decision, the government has furnished fresh permits for drilling and he claims that the government has to be more cautious and should learn about the disasters in the Gulf of Mexico before making any decision regarding deep water drilling.
The recent news in the United Kingdom is about the permission granted to the Chevron by the Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for the for Energy and Climate Change for the United Kingdom. It has received more than 16 thousand emails regarding the risky oil spill that took place in the Gulf region recently and huge protests was taking place against the government’s decision, for permitting the Chevron for deep water drilling. George Monbiot, the Secretary of State for Climate Change in the United Kingdom told that, measure should be taken to find out new oil and he stressed that they could not afford to burn the oil.
Have We Forgotten the Gulf Oil Spill Disaster? A Few Notes on the Oil Spill Clean Up Efforts
Nov 28th
The Gulf oil spill disaster is the worst in the history of the world. Media coverage was heavy at the outset, but lately I find less and less coverage by the major networks and newspapers. It’s hard to tell if public interest has waned, or if it’s now become politically incorrect, given that the oil spill clean up efforts on the part of both BP and our government has been less than efficient and quick. The magnitude of this oil spill surpasses the impact of almost any other environmental disaster. Recent reports indicate that the amount of oil has been grossly underreported. Now, we find that in reality, the figure is 10-12 times higher than previously thought: a total of 4.8 million barrels of oil have polluted the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
When the oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, exploded, 11 people were killed. In an investigative piece, ’60 minutes’ discovered that a key piece of security equipment aboard the rig had failed. BP executives toured the rig just hours before the explosion. Although informed of the equipment failure, the crew was told to continue?and speed up – work, as they were behind schedule. With such an irresponsible, profit-oriented response, it shouldn’t have come as a surprise that the ensuing oil spill clean up efforts have been, at best, too little and too late.
The impact has been monstrous. The fishing industry in the Gulf has been virtually destroyed. Fish, shellfish, turtles, dolphins and birds have been poisoned.
During the hurricane season, the warmer the water, the fiercer the hurricane becomes. With the volcanic mud bed of the Gulf, the pressure from the earth’s magma against the leaking well threatens with a methane explosion that would reshape the entire Gulf and adjoining states and islands. This also causes an increase in the water temperature that results in horrific climate changes and increased hurricane force.
The sea life and coral reefs in the area may be now decimated. The pollution of the public water supply in the region has already been established. The oil has also shown up in the rainfall. Get out your atlas and take a look at the water currents that circle the globe. How will this 4.8 million barrels of oil eventually be distributed? It’s unclear what the long term effects might be. While politicians and BP executives have bickered over legalities, the oil spill clean up efforts are now being downplayed in the major media.
Here’s just one example of the attention given to political issues, at the expense of a rapid and efficient oil spill clean up effort: the U.S. received international offers to send oil skimmers, which are oil spill clean up ships, with a capacity of skimming up to 500,000 gallons of oil a day. Those offers were refused.
Now, there are reports of many people, who worked on the oil spill clean up effort, or live in the immediate area, now are suffering from unexplained internal bleeding. Some medical experts attribute this bleeding to be the result of poisoning from the various chemicals in the oil dispersants.
The entire effort, from the oil spill containment, management, and response, must be characterized as unconscionably incompetent. There is probably not a single factor in the ecosystem that has not been affected. This disaster is likely to impact the world for decades. There’s no question that the oil spill clean up has already failed. This disaster cannot be undone.