From the daily archives: Thursday, May 20, 2010

Oil has now entered the Gulf Loop current and heavy oil reaches the marshes

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The only good news is that BP now says it is collecting 5000 barrels a day of the oil gusher-

Gulf Oil Spill: Oil Has Entered Loop Current, Officials Say. Associated Press. So, some of the oil is now off to Florida and maybe even to the East Coast. So far the main part […]

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Why was the Deepwater Horizon given a Categorical Exclusion?

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The leak started 30 days ago, oil as thick as paint is washing up on the shores of Louisiana and there are plumes of oil deep underwater poisoning the ocean and threatening the Florida Keys and the east coast.  There have been many attempts to stop the leak and it appears that it won’t be […]

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Mt. St. Helens blew its top 30 years ago

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The landscape has been reborn-

However, the rebirth is, as you can see below, a hundred years from maturity.

Mount St. Helens Eruption (PHOTOS): National Geographic Marks Its 30th Anniversary

How far did the ash travel from the Mount St. Helens eruption? The Big Blog

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey