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The Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: An Accident Waiting to Happen

By Yale Environment 360 on May 18, 2010 7 Comments and Mother Jones, Andrew Hopkins, Associated Press, Australian National University, Berkeley, blowout preventer, BP, CA, Deepwater Horizon, department of interior, drill rigs, drilling platform, energy companies, environmental impact statement, environmental law, Failure to Learn, fossil fuels, Gulf of Mexico, Halliburton, Holly Doremus, hydrocarbon resources, John McQuaid, ken salazar, lmoratorium, Louisiana, marshes, Minerals Management Service, MMS, New Orleans Times-Picayune, Obama, ocean surface, offshore drilling, offshore oil and gas drilling, oil field services, oil slick, Outer Continental Shelf, Outer Continental Shelf Oversight Board, Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms, Pulitzer Prize, Robert Bea, Santa Barbara, sea floor, slate, Smithsonian, Transocean, U.S. News, University of California, Washington Post, Wired

The oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico has shattered the notion that offshore drilling had become safe. A close look at the accident shows that lax federal oversight, complacency by BP and the other companies involved, and the complexities of drilling a mile deep all combined to create the perfect environmental storm.

WIND ENERGY UPDATE: Offshore Wind Gets Major Boost, American Wind Energy Association Annual Wind Industry Report, Construction Begins on New South Texas Wind Farm, Seattle Company Proposes Floating Wind Farms

By Chris de Morsella on April 22, 2009 Comments Off on WIND ENERGY UPDATE: Offshore Wind Gets Major Boost, American Wind Energy Association Annual Wind Industry Report, Construction Begins on New South Texas Wind Farm, Seattle Company Proposes Floating Wind Farms American Wind Energy Association, AWEA, California, clean energy, CPS Energy, deep-water offshore wind energy, demonstration platform, Department of the Interior, E.ON, E.ON Climate & Renewables, Earth Day, easements, EC&R, Energy Policy Act of 2005, energy security, environmentally responsible, environmentally responsible renewable energy development, Federal Register, floating windmills, framework, German, grant leases, Iowa, ken salazar, Minerals Management Service, MMS, OCS, off-shore wind farms, offshore deep water wind, offshore energy sector, offshore wind energy, Paplote Creek wind farm, Portugal, President Barack Obama, president obama, Principle Power, renewable energy, renewable energy development, renewable energy production, rights-of-way, San Antonio, San Patricio County, Seattle, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary Salazar, Texas, U.S. Outer Continental Shelf, WA, wind, wind energy, wind power, wind turbine, wind turbine tower, wind turbine tower manufacturing plant

Offshore Wind Gets Major Boost with announcement by President Obama that the Department of the Interior has finalized a long-awaited framework for renewable energy production on the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Wind energy continues rapid growth according to new report from the American Wind Energy Association. The US has surpassed 25 gigawatts (GW) of installed wind energy capacity in 2008. Construction of a new wind farm has begun in Texas. Seatle firm proposes floating offshore wind farms.