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Chief Counsel's Report – BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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Follow up to previous postings on the Deepwater oil spill, see Macondo – the Gulf Oil Disaster – Chief Counsel’s Report | 2011, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill And Offshore Drilling | Report to the President “Notwithstanding demanding time constraints, the Commission‘s Chief Counsel Fred Bartlit and his investigative team have… Continue Reading

Final Report Issued by National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

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Deep Water – The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling Report to the President, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, January 2011 [Note: GPO has also published this report, here] “…the disaster in the Gulf undermined public faith in the energy industry, government regulators, and even… Continue Reading

NOAA Launches Website Housing Previously Released Public Information from the Deepwater Horizon Response

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News release: “NOAA unveiled a web archive of the maps, wildlife reports, scientific reports and other previously released public information used by emergency responders, fishermen, mariners and local officials during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The NOAA Deepwater Horizon Library can be accessed via http://www.noaa.gov/deepwaterhorizon. Continue Reading

Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours Documented with Charts, Photos, and Testimony

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Follow up to previous postings on the Deepwater oil spill via the NYT: Deepwater Horizon’s Final Hours: “Interviews, sworn testimony and statements from crew members show that the oil rig should have weathered the well blowout, but it didn’t because every one of its defenses failed.” Video and graphic and Photo slideshow – Firestorm Aboard… Continue Reading

Confronting Space Debris Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon

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Rand – Confronting Space Debris, Strategies and Warnings from Comparable Examples Including Deepwater Horizon, by Dave Baiocchi, William Welser, IV “Orbital debris represents a growing threat to the operation of man-made systems in space. There are currently hundreds of thousands of debris objects greater than one centimeter in diameter in Earth’s orbit, and the collision… Continue Reading

New Working Papers – National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling

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Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, two new working papers via the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling: Stopping the Spill: The Five-Month Effort to Kill the Macondo Well – Staff Working Paper No. 6: “The containment story thus contains two parallel threads. First,… Continue Reading

EPA Releases Reports on Dioxin Emitted During Deepwater Horizon BP Spill

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Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this EPA news release: [the agency] released two peer reviewed reports concerning dioxins emitted during the controlled burns of oil during the Deepwater Horizon BP spill. Dioxins describe a group of hundreds of potentially cancer-causing chemicals that can be formed during combustion or burning.… Continue Reading

GAO Report: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Preliminary Assessment of Federal Financial Follow up to previous postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, via GAO – Risks and Cost Reimbursement and Notification Policies and Procedures, GAO-11-90R, November 12, 2010. “The total cost to clean up this massive and potentially unprecedented spill, the damage to the environment, as well… Continue Reading

America's Gulf Coast – A Long Term Recovery Plan after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

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America’s Gulf Coast – A Long Term Recovery Plan after the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Navy Secretary Ray Maybus: “This report will focus on these three central requirements for recovery in the Gulf Coast: the environment; the economy; and health and human services. These three areas are inextricably linked – what happens to the ecosystem… Continue Reading

Report: up to 79% of oil released into Gulf of Mexico from Deepwater Horizon well has not been recovered

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Follow up to postings on the Gulf Coast oil spill, this Outcome/Guidance from Georgia Sea Grant Program: Current Status of BP Oil Spill by Chuck Hopkinson, Director, Georgia Sea Grant, August 17, 2010 – “On August 2, 2010, the National Incident Command (NIC) released a report on the status of oil from the BP oil… Continue Reading