The Gulf of Mexico disaster five years later: A Bellona seminar
Today marks five years since the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven lives were lost when the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and the oil from the Macondo well gushed into the ocean for 87 days,...
View ArticleBP commits to more climate-related information, but promises nothing on...
The passing of this resolution commits BP to publicly sharing information on a range of issues, including the effect of climate regulations on the value of its oil and gas reserves; its investments in...
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Hurricane season brings fears of massive Deepwater Horizon oiling in Gulf of...
MOBILE, Alabama – An Alabama chemist is warning Gulf of Mexico residents that future hurricanes could bring Deepwater Horizon oil and dispersant inland via storm surges and heavy rains, and pose even...
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BP and Gulf States agree to $18.7 billion damage settlement, but will it make...
NEW ORLEANS –The federal government and Gulf Coast states have reached an $18.7 billion settlement agreement with the oil company BP for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which...
View ArticleStatoil, a Norwegian state-owned petroleum company lets go of all shame; puts...
Jonas Helseth, Director of Bellona Europa, said he was stunned by hearing Statoil’s vision, or lack of such. «If there is one challenge Statoil should focus on right now, it must be to adapt...
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Russia submits claim on the North Pole to UN – but oil aspirations seem dead...
Russia on Tuesday submitted claims to the United Nation for control of staggering swathes of Arctic seabed, stretching as far north as the as the North Pole itself in a move to position lock down...
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Obama to visit Alaska against background of climate change – and fears of oil...
President Barack Obama would travel to Alaska at the end of this month to visit the front lines of US climate change, which he called “one of the greatest challenges we face this century” in a video...
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Obama, EPA to announce new rules for methane in oil and gas industry
The Obama Administration will today propose first of a kind regulations to reduce emissions from the oil and gas industry of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s cited as far worse than carbon dioxide. The...
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UPDATE: Obama targets oil and gas industry methane leakage
President Barack Obama has announced his second blockbuster climate initiative within a month, issuing for the first time ever a federal proposal that will limit emissions of methane from the oil and...
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Will the full rage of Arctic climate change make Obama’s Alaska trip less...
As President Barack Obama alighted in Alaska on Monday for his touted tour of the effects that climate change has already wreaked on America’s northernmost state, he did so amid a thunder of cries that...
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