Oil Spill Affects Fish Life, Study Shows

  In Baton Rouge, LA, the new Louisiana State University study showed the Deepwater Horizon oil spill’s effects on all the living fishes in Louisiana marshes and revealed that a problem could affect the seafood industry’s future.

 

The study was conducted biological sciences’ professors Fernando Galvez and Andrew Whitehead. Before, they have also studied about the killfish during and after the oil spill.

 

Whitehead said, “An important message from this study is that, even though chemical burdens in the bodies of fish may be low and they may be safe to eat, that doesn't mean that the fish are healthy or that they are reproducing properly.”  

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On April 20, the Deepwater Horizon exploded around 11:00 PM, which later sank. until now, the oil leak continues to spread in the Gulf of Mexico.

Here are some of the wildlife affected by this incident.

Above is a gull coated in heavy oil wallows. This photo was take on June 4 on East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.

 

Above is a bird wet with oil on June 3, 2010, Thursday at the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast.

 

A bird gets to see above the Gulf of Mexico off of East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010.

The photo above is a dead fish coated with oil found near the shore last June 4, 2010 near East Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.

 

 

 

See more photos here

ConocoPhillips Plans New Fund to Fix Oil Spill

ConocoPhillips is planning on making new funds to address the environmental problems in China’s Bohai Bay after the harsh criticisms they received from China’s marine authorities and environmentalists regarding the oil spills in the heavily polluted area.

ConocoPhillips’ Houston- based company’s announcement on the funding did not include further details such as the size and the further details. Recently, the company announced that they will make separate funds to pay compensation for the damages caused by the oil spills, which started last June in Penglai 19-3, China’s largest oil field.

Settlement Funds to Use for Oil Spill Cleanup

A big share of the funds from $36.8 million settlement to restore the natural resources affected by the oil spill in San Francisco Bay on November 7, 2007 will be used by the state and federal agencies and to improve the area’s recreational opportunities which the spill affected.

The funds are in part of the $44.4 million settlement paid by the Regal Stone Ltd and Fleet Management Ltd. These are the companies which are responsible for the 53,000 gallons of oil spill of their container ship Cosco Busan in the bay when it hit the San Francisco- Oakland Bay Bridge.

Industry Pursues in Leading Offshore Safety Enhancements

Last September 13 in Washington, the director of the American Petroleum Institute’s upstream group, Erik Milito, said some comments about BOMRE’s announcement on workplace safety in offshore oil and gas operations.

He said, “API and the industry continue to provide leadership in developing and implementing advancements for safe offshore operations. We will carefully review the proposed rules and look forward to continuing to work with BOEMRE to ensure that requirements for workplace safety, the environment and continued energy production are met. Any additions to already intricate regulatory processes should allow for new exploration and responsible development of our domestic offshore energy resources without unpredictable barriers or delays.”

China Responds Strongly to Oil Spill

Currently, ConocoPhillips is battling a nettlesome oil leak in its joint venture in China as they are running a strict opposition from the media, government and environmentalists.

Production has been forced to shut in Conoco, the operator and partial partner with state- owned Cnooc in South China Sea field.

One of the largest blocks in China, the Penglai 19-3 block in Bohai Bay, which accounts for 4% of Cnooc’s production through only 3% of Conoco’s worldwide production.

Women March to Murphy Oil

On the night of the 8th of September, a group of women from Blood Nation based in Alberto, Canada parked outside Murphy Oil’s fracking development site and promised they will not leave the site until they stop their plans of fracking oil and gas.

The women of Blood Nation are members of Kanai Earth Watch and have been actively devoted in stopping the fracking due to the major threat to human health, wildlife and livestock and the irreversible damage to the land and water on the Blood Reserve and surrounding areas.

Obama’s Worst Decision on Clean Air Act

Last Friday, September 2, 2011, President Barack Obama gave in to GOP demands by withdrawing the plans to strengthen the nation’s public health standard for ozone pollution under the Clean Air Act.

The worst aspect of Obama’s bad decision is that he gave an official blessing to the polluter’s worst propaganda and perpetuated the decades-old belief that public health and environment protection must be traded off against jobs. However, the health and environment safeguards do not destroy jjob, instead they make them most especially during a recession.

Oil/ Gas Leakage Alarm Raised in Kalaba Community

A very fresh oil/ gas leakage alarm has been raised to the people of Kalaba Community in Yenagoa local government area of Bayelsa State. The leakage is believed to be from a ruptured pipeline of the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC).

Though the main reason of the oil/gas leakage has not yet been indentified, the natives said that some women noticed it last week while heading to the farm.

Kalaba Community is situated near the Taylor Creek where the pipeline of Agip Company traverses. And they have already experienced some oil/gas leakages before.

Chicago Gas Prices Up Again

In Chicago, oil gas prices are rising up again. Filling your vehicle fuel’s tank might hurt your pockets once again.

As WBBM Newsradio’s Regine Schlesinger said, after enjoying the low prices of oil gas this summer, it is now heading up once again.

The prices as of this moment may still be far from its highest price peak last spring. However, according to ChicagoGasPrices.com, the average cost of gallon for unleaded in Chicago is now around $4.05.

Ghana’s Export Value Increases to $7.5 Billion

The export trade of Ghana this year has driven to an amount of $7.5 billion in a span of 7 months this year because of trade on cocoa, crude oil and gold in the international market.

The figures above posted by Bank of Ghana shows that the country’s merchandise exports increased by $2.9 billion representing a growth of 62.3% within the period from January to July 2011.

Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Mr. Kwesi Amissah-Arthur told reporters during a press conference in Accra last September 1 that the gold, cocoa beans and crude oil drove the export growth of Ghana.

Brent Oil Closes Week at $113/Barrel

Brent Oil prices ended the week with back under the $113 per barrel as the US and European stock markets are once again seen falling deep. Yet, after trading their gains for several days, Brent crude is still holding onto their recent gains.

ICE Brent crude oil prediction for October 2011 delivery ended the week’s trading session at $112.65 a barrel on the ICE Futures Exchange, $1.58 higher than last week’s closing price of $111.07 a barrel.

BP Denies Oil Spill

The picture above was taken from Deepwater Horizon site last week.

 

BP said they have ships in the area testing for silt and they denied that there are any leaks. The oil leak is currently spreading 70 miles off the coast of Louisiana.

 

You can check out the video taken by On Wings of Care below. You can also check their website for more oil spill details.

BP Oil Spill

Oil Slick Discovered in Gulf

A California non-profit organization which was built to protect and preserve the wildlife has discovered what seems to be a massive oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico near the area of the original Deepwater Horizon spill.

 

During the flight of the pilot and also OnWingsOfCare.org founder Dr. Bonny Schumaker last Tuesday in the gulf, he observed an oil slick that spread as long as 10 miles.

 

Also, last week, two men from Louisiana State University rode a boat to the gulf and taped a video evidence of large blooms of crude oil swelling up to the water’s surface where the doomed oil rig once hovered.

 

However, BP still denied all these.