In an earlier post I talked about the possible impact of an offshore drilling moratorium on oil production and prices. The drilling moratorium continues to be a hot issue, with a federal judge issuing a temporary injunction against it, and Secretary Salazar vowing to to issue a more explicit justification for the ban.
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Texas A&M University oceanographer John Kessler has been awarded a $160,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to examine methane gas in the Gulf oil spill. Kessler calls this the “…the most vigorous methane eruption in modern human history.” Bacteria in the ocean consume some of the methane, and in doing so also consume oxygen. (…)
On May 27, the Obama administration issued a six-month moratorium on drilling in water depths greater than 500 feet in response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Oil industry officials decried the move, claiming that an extended moratorium would reduce U.S. oil production, make the nation more dependent on imported oil, and cause gasoline prices to (…)
A word cloud or (tag cloud) is a visual representation of the relative frequency of words used in a document, speech, article, etc. The cloud gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. Word clouds can provide insight into the explicit and implicit messages that underlie proclamations.
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A reporter covering the Deepwater Horizon disaster asked me “why should city folk care about Louisiana wetlands?” A reasonable question. Lets look at the reasons.
Like everywhere on the planet, Louisiana’s wetlands have been under human assault for more than century. Louisiana has 25% of the United States’ coastal wetlands and 40% of its salt marshes, (…)
