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George Monbiot

The energy industry has long dumped its damage and, like the banks, made scant provision against disaster. Time to pay up.

Narayan Lakshman

Washington: Even as BP reported signs of success in its latest attempt to slow the powerful gush of oil from the site of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, leading the federal government's response to the spill, said this was a

Henry Fountain

As engineers made headway on Thursday in containing the oil leak at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, crews on two floating rigs flanking the spot where the Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank were doing what rig crews normally do: drilling wells.

ON April 20, a drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded. The rig was called Deepwater Horizon, well named for British Petroleum's (B.P.) remarkable effort to draw oil from a deep-sea rig that has to go through 22,000 to 25,000 feet (6,600-7,500 metres) of water before it strikes the seabed.

Eleven oil workers are presumed dead although their bodies have not been found.

Louisiana: US government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude.

Narayan Lakshman

Washington: After 37 days of failing to halt a torrent of oil spilling from its damaged offshore rig into the Gulf of Mexico, engineers from rig owner British Petroleum and other agencies reportedly stemmed the flow using a

Finlo Rohrer

One way to think about

Gireesh Chandra Prasad

New Delhi: The petroleum ministry has said that in case of an oil spill in Indian waters, exploration companies operating the off-shore field will be liable to pay unlimited damages to public and private compensation seekers. The production-sharing contract with the company, however, speaks only of restoration of the site as per global best practices.

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