Health

The early psychological impacts of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 
on Florida and Alabama communities

Although public concern has focused on the environmental impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the public health impact on a broad range of coastal communities is minimally known. The authors sought to determine the acute level of distress (depression, anxiety), mechanisms of adjustment (coping, resilience), and perceived risk in a community indirectly impacted by the oil spill and to identify the extent to which economic loss may explain these factors.

Publication Date: 
01/06/2011
Lynn M. Grattan, Sparkle Roberts, William T. Mahan Jr. & et al
Environmental Health Perspectives
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Tags:
Oil Pollution, United States Of America (US), Health Effects, Mental Health, Occupational Health, Marine Fisherfolk
Energy

Soon, electricity to be produced from bugs

Scientists Discover Bacteria That Let Off Tiny Electrical Charges; May Also Be Used To Clean Up N-Disasters

Oslo: Microbes may be harnessed more easily to generate energy after a finding about how they naturally let off tiny electrical charges, scientists said on Monday.

The bacteria, found to have microscopic

Publication Date: 
25/05/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Energy, Electricity, Research Agencies, Sewage, Science And Technology, Oil Pollution
Fisheries

Eight months on, no relief for oil-spill-affected fishermen

The fishermen, who have been fighting for the last eight months for the compensation against the damage they suffered due to the oil spill after the to the collision of two ships MSC Chitra and MV Khalija off the Mumbai shore in August 2010, felt terribly let down by the state government as they have received no compensation for their loss.

The expert committee, appointed after the oil spill, r

Publication Date: 
19/05/2011
Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
Tags:
Oil Pollution, Fisheries, Fisherfolk, Compensation, Hazardous Waste, Mumbai, Shipping, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), Water Pollution
Hazardous Waste

Activists occupy oil rig in fight to prevent risky' Arctic drilling

The fight to stop the global oil industry exploring the pristine deep waters of the Arctic has been dubbed the new cold war, and early on April 22 it escalated as environmental activists from 12 countries occupied the world's second largest rig on its way from Turkey to Greenland to drill among the icebergs.

The protesters found the 52,000-tonne semi-submersible platform Leiv Eiriksson at aroun

Publication Date: 
25/04/2011
Hindu (New Delhi)
Tags:
Arctic, Oil Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Oil Exploration, Greenpeace, NGO, Petrochemical Industry, Global
Hazardous Waste

How harmful was the BP spill, really?

In April 2010, an explosion aboard the BP drill rig Deepwater Horizon killed 11 workers and caused the worst oil spill ever in American waters. Initially, government officials and BP officers denied the situation was serious. As details of the spill volume, and of damage to Gulf of Mexico fisheries, became known, panic set in.

Publication Date: 
25/04/2011
Gregg Easterbrook
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
British Petroleum (BP), Oil Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Gulf Of Mexico, Marine Ecosystems, Fisheries, United States Of America (US)
Hazardous Waste

A year after BP oil spill, scars still remain on US coast

New Orleans: It was the catastrophe that seemed to crush a way of life, an oil rig exploding in the darkness and plunging the Gulf Coast and its people into months of chaos.

One year after America

Publication Date: 
21/04/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
British Petroleum (BP), Petrochemical Industry, Oil Pollution, Hazardous Waste, United States Of America (US)
Hazardous Waste

Oil giants putting carcinogens into US wells while drilling

Washington: Oil and gas companies injected hundreds of millions of gallons of hazardous or carcinogenic chemicals into wells in more than 13 states from 2005 to 2009, according to an investigation by Congressional Democrats.

The chemicals were used by companies during a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, which involves the high-pressure injection of a mixture

Publication Date: 
18/04/2011
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Oil Pollution, Water Pollution, Hazardous Waste, Petrochemical Industry, Health Effects, Carcinogenicity, Drinking Water
Industry

Shared value, shared responsibility

High prices and concerns about energy security in the oil and gas industry are driving expansion into ever more sensitive environments with greater technological, political and social risks. While brands such as BP, Shell and ExxonMobil are well known, some 70 per cent of oil and gas industry activities are typically contracted out to service providers and their subcontractors.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2011
Emma Wilson, Judy Kuszewski
IIED
Tags:
Energy, Oil Exploration, Amazon, Land Use, Tropical Forests, Human Rights, Deforestation, Environment Management, Global, Oil Pollution, Conflicts, Industry
Water Pollution

Oil, grease below detectable level in Comba wells: report

In an interesting development vis-

Publication Date: 
08/03/2011
Herald (Panjim)
Tags:
Petrol, Oil Exploration, Goa, State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Water Pollution, Oil Pollution
Energy

Arctic oil drilling plans raise environmental health concerns

As Royal Dutch Shell and other oil companies prepare to drill offshore in the Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), a new report commissioned by the Washington, DC–based Pew Environment Group concludes current response capabilities aren’t adequate to contain and clean up a major spill in the area.1 Marilyn Heiman, who directs the group’s U.S. Arctic program, says drilling on the Alaskan OCS requires a science-based precautionary approach. “And right now, we don’t know enough about the potential consequences of a spill to the ecosystem,” she says.

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
Charles W. Schmidt
Environmental Health Perspectives
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Tags:
Arctic, Oil Exploration, Oil Pollution, Marine Pollution, Marine Ecosystems, Multinational Corporations (MNCs), United States Of America (US)

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