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Oil eating bacteria fixed the Gulf disaster but might not save you next time

April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Systems Science

Oil-Eating Bacteria Fixed The Deepwater Horizon Disaster, But They May Not Help Next Time
BY ARIEL SCHWARTZ, fastcoexist.com

It turned out the Gulf was filled with bacteria that loved to chow down on exactly what was spilling out of BP’s destroyed oil well. How fortuitous! But hoping that hungry bacteria will help in the next oil spill is dangerous thinking.

Oil spill…

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The Deep Water Horizon (raceingminds.wordpress.com)
Lessons from Deepwater Horizon: how oil spills could impact BC tourism (vancouverobserver.com)
BP calls for independent probe of claims lawyer (miamiherald.com)
Corexit: Deadly dispersant in oil spill cleanup (sott.net)

BP, blowout preventers, and crowdsourcing

May 6, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Systems Science

Image representing Ushahidi as depicted in Cru... — Image via CrunchBase

via http://oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a non-profit organization based in New Orleans, has launched a database built on the Ushahidi platform (which aggregates text messages, calls and e-mails into a visually mapped and searchable database) to track the effects of the Gulf oil spill to direct first responders to where help is most urgently needed.

BP Deepwater charge rises by $4.1bn (guardian.co.uk)
Guilty: BP admits to causing deaths in spill disaster (fuelfix.com)
BP spill settlement gets final approval (sfgate.com)
BP Wins Final Approval of Guilty Plea Over Gulf Oil Spill – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Next in BP Spill Saga: Civil Trial Worth Billions (abcnews.go.com)