SkyTruth – In The News
We’ve been getting a lot of TV, radio, print and Web interviews and other coverage since the BP / Deepwater Horizon spill began back in April. Media interest focused on our early determination that the oil spill rate was much larger than official BP and government estimates; testimony in November 2009 warning Congress about the risks posed by offshore drilling; discovery of chronic leaks from other wells in the Gulf; and call for systematic, Gulf-wide pollution monitoring using satellite imagery.
We have been busy. You can download reports listing our media and web appearances in April, May, June, and (so far) July. You might also be interested in reading our brand-new newsletter (Volume 1, Issue 1 – a future collectible!). Here are a few of the highlights:
TV appearances
- MSNBC, The Daily Rundown with Chuck Todd
- CNBC, America’s Crude Reality
- CNBC, Street Signs (beginning at about 4:25)
- AP TV, Gulf Awash in 27,000 Abandoned Wells
- Fox News, ANOTHER Oil Rig Leaking into Gulf of Mexico
Radio
- NPR, All Things Considered, BP’s Own Numbers Prove Spill Greater Than Estimate
- NPR, To The Point with Warren Olney
- New York Times (Op-ed), The Measure of a Disaster
- New York Times, Size of Oil Spill Underestimated, Scientists Say
- New York Times, Estimates Suggest Spill Is Biggest in U.S. History
- Los Angeles Times, Tiny group has big impact on spill estimates
- Washington Post, 5,000 or 26,000 barrels a day: Size of gulf oil spill is a guesstimate
- Wall Street Journal, Experts: Oil May Be Leaking at Rate of 25,000 Barrels a Day in Gulf
- Miami Herald, Gulf oil spill has ‘perfect precedence’ in 1979 disaster
Web
- CNBC, Deepwater Oil Risks Greater Than Industry Admitted
- Huffington Post, Mary Landrieu Minimized Potential for Spill and Impact of Damage
- Mother Jones, Two More Gulf Spills?
- New Scientist, SkyTruth founder: Remote sensing for the people
Nice work! This site has been a touchstone in the face of the rather duplicitous press statements and news coverage seen widely. As long as satellite capability exists, this is among the few ways to ethically employ it. Any chance you'll be looking to Nigeria, China, or arctic sea ice (to think of a few global catastrophes)…
An artist friend of mine has suggested that a major ironic piece of big corporate art might be to sell the idea of massive platforms of artificial sea ice could, funded by fossil fuel industry, with their corporate logos embossed, so that they can be seen from space and used as advertising of strane sort – "at Chevron we care about the environment, and we care about polar bears, so after destroying their habitat we knew we had to do something…." – anyway – just a thought toward a way to fund future projects…
take care
monte
Monte – thanks! We just posted an image showing the Dalian oil spill in China. We've been looking at Nigeria offshore, but clouds and dust storms are a nearly constant problem, so we haven't seen anything yet of interest (no indications of a massive spill from an offshore platform that some bloggers have reported). Arctic sea ice is continually monitored by NASA, so we don't have to tackle that job.
Interesting art suggestion. But it would take a huge amount of energy – from CO2-emitting fossil fuels, no doubt – to create and maintain big platforms of artificial sea ice in an environment where they would normally be melting. Kinda defeats the whole purpose…
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