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Bohai Bay Oil Spills, China – Radar Satellite Image, June 11, 2011
/in Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosWe just got a satellite radar image of Bohai Bay taken June 11, 2011. It shows what appear to be oil slicks emanating from two platforms in the vicinity of the Penglai 19-3 offshore oil field operated by ConocoPhillips. This fits the story so far, that apparently unrelated spills with different causes occurred at two […]
Marcellus Shale Hydrofracking Surface Water Impacts
/in Biodiversity, Climate, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Internship, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas /by Ben PeltoSkyTruth’s Marcellus fracking monitoring project to a big step forward with our recent (first week of July) trip into the field. Being on the ground observing the sites, the pipelines, road work and traffic that all revolve around the massive drilling industry presence in the region was an eye-opening experience. In studying the rapid development […]
SkyTruth Alerts – Try It!
/2 Comments/in Alerts, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Paul WoodsEver wonder what’s going on in the environment around your home, your school, your favorite vacation spot? Us too: the world is a big place, and it takes a LOT of satellite images to cover it all. Here at SkyTruth we scour the infosphere for hints telling us where to look, and when. Over the […]
BP Spill Stopped One Year Ago Today – 5,000 Spills Since Then
/3 Comments/in BP, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf Monitoring Consortium, Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosJuly 15, 2010 was a day of relief for many – even for folks up here in West Virginia – after 2-1/2 months watching helplessly as oil and gas billowed relentlessly into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s runaway Macondo well. On that day one year ago, the final valve was carefully closed on an […]
Ongoing Leak at Platform 23051 Site – Anybody Home?
/in Gulf of Mexico, Incidents, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by John AmosA quick update on the chronic leak we’ve been following at the former site of an oil platform reportedly destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004. RigData reports that the semisubmersible drilling rig that has been intermittently working to plug the leaking wells at this site, the Ocean Saratoga, has been towed away to work on […]
Multi-modal commuting
/1 Comment/in General /by Paul WoodsHere at SkyTruth we are always trying to reduce our carbon footprint, which is why I have started riding my bicycle in to work. The problem is that my house is about 3 miles away from the office, and the road that gets me there has no shoulder, no shade, tight corners and too many […]