The leaking well on a production platform that generated a slick in the Ship Shoal area last week was temporarily killed with an injection of drilling mud on July 11, and will now be permanently plugged with cement. This is something that probably should have been done years ago, since this well — drilled in […]
July 10, 2013: Leaking Ship Shoals Block 225 – Platform B photographed by Billy Dugger via an On Wings of Care flight with Pilot Bonny Schumaker. See more photos at – OnWingsOfCare.org UPDATED: July 11, 2013 at 9:58 am with photo from On Wings of Care July 10, 2013 – 3:40 pm: The U.S. Coast […]
Ah. So this must be the Responsible Modern Offshore Drilling we’ve all been hearing so much about. In magazines. In the newspapers. On the radio. On TV. On social media. Pretty much everywhere you look. Except in real life. MODIS satellite imagery taken Tuesday (June 18, 2013) shows a slick 32 miles long emanating from […]
The 2013 hurricane season is now upon us, and it’s predicted to be a doozy this year. Which got us to thinking… Remember that strange, persistent little oil slick about 12 miles offshore that SkyTruth discovered on satellite imagery during the BP oil spill in 2010, that was NOT related to the BP / Deepwater […]
On March 24 staff from Gulf Monitoring Consortium members SkyTruth, SouthWings, and Gulf Restoration Network flew over the Alabama and Mississippi coastline investigating pollution and degradation related to energy development. Our flight originated from Mobile, arranged by SouthWings with local volunteer pilot Dr. David Mauritson generously donating his time, talents, and fuel to our monitoring efforts.First, we flew […]