Taylor Energy Oil Spill: This Is How Change Happens
/in Biodiversity, Climate, Gulf Monitoring Consortium, Gulf of Mexico, Impact stories, Oceans, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Watchdog /by John AmosIn October 2018, The Washington Post ran a story describing the ongoing, 14-year-long leak of crude oil from hurricane-damaged wells at the former location of an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico operated by a company called Taylor Energy. The article stated that — based on the latest scientific estimates of the leak rate […]
SkyTruth appears on Netflix!
/in Biodiversity, BP, Climate, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Oceans, Offshore, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Johnna ArmstrongLast week, SkyTruth made an appearance on Netflix when their show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj used our interactive map of oil spills reported in the Gulf of Mexico in the years following the BP / Deepwater Horizon disaster. To learn more about the ongoing 14-year Taylor Energy leak that was the focus of this […]
A Look at the Risks of Offshore Drilling as Trump Proposes Largest Leasing Expansion Ever
/in Biodiversity, BP, Climate, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf of Mexico, Internship, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill /by Brady BurkerLast week, the Trump Administration proposed to open up nearly all Federal waters for oil and gas drilling, reversing decades-long protection of areas in the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. On December 23rd, the European Space Agency’s Sentinel 1 satellite collected an image of the Heater Plf platform […]
Taylor Energy (Site 23051) Cumulative Spill Report – 2017 Update
/in Biodiversity, Climate, Gulf of Mexico, Oceans, Offshore, Offshore Drilling, Oil & Gas, Oil Spill, Watchdog /by Ry CovingtonWith President Trump preparing to open the Atlantic coastline to offshore drilling, we thought it would be a good time to revisit the cautionary tale of Site 23051 — Taylor Energy’s 13-year old continuous oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. We’ve estimated the cumulative amount of oil that has leaked from the Taylor Energy […]

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