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SkyTruth in The Washington Post

We’re pretty giddy around here today. The Washington Post just published an article and video all about SkyTruth on their website yesterday.  It will be the cover story on the print edition of this weekend’s Sunday magazine: The opening makes us look like omniscient, see-all, Bourne-Identity-like uber-spies.  Rest assured the reality is a lot more, […]

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Chronic Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico Since 2004 – Still Spillin’

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 […]

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95-Mile-Long Slick in the Gulf of Mexico?

This report on SkyTruth’s handy pollution Alerts system caught my eye yesterday afternoon: SUSPECTED SLICK IS SEEN AS LONG NARROW PLUME APPROXIMATELY 95 MILES LONG AND 1 MILE OR LESS WIDE. That sounds like bilge-dumping from a passing vessel — an activity that is illegal in US waters (and much of the rest of the […]

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Shell’s Grounded Drill Rig Seen From Space – Other Problems Not So Obvious?

Lots of folks lately, us included, have chronicled Shell’s confidence-shaking series of missteps, bad decisions and outright failures associated with their years-long, multi-billion-dollar campaign (technical and political) to drill for oil in the Arctic Ocean off the coast of Alaska.  Shell has decided to downplay their latest mishap — losing control of their multimillion dollar […]

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What’s Going On at the BP / Deepwater Horizon Spill Site?

We’ve been closely following recent developments at the site of BP’s disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.  There’s been a nagging stream of sightings of small oil slicks in the vicinity since August 2011, more than a year after the failed Macondo well was killed and plugged.  We documented these “mystery slicks” […]