‘A Whale’ Still Not Skimming
After suffering one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history, the Taiwanese ship ‘A Whale’ arrived in the Gulf to attempt to aid in the clean-up effort. Standing over ten stories high and stretching over three and a half football fields in length, the ship is capable of processing 500,000 barrels of oil-filled water [...]
BP, Obama and Energy Policy: Implications of the BP Oil Spill
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, President Obama addressed the nation to assure the American people that he was doing everything in his power to deal with the current and future consequences of the BP oil spill. In the address, he asked BP to pay lost wages and damages for those affected and announced a revitalization [...]
Still No Communication
In one of the largest man-made ecological disasters in United States history, one would expect the Chief Executive Officer and the Head of the Executive Branch would have communicated by now. President Obama has not felt it necessary to speak with the CEO of BP Tony Hayward over the past eight weeks of the oil [...]
