In terms of where Equinor missed the mark, the review said many of the company’s conclusions on effects from the project were taken from areas away from the site.
Crews scrambled to contain a 12,000-litre oil spill off the Atlantic coast Thursday that has shut down production at the Hibernia offshore platform for two days.
BP has been drilling in the Scotian Basin, in search of the eight billion barrels of oil expected to be buried there. But its project in the area experienced a leak this summer that has some residents worried.
Lunenburg town council is taking a stand after recent government approval of British Petroleum’s deepwater drilling project 300 kilometres off the coast from this picturesque Nova Scotia community, a UNESCO world heritage site with an economy dependent on tourism and fish.
BP’s assessment of the likelihood of an uncontrolled blowout are much too low, based on the Nova Scotia exploratory drilling conditions. BP’s assessment of the consequences of an uncontrolled blowout are based on unsubstantiated assessments of the times required for successful mobilization of blowout preventer capping stack, and if required, drilling a relief well. Both the short and long-term ‘co
The Tsleil-Waututh people once used to source most of of their food from the Burrard Inlet. Today, the food they used to rely upon so heavily has all but disappeared.
Marine plastic pollution counts for billions of dollars in waste and kills turtles, dolphins and albatrosses in the South Atlantic and on Pacific atolls.