Industrial disasters News

Industrial disasters News From AOL News

BP Sues Rig Owner for $40B; Blames It for Disaster

NEW ORLEANS -- BP on Wednesday sued the maker of the device that failed to stop last year's calamitous Gulf oil spill and the owner of the rig that exploded, alleging that negligence by both helped cause the disaster. The British company said in papers filed in federal court in New Orleans that it is suing rig owner...

Volunteers Descend on Gulf to Restore Oyster Beds

MOBILE, Ala. -- Volunteers from across the country are rebuilding oyster reefs along the Gulf of Mexico's delicate shoreline, hoping to revive oyster beds under assault for decades from overharvesting, coastal development, pollution, and most recently the BP oil spill. The waters harbor much of the world's last remaining...

Six Things You Probably Didn't Know About the Oil Spill

WASHINGTON -- Of the tens of thousands of people who worked to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, many had competing loyalties and agendas. Unified, they were not. Complicating matters, local, state and federal officials felt enormous pressure to avoid being seen as in cahoots with BP. Because the federal government's...

4 Most Glaring Errors Cited by Obama's Oil Spill Panel

(Oct. 7) -- Scientists describe the official response to BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster as a giant science experiment carried out in real time since it was the first in U.S. history involving a deep-water oil rig. Yet the preliminary assessment released this week by the Oil Spill Commission, which was appointed by...

BP: Series of Calamities Caused Gulf Oil Spill

(Sept. 8) -- BP has concluded that a "sequence of failures" by "multiple companies and work teams" led to the explosion and fire that killed 11 workers and triggered the world's largest accidental oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year. "No single factor caused the Macondo well tragedy," the oil giant said...

Industrial disasters News From AOL

THE HUFFINGTON POST - LOCAL

Industrial disasters News From the Web

05/28/12 Report On Deadly Ark. Blast Could Be Weeks Away Source: ABC - KHBS/KHOG 40/297 It may be several weeks before local, state and federal agencies issue a final report on an explosion that killed three oil field workers.
05/28/12 SC chides government over Bhopal's toxic waste Source: Sify New Delhi, May 28 (IANS) The Supreme Court Monday chided the central government for not doing anything for disposing off toxic waste for 28 years since the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.
05/28/12 Wales News: Chevron employees in negligence caution... Source: WalesOnline - UK This Saturday will mark exactly one year since the blast at the Valero (formerly Chrvron) oil refinery in Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire, which claimed the lives of four workers and left another seriously injured.
05/28/12 Pictures: Factory explosions spark huge fire in... Source: Rochdale Observer - Rochdale - Greater Manchester - UK Firefighters are tackling a large fire in Littleborough.
05/26/12 Gas fault sends fireball into night sky Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia A fault at a chemicals factory has caused a spectacular fireball to erupt into Sydney's night sky.