Goal For The Green

We are NOW on day 96, since the blow-out preventor exploded, on BP’s Deep Water Horizon (Macondo Well).  On April 20th, that explosion killed 11 workers, and has triggered the worst environmental disaster in U.S. History.

Within, the next 48 hours, we can expect an announcement, from BP stating, that their future, does NOT include Tony Hayward!  That’s right, he is stepping down. Read the rest of this entry »

There may be a glimmer of new hope, for cleaning up the Gulf Coast spill.
A ship, billed as the world’s largest skimming vessel, form Taiwan, continued testing its abilities in the Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.

It is called, A Whale, and if tests in a 5-by-5-mile area, north of the underwater gusher are successful, the massive ship could play a key role in oil cleanup efforts.

The boat, which swallows water with oil, then separates it, can skim about 21 million gallons of oil a day. That’s at least 250 times, the amount that modified fishing vessels, currently are able to do.  At present, there is a floatilla  of about 550 skimming vessels, that were out in the Gulf on Sunday, conducting skimming operations. Read the rest of this entry »