Safety Valve was Wrongly Plumbed on rig, says BP Executive
Oil spill: safety valve was wrongly plumbed on rig, says BP executive The safety valve that failed to prevent the Deepwater Horizon rig exploding in the Gulf of Mexico was wrongly plumbed, according to a senior BP official. Harry Thierens, BP’s vice president for drilling and completions, told a US…
Bacteria seem to be doing a good cleanup job in gulf
Bacteria seem to be doing a good cleanup job in gulf Data collected months ago show populations of carbon-eating bacteria rising in parts of a plume of oil. Now, in the area where the bugs were collected, scientists ‘do not see detectable oil.’ As efforts continue to clean the oil…
Egg Monopolists Recalls grow to Nearly 1 Billion Eggs
As egg producers consolidate, problems of just one company can be far-reaching By Lyndsey Layton Washington Post Staff Writer August 24, 2010 The largest egg recall in U.S. history comes at a point of great consolidation in the egg industry, when a shrinking number of companies produce most of the…
Gold by Gold Bugs
Over lunch with the Financial Times, more ignorant snickering about gold Submitted by cpowell on Tue, 2010-08-24 Dear Friend of GATA and Gold: A “Lunch with the FT” interview with “When Money Dies” author Adam Fergusson, published Friday in the Financial Times and written by Jonathan Ford, was interesting enough…
What is the Baltic Dry Index?
Baltic Dry Index What reveals the worlds freight moving across the oceans. Tons of what going where? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is a number issued daily by the London-based Baltic Exchange. Not restricted to Baltic Sea countries, the index tracks worldwide international shipping prices…