Do you know the drill?

Nice interactive video here from the Norfolk, Va., paper.

EPA to reconsider Lake Champlain cleanup plan

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100430/NEWS02/100429035/EPA-will-reconsider-Lake-Champlain-cleanup-plan

Clean vs. filth: An Outer Banks person has it right

I found this delicious tidbit in a newspaper article about offshore oil and gas drilling, the kind proposed off the coasts of Virinia and North Carolina.

Jobs and revenue on North Carolina’s Outer Banks “all come from a clean beach,” Walker said. “We hear a lot of, ‘Oh, don’t worry, don’t worry.’ But now, look what happened in the Gulf.”

Spill dominates Norfolk, Va., meeting on new offshore ops

The Virginian-Pilot paper of Norfolk, Va., offers this blow-by-blow account. I don’t think it matters where additional drilling take s place. The end result is almost always the same: Disaster.

The Gulf disaster: Defense now a cleanup player

As this collection of newspaper articles distributed around the Pentagon and to other senior military brass points out.

Exxon Mobil, a k a Big Oil, rakes in big profits

Even as the 20th anniversary of the Exxon Valdez spill disappears from the public’s mind and more crude spills into the Gulf of Mexico. Read about the oil giant’s profits here.

Climate change to bring another Dust Bowl?

http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/new_west_new_dust_bowl/C35/L35/

Another coal mine accident

This one in western Ky.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_KENTUCKY_MINE_ACCIDENT?SITE=VANOV&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to let filmmaker on property

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100429/NEWS02/4290313/Vermont-Yankee-will-allow-filmmaker-on-plant-tour

Spill five times worse than first thought

That’s what the headline over this NY Times piece from today’s online edition says. The U.S. addiction to oil just keeps on giving and giving and giving …. And the average layperson motorist just keeps burning the stuff, burning the stuff, burning the stuff and …