Archive for the ‘Oil spill’ Category

Future of the Gulf Community Brainstorm on Saturday

Our next Future of the Gulf Community Brainstorm is this Saturday, August 21 at 2:00 to 4:00 P.M at the Shelby Center at the Dauphin Island Sealab – 101 Bienville Blvd. Dauphin Island. We will be following up on our July meeting and creating action items that each of us can start working on. At […]

August 18, 2010 Ā· Leo Denton Ā· 2 Comments
Posted in: Community, Oil spill

Public ā€˜Forumā€™ Lacks ā€˜Open Discussionā€™

Today the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management held a public ā€œforumā€ in Mobile on whether the six-month moratorium prohibiting new drilling should be suspended early. The purpose of the moratorium is to allow for renewed consideration of oil well safety reforms, oil spill containment issues, and oil spill recovery and response strategies. While Steve […]

August 10, 2010 Ā· Leo Denton Ā· One Comment
Posted in: Clean energy solutions, Oil spill

Citizen Rain Water Tests in Louisiana Show Unsafe Levels of Toxins

Many people, including Kindra Arnesen and the Coastal Heritage Society of Louisiana, are doing great work in Louisiana. The video below with Kindra speaking from the August 5, 2010 Buras Town Hall Meeting about the gulf oil catastrophe is powerful and informative. The video includes the importance of bio-remediation as well as the serious problems […]

August 7, 2010 Ā· Leo Denton Ā· 5 Comments
Tags: , ,  Ā· Posted in: Being real, Making noise, Nature, Oil spill

Uncertainty

To say that we live in uncertain times is an understatement. Did the rapidly decaying oil (see previous two posts) contain recently applied dispersants? People, who know far more than I, say itā€™s likely, but we donā€™t know that and perhaps we never will. But right now I want to say something about uncertainty and […]

August 6, 2010 Ā· Leo Denton Ā· No Comments
Tags:  Ā· Posted in: Dreams, Oil spill