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BP confident of plugging oil leak soon Updated 16 minutes ago Audio: Black Tide (Correspondents Report) Oil giant BP says it is confident it will soon be able to stop oil from flowing into the Gulf of Mexico from a blown-out well. The US government has now approved the use of dispersants under water near Continue Reading →
May 12, 2010 Preferential Voting in Australia At the request of political science colleagues, I have updated an article I wrote for the ABC’s 2004 federal election site that dealt with the history of preferential voting in Australia. In the article I tabulated how preferences have changed results at elections since 1949. As politicians and Continue Reading →
Berlin, Germany — Europe has plenty of grid initiatives to help meets its ambitious goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions with the help of renewable energies, such as wind and solar. Now it just needs an action plan. All the talk over the years about building new long-distance high-voltage transmission infrastructure to span national territories has, for the most part, remained just that.
But experts say the talk has now advanced to a new level, especially in the area of offshore infrastructure in northern Europe where around 100 gigawatts (GW) of offshore wind power are planned.
Venezuela gas rig sinks into Caribbean Posted 7 minutes ago A natural gas exploration rig hailed as evidence of Venezuela’s engineering prowess sank in the Caribbean early on Thursday, less than a month after a deadly explosion in the Gulf of Mexico sank a BP-owned oil rig and created a natural disaster. All 95 workers Continue Reading →
The warnings were there a decade ago. Yet little has been done to address the risk of systems failure in deep-sea drilling operations.
As a consequence, millions of litres of oil have now spewed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Why wasn’t preventative action taken earlier?
The blast which tore through the Deepwater Horizon drill rig was caused by a blowout – a high-pressure ball of gas, mud and oil that shot up from the oil reservoir. Such sudden spikes in pressure should be controlled by a device known as a blowout preventer (BOP). In this case, however, it failed completely. With no other systems in place to prevent it, oil was free to pour from the open well head into the water.
Scientists: emissions-based climate deal ‘not possible’ Ecologist 12th May, 2010 Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a ‘politically attractive’ one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper An international agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions is doomed to failure and must be replaced Continue Reading →