David Hammer, The Times-Picayune, September 02, 2010

A shallow-water production rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded this morning, causing the thirteen crew members aboard to abandon the structure.

By Carrie Tait, Financial Post, August 18, 2010

CALGARY -- Canada’s offshore drilling rules must not be so stringent that the industry is hampered and must find a balance between environmental restrictions and economic benefits, a Senate committee said Wednesday.

Graham Walker And Dionysios Rossi, Vancouver Sun, August 3, 2010

Perhaps no single story has dominated news coverage recently like the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has raised questions about the legal status of offshore oil and gas development and tanker traffic along the west coast of British Columbia.

By JONATHAN MONTPETIT, Halifax Chronicle Herald, July 30, 2010

MONTREAL — Negotiations have been launched between the federal government and Quebec in an attempt to strike an offshore drilling deal similar to those that have enriched Atlantic provinces.

St. Petersburg Times, July 26, 2010

The oil and gas industry's offshore safety and environmental record in the Gulf of Mexico has become a key point of debate over future drilling, but that record has been far worse than is commonly portrayed by many industry leaders and lawmakers.

By ROBBIE BROWN, New York Times, July 23, 2010

KENNER, La. — The emergency alarm on the Deepwater Horizon was not fully activated the day the oil rig caught fire and exploded, killing 11 people and setting off the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a rig worker on Friday told a government panel investigating the accident.The worker, Mike Williams, the rig’s chief electronics technician, said the general safety alarm was habitually set to “inhibited” to avoid waking up the crew with late-night sirens and emergency lights.

Chris Genovali, Huffington Post, July 20, 2010

I'm a vampire, babe,
suckin' blood
from the earth
I'm a vampire, baby,
suckin' blood
from the earth.
Well, I'm a vampire, babe,
sell you
twenty barrels worth.

Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune, July 18, 2010

Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen on Sunday evening agreed to allow a cap to continue to block the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, despite the discovery of oil or natural gas seeping from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico at a location away from the well.

The Associated Press, Las Vegas Sun, July 18, 2010

It's all so familiar. A technological disaster, then a presidential commission examining what went wrong. And ultimately a discovery that while technology marches on, concern for safety lags. Technology isn't as foolproof as it seemed.

Chad Myers, CNN, July 15, 2010

They've stopped the flow ... temporarily. Click here to see how.

The Associated Press, NOLA.com, July 14, 2010

BP froze activity on two key projects Wednesday meant to choke off the flow of oil billowing from its broken well in the Gulf of Mexico after days of moving confidently toward controlling the crisis.

By JEFF DONN and MITCH WEISS, Associated Press, July 8, 2010

Enviro groups stunned that govt ignoring 27K wells

By JUDY MYRDEN, Chronicle Herald, July 9, 2010

As output declines, ExxonMobil rules out developing new fields

Thursday was a dark day for Nova Scotia’s offshore gas industry.

By BRETT CLANTON, Houston Chronicle, July 2, 2010

Gulf Coast native takes over cleanup effort

BP could plug its gushing Gulf oil well by the end of July, ahead of a projected target of August, if weather conditions permit and the drilling of relief wells keeps going smoothly, the newly appointed executive in charge of the company's response said Friday.

Emmett Mayer III, The Times-Picayune, June 30, 2010

The ultimate solution for stopping the gusher is still a relief well. Two are being drilled in the Gulf of Mexico, one as a backup. The primary well, which was started nearly two months ago, had been drilled to about 16,770 feet below the water's surface by Monday [June 28] morning.

By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American, June 28, 2010

Naomi Klein, The Guardian, June 19, 2010

The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism

Environment News Service, June 18, 2010

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (ENS) - The amount of oil spewing from the broken BP wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico is likely 35,000 barrels per day, National Incident Commander U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen said today, based on a new estimate from the Flow Rate Technical Group. He said BP's containment system captured about 25,000 barrels yesterday, the largest daily amount collected since the well was partly capped earlier this month.

CRAIG MCINNES, Vancouver Sun, June 9, 2010

Three Mile Island didn't slow nuclear industry and BP's Gulf debacle won't alter our dependency on cheap power

The timing of the catastrophic 1979 accident at Three Mile Island couldn't have been better for opponents of nuclear power.

USA Today, June 8, 2010

USA Today, June 8, 2010

By Alan Levin, USA TODAY, June 8, 2010

The number of spills from offshore oil rigs and pipelines in U.S. waters more than quadrupled this decade, a trend that could have served as a warning for the massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico, according to government data and safety experts.

By Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist, June 4, 2010

Despite the spectre of environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico -- where oil is spewing from a destroyed BP well -- the federal and provincial governments aren't closing the door on oil drilling off B.C.'s coast or supertankers plying the province's tricky northern waters.

By Andrew Mayeda, Vancouver Sun, June 3, 2010

OTTAWA — The Harper government has watered down regulations governing oil drilling off Canada's East Coast so that oil companies don't need a backup plan to drill a relief well in the event of a blowout.