GrantThornton http://tinyurl.com/2brrq63 [PEN-e posting] This White Paper by GrantThornton, an international consulting firm, dated Summer 2010, finds that as a result of the Gulf oil spill, the future costs of drilling and operating in the Gulf will rise considerably. Certain cost increases can be attributed to natural market forces, such as insurance and capital providers … Continue reading »
Posted on August 25, 2010 …
Climate Indicators : NOAA Data Site
NOAA BAMS http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/bams-state-of-the-climate/2009-time-series/ [From RealClimate] …the NOAA/BAMS “State of the Climate 2009” report arrived in mailboxes this week (it has been available online since July though). Each year this gets better and more useful for people tracking what is going on. And this year they have created a data portal for all the data appearing … Continue reading »
Health Changes in Fishermen 2 Years After Clean-up of the Prestige Oil Spill
Annals of Internal Medicine (August 17, 2010, v153 n4) / by Gema Rodríguez-Trigo, Jan-Paul Zock,Francisco Pozo-Rodríguez, Federico P. Gómez, Gemma Monyarch,Laura Bouso,M. Dolors Coll, Héctor Verea, Josep M. Antó, Carme Fuster, Joan Albert Barberà, and for the SEPAR (Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica)-Prestige Study Group http://www.annals.org/content/early/2010/08/23/0003-4819-153-8-201010190-00279.full Background: In 2002, the oil tanker Prestige … Continue reading »
Safety Evaluation Report Related to Disposal of High-Level Radioactive Wastes in a Geologic Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada
Nuclear Regulatory Commission http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr1949/ [From an E&E Daily story by Katherine Ling, subscription required] Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff yesterday approved an initial part of the Department of Energy’s plan to bury nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nev., despite the Obama administration’s determination to end the project. The first volume of NRC’s safety evaluation of the … Continue reading »
