Cleaner Drilling: If We’re Going to Drill Anyway, Can We Make It More Efficient?
Technological Innovation and Concern for the Environment Are Helping to Clean Up Drilling for Oil and Gas…
Technological Innovation and Concern for the Environment Are Helping to Clean Up Drilling for Oil and Gas…
Dear EarthTalk: Is off-shore drilling any safer for the environment today given lessons learned from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico? —Leslie Jackson, Bern, NC The Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion in 2010 resulted in 11 lost lives and hundreds of […]
What, if anything, fills the empty space underground created by the extraction of billions of gallons of oil?
An estimated $300 billion in gold, copper and molybdenum have been discovered via exploratory drilling near Bristol Bay, Alaska. But extracting the minerals would have serious environmental repercussions, including untold toxic waste.