While most photos of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico over the summer included pictures of floating boom corralling oil and protecting wetlands and shorelines it is difficult to get an accurate picture of the scope of the containment boom part of the project. As a start this month we relate the experiences of several manufacturers which will give an inside view of how the crisis was handled in these companies. Read More

Oiled Turtles Rescued

October 13, 2010

By September 8 the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans had provided care to 190 sea turtles losing only three reported Meghan Calhoun of the Institute. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been slowly releasing some of the turtles off the West Coast of Florida she said. Read More

Oiled Turtles Rescued

October 13, 2010

By September 8 the Audubon Nature Institute in New Orleans had provided care to 190 sea turtles losing only three reported Meghan Calhoun of the Institute. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have been slowly releasing some of the turtles off the West Coast of Florida she said. Read More