A lot of analysis has been done since last year, including a complete review of all procedures, and a forensic study of the blowout preventer that failed to close off the Macondo well. Ultimately, the last line of defense, the blowout preventer, failed, so there was nothing left to prevent the disaster. Not many lessons [...]

Posted on April 19th, 2011 by Sherri
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Five years ago this morning, August 29, 2010, Hurricane Katrina hit just east of New Orleans. Five years later, we still don’t feel like we’re really part of the United States. We don’t seem to fit into the rest of the country. We feel taken for granted and then forgotten. Then we get remembered and [...]

Posted on August 29th, 2010 by Sherri
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