Ryan Lambert, president of Cajun Fishing Adventures in Louisiana — a business he founded and has run for 30 years, tells us about the devastating financial impact the oil gusher had on his business.
How to Describe the Disaster?
Cooking up a Storm- A Recipe for Disaster?
Cashing in on the Oil Thing
The ANWR Opinion Machine
Almanac/Spindletop
This week, we have facts about Spindletop. This gusher in 1901 ushered in the oil era in Texas.
Oil’s Origins
Author Daniel Yergin narrated the oil century in his book “The Prize: the Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power,” which won a Pulitzer prize. This week he helps us take a look back at the history of Iraqi oil following that first gusher in Kirkuk.
Almanac/Spindletop
This week, we have facts about Spindletop. This gusher in 1901 ushered in the oil era in Texas.
Columnist for The New York Times, Dan Barry says the oil leak will impact everyone from the fishermen who mine the oyster beds in Louisiana to the Minnesota businessmen who rely on crushed oyster shells to be used as poultry feed.
BP is still working to fix the Deepwater Horizon well, which has been leaking since April. The New York Times’ science reporter Henry Fountain explains how the new cap will work and how it will lead to a permanent solution.
