Who should you be following for oil spill news?

11 thoughts on “Who should you be following for oil spill news?”

1. I think I’ll be coming back to these in the coming days, thanks.

   To paraphrase, “No ecosystem can stand against oil-power of that magnitude!”

2. @Oceana

   Also, how do you rate Grist and TreeHugger coverage?

3. Also, several blogs on Scienceblogs.com are doing a good job, especially Speakeasy Science and Pump Handle.

4. I haven’t been following much of Grist or Treehugger, so they don’t pass the “is Andrew going to them for news test”. Beyond that, they’re providing good news coverage and a few smart editorials, but not the kind of in depth discussions that I’m finding at sites like the Oil Drum or Deep Sea News – which have a more thorough news coverage or Jen-Michel and The Spill, which have much more thorough discussions of the environmental impact.

   @Oceana is great, but I’m trying to keep the twitter list as short as possible. My goal is to have a list where, if you follow them, you’ll get 100% of the news and 90% of the commentary without tons of repetition.

   I did just find The Gulf Oil Blog, which is pretty exceptional – http://gulfblog.uga.edu/

   If you have any one off articles that are absolutely must reads, I’d love to see them.

5. I’m adding Chris Rowan’s must read on the geology.

   I can’t believed I missed the Pump Handle! Forgot to update my reader feed for them.

6. Another suggestion for your list of who to follow on the oil spill: Mother Jones’ human rights reporter* Mac McClelland is back in the Gulf area, for the moment at least, tweeting on the plight of the fishing community, BP’s lock-out of media from damaged shore and wetlands, and the miserable situation in general. One plus (maybe a coping mechanism) – she can be pretty damn funny.

   *MM’s last big thing was covering the human rights atrocities in Burma – see a short interview with Harper’s here – so she’s somewhat battle-hardened in some respects, though probably not immune to toxins. Hope she (and everyone else down there) takes care.

7. You might want to check out http://SpillBabySpill.com – The BP disaster in the Gulf unfiltered.

   The News Feed updates every 15 minutes with the latest news and commentary.

8. Call me a shameless self-promoter, but to keep up on the policy response to the disaster, the Natural Resources Defense Council’s team has a comprehensive blog page: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/gulfspill.php

9. Added, thanks.

10. Shameless self promotion is the best kind of self-promotion. Added.

11. This whole oil issue is a tragedy. I wish BP gave a crap about the disaster.

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