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Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-offshore-drilling-plan-brings-oil-spill-risks-to-us-coasts-2025-11-20/
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Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts
Center for Biological Diversity: Industry Giveaway of Public Waters Proposed During Climate Talks

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Minus the Bear:
🎵 Drilling
#MinustheBear
https://minusthebear.bandcamp.com/track/drilling-p-o-s-redo
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lWIGln7tlyipg1wvb3U5O

Trump reveals plan to drill oil off Florida, California coasts
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/trump-florida-california-alaska-offshore-oil-drilling

The Trump administration plans to allow new oil and gas drilling off the California coast for the first time in roughly four decades
The proposed lease sales in the Pacific Ocean would primarily be off Santa Barbara County, Calif.,
where a small amount of drilling is already occurring, according to two of the people familiar with the Interior Department’s draft plan

Trump Is Said to Propose Opening California Coast to Oil Drilling
Gov. Gavin Newsom, a chief critic of the president and an opponent of oil exploration in the Pacific, called the proposal “dead on arrival.”

Ukraine says it destroyed a Russian patrol ship and struck a Lukoil drilling platform in the Caspian Sea: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/20/ukraine-says-it-destroyed-a.html

Trump Proposes Opening Over 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands to Drilling, Fracking https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/trump-proposes-opening-over-1-million-acr…

Trump Proposes Opening Over 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands to Drilling, Fracking
The Trump administration today released plans to open more than 1 million acres of public lands and mineral rights to oil and gas drilling and fracking in Southern California and the Central Valley, Central Coast and Bay Area.

Oilfield service companies are moving into the data center business by supplying power and cooling tech as demand from traditional drilling customers weakens (Martha Muir/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/bb16cda6-157b-4d23-9c3b-c2a699d919f3

Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/10/offshore-drilling-california-gulf-alaska/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251111/p95#a251111p95

Ukraine hits Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea, military reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/ukraine-hits-russian-drilling-platforms.html

🪱 Bioinspired Drilling for Extraterrestrial Applications
#space #planets

If you use a drill for drilling, do you use a frother for frolicking?
(I love how completely wrong and absolutely spot-on that automated translation is at once)

Ukraine strikes Lukoil drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea and Russian military sites: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/ukraine-strikes-lukoil-drilling-platforms.html

Newsom rejects Trump's California offshore drilling plans
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5601148-newsom-trump-california-offshore-drilling-plans/

"Brazil greenlights oil drilling in Amazon as environmentalists raise alarm"
#Brazil #AmazonRainforest #FossilFuels

Ukrainian drone strike hits Russian drilling platform in the Caspian Sea, third such attack on offshore facilities: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/19/ukrainian-drone-strike-hits-russian.html

"Looking at the connection between #capitalism and oxygen"
He's right. So long as there's any fuel left and any oxygen left, capitalism will continue to burn everything in its path — until there's nothing left
Drilled: Drilling Deep: John Vaillant on the Climate-Fire Nexus
Episode webpage:

Tonight, I'm drilling morse code POTA in Morse Walker with simulated callers at 22–30WPM, and I think for the first time I copied a 2x3 at 30 WPM on the first hearing ("WG0KTQ"), and copied some shorter 30WPM calls on the first hearing in 2-way pileups. Not reliably though, not even reliably without a pile-up!
Tomorrow afternoon, I expect to be in park US-6888, calling CQ at around 15WPM, aft…

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

#Sigh But, you know, property rights, who is the state to hold the wealthy accountable?
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-gas-wastewater-pollution

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

Drilling for 'cleaner' natural gas in the North Sea - with low methane leakage - will only reduce global greenhouse gas emissions if it keeps an equivalent amount of 'dirty' natural gas - e.g. US shale gas - in the ground. Which remains to be seen.

The thing nearly all media commentators have missed (because nobody knows nothin’ about energy in media) is that Venezuela has a lot of oil alright, but it’s heavy sour, hard to produce, hard to refine, and hard to transport, requiring:
• Conventional drilling artificial lift
• Diluent blending (to move viscous heavy crude)
• Upgraders and partial refining for export markets
• Enhanced recovery techniques where feasible
• Specialized infrastructure to handle sour…

Trump Proposes Opening Over 1 Million Acres of California Public Lands to Drilling, Fracking : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2026/01/13/18882817.php

#Oil field injected brine popping up from improperly sealed wells in Oklahoma #geology — ProPublica
https://www.pr…

Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water.

🪸 Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-tree-sea-environmental-conditions-microalgae.html

Tree rings of the sea: How environmental conditions influence microalgae and coral communities
An international research team led by marine biologist Prof. Dr. Maren Ziegler from Justus Liebig University Giessen (JU) has developed an innovative method for reconstructing the past of corals and their symbiosis with algae by drilling into coral skeletons. The results, published in Global Change Biology, offer new insights into changes in symbiotic single-celled algae species that are crucial to the survival of coral reefs.

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground.
-- Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

Salt water laced with
cancer-causing chemicals,
a byproduct of oil and gas drilling,
is spewing from old wells.
Experts warn of a pollution crisis
spreading underground
and threatening Oklahoma’s drinking water

Toxic wastewater from oil fields keeps pouring out of the ground. Oklahoma regulators failed to stop it.

Ukraine war latest: Ukraine hits Russian drilling platforms in Caspian Sea, military reports: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/11/ukraine-war-latest-ukraine-hits.html

"Trump administration finalises plan to open pristine Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling"
#US #USA #America #Environment

Trump reopens Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling
The Trump administration has approved plans to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, rekindling fierce debate between economic interests and environmental protection.