Did oil canals worsen Katrina's effects?
187141
Service canals dug to tap oil and natural gas dart everywhere through the black mangrove shrubs, bird rushes and golden marsh. From the air, they look like a Pac-Man maze superimposed on an estuarine landscape 10 times the size of Grand Canyon National Park.
206294
Carcasses of unused oil equipment litter the Gulf Coast. Now they're being repurposed to harness the power of the wind. By John Geoghegan from Wired magazine.
339693
An oil spill added to the misery caused by widespread flooding Monday as thousands of evacuees in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas waited for water to recede from their homes.
393720
By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 14--A proposed deepening of the Savannah Harbor won't substantially  worsen the effects of a hurricane storm surge on the river, according to a  U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study.
208855
Hurricane Ivan drilled the US Gulf Coast, killing 20 people and causing up to 10 billion dollars in damage. The Florida Panhandle was hit the hardest, where residents were left with surge-ravaged beachfronts
105197
Along with their destructive force, hurricanes can have beneficial effects as part of the rhythm of nature. Storms that erode beaches, uproot trees and flatten wildlife habitats may also refresh waterways, revive dry areas and bulk up barrier islands with redistributed sand.
510662
U.S. energy companies that operate  in the Gulf of Mexico are better prepared to keep petroleum and  natural gas supplies flowing if hurricanes hit this year than  they were during 2005&#39;s disastrous season, U.S. government and  industry officials said Wednesday.
723252
ST. JOHN&#39;S, Nfld. -- An oil spill on Newfoundland&#39;s Grand Banks is larger than first reported. The Canada-Newfoundland Offshore Petroleum Board now says that up to 1,000 barrels of oil may have spilled into
739145
Egyptian Suez Canal authorities are trying to direct a crude oil spill away from Port Said where it could damage ships and equipment, a canal official said on Friday. The official said the authorities were attempting to direct the 20-km (13- mile) long slick, heading north toward the port, to an empty waiting area normally used by ships crossing the canal, where it could be dispersed using chemicals.
563033
NEW YORK, September 7 (New Ratings) - Crude oil futures declined yesterday in response to the news of Hurricane Frances missing the oil facilitates at the Gulf of Mexico.
274410
NEW ORLEANS -- Louisiana storm damage experts say a direct hit by Hurricane Ivan could be very bad for New Orleans. With the city&#39;s saucer-shaped topography that dips as much as 9 feet below sea level, there
256575
World oil prices surged nearly 4  percent on Friday on worries the U.S. hurricane season would  continue to hamper energy production and imports in the Gulf of  Mexico, delaying vital stock-building ahead of winter.
648854
By Mike Keller, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 8--A year ago, Katrina wreaked havoc on many aspects of life in South Mississippi. Often concern for the environment and our natural resources took a back seat to the immediacy of rescue, relief and recovery.
193267
By Brian Neill, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Sep. 20--The source of a 900-gallon oil spill into Tampa Bay from Port Manatee discovered Monday has been traced to a roughly quarter-inch hole in a transfer pipe that had been leaking for more than a day.
366019
By Chris Woodka, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Sep. 24--Reservoir construction, pipelines and water imports in the Arkansas Valley have changed flows in ways not yet fully understood.
583770
By GERARD SHIELDS  WASHINGTON - Though Louisiana gained billions in offshore oil and gas royalty revenue at the close of Congress, it was unable to push through funding for the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection project over the objections of a lone Oklahoma senator.  U.S.
147743
Hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires: a year after Katrina, a tour of the American hazardscape shows that we haven't learned much