\nthe 11 workers missing after an explosion on a Gulf Coast oil rig have been
\nfound safe.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
An explosion on a drilling rig 50 miles off the Louisiana <\/p>\n But the 396-by-256-foot rig is “leaning badly” and in danger <\/p>\n This comes within weeks of:<\/p>\n The awful coal-mine The spillage All in all, it’s been a pretty terrible month for fossil-fuel industry <\/p>\n This isn’t to say accidents can’t happen within the clean-energy <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n Bolivia’s Morales slams capitalist debt to global warming<\/a><\/p>\n Brazil awards dam contract despite environmental protests<\/a><\/p>\n Each party has a clean-energy plan in U.K. election<\/a><\/p>\n
\ncoast late Tuesday night forced the evacuation of more than 100 workers and left
\nthe whereabouts of 11 in question. Seven others were critically injured and
\ntaken to hospitals, the New York Times reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nof tipping over, according to a local parish official. That can’t be good for a
\nmarine ecosystem, even one accustomed to drilling, spills, and all manner of
\nheavy industry.<\/p>\n
\nexplosion<\/a> that killed 29 men under the criminal safety record of Massey
\nEnergy CEO Don
\nBlankenship<\/a>.
\nThe crash
\nof a coal freighter<\/a> into the fragile Great Barrier Reef as it tried to take
\na shortcut from Australian mines to Chinese furnaces.
\nThe Tesoro oil refinery explosion<\/a> that killed five workers in Washington state.<\/p>\n
\nof 18,000 gallons of crude oil<\/a> from a Chevron into a canal in the Delta
\nNational Wildlife Refuge, also in Louisiana.<\/p>\n
\nworkers, defenders of the energy status quo, and organisms unlucky enough to
\nlive near coal, oil, or their shipping routes.<\/p>\n
\nindustry—installing offshore wind farms must have its own risks, though they
\nlack the combustible materials of a drilling rig. The point is that these human
\nwelfare costs should absolutely inform<\/a> our national energy project. All the more reason to move to safer sources.<\/p>\n