Blogging the End of the World™
By The Times-PicayuneMay 12, 2010, 2:19PM The state says oil from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has reached the shoreline of Whiskey Island, one of the barrier islands off the coast of Terrebonne Parish. Aerial reconnaissance also showed possible oil impact on Raccoon Island, another of the barrier islands off the parish’s coast. Other […]
By Maria Recio, Dave Montgomery and Mark Washburn | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — In the days after a oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got from […]
Today weather conditions prevented vessel skimming and in-situ burning operations, but overflights and SCAT teams were in the field. Sea conditions are expected to moderate over the course of the week and marine operations are expected to recommence. Also today, NOAA Fisheries announced modifications to the area closed to fishing in the Gulf of Mexico […]
By Michael B. Marois and William Selway May 11 (Bloomberg) — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will seek “terrible cuts” to eliminate an $18.6 billion budget deficit facing the most-populous U.S. state through June 2011, his spokesman said. Schwarzenegger, 62, who will introduce his revised budget plans on May 14, has said he won’t seek tax […]
By The Associated PressMay 12, 2010, 4:44PM ROBERT, La. — Video released by BP shows oil spewing from a yellowish, broken pipe 5,000 feet below the surface. The oil looks like steam rushing from a geyser. The video released Wednesday gives a not-yet-seen glimpse of the leaking well a mile underwater. The stream occasionally can […]
By Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune May 12, 2010, 3:04PM BP will decide which of two “top hat” solutions it will use to try to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by midday Thursday, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The containment box, 5 feet tall and 4 feet in diameter, arrived in the Gulf above […]
By Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 05. 3.10 The Gulf of Mexico, where a massive oil spill is taking place right now, is also the spawning ground for the critically endangered (according to the IUCN Red List) bluefin tuna. Stocks have already fallen about 90% since the 1970s, and they could fall even closer […]
By Rushikulya Rookery (Orissa), May 11, (PTI) Thousands of eggs of the endangered Olive Ridley turtles on the beach adjoining river Rushikulya in Ganjam district have failed to hatch this year because of the recent oil spill at a nearby port, conservationists claim. “We have found that the hatching of the eggs, which ended last […]
By Darren Goode Sen. Joe Lieberman, I/D-Conn., said today offshore oil and gas drilling provisions will remain in a draft Senate climate and energy bill he has coauthored, despite a massive Gulf Coast spill that has given fresh ammunition to drilling critics. “There were good reasons for us to put in offshore drilling, and this […]
By H. JOSEF HEBERT AND HARRY R. WEBER (AP) ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — BP says a second, smaller container has reached the seafloor, but it hasn’t yet been placed over the blown-out well fouling the Gulf of Mexico. BP spokesman Bill Salvin said Wednesday that the 2-ton box had reached the seabed overnight. […]
