The Associated PressTue May 11, 2010, 03:00 PM CDT New Orleans, La. – Enough Mississippi River water to fill the Empire State Building every half hour is now rushing into southeast Louisiana wetlands in an attempt to stave off the advance of oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. Most is pouring in through sets […]
Yesterday’s MODIS/Terra satellite image has some of the usual complications – clouds, haze, and turbidity again may be obscuring portions of the slick. Observable slick and sheen covers 4,683 square miles (12,129 km2). Thicker, fresh-looking oil is apparent in the vicinity of the leaking well, and still appears to be entrained in a counterclockwise gyre […]
Weather conditions today permitted aerial dispersant application but vessel skimming and in-situ burning operations were halted. Over 1.1 million feet of boom have been placed and drilling continues on the relief wells. Due to the complications with the first experimental containment dome an alternative structure is being developed. The alternative is called a “top hat”. […]
By The Associated Press May 11, 2010, 5:07PM SHIP ISLAND, Miss. — Federal wildlife officials are treating the deaths of six dolphins on the Gulf Coast as oil-related even though other factors may be to blame. Blair Mase (MACE’) of the National Marine Fisheries Service said Tuesday that the carcasses have all been found in […]
NEW ORLEANS, May 11 /PRNewswire/ — The chemical dispersants being used to break up the oil leaking into the gulf following the explosion of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig have the potential to cause just as much, if not more, harm to the environment and the humans coming into contact with it than […]
By Harry R. Weber and John CurranThe Associated Press Published: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:45 p.m. ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — Black Hawk helicopters peppered Louisiana’s barrier islands with 1-ton sacks of sand Monday to bolster the state’s crucial wetlands against an epic oil spill, 4 million gallons and growing, in the Gulf […]
By (AP) BATON ROUGE, La.Published: Mon, May 10, 2010 – 2:52 pm CST Baton Rouge, Louisiana – Louisiana and parish officials are getting almost all the fresh water they can into southeastern wetlands to try to keep out oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. Chris Macaluso of the state Office of Coastal Protection and […]
By Edward Klump, Mark Chediak and Aaron Kuriloff – May 10, 2010 Weather forecasts in the Gulf of Mexico indicate shifting winds will push an oil slick toward Louisiana in the next few days after the failure of BP Plc’s latest attempt to stem the gushing oil leak offshore. “The winds may play a huge […]
BP continues to work on solving the problem of ice-like methane hydrate crystals that accumulated inside of the dome intended to capture the leaking oil. A process known as a “junk shot”, in which debris is injected into the blow out preventer, is being examined. The drilling of the relief wells continues. The latest trajectory […]
PORT FOURCHON, La. (May 10, 2010) — Crews of Black Hawk helicopters were picking up sandbags Monday to be dropped on five points east of Port Fourchon in an effort aimed at protecting Lafourche Parish marshes from the massive oil slick. The spill began creeping farther west of the Mississippi River last week. On Sunday, […]
