By David Knowles With the the scope of the BP oil spill growing clearer with each passing day, a flood of images confirming the grim ramifications has begun swamping the airwaves. The following CNN clip, taken at Grand Isle, La., gets the Surge Desk’s vote for best capturing the growing sense of desperation along the […]
A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel) Caught in the oil Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,bird decline,wetland,ecosystem disruption,habitat loss
BY Matthew Lysiak In Grand Isle, La. and Helen Kennedy, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSWednesday, June 2nd 2010, 12:52 AM Here’s what President Obama didn’t see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds. “When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of […]
By David A. FahrentholdWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, June 2, 2010; 8:18 PM DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Pancake-sized blobs of oil have begun washing ashore in this barrier-island beach town, as significant amounts of oil from the BP spill make landfall in new places far to the east of Louisiana. The oil appeared on this 14-mile […]
By Travis Griggs tgriggs@pnj.com Kimberly Blair kblair@pnj.com • June 1, 2010 Escambia County and Gulf Breeze officials are bracing for the imminent landfall of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola beach and local waterways. “It’s inevitable that we will see it on the beaches,” said Keith Wilkins, Escambia’s deputy chief of neighborhood and […]
By Kimberly Blair • kblair@pnj.com • June 2, 2010 Several people visited Pensacola Beach this morning to get one last look before it could fall victim to the massive oil spill looming off the Gulf Coast. At approximately 10 a.m. there were no signs of tar balls in the sand and no oily sheen on […]
By GREG BLUESTEIN and BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press Writers PORT FOURCHON, La. – The risky effort to contain the Gulf oil gusher hit a snag Wednesday when a saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said the goal was to free […]
By David A. Fahrenthold and Juliet EilperinWashington Post Staff WriterFriday, May 28, 2010; 4:37 PM A day after scientists reported finding a huge “plume” of oil extending miles east of the leaking BP well, on Friday a Louisiana scientist said his crew had located another vast plume of oily globs, miles in the opposite direction. […]
The riser pipe of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well, moments before it was cut by the giant shear. The riser pipe of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil well, moments after it was cut by the giant shear. Deepwater BP Oil Spill Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico
By Joe Weisenthal and Gus Lubin | Jun. 1, 2010, 1:44 PM UPDATE II: BP spokesperson John Curry denied reports of any problems with the Lower Marine Rise Package, which begins drilling today. Reports that BP had canceled all rescue plans were based on a headline from Bloomberg: “Efforts to End Oil Flow From BP’s […]
