By The Associated PressMay 13, 2010, 2:01PM Louisiana officials say oily debris from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has washed up on Raccoon Island. The state Department of Wildlife and Fisheries describes the island as one of the coast’s most important waterbird nesting areas. It’s just west of Whiskey Island, where authorities said Wednesday […]
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The monthly cost of the war in Afghanistan, driven by troop increases and fighting on difficult terrain, has topped Iraq costs for the first time since 2003 and shows no sign of letting up. Pentagon spending in February, the most recent month available, was $6.7 billion in Afghanistan […]
By Chris Baltimore and Steve Gorman (2010-05-13) HOUSTON/PORT FOURCHON, Louisiana (Reuters) – BP Plc will deploy a small containment dome to try to trap oil from a blown-out undersea well in the Gulf of Mexico in the “next couple of days,” a company spokesman said on Thursday. Earlier, the BP spokesman had told Reuters the […]
Oil and oil sheen from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill are seen moving past an oil rig, top right, in the waters of Chandeleur Sound, Louisiana, Wednesday, May 5, 2010. (AP Photo / Eric Gay) Disaster unfolds slowly in the Gulf of Mexico Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America
By JEFFREY COLLINS (AP) HAMMOND, La. — BP officials say they have decided to first try sucking oil away from the gushing Gulf well with a tube that will be inserted into the jagged pipe leaking on the seafloor. Company spokesman Bill Salvin said BP hopes to start moving the 6-inch tube into the leaking […]
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By Chris Kromm on May 13, 2010 10:32 AM While bits and pieces of the Gulf oil spill have already reached shore, new federal maps show that the larger floating mass of oil generated by the disaster is poised to strike the coast over the next three days. Each day, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric […]
By Brian Merchant, Brooklyn, New York on 05.12.10 Dauphin Island, right off the coast of Alabama, was one of the first places to report oil making landfall on its shores. The oil hit Dauphin’s beach in the form of small tar balls — similar to those I found washing up on the shore of Louisiana. […]
By Michael Isikoff and Michael Hirsh | NEWSWEEKPublished May 7, 2010From the magazine issue dated May 17, 2010 Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP, has a couple of major problems on his hands these days. One lies down near the earth’s crust; the other exists deep in the muck of Washington politics. It may take […]
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 […]
