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 […]
By HARRY R. WEBER (AP) ON THE GULF OF MEXICO — A BP spokesman says a second, smaller oil containment box known as a “top hat” is being brought to the site of a blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico. Spokesman Bill Salvin tells The Associated Press the box will be lowered to the […]
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 […]
Coast Guard conducts ‘in situ burn’ of oil spill By Ben RainesMay 11, 2010, 5:00AM One day of controlled burning at the site of the Deepwater Horizon spill apparently destroyed more oil than virtually all of the skimming efforts, according to Press-Register calculations. The drilling rig exploded April 20 and oil began spewing into the […]
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Oil Containment Solution Randomizer www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Fox News By Jake Simpson on May 11, 2010 11:29am As the oil spill continues to devastate the Gulf of Mexico, efforts to plug the subsurface leak have grown increasingly creative as conventional solutions have […]
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 Jennifer Lebovich, Michael Newsome and Laura IsenseeMcClatchy Newspapers BILOXI, Miss. — Nineteen days after oil started spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, experts appeared Sunday to have no certain plan for sealing anytime soon a runaway well 5,000 feet below the gulf’s surface. What had been thought to be the best immediate solution to […]
U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft aerial spray aircraft maintainers from the 910th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, remove the ground load station after refilling a C-130 with oil-dispersing chemicals on the runway of the Stennis International Airport, Miss, on May 9, 2010. Members of the 910th Airlift Wing are in […]
