Written by WGNO ABC26 News | Friday, 21 May 2010 14:00 he situation in the gulf is getting so dire for some in the seafood industry, they’ve thought about committing suicide. Steps to intervene are underway. Desperation is setting in in Southeast Louisiana. “I spoke to a group of fishermen, mainly Vietnamese Americans and a […]
By MATTHEW BROWN (AP) NEW ORLEANS — The gooey oil washing into the maze of marshes along the Gulf Coast could prove impossible to remove, leaving a toxic stew lethal to fish and wildlife, government officials and independent scientists said. Officials are considering some drastic and risky solutions: They could set the wetlands on fire […]
Controlled burns are conducted in the Gulf of Mexico in an effort to burn off some of the oil in the water, 19 May 2010. John Kepsimelis / U.S. Coast Guard via Reuters Gulf oil spill photo gallery Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,Gulf of Mexico,North America
CNN iReporters submit their ideas to solve the Gulf Coast oil disaster. CNN then asked Bill Nye to take a look. ‘Science Guy’ rates oil spill ideas Technorati Tags: oil spill,oil production,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico
By GREG BLUESTEIN (AP) COVINGTON, La. — Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the […]
By Ker Than for National Geographic News Published May 21, 2010 If the Gulf of Mexico oil spill kills just three sperm whales, it could seriously endanger the long-term survival of the Gulf’s native whale population, scientists say. Right now between 1,400 and 1,660 sperm whales live year-round in the Gulf of Mexico, making up […]
By Bob Warren, The Times-Picayune May 21, 2010, 4:28PM St. Bernard Parish officials on Friday announced a two-pronged effort to combat the potential spread of oil into parish marshes. A BP subcontractor on Wednesday began driving two parallel rows of 60-foot, 8-inch pilings some 500 feet apart off the coast, according to a parish news […]
By The Associated Press May 21, 2010, 3:35PM ANCHORAGE — The director of the Minerals Management Service in Alaska is apologizing to colleagues for having a cake at a recent meeting with the words “Drill, Baby, Drill” on it. In an e-mail Thursday to agency employees nationwide, Regional Director John Goll says it was wrong […]
By The Associated Press May 21, 2010, 2:39PM ROBERT — BP now says it will likely be at least Tuesday before engineers can shoot heavy mud into a blown-out well spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. Three ultra-deepwater rigs and other equipment are at the site where the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April […]
By Ben Raines May 19, 2010, 5:00AM In its 2009 exploration plan for the Deepwater Horizon well, BP PLC states that the company could handle a spill involving as much as 12.6 million gallons of oil per day, a number 60 times higher than its current estimate of the ongoing Gulf disaster. In associated documents […]
