The BP Gulf Coast rig explosion is a horrible human, economic, and environmental disaster. The death of 11 employees is tragic. The spill could devastate the Gulf Coast commercial and sport fishing industries for years to come. Louisiana’s seafood industry alone is worth $2 billion annually. This is the biggest U.S. economic and environmental disaster […]
By Ian Talley, Dow Jones Newswires, 202-862-9285; ian.talley@dowjones.com WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–The BP oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico may be worse that the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on CNN Sunday. “The worst-case scenario is we could have 100,000 barrels or more of oil flowing out,” Salazar […]
Birds, marine animals are vulnerable to the oil spill resulting from last week’s explosion Agence France-Presse2010-05-03 12:00 AM Its long, brown neck held firmly in a blue towel, the northern gannet struggled for freedom, unaware of how very lucky it is to have been found swimming in a sea of oil off the Louisiana coast. […]
(AFP) The US Coast Guard now fears the underwater oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of litres of oil a day, the Mobile Press-Register reported on Saturday. Citing a confidential National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report on the unfolding spill disaster, the Alabama newspaper […]
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By CAIN BURDEAU and HOLBROOK MOHR (AP) VENICE, La. — The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two days ago. The newly named federal point man for the oil spill […]
By The Associated Press April 30, 2010, 11:47AM MOUTH OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico oozed into Louisiana’s ecologically rich wetlands today as storms threatened to frustrate desperate protection efforts. Crews in boats patrolled coastal marshes early today looking for areas where the oil has flowed […]
By Chris McGreal in Washington, Terry Macalister and Adam Gabbatt www.guardian.co.uk, Thursday 29 April 2010 20.16 BST The United States mobilised its military tonight in an attempt to help deal with the vast oil slick spreading across the Gulf of Mexico amid predictions that it will begin to hit the Louisiana coast within hours and […]
By ROBERT, Louisiana, April 28, 2010 (ENS) – There is five times as much oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon’s undersea wellhead than was originally thought, a Coast Guard official said late tonight. Rear Adm. Mary Landry, the federal on-scene coordinator for the oil rig disaster, told reporters that based […]
By ALLEN JOHNSONApril 28, 2010 – 11:00AM The Gulf of Mexico oil rig disaster will develop into one of the worst spills in US history if the well is not sealed, the coast guard officer leading the response has warned. BP, which leases the Deepwater Horizon platform, has been operating four robotic submarines some 1500 […]
