Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again. By JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH Associated Press Writers GULF […]
By Geoff Livingston on 16 June, 2010 – 08:47 The PR battle has continues between Obama and BP. With the climax occurring today between BP top brass and Obama at the White House, another major danger continues to spread in the Gulf, BP’s widespread use of Corexit toxic dispersants. More than 1,000,000 gallons has been […]
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By RAY HENRY, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSJune 16, 2010 10:15 a.m. NEW ORLEANS – BP began burning oil siphoned from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico early Wednesday as part of its plans to more than triple the amount of crude it can stop from reaching the sea, the company said. BP PLC said […]
By MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — BP’s annus horribilus just got a little more horrible. So did the Gulf’s. Three weeks ago, a handful of scientists watching grainy video shot at 5,000 feet beneath the sea suggested that BP’s ruptured wellhead was disgorging up to 25,000 barrels of crude a day into the Gulf of […]
PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. — BP won permission to start burning oil and gas piped up from its broken seafloor well, one step toward fulfilling a pledge to more than triple how much crude it stops from spewing into the Gulf of Mexico. Federal authorities gave permission late Monday for BP PLC to use a new […]
Associated PressJune 15, 2010, 8:42AM GRAND ISLE, La. — The Coast Guard says it found a shrimper working in an area closed because of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, confiscated 19,000 pounds of white shrimp and put it all back in the water. Petty Officer Casey Ranel says the shrimp were live when returned […]
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSONPublished: June 14, 2010 GRAND ISLE, La. — Deano Bonano, the emergency preparedness director for Jefferson Parish, marched from a motor home being used as a command center to an office across the street filled with BP officials. It was late May. Oil had been creeping into the passes around Grand Isle. Two […]
ScienceDaily (June 14, 2010) — A team of dedicated South Florida researchers from the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (NOAA/AOML) were determined to check on whether oil was, as predicted, being pulled into the Loop Current […]
Oil spill video: Oiled birds on Cat Island By Brian Skoloff and Cain Burdeau of The Associated PressPublished: Monday, June 14, 2010 The sand dunes and islands of Barataria Bay, a huge expanse of water and marsh on Louisiana’s coast, have become the latest casualty of the environmental disaster spewing from BP’s offshore oil well […]
