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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 […]
By Maria Recio, Dave Montgomery and Mark Washburn | McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON — In the days after a oil well spun out of control in the Gulf of Mexico, BP engineers tried to activate a huge piece of underwater safety equipment but failed because the device had been so altered that diagrams BP got from […]
Today weather conditions prevented vessel skimming and in-situ burning operations, but overflights and SCAT teams were in the field. Sea conditions are expected to moderate over the course of the week and marine operations are expected to recommence. Also today, NOAA Fisheries announced modifications to the area closed to fishing in the Gulf of Mexico […]
By The Associated PressMay 12, 2010, 4:44PM ROBERT, La. — Video released by BP shows oil spewing from a yellowish, broken pipe 5,000 feet below the surface. The oil looks like steam rushing from a geyser. The video released Wednesday gives a not-yet-seen glimpse of the leaking well a mile underwater. The stream occasionally can […]
By Jaquetta White, The Times-Picayune May 12, 2010, 3:04PM BP will decide which of two “top hat” solutions it will use to try to contain the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by midday Thursday, a company spokesman said Wednesday. The containment box, 5 feet tall and 4 feet in diameter, arrived in the Gulf above […]
By Michael Graham Richard, Ottawa, Canada on 05. 3.10 The Gulf of Mexico, where a massive oil spill is taking place right now, is also the spawning ground for the critically endangered (according to the IUCN Red List) bluefin tuna. Stocks have already fallen about 90% since the 1970s, and they could fall even closer […]
