By The Associated PressJune 05, 2010, 10:46AM By Seth Borenstein, AP Writer They are the ghastly images of a summer fouled before it started. Squawking seagulls and majestic brown pelicans coated in oil. Click. Gunk dripping from their beaks. Click. Big eyes wide open. Click. Even the professionals want to turn away. They can’t. “They […]
By Allen Powell II, The Times PicayuneJune 03, 2010, 7:15PM For the first time since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off the coast of Louisiana 46 days ago, oil began pushing into Barataria Bay in thick, heavy concentrations, prompting local officials to put out a call for more absorbant boom to combat its spread. Jefferson […]
By David Knowles With the the scope of the BP oil spill growing clearer with each passing day, a flood of images confirming the grim ramifications has begun swamping the airwaves. The following CNN clip, taken at Grand Isle, La., gets the Surge Desk’s vote for best capturing the growing sense of desperation along the […]
A Brown Pelican sits in heavy oil on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo / Charlie Riedel) Caught in the oil Technorati Tags: oil production,oil spill,pollution,North America,Gulf of Mexico,bird decline,wetland,ecosystem disruption,habitat loss
BY Matthew Lysiak In Grand Isle, La. and Helen Kennedy, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERSWednesday, June 2nd 2010, 12:52 AM Here’s what President Obama didn’t see when he visited the Gulf Coast: a dead dolphin rotting in the shore weeds. “When we found this dolphin it was filled with oil. Oil was just pouring out of […]
By Rick Jervis, USA TODAY1 June 2010 NEW ORLEANS — Anger and frustration surged across the Gulf Coast on Monday as residents learned that the latest attempt to cap a renegade underwater well had failed and that oil may keep gushing into the Gulf of Mexico until at least August, when relief wells are scheduled […]
By Matthew Cardinale ATLANTA, Georgia, May 31, 2010 (IPS/IFEJ) – As oil continues gushing from the ocean floor into the Gulf of Mexico, with no sign of stopping until a new well is finished this August, scientists, environmentalists and local residents are beginning to reckon with the reality of a massive annihilation of sea creatures […]
By Karin Zeitvogel (AFP) – May 29, 2010 PASS A LOUTRE, Louisiana — Thick black oil hung in the water and stained the bases of the roseau cane at Pass a Loutre, a shrinking patch of Louisiana’s fragile wetlands where crude from the BP spill first hit land and began seeping deep into the fragile […]
By Chris Kirkham, The Times-PicayuneMay 27, 2010, 6:51PM In St. Bernard Parish last weekend, officials identified a patch of oil getting close to marsh grass. But when they requested the skimmer boats they thought were available, they discovered the boats had been moved to Venice. And despite constant warnings from Jefferson Parish officials about oil […]
By JOHN COLLINS RUDOLFMay 27, 2010, 2:57 pm Adm. Thad Allen of the Coast Guard on Thursday approved part of a plan by Louisiana officials to repel oil from the BP spill by building a barrier of dredged sand along islands off the state’s southeast coast. The decision allows Louisiana to immediately begin construction of […]
