Oil
Several months ago I made a reservation for the long awaited visit of my daughter, Tara, and my grandchildren. We stayed in the Orange Beach, AL condo from June 23rd, through June 26th, 2010, and weren’t prepared for what ensued. The beach deteriorated for four days and oil washed in destroying the beach. What [...]
I was itchin’ to do something this holiday weekend. I thunk and thunk and then remembered I wanted to visit Johnson Beach to see what’s up with the oil spill. So we stopped at Subway in the Winn Dixie Shopping Center on Sorrento Road, picked up our favorite sandwich and headed for the beach. [...]
Fly Forever in My Heart for the Brown Pelican and all wildlife in the Gulf benefiting the National Audubon Society by Kenny Woods
Baldwin County Treasurer Kim Creach told commissioners Tuesday that BP PLC is refusing to pay a $37,000 invoice for county labor costs related to oil spill response. Commissioners were assured by a BP representative during a meeting about two weeks ago that such costs would be covered in full. "They don’t know how to handle [...]
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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — The city of Orange Beach will hold the fourth in a series of town hall meetings at noon Wednesday to discuss the city’s course of action regarding the BP/Deepwater Horizon oil spill crisis in the Gulf. The May 26, 2010, meeting is at 12pm and will be held at Orange Beach [...]
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This week BP will attempt to plug the well with a procedure called ‘Top Kill’. Click here to view the diagram To read more about this procedure click on the following link: Top Kill Procedure The Official Site of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command
Below is an excerpt of a well written article by Steven Picou, Professor of Sociology, University of Alabama. Mention is made of an award winning document entitled “Coping with Technological Disasters: A User Friendly Guidebook” that was written by the Regional Citizens’ Advisory Council. Apparently it was written to provide information for local governments, businesses, [...]
Continue reading about Mobile Register – Insight: How the oil spill damages people, too
Link: What will oil in the Gulf of Mexico do to a hurricane? By Dr. Jeff Masters
Some oil has reached the loop current. BP to provide live feed of oil spill Heavy Oil, as thick as chocolate, has infiltrated Louisiana Marshes Link: WKRG Gov. Jindal, Others Inspect Oil In The River Delta To read more news click on the following link: Google News Link: NOAA Deepwater Horizon 72 Hour Trajectory Map [...]
The New York times is offering excellent interactive oil spill tracking tool. To view click on the picture to or the following link: New York Times Oil Spill Interactive Tracking Tool
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Click on the following link to read MSNBC’s article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37177037/ns/gulf_oil_spill/ To read more articles from Google News about this subject click on link below: Google News
Continue reading about Good News: BP is siphoning oil from the oil leak
The first attempt failed. For more information see previous article.
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Gulf Oil Spill WKRG.com News
New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) — A mechanical problem prevented BP from inserting a tube into a ruptured pipe that would help siphon off oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico, BP official Doug Suttles said Saturday. Click on the following link to read the full article: LINK: First try at inserting siphon tube in ruptured [...]
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By JEFF DONN, H. JOSEF HEBERT and MITCH WEISS (AP) – 20 hours ago Associated Press WASHINGTON — The first firm evidence of what likely caused the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil blowout — a devastating sequence of equipment failures — drives home a central unsettling point about America’s oil industry: key safety features at [...]
Continue reading about Emerging oil rig evidence shows lack of regulation
Lest we forget: News Story in Photographs: 40 Pictures of the Deepwater Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico To see the photos click on the following link: 40 pictures of the Deepwater oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico http://Boston.Com
An estimated 11,000,000 gallons were unleashed by the Valdez in Alaska’s Prince William Sound and, as of today, approximately 4,410,000 gallons have been unleashed by the Deepwater Horizon incident. Hopefully BP’s ‘Top Hat’ device will be able to stop the existing Deepwater Horizon oil spill flow by the end of this week. [See the CNN [...]
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