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08 Jun 2011 18:50

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Politics: Louisiana may have an oil spill off its coast; pending investigation

  • Coast guard investigating alleged oil spill: Stress the “alleged,” as a Coast Guard spokesman has said it’s “too early” to make a definitive judgment. That said, a fisherman reported what he thought to be an oil spill “several miles long” off the Louisiana coast near Venice, and the Coast Guard has deployed to ascertain whether the offending substance is indeed oil, and if so where it may have come from. For obvious reasons, oil turning up off the Louisiana coast reminds us of bad, bad things. We hope like crazy this turns out okay. source
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23 May 2010 20:34

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U.S.: Not the “Lost” series finale: Everyone points fingers in oil spill

  • It is clear the resources needed to protect our coast are still not here: boom, skimmers, vacuums, jack-up barges are all in short supply. Oil sits and waits for clean-up and every day that it waits for clean-up more and more marsh dies.
  • Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal • Criticizing both BP and the government for their massive fail in fixing up the oil spill. The feds are also unhappy with BP and want to take them off the case. Remember that tube the oil company put in to siphon off the leak? Well, it’s only pulling 1,360 barrels a day, way down from 5,000 just a few days ago. In other news, Rand Paul hasn’t said anything stupid today. source
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13 May 2010 22:02

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U.S.: Should we trust the numbers we’ve been hearing from the oil spill?

  • The government has a responsibility to get good numbers. If it’s beyond their technical capability, the whole world is ready to help them.
  • Florida State University oceanographer Ian R. MacDonald • Regarding the numbers the government has been using to explain the growth of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. MacDonald and others claim that the spill has spewed forth far more than 5,000 barrels a day (still very high), and suggest that the method that they used to measure the spill was not designed for spills the size of the uncontrollably-spewing Gulf spill. For its part, oil company BP suggested that the leak could spew as much as 60,000 barrels a day – in other words, an Exxon Valdez worth of oil every four days. Scared yet? source
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08 May 2010 19:25

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U.S.: Was BP able to stop the massive oil leak in the Gulf yet?

  • NO the giant grease trap suffered
    a huge setback source
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