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Gulf Oil Spill: Residents' Skepticism, Resentment Remain Uncapped
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyThe BP spill appears to be capped for good, even though the ultimate solution known as "final kill" has yet to be implemented. But while fresh oil has stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, distrust and resentment continue to flow freely. Many citizens and scientists alike do not believe an inter-agency federal report stating that roughly 25 percent of the spilled oil was collected by processes such as skimming, 25 percent has deteriorated or been consumed by microbes, and 25 percent has dispersed. The remaining "residual amount," the report continues, ". . . is either on or just below the ...
What the Oil-Rig Cook Saw: Corruption, Mostly
By Ben Sandmel - Politics DailyFor 15 years, Dan Peterson worked as a cook on oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana. During much of that time Peterson lived on Grand Isle, the barrier island community that has experienced some of the worst damage from the BP spill. Although Peterson retired three years ago, he maintains close ties with his offshore compadres, and has keenly monitored the events of the past 100-plus days. Peterson did not participate in drilling per se. On a rig, food service personnel are considered a lower caste by those who actually work in oil production. But 18 hours of daily duty in the galley, where ...
BP Oil Spill: Thad Allen Cites Progress, but Long Campaign Lies Ahead
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyFresh off a spate of appearances on the Sunday morning news shows, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen visited the White House on Monday with news both good and bad regarding the latest efforts to contain the BP oil spill. Allen repeated much of the hopeful information he delivered over the weekend, saying a containment dome placed atop the leaking wellhead last week was capturing 11,000 barrels of oil per day. Allen further noted that the Coast Guard was moving another ship into the area to increase containment capacity to nearly 20,000 barrels per day. In noting this progress, he reiterated his ...
Obama to Return to Gulf; BP Cuts Pipe in Latest Bid to Contain Oil
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyPresident Obama will return to Louisiana on Friday amid increasingly desperate efforts to contain the oil gushing from a blown-out well that is now threatening beaches in Florida -- one of four states imperiled by the deep sea spill. In the Gulf of Mexico, workers used huge shears to slice through a riser pipe in preparation for installing a dome over the wellhead to capture oil through a new pipe, the AP said. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced the successful maneuver, which took place 5,000 feet below the surface, after a diamond-tipped saw got stuck Wednesday while trying to cut through ...
Gulf Oil Spill: 'Top Kill' May Be Stopping Flow
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe "top kill" maneuver shooting dense mud and debris into a deep sea wellhead in the Gulf of Mexico appears to be working, blocking the flow of ruinous oil into gulf waters -- at least for the time being, the U.S. Coast Guard said Friday. Adm. Thad W. Allen, leader of the government effort, said on ABC's "Good Morning America" that the next 12 to 18 hours would be "very critical" to the effort to seal off the BP well nearly a mile below the surface. "The real challenge is to put enough mud into the well to keep the pressure where they can put a cement plug over the top." Overnight, workers ...
Elizabeth Birnbaum Out As Head of Oil Agency; Spill Is Worst in U.S. History
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyElizabeth Birnbaum, the head of the Minerals Management Service that oversees offshore oil and drilling, has left the agency. Birnbaum is a former Democratic congressional aide who was installed to run the troubled agency in July of 2009. Although the Associated Press reported that President Obama had fired Birnbaum, the president said at a Thursday press conference that he had learned of her resignation from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar earlier that day. "I don't know the circumstances in which this occurred," Obama said. "I can tell you what I said to Ken Salazar, which is that we have ...
Administration Says It Acted Quickly on Gulf Coast Oil Spill
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyAs President Obama travelled to the Gulf coast to get a firsthand briefing on the massive oil spill threatening the coastline, administration officials took to the talk shows Sunday to insist that the government had acted quickly to try to contain the oil leak and minimize the chances of an environmental disaster. "The administration responded with all hands on deck from day one," said Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano on Fox News Sunday. " What happened is the situation itself evolved. The situation evolved from an explosion and a search-and-rescue mission to several days later ...
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