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New Gulf Oil Leak in Pictures
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 27) -- Just as BP and the country were getting used to the thought of having finally contained the country's worst oil spill (at least temporarily), a boating accident in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday opened a new leak in another company's wellhead, spraying a 100-foot-high plume of natural gas into the air and water just off the Louisiana coast. Fortunately, as a statement from Louisiana's affected Jefferson Parish attests, the leak emanating from the Cedyco Corp. wellhead is nowhere near as severe as the BP spill. The parish's public information office notes that "the volume of oil ...
BP Gulf Oil Spill Update: Where Is the Oil BP Isn't Capturing Going?
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyOne of the most critical, still unanswered questions of the BP Gulf oil spill debacle is "where is all the oil going?" Using its lower marine riser package cap system, BP now reports that it is collecting "about 460,000 gallons of a day out of the approximately 600,000 to 1.2 million gallons believed to be spewing from the well a mile underwater." But what about the rest of it? Certainly, a large portion resides on the surface of the water in an enormous, 100-mile-wide slick that could rapidly spread up the Atlantic coast this summer. Gobs of crude have already ensnared many animals in the ...
Sarah Palin Implicates Environmentalists For BP Oil Spill on Facebook
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIf "extreme environmentalists" were not successful in prohibiting land based oil drilling in the United States, then companies like BP would not have to resort to looking for oil in the deep oceans. It's an argument that's been made recently by the likes of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. And now, the same "blame-environmentalists-for-the-Gulf-oil-spill" conclusion is the one that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is pushing on her Facebook page. This afternoon, Ms. Palin lashed out at those who seek to protect the environment from the evils of oil drilling in a post titled, ...
Oil Spill Reaches Alabama Shores; 'Turtle Tsar' Update
By David Knowles - Politics DailyHearing that oil had reached the shores of the barrier islands of Mississippi and Alabama, the Surge Desk put in a call to Mike Reynolds, the so-called Turtle Tsar of Gulf Shores, Ala., for an update. "Today was the first day we had flotsam and jetsam covered in oil washing up on the beach," Reynolds said. "Plastic jugs, water bottles, sticks, all covered in oil." Reynolds, who helps patrol Alabama's 47-miles of beaches in an effort to protect sea turtle nests, says the mood in Gulf Shores is "grim." "It starts to wear on peoples' nerves," Reynolds said. "One solution after the next that ...
It's Official: BP Gulf Oil Spill Worse Than Exxon Valdez
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyThe latest word from scientists analyzing on the BP Gulf oil spill is not good: According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the spill size has vastly exceeded that of the Exxon Valdez oil spill of 1989, setting a new record for the worst of its kind in U.S. history, reports the Associated Press. The new estimate puts the spill amount at 19 - 39 million gallons of crude, significantly eclipsing the 11 million that poured into Prince William Sound when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck a reef there. It is also far, far greater the previous (and now clearly low ball) estimate of 3.9 million made ...
Jacques Cousteau's Grandson Takes 'Nightmare' Dive Into Oil Spill
By Carl Franzen - Politics Daily(May 27) -- The Gulf oil spill's toll on the environment remains difficult to quantify at this time, but a new video of a journey into the dark heart of the spill taken by Philippe Cousteau Jr., grandson of legendary undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, reveals a "nightmarish" scene. Cousteau was investigating whether Corexit, the environmentally-tenuous chemical dispersant that BP has been spraying into the Atlantic since the spill began is "breaking down the oil or if the byproduct they are forming is causing more damage to sea life." ABC Good Morning America reporter Sam Champion, who ...
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