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More Than 27,000 Abandoned Wells in Gulf
By not in system - AOL News(July 7) -- More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one - not industry, not government - is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows. The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing. The AP investigation uncovered particular concern with 3,500 of the neglected wells - those characterized in federal government records as "temporarily abandoned." ...
BP's Oil Spill Tab Now Tops $3 Billion
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 5) -- BP announced today that its costs from America's worst-ever oil spill have topped $3 billion, and that it's accelerating cleanup efforts in the Gulf of Mexico after a lull during Hurricane Alex's storm surge. The price tag is up from a figure of $2.35 billion that BP announced late last month. With American financial markets closed for the 4th of July holiday, trading was light today on London markets, and BP's shares don't appear to have taken a hit after the company's announcement. In fact, BP's stock was up 2.4 percent in early London trading today. BP spent nearly $147 ...
Tropical Storm Forming in Gulf Could Disrupt Oil Spill Effort
By David Knowles - Politics DailyAccording to the National Hurricane Center, there is an 80 percent chance that a low-pressure system in the southern Gulf of Mexico will form into a storm over the next 48 hours. If it does, and that storm follows a projected path northward toward the Gulf Coast of the United States, oil spill containment efforts will be thrown into disarray. On its website, NOAA said the following about the as-yet-unnamed storm: An air force reconnaissance plane is currently approaching the system to determine if a tropical depression has formed. Regardless ... upper level winds are becoming more ...
Pensacola Beach Closed Due to Oil Spill
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIt came ashore on Wednesday, and by Thursday it had caused the state of Florida to officially close Pensacola Beach. In a development that no one wanted to see, thick toxic oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon spill blackened the famous beach and sent clean-up crews into overdrive. Touring Pensacola Beach on Wednesday, Gov. Charlie Crist called the sight of the oil "disgusting." The Pensacola News Journal, meanwhile, reacted with bitterness to the fouling of the city's central tourist attraction: The sign at Pensacola Beach Properties boasted "Always has been, always will be -- the most ...
Workers Hired for Gulf Oil Cleanup Find Jobs Taken by Locals
By David Sessions - Politics DailyProspective workers who traveled long distances to clean up oil in the Gulf of Mexico are finding themselves turned away as BP says it prefers to hire local residents, the New York Times reports. Workers from Texas, Mississippi, California and other states say they signed contracts to work in the Gulf and were under the impression they would be employed for weeks, only to find themselves relieved of duty soon after starting work. A group of 202 workers from Mississippi took a bus to Pensacola, Fla., where they'd been hired to work on cleanup operations. Many had undergone 40 hours of ...
Oil Spill Cleanup Crews Face Heat-Related Health Threat
By Katie Drummond - Politics DailyHot summer weather in the Gulf region is starting to threaten the health of oil spill cleanup workers, and temperatures are expected to keep rising. Heat indices are now well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the area, and meteorologists anticipate "extreme heat" over the weekend, CNN is reporting. Dizziness, headaches and nausea are some of the acute symptoms being detected in ailing workers. None have so far suffered heat stroke, which is characterized by fainting and breathing problems, largely because crews are working in teams and detect problems before they become severe. But the ...
Obama Talking to Oil Spill Experts 'So I Know Whose Ass to Kick'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyMild-mannered. Unflappable. Detached. All of those adjectives have been used to describe President Barack Obama's demeanor, even in the face of the Gulf oil spill, one of the worst natural disasters ever to befall the United States. But that was then, and this is now. After a month of failed oil spill fixes, and sinking poll numbers, the president is sharpening his rhetoric against BP in a new interview with NBC's Matt Lauer to be broadcast Tuesday morning, Obama took pains to let the country known that his visits to the Gulf Coast have not simply been for the cameras. "I was down there a ...
Gulf Oil Spill Update: The Most Heartbreaking Video We've Seen Today
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWith 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 shores of the Gulf Coast. As word came in today that the oil could ride Atlantic currents all the way around Florida and contaminate beaches as far north as Virginia, more wrenching photos of Gulf beaches were taken by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindall's staff today and posted on Flickr. ...
BP Pipe Slice Succeeds At Last! Now What?
By Dana Chivvis - Politics DailyFinally a bit of good news in the ongoing oil leak disaster: BP managed to cut through the damaged riser pipe on the leaking well this morning, according to U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen. The company tried to cut through the pipe using a diamond-tipped saw on Tuesday, but was stymied when the saw got stuck in the pipe. The successful cut today will allow the company to proceed with its plan to collect the leaking oil by putting a cap over the pipe and pumping the oil to a ship on the ocean's surface, a process which could begin within the next several days. BP says this method will ...
Pensacola Beach Residents Await 'Inevitable' Date with Oil Spill
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe oily sheen is now just seven miles from the buttermilk white beaches of Pensacola Beach, Fla., where residents are waiting for what seems a certainty. "I think what we're getting today is people who want to get here one more time before the oil comes," Tim Ristow, a kitchen manager for a local restaurant told the Pensacola News Journal. Yesterday, as the Surge Desk reported, the first traces of the oil spill showed themselves on the barrier islands of Mississippi and Alabama. Tourism is taking a beating, as is the morale of local residents. Meanwhile, it seems like each and every one ...
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