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Crews Fight to Contain New Leak Near Gulf of Mexico
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 27) -- Not again! A new oil leak has hit the Gulf Coast Tuesday after a small boat collided with a wellhead in Bayou St. Dennis, just north of the ecologically diverse Barataria Bay in Louisiana. There were no reported injuries, but morale in nearby Jefferson Parish, where oil from BP's well has already caused extensive environmental and commercial damage, is unsurprisingly not good. "We cannot catch a break," Jefferson Parish Emergency Management Director Deano Bonano said in a message to fellow officials, reports WDSU. "We have no estimate at this time of the volume of oil [from the ...
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." ...
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 ...
BP, Coast Guard and White House All Withheld Damning Early Oil Spill Info
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailyBP's communication with the public over the course of the oil spill disaster hasn't exactly been the most forthcoming, but newly surfaced documents and video footage from the onset of the crisis indicate it's not alone in that: The company, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Obama Administration all deliberately obscured the true seriousness of the situation from the country. In damning video footage suppressed for 20 days but obtained this week by ABC News, three separate leaks can be clearly seen pouring oil in the first few days after the explosion of Deepwater Horizon on April ...
BP CEO: We'll Know if 'Top Kill' Worked in 48 Hours
By not in system - AOL NewsROBERT, La. (May 28) -- BP won't know until Sunday if pumping heavy mud into a blown-out well on the seafloor is successful in stopping the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, it's chief executive said. CEO Tony Hayward said on the CBS "Early Show" that his confidence level in the well-plugging effort remains at 60 to 70 percent. BP PLC, which owns the well and is the largest oil and gas producer in the United States, began injecting mud into the well on Wednesday afternoon in an untested bid to end a spill whose millions of gallons have surpassed the Exxon Valdez disaster. The catastrophe ...
Why Is Hollywood Sitting Out Gulf Oil Spill Relief?
By Alyssa Giacobbe - AOL News(May 25) -- In January, when a magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed an estimated 230,000 Haitians and left more than a million others homeless, Hollywood shed a collective, well-choreographed tear, then banded together like a Christopher Guest cast to help put the country back together. The tabloids kept track of the most generous celebrities, noting that Brangelina and Sandra Bullock each donated $1 million, while others, like Sean Penn, decamped to Haiti to work directly on refugee efforts. In perhaps the most visible celebrity relief effort, George Clooney hosted a star-studded telethon that ...
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