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First Dispersant Tests in Gulf Seafood Come Back Clean
By Dave Thier - AOL News(Nov. 1) -- In the ongoing saga of post-oil spill Gulf of Mexico seafood, officials have been conducting tests for oil on incoming seafood, but not for oil dispersants, the shadowy and possibly poisonous materials that BP spilled in liberal quantities across the region in an effort to keep the oil from reaching shore. Now the Food and Drug Administration has released data from the first tests for dispersant chemicals, and the seafood is coming back safe to eat. Less than 1 percent of samples had any trace of the chemicals in question at all, and those had the chemicals at levels far below the ...
Vermilion Bay Explosion Update: Rig Fire Put Out, Oil Sheen Still Unconfirmed [SATELLITE IMAGE]
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Sept. 3) -- The fire on the Vermilion 380 oil platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday has been successfully put out, the U.S. Coast Guard reported in an update late Thursday night. Here's a satellite image of the fire shortly after it broke out Thursday, via NASA: According to the press release from the Coast Guard. Mariner Energy, the owner of the platform, deployed three firefighting vessels to the scene and extinguished the fire. Coast Guard vessels and aircraft on scene saw no evidence of sheen or leaks, and Mariner Energy reported that the platform had been shut ...
BP Experts: Everything You Know About Oil Spill Is Wrong
By Selena Ross - AOL News(Aug. 1) -- With engineers ever closer to finally stopping the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, some experts who have been hired by BP as response consultants shared with AOL News their view from the inside and discussed what they see as several misconceptions about the oil spill and the cleanup technology. Alan A. Allen is a field supervisor with over 40 years experience in controlled burning, skimming and other types of mechanical cleanup. He has worked on numerous other oil spills, including the Ixtoc blowout off Mexico and the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska. Alun Lewis is a ...
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 ...
Pipeline Leak Pollutes Major Michigan River
By not in system - AOL NewsBATTLE CREEK, Mich. (July 27) -- Crews were working Tuesday to contain and clean up more than 800,000 gallons of oil that poured into a creek and flowed into the Kalamazoo River in southern Michigan, coating birds and fish. Authorities in Battle Creek and Emmett Township warned residents about the strong odor from the oil, which leaked Monday from a 30-inch pipeline built in 1969 that carries about 8 million gallons of oil per day from Griffith, Ind., to Sarnia, Ontario. Crews waded in oily water as they worked to stop the oil's advance downstream. Oil-covered Canada geese walked along the ...
Democrats Abandon Cap 'N Trade, Focus On Oil Spill For Now
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailySenate Majority Leader Harry Reid conceded Thursday he does not have the votes to pass a broad climate change bill. So, he will table legislation to reform the energy industry in favor of a scaled-back measure that will focus on offshore oil drilling, natural gas, and jobs within the energy industry. "Many of us wanted to do a thorough bill," Reid said. "Unfortunately we don't have a single Republican to work with at this time. It's disappointing and it's dangerous." The bill that Reid put on the back burner Thursday was controversial, even inside Reid's Democratic caucus. Language from ...
BP Photoshop Saga: More Doctored Images Surface
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(July 22) -- They've done it again! No more than 48 hours after BP confessed to using Photoshop in doctoring a photo of its oil spill crisis command center in Houston to make it appear "more panoramic," two new photographs of the oil spill response effort have been exposed as partial fakes as well. "We've instructed our postproduction team to refrain from doing cutting and pasting in the future," a company spokesman told London's Daily Telegraph today. The second obvious Photoshop job was identified Tuesday by the blog Gizmodo, which received a tip that a BP image of a helicopter ...
Large China Oil Spill Threatens Sea Life, Water Quality
By not in system - AOL NewsBEIJING (July 21) -- China's largest reported oil spill emptied beaches along the Yellow Sea as its size doubled Wednesday, while cleanup efforts included straw mats and frazzled workers with little more than rubber gloves. An official warned the spill posed a "severe threat" to sea life and water quality as China's latest environmental crisis spread off the shores of Dalian, once named China's most livable city. One cleanup worker has drowned, his body coated in crude. "I've been to a few bays today and discovered they were almost entirely covered with dark oil," said Zhong Yu with ...
Oil Fouls New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(July 7) -- Oil seeping into New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain from the Gulf of Mexico spill is threatening the pristine estuary's fragile ecosystem less than 20 years after what experts describe as a "dramatic turnabout" in its pollution levels. The fact that oil has turned up in the lake, a 630-square-mile inland bay popular with boaters and fishermen, is a psychological blow to New Orleans. The city, more than 100 miles from the gulf, had hoped to avoid much of the gloom that's beset coastal towns more severely affected by America's worst-ever oil spill. "People love the lake, and they ...
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." ...
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