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BP Oil Spill: Where Did All The Crude Go– Mother Nature Breaks Down Slick in Gulf of Mexico – ABC News
BP Day 98: Where Did All the Oil Go–: For 86 days, oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s damaged well, dump… http://bit.ly/dgiR3j
BBC News – BP to set aside $32.2bn to cover oil spill costs
Breaking news: BP announces a loss of $17bn (11bn) for the period from April to June 2010 http://bit.ly/aljSeW
Michigan Oil Spill Among Largest In Midwest History: Kalamazoo Spill SOAKS Wildlife (VIDEO)
ANOTHER oil spill–this time devastating parts of southwest Michigan- http://huff.to/9gXE3g
House to Vote on Faux ‘Oil Spill’ Bill – HUMAN EVENTS
Pelosi Blocks Oil Spill Investigation: http://www.humanevents.com/article.php–id=38284
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42 illegal immigrants believed to be Mich. oil spill workers detained in Texas – Detroit Free Press
A group of 42 people believed to have taken part in the cleanup of the July oil spill in mid-Michigan were in federal custody in Houston on …
BP says spill battle advanced technology – Houston Chronicle
The spill also gave the industry a chance to practice untested techniques. For instance, before the oil spill, no well operator had ever tried shearing …
Oil spill claims administrator holds meeting in Slidell – NOLA.com
Ken Feinberg, who is administering the new claims process for victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, held a meeting at the Northshore Harbor Center in …
Killdeer oil spill cleaned up, officials investigate – Bismarck Tribune
Test wells much closer to the spill will detect localized contamination, if there is any. It is possible to remediate an aquifer, Shaver said. …
Thai firm rejects Indonesian oil spill cash claim – AFP
SYDNEY — A Thai-owned firm Friday rejected Indonesia's 2.4 billion US dollar compensation claim over a major oil spill off Australia's north which …
Waves hamper raising key equipment in oil spill – BusinessWeek
Work to remove the 300-ton piece of equipment that failed to stop the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could be delayed into the …
Oil spill roundup: Thurs., Sept. 2 – The Florida Independent (blog)
+ There will be no special session to deal with Florida's response to the oil spill in September, because the legislative …
Enbridge to expand line for Christina Lake output – Calgary Herald
Thursday's announcement comes as the Calgary-based company battles fallout from an oil spill into the Kalamazoo River six weeks ago, including allegations …
Few details offered in BP oil spill bill squabble in St. Bernard Parish – NOLA.com
Company officials said Wednesday that BP had never raised objections about fuel costs, crane service or other improvements made to the oil spill response …
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Oil Spill Hearings Bring Out the Political Drama: ‘Spill, Baby, Spill’
The Gulf Coast oil spill engendered its share of Capitol Hill drama Tuesday, beginning with the moment executives from BP, Transocean and Halliburton took their seats and waited for Senators to grill them about what caused the disaster. It was befitting that the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee moved the first hearing on the spill to the recently renamed Kennedy Caucus Room. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy, the liberal Massachusetts Democrat, was a master in the art of political theater and outrage. More on Gulf Oil Spill.
Gulf Oil spill is worst accidental spill ever
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has become the largest accidental release of oil into water in history, according to figures from the federal government..
Michigan Oil Spill: EPA Official Says Improvements Have Been Made At Spill Site
LANSING, Mich. — A regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency said Sunday that significant improvement had been made at the site of an oil spill in a southern Michigan river, but the agency cautioned that it will take months to complete the cleanup. Those efforts, along with air and water quality monitoring, continue to increase along the affected stretch of the Kalamazoo River, EPA regional administrator Susan Hedman said during a media briefing in Marshall. The oil flow was stopped and contained in a 25-mile stretch of the river from Marshall westward past Battle Creek. Several hundred workers are on crews along the river devoted to the cleanup. “Containment is adequate now,” said Mark Durno, the EPA’s deputy incident commander. “Now it’s a matter of recovery and removal of the remainder of the sheen and small patches of oil that remain on the Kalamazoo River.” The EPA estimates it will take weeks to get the oil out of the river and months to clean it off river banks and the flood plain. It could take several months to clean up the marshy area where the spill began near a creek that flows into the Kalamazoo River, the agency said. Officials with Enbridge Inc., which owns the pipeline, estimated Sunday that the company had recovered slightly more than half the oil that had leaked. Enbirdge officials said they detected the leak July 26. Investigators are reviewing 911 calls to Marshall area fire departments made the previous evening by residents complaining of a strong gas odor to try and determine if the leak might have begun earlier. The EPA estimates the spill at more than 1 million gallons of crude, while the Canadian company estimates the total at 820,000 gallons.
Gulf Oil Spill: BP Tries To Limit Release Of Oil Spill Research
HOUSTON — Faced with hundreds of lawsuits and a deep need for experts, BP has been offering some Gulf Coast scientists lucrative consulting contracts that bar them from releasing their findings on the company’s massive oil spill for three years. Some scientists say the contracts constrain academic freedom. A few signed the agreements, then changed their minds. And others argue BP’s contract is standard, and with little federal funding available to study the spill’s impact, Gulf Coast researchers have few other options. “I personally wouldn’t care to have my research limited, but if I wanted to do work on the spill and this was the only way I could get out there and get working on it, I don’t think there’s a lot of alternatives,” said Chris D’Elia, dean of the Louisiana State University School of the Coast and Environment. BP confirms hiring more than a dozen scientists who have Gulf Coast expertise to assist with hundreds of lawsuits and assess the environmental damage caused by the spill. “What we have asked is that they treat information from BP’s lawyers as confidential, as is customary,” said David Nicholas, a BP spokesman in London. “But we do not take the position that environmental data is confidential and we do not place restrictions on academics speaking about scientific data.” Still, American Association of University Professors President Cary Nelson said the three-year limitation could suppress information key to restoring the environment. “Many scientists are turning down these contracts because they feel this research needs to be shared with the public, it needs to be shared with the government,” said Nelson, whose group represents about 48,000 academics. Researchers are asked to sign similar contracts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with tracking the oil and assessing the damage. Also in the mix is a hesitance to be associated with the company that’s responsible for around 184 million gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. “Setting aside any good intentions, the idea of being affiliated with BP was not a good thing,” said Joe Griffitt, a scientist at the Gulf Coast Research Marine Lab at the University of Southern Mississippi, who initially signed a deal with BP, then changed his mind. In the end, each side will try to get as many experts on their team as possible, removing knowledge from the public domain, said Mark Davis, director of the Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. “That’s not wrong. Those are the rules of the game,” he said. “It’s the survival of a company, the survival of a crucial industry is at stake in a vital market area. This is serious business.” ___ Schwartz reported from Los Angeles. More on Gulf Oil Spill.
Gulf Oil Spill: BP Tries To Block Release Of Oil Spill Research
RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI and NOAKI SCHWARTZ, Associated Press HOUSTON — Faced with hundreds of lawsuits and a deep need for experts, BP has been offering some Gulf Coast scientists lucrative consulting contracts that bar them from releasing their findings on the company’s massive oil spill for three years. Some scientists say the contracts constrain academic freedom. A few signed the agreements, then changed their minds. And others argue BP’s contract is standard, and with little federal funding available to study the spill’s impact, Gulf Coast researchers have few other options. “I personally wouldn’t care to have my research limited, but if I wanted to do work on the spill and this was the only way I could get out there and get working on it, I don’t think there’s a lot of alternatives,” said Chris D’Elia, dean of the Louisiana State University School of the Coast and Environment. BP confirms hiring more than a dozen scientists who have Gulf Coast expertise to assist with hundreds of lawsuits and assess the environmental damage caused by the spill. “What we have asked is that they treat information from BP’s lawyers as confidential, as is customary,” said David Nicholas, a BP spokesman in London. “But we do not take the position that environmental data is confidential and we do not place restrictions on academics speaking about scientific data.” Still, American Association of University Professors President Cary Nelson said the three-year limitation could suppress information key to restoring the environment. “Many scientists are turning down these contracts because they feel this research needs to be shared with the public, it needs to be shared with the government,” said Nelson, whose group represents about 48,000 academics. Researchers are asked to sign similar contracts with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency charged with tracking the oil and assessing the damage. Also in the mix is a hesitance to be associated with the company that’s responsible for around 184 million gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. “Setting aside any good intentions, the idea of being affiliated with BP was not a good thing,” said Joe Griffitt, a scientist at the Gulf Coast Research Marine Lab at the University of Southern Mississippi, who initially signed a deal with BP, then changed his mind. In the end, each side will try to get as many experts on their team as possible, removing knowledge from the public domain, said Mark Davis, director of the Institute on Water Resources Law and Policy at Tulane Law School in New Orleans. “That’s not wrong. Those are the rules of the game,” he said. “It’s the survival of a company, the survival of a crucial industry is at stake in a vital market area. This is serious business.” ___ Schwartz reported from Los Angeles. More on Gulf Oil Spill.
Gulf Oil Spill: Is The Cap Making The Spill Worse–
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Scientists huddled Tuesday to analyze data from the ocean floor as they weigh whether a leaking well cap is a sign BP’s broken oil well is buckling. Oil and gas started seeping into the Gulf of Mexico again Sunday night, but this time more slowly, and scientists aren’t sure whether the leaks mean the cap that stopped the flow last week is making things worse. The government’s point man on the disaster, retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, will decide again later Tuesday whether to continue the test of the experimental cap – meaning the oil would stay blocked in. He said Monday the amount of oil leaking was so far inconsequential. But ever since the flow of oil was closed off Thursday, engineers have been glued to underwater cameras and pressure and seismic readings, trying to determine whether the cap is displacing pressure and causing leaks underground, which could make the sea bed unstable and cause the well to collapse. “As a condition of moving forward with the well-integrity test, BP has to report to us any anomalies and act on those within four hours,” Allen said Monday. Seepage from the sea floor also was detected over the weekend less than two miles away, but Allen said it probably has nothing to do with the well. Oil and gas are known to ooze naturally from fissures in the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. At a Monday afternoon briefing in Washington, Allen said BP could keep the cap closed at least another 24 hours, as long as the company remained alert for leaks. For those whose livelihood depends on clean waters, worries about the cap were tempered by relief that the oil stopped gushing. “I’m for anything that will stop the oil from coming,” said Capt. Ty Fleming, who runs charter fishing trips in Orange Beach, Ala. said Tuesday.
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Louisiana Oil Spill Day Of Prayer: State Lawmakers Propose Religious Solution To Stop BP Oil Spill
AP/Huffington Post – A resolution encouraging people to pray for an end to the BP oil spill crisis has been approved by the Louisiana Senate. Sen. Robert Adley, a Republican from Benton, won unanimous approval of the resolution last week. The resolution made this past Sunday a state-designated day of prayer in Louisiana, during which people of all faiths in the state and around the nation will be encouraged to seek divine intervention to end the crisis. Adley outlined the measure’s intent in a statement after it passed the state Senate: As the resolution details, “citizens are urged to pray for a solution to this crisis, each according to his or her own faith, to pray for God’s continued guidance and protection and to join in the observance of a day of prayer, seeking God’s blessings upon both our state and nation.” The resolution also calls upon the people of Louisiana to join together to pray for an end to the crisis which is threatening our environment, our culture and our livelihoods. “Thus far the efforts made by mortals to try to solve the crisis have been to no avail,” Adley explained. “It is clearly time for a miracle for us.” Also approved last week in Louisiana was a resolution by Sen. Troy Hebert, an independent from Jeanerette, that puts the Senate on record as wanting BP to hire Louisiana people and businesses for the oil spill cleanup in the state. More on Gulf Oil Spill.
