Valdez expert: Psychological impact of Gulf oil spill won't fully emerge for years Palm Beach Post PENSACOLA — Trauma caused by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster will far eclipse the nation's last oil disaster, a university professor who spent … Expert measures human cost of Gulf oil leakGrist Magazine British PM and US President Determined to Float BPEverything PR Editorial: Cap on oil liability fails US taxpayersMinneapolis Star Tribune Telegraph.co.uk –Creative Loafing Tampa (blog) –The Japan Times all 28 news articles »
Protesters join hands at beach
Protesters on beaches and in parks across the globe joined hands for 15 minutes in protest of deep-water drilling. Read more on Galveston County Daily News
This was filmed with family on Saturday, June 13, on one of my many trips to one of my favorite beaches lately in fear that it may be the last time that they are beautiful. Currently, those of us who live along the coast walk the line between concern and sadness under a thick and heavy fog of anger and disbelief over the effects of the BP oil spill. We push on with our lives while we and our neighbors speak of hardship claims filed with BP, our loss of business and tax revenue in the busiest time of the tourism season and whether a dozen Apalachicola oysters will be our last. As the oil makes it way east and southeast, all that we can do is pray that our Walton and Bay County communities will be spared the pain being endured by Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and now the Florida panhandle an hour down the road to our west. Deer Lake State Park along Highway 30A in Walton County, Florida is a stunningly beautiful pristine coastal dune park that straddles the borders of the communities of Watersound Beach and Seagrove Beach. I created this video as an outlet of pent up frustration and feelings of helplessness where the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster is concerned. I cannot do anything about the spill except document the beach in its beautiful preserved state now, and if spoiled this summer, help clean it up later. Three days before the explosion of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Drilling Platform, Florida Rep. Dean Cannon shelved his proposal to lift the ban on oil … Video Rating: 5 / 5
Armed with sunscreen, vigilance at Gulf beach | RICH DAVIS COLUMN
Every summer for 16 years, we’ve come here expecting emerald green water, sugary-white beaches and frothy waves in a steady breeze. Read more on Evansville Courier & Press
5 June 10: BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill hits Pensacola Beach! Bobby Jindal’s absurd request to overturn the deep water drilling moratorium and GOP hypocrisy on the federal response. The rise of the corporations. President Obama’s response to the oil spill. Al Qaeda #3 taken out. Joran van der Sloot.
GRAND ISLE, La. — Clean-up crews are shown on the beach in this overflight video filmed from a Coast Guard HH-65 helicopter. Beach clean-up is one part of the effort to keep oil from the Deepwater Horizon incident from settling on the coastline. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Kelly Parker. Uploads by deepwaterhorizonjic.
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Clean-up work starts at oil-spill affected beach
&$ &$A worker cleans the oil washed ashore from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill at the beach of Gulf Shores, southern Alabama, the United States, June 6, 2010. More than half of the oil leaking each day in the Gulf of Mexico is now being captured and the British Petroleum (BP) will restore the gulf to its original state, BP’s chief executive Tony Hayward said Sunday. (Xinhua/Zhang Jun)&$ &$ &$ Read more on People’s Daily
No Confirmed Oil Found at Panama City Beach By Mid-Afternoon Sunday
As of Sunday afternoon, no reports have been confirmed of petroleum product originating from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that could eventually start washing up on Bay County shores. Read more on WJHG Panama City
Oil closing in on Pensacola beach
Escambia County and Gulf Breeze officials are bracing for the imminent landfall of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill on Pensacola beach and local waterways. “It’s inevitable that we will see it on the beaches,” said Keith Wilkins, Escambia’s deputy chief of neighborhood and community services. Read more on Tallahassee Democrat
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