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Barack Obama, the US president, has made a third trip to Louisiana to meet with officials involved in the oil clean-up operation in the Gulf of Mexico. He warned British energy giant BP on Saturday not to shortchange local residents who have lost their livelihood – while paying out billions of dollars in dividends to company shareholders. The oil slick has now drifted east and is closing in on the US coast near the state of Florida, where businesses at the tourist hotspot of Pensacola Beach should be preparing to greet a flood of tourists at this time of year. Instead, they are getting ready to deal with waves of oil. Al Jazeera’s Cath Turner reports.
On April 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon rig and it caught fire. Eleven people are missing after the incident, 17 workers were injured and 7 of them were then taken to the hospital. Support ships sprayed the rig with water in an unsuccessful bid to douse the flames. Deepwater Horizon sank on April 22, 2010.
Florida’s Gulf Coast braces for oil spill’s impact
PERDIDO KEY — On one of the westernmost patches of Florida earth, the people of this beach community plucked litter from impossibly white sand — lipstick-stained cigarette butts, bottle caps, straws, plastic cups — in a frantic effort to protect the shoreline from an oil spill gushing in the Gulf of Mexico that is likely to arrive in days.
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