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Gulf oil spill: Oil companies to form emergency response system for future … Los Angeles Times (blog) Four of the world's biggest oil companies are expected to announce Thursday the formation of a rapid-deployment response system that will be made available … 4 Oil Firms Commit Billion for Gulf Rapid-Response PlanNew York Times Florida Releases July 21, 2010 Gulf Oil Spill Situation UpdateGov Monitor A gathering storm halts Gulf oil well workThe Associated Press San Francisco Chronicle (blog) –Wall Street Journal –MarketWatch (press release) all 2,108 news articles »

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Manatee officials continue to plan for oil emergency (with photo galleries)
MANATEE — As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill edges closer, county officials are continuing to plan in the event it reaches Manatee County shores.
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US President Barack Obama is to set up a commission to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The move’s been used in the wake of other national disasters. It comes after warnings the leaking oil may reach the Florida coastline. BP, which ran the rig, has since managed to attach a pipe to contain the leak. However, experts warn it could face a clean up bill of billions.

FULL tinyurl.com UNCENSORED SINKING OIL RIG functionaries are mobilizing for a cleanup procedure in case a large oil spill occurs, in what has become one of the worst industry disasters in decades.later listing for most of Wednesday, the 0 million platform 41 miles off the Coast of Louisiana settled in 5000 feet of pee at about 10 am Thursday. Seventeen people were injured, and 11 are notwithstanding missing from the explosion. The rest of the crew of 126 filed into lifeboats or jumped nearly 100 feet from the political platform before being pulled from the water by Coast Guard deliverance crews. As the intense fire burned the spewing oil off on Wednesday, early indications were that the set up fire didn’t present significant peril to the coastal ecosystem. But with the semi now sunk and the fire out, concerns are now growing that the post canned mirror a deep-irrigate spill caused by a fire on the West Atlas semi off Australia last year, which environmentalists likened to a “disaster movie.”
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Rig worker recalls race to trigger emergency system
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A supervisor aboard the doomed Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on Friday recounted a failed attempt to activate a fail-safe system that might have prevented BP Plc’s well from unleashing oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Washington Post

Remember Obama's emergency Gulf Oil 'SWAT' team inspections? Washington Examiner (blog) Three weeks ago in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, President Obama's Interior Department dispatched SWAT teams to conduct emergency inspections … Gulf oil crisis calls for leadership, not for protection of oil interestesJuneau Empire Preventing the Next Environmental CatastropheHuffington Post (blog) Oil disaster casts doubt on safety deviceHouston Chronicle NPR (blog) –UPI.com –National Journal (blog) all 400 news articles »

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Emergency Preparedness Lacking for Deepwater Oil Rigs
Last week, the CEO of BP PLC, Tony Hayward, admitted the oil giant probably didn’t do enough to prepare for a disaster like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Now it appears that many operators of offshore drilling rigs could say the same. This is a situation that’s existed – and been known about – […]
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CGA Emergency Management Services to Support Franklin County in Response to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Franklin County Board of County Commission in the Florida Panhandle has secured the services of Calvin, Giordano & Associates Emergency Management Services Division to assist in their response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which is closing in on the U.S.
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