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Recent Updates for Deepwater Horizon Response.

Recent Updates for Deepwater Horizon Response

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Two Brown Pelicans Released in Florida

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Releases a Northern Gannet in Florida

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The federal government is failing to keep Florida residents informed. The mega-disaster will soon arrive on the east coast. Today the nations top federal offshore drilling official stepped down. Satellite imagery courtesy of Ocean Circulation Group, University of South Florida. Video courtesy of www.landofthemarvelous.com. Subscribe for more updates. Tags “May 16” “May 17” “May 18” dispersant riser pipe syphon gulf louisiana alabama mississippi miami lauderdale “palm beach” turtles coral reef pelicans oilspill oilslick oil BP Deepwater Horizon Transocean Halliburton Anadarko wellhead junkshot containment boom dome rov rig blowout ixtoc exxon valdez volcano geyser loop current gulfstream “new orleans” biloxi
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Rep. Peter Welch questioned leaders of BP, Transocean and Halliburton on May 12 about the devastating human and environmental toll of the Gulf oil spill. Welch visited the Gulf region on Friday with a bipartisan delegation of Energy and Commerce Committee members. The group flew over the spill site, were briefed by response officials and met with residents and business owners affected by the spill. Welch recently cosponsored the BP Deepwater Horizon Inquiry Commission Act, which would create an independent, non-partisan commission to investigate the causes of the Gulf spill and seek to prevent future incidents from occurring.

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Florida Tourism Ads Could Change
Forty-three days after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, oil has made its way into Florida waters. If the oil hits Florida’s coast this week as predicted, the state will have to change its tourism message.
Read more on WCTV Tallahassee

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Florida Deepwater Horizon Response May 31, 2010
The following is a summary of state and BP response actions to date, as well as tips for residents and visitors to take precautions both pre and post-landfall.
Read more on WMBB TV Panama City

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Recent Updates for Deepwater Horizon Response.

Oil closes in on Florida coast
The giant Gulf of Mexico oil slick was Wednesday closing in on the pristine Florida coast, as deep sea robotic submarines hit a new snag in BP’s latest bid to contain the spill.
Read more on AFP via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News

Oil nears Florida as BP tries risky cap move
As submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf oil gusher, the crude on the surface spread, closing in on Florida. BP’s stock plummeted and took much of the market down with it, and the federal government announced criminal and civil investigations into the spill.
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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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