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After another failure, BP scrambles to stem leak
AP – With BP declaring failure in its latest attempt to plug the uncontrolled gusher feeding the worst oil spill in U.S. history, the company is turning to yet another mix of risky undersea robot maneuvers and longshot odds to keep crude from flowing into the Gulf.
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Times-Picayune Outdoors editor Bob Marshall gives the latest update on the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
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After five weeks of failing to plug a well spewing oil in the Gulf of Mexico, British oil giant BP has launched its latest attempt, pumping mud to try to smother the gusher — the so-called “top kill” method. The governor of the US state of Louisiana says more than 160km of the state’s fragile coastland has already been affected by the millions of litres of oil that have gushed out in the last five weeks. Al Jazeera’s John Terrett reports from Venice, Louisiana. (May 27, 2010)
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Obama visits beach threatened by Gulf oil spill, says ‘we’re going to keep at it’ to stop leak
GRAND ISLE, La. – Intent on showing firm command of a deepening Gulf Coast crisis, President Barack Obama inspected a fouled beach, took in what he called “heartbreaking stories” of the catastrophe and declared “we’re going to keep at it” until largest U.S. oil spill is stopped and cleaned up.
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BP Has ‘Some Success’ With Temporary Oil Leak Halt (Correct)
May 27 (Bloomberg) — BP Plc made progress toward plugging a leaking well that’s been spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico for more than a month by temporarily stopping the flow, U.S.
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BP Resumes Work to Plug Oil Leak After Facing Setback
CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JOHN M. BRODER BP resumed pumping drilling fluid into a stricken oil well after stopping late Wednesday when engineers saw that too much of the fluid was escaping along with the leaking crude oil.
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spillherespillnow.org New TV ad from Firedoglake.com against President Obama’s plans to expand offshore drilling, after the BP Oil Disaster in the Gulf.
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Obama says he, not BP, in charge of effort to stop disastrous oil leak in Gulf _ ‘It’s my job’
WASHINGTON – On the defensive more than five weeks into the nation’s worst-ever oil spill, President Barack Obama insisted Thursday that his
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This weekend, I flew over areas of the Gulf of Mexico impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil leak disaster. In the video, the helicopter approaches the site of the leak. The small vessels visible in the beginning of the video are skimming oil from the water’s surface. At about 1:00 into the video, as we descend large swaths of oil in the water are visible. At about 1:15, we approach the vessel Discover Enterprise (the ship with the flare burning off of it), which is collecting oil from the small pipe BP inserted into the leaking riser last week. On either side of the Enterprise, there are two platforms visible. They are drilling the relief wells.

BP attempts ‘top kill’ to plug devastating oil leak
Energy giant BP began a high-stakes operation Wednesday to plug a ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, shooting heavy drilling fluid known as “mud” into a stack of damaged pipes on the sea floor in the hope of sealing a leak that has been gushing crude for 37 days.
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