Deepwater Horizon Damage – Risks Remain, Near-Term and Long Gulf Coast Maritime Even as government, academic, and private groups clash over the immediate effects of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on wildlife and seafood safety, … Gulf's Depths Still Clogged With OilReuters Transocean Accuses BP of Withholding Spill DataWall Street Journal Gulf oil spill plume stretches 21 miles, not breaking down muchChristian Science Monitor USA Today –NOLA.com –The Associated Press all 5,622 news articles »
Scientists See Serious Health Risks in Gulf Oil Spill WebMD "The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is well known as an ecological disaster, but what is less known is the risk to human health caused by oil contamination … Permanent fix on hold for ruptured Gulf oil wellCNN Reflections on Global Interdependance's Gulf Oil Spill Disaster SeminarMinyanville.com Gulf Oil Spill and Memphis SeafoodEyewitness News Memphis Natural Resources Defense Council (blog) all 1,401 news articles »
Health risks to oil exposure largely unknownBRADENTON HERALD EDITORIAL | Clean-up job hunters should also be wary of …
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Feds knew of Gulf spill risks in 2000, document shows
WASHINGTON — A decade ago, U.S. government regulators warned that a major deepwater oil spill could start with a fire on a drilling rig, prove hard to stop and cause extensive damage to fish eggs and wetlands because there were few good ways to capture oil underwater. Read more on McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News
BP Knew of Deepwater Horizon Safety Risks Almost a Year Ago [Disasters]
# disasters Top kill has failed . As BP moves on to whatever it is they plan to do next, we’re learning executives knew there were “serious problems and safety concerns” with the rig as early as 11 months ago, and did nothing. More » Read more on Gizmodo
FULL tinyurl.com UNCENSORED SINKING OIL RIG functionaries are mobilizing for a cleanup surgery in case a large oil spill occurs, in what has become one of the worst industry disasters in decades.afterward listing for most of Wednesday, the 0 million political platform 41 miles off the Seacoast of Louisiana sunk in 5000 feet of pee at hot 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 weapons platform before being pulled from the irrigate by Seacoast Guard rescue crews. As the intense fire burned the spewing oil off on Wednesday, early meter readings were that the set fire didn’t present significant peril to the coastal ecosystem. But with the set now sunk and the fire out, concerns are now growing that the post dismissed mirror a deep-piss spill caused by a fire on the West Atlas rig off Australia last year, which environmentalists likened to a “disaster movie.” Video Rating: 3 / 5
CoastGuardNews.com NEW ORLEANS – Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors April 21, 2010. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon’s 126 person crew. US Coast Guard video by Air Station New Orleans
La. leaders concerned about dispersant risks
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) – 3 of Louisiana’s cabinet secretaries are asking oil giant BP about the risks tied to the use of the chemical dispersant that is being sprayed onto the Gulf of Mexico oil spill to thin the oil.
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