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Footage about the greatest oil disaster of all times (2010 Gulf) Watch at our Planet like it would be your Child! dont close your eyes! do your part!

Footage about the greatest oil disaster of all times (2010 Gulf) Watch at ur Planet like it would be ur Child! dont close ur eyes! do ur part!

May 10, 2010 — Video is from Alabama resident John Wathen as a volunteer pilot flew him over the area where the oil rig sank. Officials have stopped guessing at the amount of oil leaking although some speculate it may be closer to 1 million gallons per day. Don’t let BP spin this into something trivial. “It’s not a leak, it’s a volcano spewing oil”
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Congressional investigators announced Wednesday that an emergency shutoff valve might have been able to prevent the BP Plc (NYSE:BP) oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, had it not been equipped with a leaking hydraulic system and one useless valve. The Transocean Ltd-owned (NYSE:RIG) Deepwater Horizon drilling rig was supposed to be equipped with a blowout preventer capable of pushing back on high pressure oil and gas surges, but instead failed, killing eleven workers in an explosion. Poor maintenance and necessary modifications on the blowout preventer were pinpointed by chairman of the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) as the reasons behind the explosive spill. Stupak said, “The safety of [the rig’s] entire operations rested on the performance of a leaking, modified, defective blowout preventer.” The blowout preventer was manufactured by Cameron International Corp. (NYSE:CAM), and crews noticed the leak oozing from a faulty and loose connection. However, Cameron International told the Investigations Subcommittee that it could not have been the blowout preventer that caused the leak, since the other connections were tightly fitted. An additional shut-off system on the blowout preventer was also modified, and reportedly did not work either. Rep. Stupak said, “An entire day’s worth of precious time had been spent engaging rams that closed the wrong way because it was wired wrong.” A document was identified by the Investigations …
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Footage about the greatest oil disaster of all times (2010 Gulf) Watch at ur Planet like it would be ur Child! dont close ur eyes! do ur part!
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The Daily Energy Report for Tuesday May 4, 2010 discusses Governor Schwarzenegger ends offshore drilling debate, BP cleanup costs & Google invests in wind.

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Cuban officials head to US for oil slick talks
US and Cuban officials are holding “working level” talks on how to respond to the massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill that is believed to be dumping 5,000 barrels of crude a day into the Gulf of Mexico, according to State Department officials.
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Tracking Gulf oil spill from the air: NASA photograph shows path of the slick
NASA photoNearly a month after a deadly explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, the damaged well on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico continued to spill oil. In the weeks since the accident occurred, the oil slick has…
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2 Louisiana oyster areas reopen in Gulf ahead of oil slick from Deepwater Horizon spill
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Louisiana health officials reopened two prime oyster areas today to give harvesters a chance to gather as many oysters as they can ahead of a Gulf of Mexico oil slick that has been spreading west from the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
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An aerial view of the BP Slick, ground zero… The Source. Hurricane CREEKKEEPER© flies you to the scene and tells it like I see it! On May 5 we saw it on Chandeleur Islands. On May 7 we saw oil sheen approaching Dauphin Island in Alabama. On May 8 tar balls were washing onshore. Who and where is going to be next.