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Experts: Oil from BP blowout not likely to reach South Florida, Keys
The risk of oil from the Deepwater Horizon blowout reaching the Florida Keys and South Florida anytime soon is now so remote that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has suspended its trajectory maps for the area, effectively downgrading the region to low risk.
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South Africa: Criminal Questions in the Gulf of Mexico
BP CHAIRMAN Carl-Henric Svanberg last week apologised for making the “clumsy” remark that those hurt by his company’s oil spill were “small people”. Svanberg earlier said: “I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies who don’t care. But that is not the case in BP. We care about the small people.”
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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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Footage shot in Venice and surrounding area at end of route 23 in Louisiana, as residents and officials wait for oil to arrive and how to adapt to possible loss of their industry and way of life.
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clean energy news 24/7 UPDATE: the pipe diameter is 20″ (almost two feet) – gives you a sense of scale. The Deepwater Horizon Incident Response Center has released new video of the BP oil pipe leak at its source 5000 feet down on the ocean floor. Thick black crude oil that looks like an underwater volcano can be seen pumping uncontrollably into the water…
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Relief and dread as oil spill enters current flowing to South Florida
Although the dozens of tar balls found in the Keys are not from the the Deepwater Horizon spill, the Coast Guard says “a small portion” of the oil slick has entered the Gulf’s loop current and could reach the Florida Straits in seven or eight days.
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Beaches clear, plan in place, as oil creeps south
As the Deepwater Horizon oil spill drifts south and west, away from the Franklin County coast, residents continue to cross their fingers and say their prayers. It seems like a miracle but, based on the federal government’s trajectory forecast for…
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BP mum on latest bid to contain US oil spill London South East The accident is threatening an ecological and environmental calamity along the US Gulf Coast. With crude oil gushing unchecked from its blown-out offshore … and more »

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