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Oil spills turn off Florida visitors
Afraid the Deepwater Horizon oil spill will grease your vacation plans? Then come to Highlands County and enjoy our white beaches, fresh water fishing and jet skiing.
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BlazerCast for May 4, 2010: Biologists Thane Wibbels, Ph.D., Ken Marion, Ph.D., and their graduate research assistant Andy Coleman have spent the better part of four years fighting to keep the Alabama Diamondback Terrapin off the endangered species list, going so far as to open a turtle hatchery on campus. Now, the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico could void the progress theyve made, Wibbels says. Hear what most concerns him as the oil spill closes in on the Alabama coast line in this weeks Blazercast. Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com Become a fan of BlazerCast on Facebook: bit.ly

Big Fisherman Seafood Owner Henry Pynot argues the Gulf oil spill will lead to a 50 to 75% increase in shrimp prices.

Sky News

4 Gulf oil spills in days prior to 4/21 DigitalJournal.com … reports filed by the Coast Guard in the few weeks proceeding the present Gulf disaster of an oil spill resulting from a rig explosion on April 20. … Attorneys General Reach Agreement on Oil SpillThe State Column all 324 news articles »

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Reuters UK (blog)

Oil companies' history of ducking safety improvements before big spills … Slate Magazine If the already-tenuous deal unravels, then the Gulf oil spill will not just be an environmental disaster. It will also be a political one. Gulf Wildlife 'Dead Zone' Keeps GrowingDiscovery News The Branding of the "Gulf Oil Spill"Daily Green Special report: Will the cleanup make the BP oil spill worse?Reuters Newsweek –Common Dreams (press release) –New York Times (blog) all 176 news articles »

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National Post

Gulf of Mexico oil spill's lessons learned MarketWatch The petroleum and fishing industries have a long and uneasy intertwined history in the Gulf of Mexico. WSJ's Andy Jordan looks at how the growing gulf oil … Gulf oil spill: Visit to offshore islands finds a sea of orangeMiamiHerald.com Gulf of Mexico oil leak: Box lowered 1 mile into sea to cap leakMirror.co.uk Oil-covered birds found on LouisianaTimes Online Vancouver Sun –OpEdNews all 1,099 news articles »

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Telegraph.co.uk

Oil Spills, Mine Disasters, and Everyday Environmental Degradation: The … FindLaw What the Gulf oil disaster and other recent events have shown us, after all, is that there are surprisingly high costs to continuing to do things the way we … Chemical Detergents May Make Gulf Oil DisasterFOXNews Bid to enact energy bill might survive Gulf spillThe Associated Press Gulf Oil Spill Disaster Has Plenty of Profit PotentialTaipan Publishing Group BBC News –Los Angeles Times –The Week Magazine all 16,384 news articles »

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BP pledges to pay for spill’s cleanup, damages
BP PLC gave some assurance Monday to shrimpers, oil workers and scores of others that they will be paid for damage and injuries from the explosion of a drilling rig and the resulting massive oil spill in the Gulf.

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New Orleans without seafood gumbo? Oil spill’s unsavory toll.
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has already led to a 10-day shutdown of fishing off parts of the Louisiana coast. New Orleans restaurants are coping, but they’re also planning for worse to come.

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AP: BP says it will pay for Gulf spill’s cleanup
VENICE, La. (AP) — BP PLC said today that it will pay for all the cleanup costs from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that could continue spewing crude for at least another week.

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