Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

[EagleLady]

A satellite imaging expert says crude oil has reached the Mississippi Delta and the Chandeleur Islands off the Louisiana coast. Meanwhile, BP says it has managed to cap 1 of 3 leaks at the sunken oil well, but the work is not expected to reduce the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf, now estimated to be around 60-thousand barrels a day. BP will drop a containment box over the other leaks tomorrow, but officials say they aren't sure if it will work at those depths.


From Facebook

[EagleLady]

I figure BP Will be hit with a massive Lawsuit when it's all said and done

[bernie's bender]

I figure BP Will be hit with a massive Lawsuit when it's all said and done

and then they'll change their name, get a new logo and an ad campaign.

You can still find tons of sludge from the Valdez... I don't expect this will be any different...

and the same folks will wait a few years and start crowing like they did before the Valdez.... so, uhhh, are we still gonna drill on the north slope? Fo realz?

[EagleLady]

At the direction of President Obama, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will join Florida Governor Charlie Crist to view the staging area aboard NAS Pensacola and discuss response operations today. Also today, BP is expected to lower a 100-ton concrete and steel dome nearly one mile down into the Gulf. The contraption is designed to siphon off the oil spilling at the site of the sunken rig, but BP officials admit they have no idea if it will work at such depths. Meanwhile, hotels and realty companies are working the phones and any outlet they can find to keep tourists coming to Pensacola despite the threat of oil washing ashore. Click on the link below to see their efforts.


More from Facebook

[EagleLady]

Local governments all over the area are relying on booms to protect
sensitive waterways, but many local plans to expand protection are
being turned down by state emergency officials and the Department of
Environmental Protection. Santa Rosa County is dealing with that exact problem.

[EagleLady]

Oops I didn't mean to copy that part

[EagleLady]

BP is promising Florida's Attorney General it will pay claims with
in two days of receiving them, while Congress attempts to change
federal law to force the oil company to pay more than the $75 million dollar federal cap for damages. Channel Three's Bob Solarski talked to a BP executive about whether that promise is realistic.

[EagleLady]

BP now believes the deadly blowout of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico was triggered by a bubble of methane gas that escaped from the well and shot up the drill column, expanding quickly as it burst through several seals and barriers before exploding. Meanwhile, people who worked on the Deepwater Horizon are coming forward
to share their stories of the night that killed 11 of their co-workers.

[EagleLady]

A BP official says the company has received federal approval to continuously spray chemicals underwater on the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. The spray may prevent some of the oil from reaching the surface, though officials are worried about the effect on the environment. Crews are also considering blasting debris such as golf balls and old tires down into the blow out preventer to clog the leak.

[EagleLady]

3 weeks after the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the fallout has reached Congress. Company presidents from BP, Transocean, and Halliburton will testify in separate hearings today. Lawmakers are expected to ask BP why its drilling plans discounted the risk that such a catastrophic pipeline rupture would ever happen, and why it assumed that if a leak did occur, the oil would not pose a major threat.