The well has been capped 5,000 feet down. The surface oil is disappearing. Is it really time to roll up the cleanup? (via Ecocentric)
The video says it all: A tideline of tar balls, off Horn Island Pass south of Pascagoula, Mississippi – blobs stretching as far as the eye can see.
The storm may be moving west of the oil spill in the Gulf, but the momentary panic revealed just how fragile a situation the ongoing recovery remains.
“”I wish I could afford some outrage, that must be a good feeling.” – ROB HUDSON, a 33-year-old unemployed construction worker, when asked about the push to boycott BP gas stations. He was filling up at a Santa Monica BP station because the gasoline was as much as 30 cents a gallon less than nearby [...]
This last week might have marked the end of the road for Debbie’s Cafe in Gheens, Louisiana, as seafood distributors stopped citing prices for locally caught shrimp and instead presented the owner with only one option: Imported shrimp. (via AP)
Out in the Caribbean Sea, forecasters are already watching a vast stretch of unstable weather – weather that now has a 40 percent chance of a coalescing into a tropical cyclone by Friday. (via NOAA)
The storyline Friday was that Hayward was handing over oil spill oversight to other members of the BP team. But on Saturday, the company raced to reassert that Hayward was indeed the man in charge in the Gulf – right around the time the CEO was attending a yacht race in England. (via AP)
That was the startling number tossed around late Friday by experts, after listening to Tony Hayward’s congressional testimony about the size of the Gulf well. (via The Guardian)
A host of both Republicans and Democrats disliked the Texas Congressman’s apology to BP CEO Tony Hayward. Now, Democratic fundraisers have turned to Facebook, ready to cash in on the outrage.
That’s the curious conclusion of a language analyst who says the President’s comments Tuesday night, written to a 9.8 grade level, went way over the head of most viewers. (via CNN)
