Updated thread: Giant oil slick headed for Gulf Coast

YankeeFan · Jul 7, 2010

Azrael said:

Here's what they spent after Katrina: http://www.dhs.gov/xfoia/archives/gc_1157649340100.shtm

And does anyone here have any idea how many tens of millions of dollars healthy waterfowl populations generate every year in the upper Midwest? Apparently not.
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Are you from the upper Midwest AZ?

I don't remember you mentioning that previously.

Armchair_QB · Jul 7, 2010

JayFarrar said:

Armchair_QB said:

Maybe they should use that $20 million to pay to, you know, stop the fucking leak.
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Sorry dude, but that's too fucking stupid for words.

And the Feds actually dropped around $17 billion for housing and infrastructure repair but not that the facts matter when trying to prove a political point.
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Dumber than pissing away $20 million on something that probably won't work anyway? They admitted as much in the fucking story.

YankeeFan · Mar 20, 2011

The U.S. Coast Guard said late Saturday that it is investigating reports of a miles-long oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Coast Guard said in a news release that it received a report of a three-mile-long rainbow sheen off the Louisiana coast just before 9:30 a.m. local time on Saturday. Two subsequent sightings were relayed to the Coast Guard, the last of which reported a sheen that extended from about 6 miles south of Grand Isle, La. to 100 miles offshore.

Though the Coast Guard was able to confirm that there is a substance on the water's surface, it has not yet been able to determine if it is oil. Petty Officer Casey Ranel said that those that observed the sheen from a helicopter said they saw no sheen associated with the substance. That flight was diverted from the scene on a separate search and rescue mission, however, and could not continue their investigation, the Coast Guard said in the news release.

The Coast Guard has since launched additional aircraft and boats to the scene from New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., to collect samples of the substance. Ranel said the area where the substance has been reported is about 20 miles west of where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded last April, killing 11 and unleashing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Ranel said the Coast Guard has not linked the substance to any particular rig or well.

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB10001424052748704021504576211440860187916.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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printdust · Dec 15, 2014

YankeeFan said:

The U.S. Coast Guard said late Saturday that it is investigating reports of a miles-long oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.

The Coast Guard said in a news release that it received a report of a three-mile-long rainbow sheen off the Louisiana coast just before 9:30 a.m. local time on Saturday. Two subsequent sightings were relayed to the Coast Guard, the last of which reported a sheen that extended from about 6 miles south of Grand Isle, La. to 100 miles offshore.

Though the Coast Guard was able to confirm that there is a substance on the water's surface, it has not yet been able to determine if it is oil. Petty Officer Casey Ranel said that those that observed the sheen from a helicopter said they saw no sheen associated with the substance. That flight was diverted from the scene on a separate search and rescue mission, however, and could not continue their investigation, the Coast Guard said in the news release.

The Coast Guard has since launched additional aircraft and boats to the scene from New Orleans and Mobile, Ala., to collect samples of the substance. Ranel said the area where the substance has been reported is about 20 miles west of where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded last April, killing 11 and unleashing the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history.

Ranel said the Coast Guard has not linked the substance to any particular rig or well.

http://online.wSportsJournalists.com/article/SB10001424052748704021504576211440860187916.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
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What? Oil in the gulf? Radiation in the Pacific? Hell with that. Send the fish through. PROFITS I SAY. PROFITS!

NoOneLikesUs · Mar 20, 2011

HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--What was reported as a miles-long oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is likely a plume of silt emanating from a dredging operation on the Mississippi River, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Sunday.

Still, the Coast Guard is testing the substance, which has an associated rainbow sheen similar to that resulting from oil spills, to determine exactly what it is, said spokesman Henry Cambre.

It's possible, Cambre said, that whatever is causing the sheen was trapped in river bed sediment and was released by the dredging work. The Coast Guard said it expects results from those tests to be available later Sunday.
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That much from dredging?

Azrael · Mar 20, 2011

NoOneLikesUs said:

That much from dredging?
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Hmmmm.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/feb/20/scientists-finds-bottom-of-gulf-still-oily-dead/

Herbert Anchovy · Dec 6, 2011

The petrocriminals begin to cannibalize each other.

http://weirdloadreboot.com/blog/2011/12/05/bp-accuses-haliburton-of-destroying-evidence-from-the-gulf-oil-spill/

TigerVols · Dec 6, 2011

I blame the Muppets.

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