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Day 100 Not Yet Dead

July 28, 2010

100 FRAKING DAYS. Christian Science Monitor | From ‘static kill’ to ‘bottom kill’: next steps in Gulf oil spill – best explanation of the Static Kill followed by Bottom Kill methodology I’ve seen yet. [Bottom kill] will come after “static kill,” which has a tentative start date of next Monday. Static kill would deposit the [...]

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Day 99 Failed Boom & Brown Cloudies

July 27, 2010

* Anatomy of an Oil Spill Part I: The Sea Shepherd‘s Bonny Schumaker recently flew New Orleans blogger Dambala out over the Gulf of Mexico’s shelf. He photodocuments the flight from New Orleans over  Raccoon Island, LA (Louisiana’s most important seabird nesting site west of Breton Sound) to the Deepwater Horizon site and then to Horn Island, [...]

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Day 95 The Bonnie Situation

July 23, 2010

LiveScience | What Will Happen to Gulf Oil if Bonnie Strikes? What happens will depend in part on which way the wind blows. Hurricanes move in a counter-clockwise direction and so tend to move water from east to west — the opposite direction from the way the oil has generally been spreading so far. That [...]

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Day 85 OilSpill: Disaster Pr0n Now In 3D HD

July 13, 2010

In which we find out that the methane is just the farts of the Decepticons submerged at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico who were getting bored of waiting to take over the world once again so they ordered out for Taco Bell. No, don’t read that. Read this: The Gulf of Mexico spill is [...]

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Day 81 Third World And Not Proud Of It

July 9, 2010

Go read Pistolette’s take on Mitch Landrieu’s State Of New Orleans speech. All of it. Wow, Ray Nagin is the bald, black version of W. We always knew it, but it isn’t so stinkingly apparent until you’re confronted with the final bill. Um, waiter, we didn’t order all that. Too bad, it’s your lucky day to [...]

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Day 78 Oil Has Reached Lake Pontchartrain

July 6, 2010

Or as D says, “Oh good, now we won’t have to drive all the way down to the coast to see it.” nola.com gallery: Oil has reached Lake Pontchartrain “Strong southeast winds [have] pushed [it] into Lake Pontchartrain Monday July 5, 2010.” Update: 1,020 pounds of oil waste removed from Rigolets and lake Tweet

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Day 72

June 30, 2010

Don’t you hate it when news outfits won’t just report the, uh, news and even the better ones succumb to the cute wordplay angle or feel that they have to cast current American events in a larger political light? For the love of information, does everything have to be couched in re-electability, i.e. how a [...]

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Day 71

June 29, 2010

Not that I don’t care any more. I care too much. It’s why I can’t write and research and collate about it like I did. At least not right now. With each day’s developments, a blog post like this one goes through my head. Sometimes it gets typed, most of the time it doesn’t. This [...]

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Day 64 Marty Feldman Overturns Drilling Moratorium

June 22, 2010

This AM: Judge blocks Gulf offshore drilling moratorium; White House will appeal I wondered, “There are judges in Louisiana and Texas who don’t have to recuse themselves from oil spill cases because of conflicts of interest?” This PM: Judge who overturned drilling moratorium reported owning stock in drilling companies I have to highlight Jeffrey’s reaction to [...]

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Gas Land

June 22, 2010

Oil and gas. I can’t seem to get away from the stuff. My mother once joked that it is in my blood. I was born in a land made obscenely rich by massive oil finds, started out wanting to be a doctor or architect but ended up seduced by rocks and working in the oil [...]

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