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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 91 Well Integrity & Relief Well

July 19, 2010

A good general primer on WTH is going on with the blown out well’s integrity and the function of the relief well in this morning’s Q&A with John Hofmeister, former Shell president. What needs to happen right away? The near term fix is to release the cap and control the flow of oil to surface ships. [...]

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Day 88

July 16, 2010

Hard-hitting journalism: “Did you feel the earthquake, Mr. President?” I am not for Geology PR at all costs, even if deep fault reactivation on the eastern continental margin is hella cool. BP halts Gulf oil flow for first time since April. Now waiting on test and seal of the dud well and the relief well [...]

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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 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 78 Neither Clearly Successful Nor Clearly Viewable

July 6, 2010

How do BP and the Coast Guard get the press to speak of their heroic joint recovery efforts if they bar proper media access? What recovery efforts, you ask. Well, we wouldn’t know because we can’t see them or get someone knowledgeable to say something useful and sensible about them now, can we? The Oil [...]

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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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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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Day 57 BP’s “Nightmare” Well

June 15, 2010

Wired | BP’s ‘Nightmare’ Well: Internal Documents Uncover Negligence In addition to BP’s decision not to use a liner, the committee’s letter describes four other examples of risky negligence. Five big corners were cut. But, “accidents happen,” right? They weren’t kidding about the MC252 well being a nightmare. The ship that was collecting oil via [...]

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