High Chance Oil Spill in Gulf Of Mexico Will Affect South Florida
Posted on 07/02/2010 4:52:18 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
BP's share price took another 2pc knock, after the chief of the company's oil spill response unit admitted that Hurricane Alex has spread oil inland.
Robert Dudley, chief of BP's Gulf Coast restoration efforts, said high seas and winds were to blame for the growth of the slick.
• BP said it was still investigating claims by a US freelance photojournalist that workers have been trucking new sand to Louisiana beaches. The new layers appear to conceal tar balls caused by the slick.
• Admiral Thad Allen, the US incident commander, stuck to the official target date of August for the completion of BP's relief wells, which are intended to plug the leak. However, BP is currently ahead of schedule, he added.
• Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive of Total, said the French oil giant would look at buying any assets that BP may sell as part of its $10bn disposal programme. He confirmed it was not looking at a bid for the entire company.
• BP said it was close to reaching an agreement with environmental groups on new ways to prevent turtles from being burnt alive. It may now remove them from the water before setting fire to oil on the ocean. This week, one group filed a lawsuit accusing BP of violating the US Endangered Species Act by failing to protect the rare Gulf Coast sea creatures.
•The world's biggest supertanker began skimming oil in the Gulf of Mexico, the day after the slick became the worst accidental spill on record. The only bigger spill is the deliberate release of oil by Iraqi troops during the 1991 Gulf War.
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High Chance Oil Spill in Gulf Of Mexico Will Affect South Florida
COCODRIE — Work crews scrambled to get ahead of oil drifting north of Terrebonne Parish barrier islands Thursday, only to be turned back after about two hours of work by thunderstorms and rough water.
Sightings of sheen and floating “pancakes” of oil were reported from Wednesday night into Thursday as movement of oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster site continued moving west of the Mississippi River. A report from Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office said there was sheen spotted near Bayou Teche in Iberia Parish, but that had not been confirmed as of Thursday night to be part of the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Oil moved unchecked in open waters of the Gulf of Mexico as weather kept skimming vessels, ranging from large workboats to the shrimp boats pressed into service for the cleanup, tied up at docks or anchored in safe harbors throughout southeast Louisiana.
The chance of oil from the Gulf blowout reaching the waters off Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Miami is 61 to 80 percent, according to new projections released Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Using data on wind, currents and the location of the oil, the NOAA study produced 500 scenarios of the possible courses that could be taken by the oil. Of these, the majority showed the oil – most likely in the weathered, less toxic form of tar balls – reaching the waters off southeast Florida.
The west coast of Florida fares better, with a less than a 1 percent chance of oil along the southwest coast and a 1 to 20 percent chance from Tampa nearly to the Panhandle. And north of Palm Beach County, where the Gulf Stream veers far offshore, the danger to Daytona Beach and other Atlantic coastal areas shrinks to 1 to 20 percent.
Damn, 61% threat for the east coast of South Florida. Damn.
Why would this be something that a CEO needs to admit?
Do not know. My guess is he must have been denying that Alex would have any affect on collection and cleanup. Like others have previously pointed out, our civilization peaked when we landed on the moon. Been falling into barbarism ever since. Many people out there are just plain border line coherent right now.
Like others have previously pointed out, our civilization peaked when we landed on the moon.
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Unless Americans truly are exceptional. If we can pull our civilization back from this brink . . . I think it might just be a first in history. God be with us . . . the time to fight was yesterday, but now will have to do.
Heh, I like my last line there. Think it’s tag worthy.
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