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Health officials order air quality testing after fuel smell blankets metro area (Oil Spill)
NOLA.COM ^ | 04/29/2010 | Times Picayune Staff

Posted on 04/29/2010 7:45:40 PM PDT by francisbacon

Strong oil fumes on Southeast LA Coast and Northshore, speculation its from burning the spill.

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: bp; fumes; louisiana; oilspill

1 posted on 04/29/2010 7:45:41 PM PDT by francisbacon
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To: francisbacon

Must be pretty powerful stuff to overcome the usual stench of urine.


2 posted on 04/29/2010 7:50:04 PM PDT by hometoroost (Proverbs 8:36 - All those who hate me love death.)
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To: francisbacon

Smells like another lawsuit by the N’Awlins crowd to me! They’re in the money! (Again!)


3 posted on 04/29/2010 7:53:56 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The only people not "boycotting" Arizona are the illegal aliens! What the hell is up with that!!?)
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To: francisbacon

We’re on the west coast of Florida, and when the wind is out of the west, you can smell the fuel odor. It’s been called the “mystery smell” in the papers, but they’ve pretty much concluded it’s from the oil slick.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/mystery-smell-keeps-bay-area-guessing/1090504


4 posted on 04/29/2010 8:14:11 PM PDT by dawn53
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To: francisbacon

I’ve just read five articles from major newspapers about the “oil spill” and NOT ONE of them mentioned the EXPLOSION that caused it and killed the workers there. They repeatedly referred to it a simple OIL SPILL with a BIG CORPORATION as the devil. Sound familiar?

Dare anyone suggest that the Iran/Venezuela/Russia/Cuba/China Al Qaeda AXIS OF EVIL may be behind a terrorist attack on a British/US oil rig ?

How terribly convenient that it occur just after the O administration claimed they would “allow” for more drilling there.

Just how neatly an environmental disaster plays into O’s hands. Cuba/Venezuela/China drill in the Gulf of Mexico with immunity and impunity and WITHOUT the excessive restrictions US Marxist/Enviros put on Western interests.

Is it also no secret that BRITISH PETROLEUM is now in Iraq http://www.bp.com/sectiongenericarticle.do?categoryId=9031482&contentId=7057672 and still (to the best of my knowledge) joined with US in boycott of Iranian oil. A perfect target for terror and another possible hit on our home turf.

Folks, look up from the keyboard, put down the X-Box, turn off Idol, Stars, and 24 hour sports coverage. It is MUCH later than we think. What will it take
to get Americans to STOP PRETENDING we not are under attack from all sides?

Even the “Tea Parties” have allowed themselves to be reduced by the recreant media to an “angry anti-tax movement”. It is a great movement without a leader and without a strong, well crafted, unified message. WISE THE HELL UP. We are not anti-government we are anti-Marxist government.

I cannot repeat it too many times, our national sovereignty is under constant attack from our open borders to the UN and the so called “International Courts”.

GET THIS AND GET IT NOW, if we have not sovereignty that means we DO NOT HAVE A SOVEREIGN CONSTITUTION!


5 posted on 04/29/2010 8:18:05 PM PDT by Binstence (Live Freep or Die)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

No they’re not. If the seafood industry is decimated it will kill a lot of the businesses that are dependent on it.


6 posted on 04/29/2010 8:20:44 PM PDT by CajunConservative (Shut Up Mary!)
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To: francisbacon

Katrina! Katrina! Obama’s Katrina is coming!
Maybe Chuck Berry could write another hit song yet! LOL
Sorry for the Old Folk’s Joke.


7 posted on 04/29/2010 8:23:59 PM PDT by J Edgar
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To: francisbacon

I am asking myself, is there not a way to collect the oil on top of and seperate it from the water?

I know there are waves in the ocean, but there are some terrifically ingenius people.


8 posted on 04/29/2010 8:24:36 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: Texas Fossil
Google Ocean Oil Skimmer for all you would ever want to know about the subject.
9 posted on 04/29/2010 8:29:37 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CajunConservative

The slick ain’t covering the entire friggin’ Gulf.

This isn’t the first time we’ve had Oil on the Water, and it won’t be the last time.

The Industry will survive cause Gulf Coast people are tough. Hard times yes, but news flash most of us can’t afford shrimp, fish or oysters as it is, and there wasn’t any slick to worry about then.


10 posted on 04/29/2010 9:48:53 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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To: Shadowstrike

seafood isn’t that expensive. It isn’t like raw diamonds are hidden in the oysters


11 posted on 04/30/2010 5:34:22 AM PDT by ChurtleDawg (voting only encourages them)
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To: Binstence

All caps conspiracy thinking aside I’m pretty sure this came from drilling deep and letting pressure build up and failing to notice it. I think BP’s execs had a bigger hand in this than any “Axis of Evil” members.


12 posted on 04/30/2010 7:40:15 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: ChurtleDawg

I’ve seen large shrimp at 10.00 a pound.

And this was way before the oil spill.


13 posted on 05/01/2010 7:11:50 PM PDT by Shadowstrike (Be polite, Be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet.)
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