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UPDATE: Oil sheen spreading from Gulf platform explosion
Associated Press ^
| 09-02-2010
| Alan Sayre
Posted on 09/02/2010 11:26:38 AM PDT by freedomwarrior998
NEW ORLEANS, La. The Coast Guard is saying that a mile-long oil sheen is spreading from the site off an offshore petroleum platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico off Louisiana.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: gulf; oil; oilspill
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To: mazda77
The WH shut down coverage in the Gulf before, why not now as well?
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:37:05 AM PDT
by
sarasota
To: Westbrook
Do I need a tinfoil hat?
No need for tinfoil. Try one of these new Brain Slug hats. They are all the rage in Hollywood and New York City. Join the Brain Slug Party. There is nothing suspicious about oil wells blowing up the day after a judge overturns Obmaa's ban on oil drilling. Obama will save millions of jobs by closing down the oil companies. Embrace your brain slug and Hope for Change.
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:37:19 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: freedomwarrior998
I uninstalled my googlearth .. anyone?
23
posted on
09/02/2010 11:37:56 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: freedomwarrior998
L
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:38:26 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
To: Westbrook
” Do I need a tinfoil hat?”
If you do decide on the tinfoil hat, just remember it makes a hell of a lot of noise when you’re trying to sleep.
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:39:11 AM PDT
by
hoe_cake
( Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Constitution)
To: Westbrook
I don’t think so.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:39:14 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: freedomwarrior998
Eco-terrorist? I thought the police took care of him yesterday at the Discovery Channel, or is their more than one???
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:39:17 AM PDT
by
radioone
("The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen.")
To: freedomwarrior998
I am now imagining what OBAMA will say to Jindal :
“You see, I WAS RIGHT in SUSPENDING new permits for drillings in the Gulf.”
To: Westbrook
You are correct. There is no such thing as a coincidence and this crew will stop at nothing to reach their goals.It's “The Chicago Way”.
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:40:46 AM PDT
by
Apercu
("A man's character is hs fate" - Heraclitus)
To: freedomwarrior998
Are sure it wasn't cause by Martin Sheen, swimming in the gulf, with his hair full of that bear grease he uses??
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:42:15 AM PDT
by
jessduntno
("There's only one true Christian liberal in the country and that's Mike Huckabee." - Ann Coulter)
To: Westbrook
put the tinfoil hat away....i agree i have seen nothing like this so i am wondering also...
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:42:17 AM PDT
by
devane617
(November!)
To: freedomwarrior998
If what they say is true and the rig is shutdown and hasn’t been operating, the oil is probably just oil trapped in the piping. As someone else pointed out, you can make a ‘sheen’ on any surface of water with a liter of oil.
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:42:35 AM PDT
by
LoneStarGI
(Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
To: tallyhoe
How do they go from the platform was not producing oil and gas to a sheen of oil a mile long!According to the writeup, the platform had storage for 100 bbl of oil (it is reported as 4200 gallons, or 100 bbl.)
That would produce a pretty good size splotch, inasmuch as sheens can be as little as one molecule thick.
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:42:53 AM PDT
by
Ole Okie
To: Westbrook
40+ years...50,000 drillings and NOT ONE accident.
As they say in intelligence...there is no such thing as a coincidence when it comes to a gov’t with an agenda...
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:43:07 AM PDT
by
surfer
(To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
To: Westbrook
You may be onto something there..............
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:43:36 AM PDT
by
Boonie
To: surfer
Where is Matt when we need him.
To: Red Badger
Thanks - I’ll wear it with Pride!
To: tallyhoe
"How do they go from the platform was not producing oil and gas to a sheen of oil a mile long!"
Stretching the truth.
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:45:19 AM PDT
by
cweese
(Hook 'em Horns!!!)
To: freedomwarrior998
“Thank you for calling the Whitehouse Disaster Response line, we are on vacation until September 7th and then will return to our normal hours of 11:15AM until 3:00PM Tuesday - Wednesday.”
“If this is a real emergency please hang up the phone and ...”
“Well just hang up the phone...”
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:45:36 AM PDT
by
ejonesie22
(8/30/10, the day Truth won.)
To: PGR88
Never let a perfectly good crisis go to waste - even if you need 2 tries!
EXCELLENT
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posted on
09/02/2010 11:46:28 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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