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Gulf oil spill threat widens
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 31st, 2010
Reuters: Oil from BP's out-of-control Gulf of Mexico oil spill could threaten the Mississippi and Alabama coasts this week, U.S. forecasters said on Monday, as public anger surged over the country's worst environmental disaster. Government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out deepwater well feeding the catastrophic spill may not be shut off until August as the company begins preparations on a new but uncertain attempt to contain the leaking crude. On Tuesday, President Barack ...
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Summer Of Oil Looms For Beleaguered Gulf Coast
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 31st, 2010
Associated Press: The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate more than two miles into the earth, and is anything but a sure bet on the first attempt. Bid after bid has failed to staunch what has already become the nation's worst-ever spill, and BP is readying another attempt as early as Wednesday, this one a cut-and-cap process to put a lid on the leaking wellhead so oil can be ...
After fix fail, a dispiriting summer of oil, anger
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 31st, 2010
Associated Press: There is still a hole in the Earth, crude oil is still spewing from it and there is still, excruciatingly, no end in sight. After trying and trying again, one of the world's largest corporations, backed and pushed by the world's most powerful government, can't stop the runaway gusher. As desperation grows and ecological misery spreads, the operative word on the ground now is, incredibly, August -- the earliest moment that a real resolution could be at hand. And even then, there's no ...