"A key US government official said yesterday that the moratorium on deepwater oil drilling probably won’t be extended past Nov. 30, but whether it is cut short will depend on industry compliance with federal rules....
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Related: Globe Gets Back to Business on Oil Spill
Also see:
Louisiana beach town laments loss caused by BP oil spill
Louisiana Looks to Alaska on Oil Spill
Second Straight Sunday With No Oil Spill Story
Care to try for three?
"EPA says oil leak apparently slowing
CHICAGO — The Environmental Protection Agency said the leak from an oil pipeline outside Chicago appears to be slowing. EPA coordinator Sam Borries said the oil is no longer rising to the surface. He said pipeline owner Enbridge Energy Partners will extract more oil (Associated Press)."
Hidden in the briefs, no less!
Also see: At the Other End of the Mississippi
MSM cleaned that one up quick, didn't they?
"Crews closing in on source of oil leak in Illinois, EPA says" by Associated Press | September 13, 2010
ROMEOVILLE, Ill. — Crews excavating the area of a leaking oil pipe in Romeoville believe they are closing in on the source, officials said yesterday....
I'm sorry, readers. I simply no longer believe what government and industry say and nothing in this world will ever change that after what happened in the Gulf.
Enbridge Energy also owns a pipeline that leaked hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into a southern Michigan waterway in July....
A company spokeswoman said the Illinois leak doesn’t appear related to the Michigan spill, but a federal official said it may be too early to tell.
The leak was discovered in Romeoville by local water department workers responding to a complaint from a business owner about a drinking water line....--more--"
That's okay; I heard they are great at cleaning up rivers these days.
"Polluted Potomac cleans up its act; River’s health best in years, study says" by David A. Fahrenthold, Washington Post | September 10, 2010
WASHINGTON — This good news underlines a striking trend in recent environmental history.
Some terribly polluted urban waterways have rebounded — one of the best examples is Boston Harbor — and the cause has usually been cleanups at sewage plants or factories.
It has proved much harder for authorities to reduce pollution that does not come from a pipe, such as the manure and fertilizer that washes off of farm fields.
Pollution from farms and city storm sewers — diffuse problems, and expensive to fix — have continued to trouble such water bodies as the Chesapeake Bay.
And a bunch of sewage was dumped in Boston Harbor during last spring's record flood.
But the river’s health has improved with changes at Blue Plains, the massive plant in far Southwest Washington that treats waste from the District and surrounding counties....
I guess water would get clean once you stopped dumping shit -- or oil -- in it.
And what did we find here?
"Oil found on gulf floor may be from BP spill; Scientists’ findings contradict report crude is dissipated" by Cain Burdeau and Seth Borenstein, Associated Press | September 14, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — Scientists have found a thick layer of oil in the canyons of the Gulf of Mexico, a University of Georgia researcher said yesterday, linking the finding to BP’s busted well.
Oil at least 2 inches thick was found Sunday night and yesterday morning about a mile beneath the surface. Under it was a layer of dead shrimp and other small animals, researcher Samantha Joye said from the helm of a research vessel in the gulf.
Related: Woods Hole Was Wrong About Gulf Gusher
Globe Endorses Government on Evaporated Oil From Gulf Gusher
I guess you can't believe any one of them anymore, American.
I'm sorry to report that, but that's the way it is.
The latest findings cast doubt on the initial assertion by the federal government that much of the spilled oil is gone.
Related: US scientist retracts assurances over success of cleanup
I must be naive because at this point I'm truly stunned that the Globe has chosen to ignore the federal retraction.
At these depths, the ocean is a cold and dark world. Yet scientists say that even though it may be out of sight, oil found there could do significant harm to the strange creatures that dwell in the depths — tube worms, tiny crustaceans and mollusks, single-cell organisms, and unique fish with bulging eyes and skeletal frames.
“I expected to find oil on the sea floor,’’ Joye said in a ship-to-shore phone interview. “I did not expect to find this much. I didn’t expect to find layers 2 inches thick. It’s weird the stuff we found last night. Some of it was really dense and thick.’’
Maybe we could make some highways out it?
You know, build back that infrastructure.
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“It’s kind of like having a blizzard where the snow comes in and covers everything,’’ Joye said.
The look of the oil, its state of degradation, and the way it settled on freshly dead animals all made it unlikely that the crude was from the millions of gallons of oil that naturally seep into the Gulf of Mexico from the sea bottom each year, she said. Later this week, the oil will be tested for the chemical fingerprints that would conclusively link it to the BP spill.
“It has to be a recent event,’’ Joye said. “There’s still pieces of warm bodies there.’’
But the seafood is safe -- says the government.
Since the well was capped July 15 after about 200 million gallons spurted into the gulf, there have been signs of resilience on the surface and the shore. Sheens have disappeared, while some marshlands have shoots of green.
I'm losing mine when it comes to the paper, sigh.
This recovery is probably a result of massive amounts of chemical dispersants, warm waters, and a gulf that is used to degrading massive amounts of oil, scientists say....
Yeah, it SUNK the STUFF!!
Not all scientists agree with this assessment.
Ed Overton, a Louisiana State University chemist who has analyzed the spill for NOAA, doubted much oil was resting on the bottom. He said the heavier components in oil — the asphalts — make up only about 1 percent of the oil that was spilled.
NOAA is a liar and NOAA is done as an authority, sorry.
And so is the REST of the GOVERNMENT for THIS is what they are SPENDING YOUR TAX DOLLAR ON, my dear fellow citizens.
Also yesterday, it was revealed that the federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the oil disaster were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush’s much-maligned reaction to Hurricane Katrina.
Well, FINDING THIS OUT doesn't help at all, and THIS DISASTER was WAY WORSE! This OIL THING DESTROYED an ECO SYSTEM! HURRICANES have COME THROUGH for CENTURIES and LIFE SURVIVED!!
The Coast Guard paid $9,000 per month for two months to John Brooks Rice of New Orleans, an on-call worker for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, under a no-bid contract to monitor media coverage from late May through July.
So WHO did he KNOW?
Maybe the $18,000 should have went to a GULF FAMILY that has had its LIVELIHOOD DESTROYED!!
