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Oil spill updates: A suicide reminds Gulf coast of mental toll
A sampling of green links for Tuesday Oil spill: A suicide reminds Gulf coast of mental toll
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NEW ORLEANS An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, sending a column of fire into the sky and touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for at least 11 reported missing. Most of the 126 workers on the rig Deepwater Horizon were believed to have escaped safely after the explosion about 10 pm Tuesday, Coast Guard Senior Chief Petty Officer Mike O’Berry said. The rig, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana’s tip, was still burning Wednesday morning and was listing about 10 degrees. There was no estimate of when the flames might be out. Helicopters and boats searched the Gulf of Mexico for any sign of the workers who had not been accounted for. “We’re hoping everyone’s in a life raft,” O’Berry said. The Coast Guard said Wednesday that seven workers had been critically injured. Later in the day, West Jefferson Hospital in suburban New Orleans said it treated four people, three of whom had been released. The University of South Alabama Medical Center said it was treating one person in its burn unit and evaluating five others. O’Berry said many workers who escaped were being brought to land on a work boat expected to arrive Wednesday evening. When the explosion happened, the rig was drilling but was not in production, according to Greg Panagos, spokesman for its owner, Transocean Ltd. in Houston. The rig was under contract to BP PLC. BP spokesman Darren Beaudo said all BP personnel were safe but he didn’t know how many BP workers had been on the …
Vujasinovic & Beckcom PLLC, Board Certified Houston, Texas Maritime Accident Attorneys representing Oil Rig Workers, (877) 724-7800, www.MaritimeAccidentAttorney.comAfter Transocean’s Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible offshore rig exploded on April 21, 2010, countless lawyer websites and internet advertisements popped up all over the Internet. Much of this advertising suggests injured oil rig workers and their families must “immediately” hire a lawyer, or else their cases will somehow be lost. Unfortunately, this is not the case. In fact, offshore rig workers and their families who are victims of the Transocean Offshore Rig Explosion will be best served by taking their time in hiring an attorney.Interview a lot of lawyers. Ask them all a lot of questions. Ask if they are Board Certified. How many offshore injury cases have they handled? What is their track record in offshore injury cases? And find out whether their track record documented.Most importantly, take your time. Nothing bad will happen to any of these cases if lawyers are not hired “as soon as possible.” After you have interviewed at least several maritime law firms, choose the lawyer who you believe will do the best job on your case and who you feel most comfortable with.For more helpful information to victims of the Transocean Rig Blowout, please visit
As oil continues to pour out of the damaged BP Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, we ask — When will all of this end? What does this continued pollution mean to all of us living in the Gulf Coast region? How will this leak be stopped and what is the latest clean-up plan? Guests: Michelle Foss, Ph.D., Chief Energy Economist, University of Texas; Donald Van Nieuwenhuise, Ph.D., Director, Petroleum Geoscience Programs, University of Houston; Jeffrey Wozniak, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Texas Research Institute for Environmental Studies, Sam Houston State University; original broadcast date June 18, 2010. www.houstonpbs.org
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A group of rescued and cleaned pelicans is transported aboard a U.S. Coast Guard aircraft to Aransas National Wildlife Refuge for release into the wild. The pelicans will stand a better chance of not bei
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More Crude Washes Ashore, As Oil Spill Decimates Gulf Coast Tourism
A quarter mile of Florida’s Pensacola Beach was closed yesterday, as crude from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill washed ashore there. According to the Associated Press, it marks the first time a beach in the state has been closed because of the disaster. Meanwhile, in Mississippi, a large patch of oil oozed into Mississippi Sound between […]
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GULF OF MEXICO — Rear Adm. James Watson, Federal On-Scene Coordinator for the Unified Area Command, visits the Coast Guard Cutter Cypress, homeported in Mobile, Ala., June 26, 2010. Watson spoke to the crew of the Cypress, who were the first cutter to begin using the Shipboard Oil-Recovery System (SORS) to skim and collect oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil leak. U.S. Coast Guard video by Petty Officer 3rd Class Colin White.
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Mr. Charlie Henry, NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator from Baton Rouge, La., and Cmdr. Rich Schultz, US Coast Guard Atlantic Strike Team state their credentials as oil spill response specialists and take questions from the media regarding the Deepwater Horizon oil spill Part 1 of 3.
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