Florida expresses concern about Deepwater Horizon incident’s economic impact on tourism and seafood industry
State agency leaders are concerned that people across the United States falsely believe the state has been impacted by oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Florida’s beaches and fishing grounds remain open to residents and visitors to enjoy. Read more on Chipley Bugle
Asking Where the Oil from Deepwater Horizon Leak is Going
For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, it’s hard to pin down where the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster has gone. Read more on WHSV Harrisonburg
This is a tribute to the 11 men missing from the Deepwater Horizon. I did not make this video but I did feel it needed to be up for the world to see. Oilfield workers catch a bad wrap but most don’t understand it is a way of life for us and once in a while some of our brothers pay the ultimate sacrifice. The song is by Trace Adkins, it’s called Missing You. Trace used to work for Transocean so it is fitting that his song speaks well about what we go through. Please don’t leave hateful comments or I will delete them. Jason Anderson Dewey Revette Donald Clark Stephen Curtis Dale Burkeen Roy Kemp Karl Kleppinger Shane Roshto Adam Weise Gordon Jones Blair Manuel Video Rating: 4 / 5
An explosion rocked an offshore oil drilling platform, touching off a frantic search at sea Wednesday for 11 missing workers. Most of the 126 workers on the rig Deepwater Horizon escaped safely after the explosion, the Coast Guard said. (April 21)
2 Louisiana oyster areas reopen in Gulf ahead of oil slick from Deepwater Horizon spill
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Louisiana health officials reopened two prime oyster areas today to give harvesters a chance to gather as many oysters as they can ahead of a Gulf of Mexico oil slick that has been spreading west from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Read more on Mobile Press-Register
FULL tinyurl.com UNCENSORED SINKING OIL RIG functionaries are mobilizing for a cleanup surgery in case a large oil spill occurs, in what has become one of the worst industry disasters in decades.afterward listing for most of Wednesday, the 0 million political platform 41 miles off the Seacoast of Louisiana sunk in 5000 feet of pee at hot 10 am Thursday. Seventeen people were injured, and 11 are notwithstanding missing from the explosion. The rest of the crew of 126 filed into lifeboats or jumped nearly 100 feet from the weapons platform before being pulled from the irrigate by Seacoast Guard rescue crews. As the intense fire burned the spewing oil off on Wednesday, early meter readings were that the set fire didn’t present significant peril to the coastal ecosystem. But with the set now sunk and the fire out, concerns are now growing that the post dismissed mirror a deep-piss spill caused by a fire on the West Atlas rig off Australia last year, which environmentalists likened to a “disaster movie.” Video Rating: 3 / 5
CoastGuardNews.com NEW ORLEANS – Fire boat response crews battle the blazing remnants of the off shore oil rig Deepwater Horizon April 21, 2010. A Coast Guard MH-65C Dolphin rescue helicopter and crew document the fire aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon, while searching for survivors April 21, 2010. Multiple Coast Guard helicopters, planes and cutters responded to rescue the Deepwater Horizon’s 126 person crew. US Coast Guard video by Air Station New Orleans
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