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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 8, 2010 at 9:27pm

This link will take you to the McClatchy website. - DG

Gulf oil spill setback: Dome doesn't work as planned
BILOXI, Miss. — Efforts to cap a leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a major setback Saturday, after ice-like crystals clogged the inside of a massive dome meant to contain an 18-day-long spill.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 8, 2010 at 9:32pm

Can't embed this in the post or the comment field, unfortunately: How Much Oil Has Leaked Into the Gulf of Mexico?

This link will take you to the Newshour website. - DG

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 9, 2010 at 8:56pm

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 11, 2010 at 4:28pm

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 11, 2010 at 6:48pm

What a bunch of fucktards!

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 11, 2010 at 5:50pm

This is our corrupt, scumbag of a Governor.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 11, 2010 at 6:46pm

Furballs to the Rescue
Your dog’s hair can help clean up the Gulf oil spill

Every day news of the expanding oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico gets worse. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil gush into bio-rich waters. Looking at satellite images and reading the stories, it’s easy to feel helpless. But there is a unique opportunity for pet owners to help out. The nonprofit charity Matter of Trust is facilitating donations of clean pet fur, mostly from groomers—as well as human hair, mostly from salons—which are woven into hair mats that are extremely effective at soaking up oil or stuffed into donated nylons to create oil containment booms for the Gulf clean up. Matter of Trust estimates that one pound of dog hair can soak up one quart of oil in one minute! I have a new respect for my dogs' furballs.

We learned about this ingenious reuse program from two participants: Pet Paradise Resort, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based pet boarding, daycare and grooming operation, with 13 locations including several along the Gulf Coast; and Camp Bow Wow, a boarding and daycare operation with more than 200 franchisees in the U.S. and Canada. Both organizations are collecting and donating hair and fur to the effort, which won’t end with this spill. There are an estimated 2,600 oil spills each year.

Copied from TheBark.com.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 14, 2010 at 8:22pm

This link will take you to Yahoo News. - DG

Where's the oil? Model suggests much may be gone
For a spill now nearly half the size of Exxon Valdez, the oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster is pretty hard to pin down.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 14, 2010 at 8:28pm

The Dispersant Discussion

YOUNG: From the Jennifer and Ted Stanley Studios in Somerville, Massachusetts - this is Living on Earth. I'm Jeff Young.

Federal officials say it's an all hands on deck, 24/7 effort against the oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. But one of the main tools to minimize the oil's impact raises its own set of problems. Some 400 thousand gallons of chemical dispersants have been sprayed on the surface and injected deep in the sea to speed breakdown of the oil. In a press teleconference EPA administrator Lisa Jackson said those dispersants have their own drawbacks and scientists aren't sure how they might affect marine life.

JACKSON: Dispersants are not the silver bullet. They are used to move us toward the lesser of two difficult environmental outcomes.

YOUNG: A 2005 report from the National Academy of Sciences concluded, "In many instances the understanding of key processes is inadequate to confidently support a decision to apply dispersants." We contacted Dr. Nancy Kinner for more on this. She directs the University of New Hampshire's Coastal Response Research Center; it's a clearinghouse for information on oil-spill response.

Listen to this story, or read the transcript at Living on Earth.

Permalink Reply by Sydni Moser on May 16, 2010 at 5:55pm

BP: Tube Is Sucking Oil From Gulf Well
by NPR Staff and Wires
May 16, 2010

Rescuers clean a brown pelican Saturday at the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Buras, La.

BP said Sunday that a mile-long tube was funneling crude from a blown well to a tanker ship after three days of wrestling to get the stopgap measure into place on the seafloor.

The contraption was hooked up successfully and sucking oil from a pipe at the blown well Sunday afternoon after being hindered by several setbacks. Engineers remotely guiding robot submersibles had worked since Friday to place the tube into a 21-inch pipe nearly a mile below the sea.

Kent Wells, BP's senior vice president for exploration and production, said during a news conference that the amount being drawn was gradually increasing, and it would take several days to measure it. Company spokesman Mark Proegler at the joint spill command center in Louisiana had initially said the tube was containing most of the oil coming from the pipe, which is contributing an estimated 85 percent of the crude in the spill.

The company has spent three weeks trying to contain the leak that's been fouling the Gulf, and the latest effort had several setbacks.

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Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 16, 2010 at 9:13pm

We're all responsible for BP's oil spill disaster
Filled up your car recently? Bought new bike tyres? Popped any pills? Then you're in part responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill...

This link will take you to The Ecologist website.

Permalink Reply by Dallas the Phallus on May 23, 2010 at 5:20pm

AARRGHHH! I want to kill these mother fuckers.

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