BP warning clean-up crews that a 200-foot, 2-mile oil slick is about to hit Grand Isle

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http://www.energyboom.com/policy/bp-warning-clean-crews-200-foot-2-mile-oil-slick-about-hit-grand-isle


Journalist Mac McClelland is reporting today that oil clean-up supervisors in the Gulf of Mexico have been informed by British Petroleum (NYSE:BP) that "a 200-foot-by-2-mile swath of oil is going to make landfall on Grand Isle in the next couple of days."

So much for the dream scenario that all the oil in Gulf of Mexico has somehow disappeared.
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[Oceansaway]

1. K&R...n/t

[jaxx]

2. Where is it?

That warning was 2 days ago and no one has picked up on a huge slick like that?

[xultar]

3. I thought the oil had all biodegraded faster than expcted...

:sarcasm:

[mimitabby]

9. those little microbes

I saw one of the microbes in a photo in my local paper! It ate all the oil, didn't it????

[metapunditedgy]

4. It's "business as usual" until BP execs are in jail. n/t

[chill_wind]

5. Drew Wheelan, who provided many photos to Mac McClelland

of the area in just the last 10 days (pics here)
http://motherjones.com/rights-stuff/2010/08/found-bps-supposedly-missing-oil

and as someone very much there, had this to say a few days ago about conditions still ongoing:

Forcing the Media's Hand

As the media ignores the atrocities here in the Gulf and moves on to more important issues like Roger Clemens committing perjury I have been at my whits end trying to figure out a way to help the people and the wildlife of the Gulf. Massive amounts of oil remain on the beaches of the Gulf, and since the clean up efforts have been pared down to almost nothing I would say that more oil is on the beaches now than ever before, as it continues to roll in on a daily basis. Much of this oil has never seen a BP shovel, and it is quite clear that the responsible party never intended to clean it up, and that our government never intended to hold them accountable.

I'm not sure if this is a legitimate thing to do, but I devised a plan that if I contacted the media and showed them all of my irrefutable evidence of the oil, and BP's lack of effort to clean it up, and also publicized the fact that they were contacted and now know about this, they would have no choice but to report on it. I hope it works. At least you know now that all of the media knows exactly what is going on down here and we can just hope that the amount of money BP has paid to run their advertisements constantly isn't enough to buy real journalism.

Drew Wheelan
For Immediate Release
Gulf Conservation Coordinator
The American Birding Association

http://birding.typepad.com/gulf/2010/08/forcing-the-medias-hand.html

[chill_wind]

6. 5 years later in NOLA, WaPO has to "go searching" for traces of Katrina destruction.

"When I was in New Orleans this May, I was dumbstruck by the extent of its physical recovery. I could remember the terrible silence of Katrina's aftermath, but now I had to go looking for traces of its destruction."

Sunday, August 22, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082002125.html

hat-tip to Mac's Twitter page on which she asks :wtf: http://twitter.com/macmcclelland

When the corp media decides it's ready to move on, it really moves on, doesn't it?

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. K & R

[suffragette]

8. K&R