The Daily Fishkill: Round up the usual suspects

[infrogmation]

Oil is apparently now leaking from both the new well cap and multiple places on the sea floor around it. There seems not to be consensus as to how serious this is.

Picayune:BP's Kent Wells: "We're in a good position to not have a catastrophic event"

Is that reassuring?

Picayune:Hearings: BP did not suspend drilling operations after report of leaking blowout preventer

"Federal Regulation 250.451(d) states that if someone drilling in federal waters encounters "a BOP control station or pod that does not function properly" the rig must "suspend further drilling operations until that station or pod is operable.""

BP cares not for the regulations of puny mortals.

Washington Post:Louisiana constructing islands in the gulf to aid in oil cleanup

A look at the sand berms, and their science and politics.

John McCusker:Katrina Meets the Oil Spill

New Orleans photographer compares and contrasts disasters.


WDSU:Millions Of Dead Fish Wash Ashore In Gulfport, Mississippi

"Not Yet Known If Oil Spill Was Factor"

Gee, ya got some likely alternatives lurking offshore?

Comments

[plinko.livejournal.com]

It was a mass fish-suicide. Yeah.

Nothing to see here, move along

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Probably just a lucky shot by some lone nut with a cheap rifle.