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Oil Spill – June 12 – anxiety about effects of spilled oil
BP told to step up containment, WSJ, June 12. The U.S. has given BP PLC two days to devise a more aggressive plan for containing oil leaking from its damaged deepwater well into the Gulf of Mexico, as...
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Oil Spill Disaster – July 23
For Oil Spill Victims, Fair Compensation Requires a Crystal Ball; Gulf Residents Will Need to Predict Future Damages, in The Washington Independent. July 22. According to a colleague who is doing...
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Oil Spill Disaster – July 27 – more second thoughts
Could Oil Spill Debacle be Fatal to NIMS/ICS? Opinion piece in Emergency Management, July 20. Experienced responders comment on whether or not NIMS and ICS were used as intended for the oil spill...
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Oil Spill Disaster – July 30 – commercial fishing to resume
Two news articles about the resumption of fishing off the LA coast: Commercial fishing east of Mississippi River could reopen this week; and another account in Bloomberg News. The decision to resume...
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BP Oil Spill–New Spill Estimates: almost 5 million barrels
New spill estimates released August 2 suggest that 4.9 million barrels of oil (give or take 10%), or 205,000,000 gallons have been released from the Deepwater Horizon oil well. Of that, they estimate...
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Oil Spill Update – -Not all clear just yet
NOAA issued a major report on August 4, titled Federal Science Report Details Fate of Oil from BP Spill. The full text of that report ( 5 pages) is available here. Nevertheless, other scientists are...
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Oil Spill – focus shifts to long-term effects
Worries about recovery come to the foreground, now that the well has been capped. See As oil spill cleanup shifts gears, gulf residents fear they’ll be forgotten. The [LA] state government said this...
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