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Damage Assessment On Gulf Oil Spill Spurs Scientists To Debate
The White House has recently released their damage assessment on the oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico and the contents of which have prompted several scientists to a war of words with each other. According to the report, about 4.9 million barrels of oil that have seeped out into the gulf could [...]
BP Oil-Siphoning Can Go South – Tropical storm Alex in Gulf of Mexico
A tropical depression system gathering strength in the western Caribbean could be the latest bad news for Coast Guard officials, BP crews, and the entire clean-up team to contain and clean up the massive oil spill in the Gulf, an operation that has been plagued with setbacks for more than two months. National Hurricane Center [...]
Drilling Ban Overturned; White House To Appeal
Amidst strong resistance from several quarters, a federal judge in New Orleans overturned a six month suspension on deep-water drilling projects. It is to be noted that after the infamous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the Obama government imposed a six months moratorium on the further ongoing deep water drilling projects. The White House has decided to appeal against the ruling.
US Government Refused Help on Oil Spill
BP and people of United States are in a race against time to put an end to the immense Gulf of Mexico oil spill, United States government stated that Monday it has received aid offers from different countries around the world, which includes 17 countries and four international bodies. Recently, diplomats from different nations are [...]
Obama’s Show Of Solidarity With Gulf Coast Businesses
President Barack Obama visited Mississippi Gulf Coast of Monday to express solidarity with business owners of this tourism hot spot, affected recently by Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Help for affected businesses along Gulf Coast will form an important part of his discussion with BP executives on Wednesday, he said after he was told by a hotel owner that his business had dropped by 40 percent.
“There’s still a lot of opportunity for visitors to come down here. There are a lot of beaches that have not been affected and will not be affected,” Obama said after a meeting with Govs Haley Barbour, R-Miss. and Bobby Jindal, R-La. “If people want to help, the best way to help is to come down here and visit,” he added.
Tourists Dissert Alabama Beaches
As thick, black oil begins to wash beaches in Alabama on Saturday, tourists seem to have found elsewhere to go. Baldwin County on Alabama’s coast annually attracts about 4.6 million visitors, who spend about $2.3 billion, according to an estimate by the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Orange Beach and neighboring Gulf Shores, which boast of some of the whitest beaches in the world, account for most of this income. On Saturday, a long stretch of beach on Gulf Shores was covered with thick brown oil, with clean-up crews piling the puddle and tar balls in garbage bags.
Ban On Deepwater Drilling Temporary: Salazar
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Wednesday that the ban imposed by the Obama administration on deepwater drilling in the wake of one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history is temporary. Salazar said this to allay concerns raised by lawmakers and industry experts that the ban would harm the economy and result in job loss.
At the same time Salazar informed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that safety must be ensured before the activities are allowed to resume. The six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling is necessary to put in place new safeguards and standards in environmental protections, so that the oil spills like the one in the Gulf of Mexico recently don’t recur, he said while defending the ban.
Oil Spill Shadows Gulf Coast Vacations
The Deepwater Oil spill has cast its dark shadows on Gulf Coast’s flourishing tourism industry. With oil blobs beginning to wash many white sand beaches of Florida, the spill poses a serious challenge to the economy of this State, already reeling under a severe fiscal crisis.
The slick arrived in Florida on Friday as reddish and black blobs of oil were found on the white sands of Santa Rosa Island.