BP-idled Cleanup Boats Delayed Over Lack of Authority, BeePCEO Tony Coward: Talk to the Hand!
~Sandy Davis
~BeePCEO
Tony Coward asks members of the media to step back Monday as he walks along Fourchon Beach in Port Fourchon.
Back! he bays,
Bloody Press!
A fleet of boats under BP’s control sat idle this weekend as Jefferson Parish officials begged for the company’s help when a thick brown slick of oil threatened to enter two passes leading into Barataria Bay. BP officials in Grand Isle told Chris Roberts, a Jefferson Parish councilman, and other parish and city officials they did not have the authority to order the boats into action. “They said they were waiting for some direction from their people in Houma,” Roberts said. “But they never got it.”
Oil poured onto and past Grand Isle. But the boats never moved, Roberts said. Finally between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Saturday, parish and city officials decided they could not wait any longer.
“We commandeered the boats and brought them out to the area where they needed to be and got things moving,” Roberts said.
Editilla sayz: Sinn Féin, Louisiana.

BP'S Shocking Memo
~Daily Beast
~A document obtained by The Daily Beast shows that BP, in a previous fatal disaster, increased worker risk to save money.
Are there parallels with the Gulf explosion?

BP now saying "top kill" on well could be delayed again~Hat Tip~KG
~BP will cut video feed for top kill, congressman says

Seize BP.org
• New Orleans, La: Sunday, May 30, 1-7:30pm @ Jackson Square, French Quarter
• New York City: Friday May 28, Flash Protest, 6-6:30pm, Houston St. @ Lafayette Park
  

Transocean Can’t Cap Spill Liability, Lawyers Say

BP Oil Fail could spur consolidation: banksharks

Lafourche Parish Receives $1 mil from BP~Bayou Child

Gulf Tides: Monitoring the BP Oil Drilling Disaster ~GRN

iRobot UUV is monitoring gulf oil spill~Researchers in the Gulf of Mexico have deployed Seaglider to locate and monitor large clouds of dispersed oil droplets believed to be at depths of approximately 700 meters (2,296 feet). Seaglider can provide up to 10 months of continuous operation, and data can be transmitted via satellite several times each day to anywhere in the world using an Internet-connected device.

BP / Gulf Oil Spill - 39 Million Gallons And Growing~SkyTruth
~The MODIS / Terra satellite image of the Gulf taken yesterday (May 24, 2010) is a relatively cloud-free look at the ongoing oil spill in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Areas covered by oil slick and sheen are marked with a solid orange line. Areas where we think there may be slicks and sheen, but our analysis is of lower confidence, are shown by dashed orange lines. All together, slicks and sheen are possibly covering as much as 28,958 square miles (75,000 km2). That's an area as big as the state of South Carolina
It's Day 35 of this fatal incident. Our estimated spill rate of 1.1 million gallons (26,500 barrels) per day, now on the conservative end of the scientific estimates, leads us to conclude that almost 39 million gallons of oil have spilled into the Gulf so far.
~Editilla Plays Hella~New Game! Compare this BP Monster to the size of each of our States as it grows ever larger to engulf the entire country! Next, God Fearing Texas? Soon, Been-there-done-that-and-still-have-ruin-to-show-for-it Big Alaska?
And the BP Coast Guard's Fey Thad "All Hands On My Deck" Allen says Bow to the Queen? Yoooohohoho!

Little change to 90L ~Wunderblog

Gulf Coast chefs, fishermen fight tide of misinformation

BP Oil Spill Nightmare May Impact Chesapeake Seafood

N.J. monitors Gulf oil spill in case slick reaches East Coast

~Federal Fisheries Closures May 25, effective 6:00pm EST

“Humor is everywhere, in that there’s irony in just about anything a human does.”
~Alex Woodward Gambit
~Explore an underwater oil rig in the Aquarium’s Gulf of Mexico exhibit — the largest exhibit at Audubon Aquarium of the Americas.

Coast Guard should not get too cozy with BP ~Stephanie Grace

Boats moored by the BP oil spill, a long-threatened community of black fishers fears for its future
~Brentin Mock, The Lens

Gulf region MMS employees accepted gifts, food, tickets at oil and gas company expense
~Mark Schleifstein

GREENPEACE activists arrested in Port Fourchon
~THIBODAUX~
Port Fourchon Harbor Police officers arrest a Greenpeace activist that climbed aboard the Harvey Explorer offshore service vessel this afternoon in Port Fourchon.
The seven envir- activists were arrested at Port Fourchon today after boarding an offshore service ship and painting messages protesting drilling in the Arctic Ocean.
The group claims the vessel, which is owned by New Orleans-based Harvey Gulf International, is leased to Shell and is preparing to depart in support of drilling off the Alaskan coast this summer, which environmental groups have opposed.

The seas connect us all, Tony Coward: A letter to the editor

How the Oilspill Can Affect Your Health ~NOLAFemmes

Louisiana Fishermen Helping in Spill Cleanup Report Getting Sick

Alaskan residents visiting coastal Louisiana~The residents and the visitors will share common concerns about coastal land loss and the impact on community ecosystems from oil contamination.
All will participate in an annual conference about socioeconomic research on coastal systems, hosted by the LSU Center for Natural Resource Economics and Policy, Thurs in New Orleans.
~Editilla Crowtellas~LSU's Gets Barrels of BP Funding.

White House in Denial; Public Wants Real Action on BP Oil Disaster NOW ~FDL

Tab Benoit When a Cajun Man Gets the Blues
~Georgianne Nienaber
~The Louisiana Delta, shorelines and marine sanctuaries from Grand Isle to the Florida Keys are in peril, but the men and women profiled in this article are not giving up. New roots singers have joined with their voices. Sadly, this account will not be "outdated" for decades to come. - GN

Birds call to me, they call, they call to me, they call so deep.
I gotta feel it all no time for sleep, no time at all.
When they call they call to me. They call so deep.
I gotta feel it all no time for sleep, no time at all"
PHOTO BY TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE
~A brown pelican struggles to fly with a heavy coating of crude oil near Cat Island in eastern Barataria Bay, Monday, May 24, 2010. The vast majority of the other pelicans on the island seem protected by a double and triple layer of boom material.

Helpless Victims of the spill
~Thanks Katrina

Zoos and Aquariums on Oil Alert

Slideshow: Gulf Wildlife in Peril From Oil Spill ~EDF
~Kemp’s ridley hatchling: The rarest of sea turtles

A catastrotree falls in the forest?
~Horatio Algeranon
~Sometimes that
~Which you cannot see
~Turns out to be
~A catastrophe.

Oyster moves to The Lens
~Your Right Hand Thief


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