Oil coating Lake Chien's marsh in Terrebonne Parish
~HOUMA~ Oil is coating parts of marsh grass in Lake Chien off the coast of Pointe-aux-Chenes, the farthest-inland area impacted in Terrebonne Parish so far.
~Alaskans paint sobering picture of oil-spill aftermath

Lafourche Parish’s eastern wetlands protected from oil
~Bayou Child

Cleanup workers report illness

Scenes of frustration
~Karen Gadbois, The Lens

The Pelican~Horatio Algeranon
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped an oil-drenched pelican of the Saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Expedite just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this piteous bird now-dying turned my former fright to crying
By the foul and stinking nature of the coat of tar it wore,
`Though thy wings be soiled and caved-in, thou,' I said,
`art sure no raven.
Ghastly grim and ancient pelican wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the pelican, `Nevermore.'

Mama Bleeding Blues ~NOLAFemmes

Geaux Home'boy Jim Carville!
~Hat Tweet~ NOLAFemmes

It Ain't My Fault!
Special Thanks~ Alejandro de los Rios, Gambit

Monkeyfister grip on Top Kill Vid
~TheOilDrum Live comment thread on the video link from the ROV monitoring the damaged riser http://su.pr/2UuKMY #oilpocalypse #BP #oilspill #peakoil
~Oil_Leaks BREAKING ABC HAS: 8 Different CAM Live Feeds of #Topkill in progress: http://digg.com/d31SDCp?t #boycottbp
~kareng Yes, the Top Kill equipment really does say "Kill" http://bit.ly/aoiDuA #oilspill

Does This Look Like a Drop in the Ocean to You?~EDF

What would a hurricane do to the BP Oil Fail?~Jeff Masters

Oil Gives Corps of Engineers Hurricane Concerns

3,700 ready to respond, corralled under armed guard
~They’ll tell you where they’re from, but otherwise they won’t comment — the hundreds of men and women who’ve been brought in to the Mississippi Coast to work on the BP oil spill.
They’re well-schooled on not talking, and each of the major deployment sites has a makeshift security-guard stand.
At BP’s “north staging” area, one of two near the industrial area off the east end of Ingalls Avenue in Pascagoula on Tuesday, the Sun Herald was greeted by an armed security guard wearing a Taser and a local police department shirt who said, “Nobody comes by here who’s not authorized. That’s all I can tell you.”

BP Like Fish in a Barrel
~Jeremy Alford, Gambit

Civil fine in BP spill could be $4,300 a barrel

BP runs full-page ads in major newspapers defending its oil fail response: “We have taken full responsibility”

Experts have their doubts on well's design~Engineering plans for the thousands of feet of pipes and joints, which BP filed with federal regulators prior to drilling, made the well particularly susceptible to a major accident, a number of industry experts say.
The design left an unobstructed path for highly pressurized natural gas to reach the wellhead should safety systems fail.

Coast Pipelines Face Damage as Gulf Oil Eats Marshes?
~National Geographic
~Looking for all the world like $ signs, or junk needle tracks,
a vast network of pipes and platforms is woven into these wetlands, and the BP Oil Fail could literally expose them to potential ruptures and wreckage, experts say.

BP Alaska pipeline shuts in on spill ~The Trans-Alaska Pipeline, partly owned by BP, shut down on Tuesday after a crude oil spill, drastically cutting supply out of Alaska's oilfields.

Why This is Obama's Katrina Moment--Literally
~Harry Shearer

Interview with FSU Oil Ecosystems Oceanographer
~FatLadySings, BPI

N.J. monitors path of BP Oil Fail

Coast Guard Fey Leader Quits... but remains to manage BPERPR