Riveting testimony on oil rig rescue effort~Also see this hard piece by Mark Schleifstein and Bob Bea

Tight Security at Oil Spill Hearing in New Orleans

~Rep. Henry Waxman says that his committee's investigation into the Gulf of Mexico oil spill reveals that a key safety device, the blowout preventer, had a leak in a crucial hydraulic system.
The California Democrat said in a hearing Wednesday that the investigation also discovered that the well had failed a negative pressure test just hours before the April 20 explosion. He cited BP documents received by the Energy and Commerce Committee that showed there was a breach in the well integrity that allowed methane gas and possibly other hydrocarbons to enter the well.

Bayou Buzz BP Oil Spill Update:
New Orleans Port, MS River, Fishing Open, LA Business

Bird’s Eye View: Another GRN Flyover BP Disaster Site
~Gulf Restoration Network

~NW photog in New Orleans snaps shots of birds threatened by BP Oil Disaster Crime

Tar balls reported in at South Pass in Plaquemines Parish

Lafourche oyster harvesting area one of 2 closed
~Oil cleanup supplies needed west of Mississippi River, Gov. Bobby Jindal says

BP Disaster Begins To Affect Anglers~Each year 3.2 million recreational anglers make about 24 million fishing trips out into the Gulf of Mexico, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In addition, commercial fishermen take a billion pounds of finfish and shellfish annually from the gulf, says NOAA. All of that is in severe jeopardy these as the BP drilling disaster worsens. Already tar balls have washed up on Alabama beaches. Florida boaters are preparing for the worse, as the USCG says that the oil slick could make its way there in 10 days with the right weather patterns.

Governor's Office of HSEP ~Please click to enlarge map.

BP Oil Disaster affects local economy ~St Tammany News

Federal hearings on blast open in Kenner

Polluters have had enough of law clinics ~James Gill

'Cleanup is not rocket surgery'

Lawrence firm monitors safety in oil spill cleanup~A Lawrence-based engineering firm is busy helping a multinational petroleum company clean up — safely — after one of the world’s largest and ongoing oil spills. EMR Inc., 3200 Haskell Ave., is providing dozens of safety monitors to observe and advise hundreds of workers who are struggling to contain, clean up after and otherwise deal with massive amounts of oil spewing daily from an underwater well that’s been leaking since an explosion April 20.

Make Wetlands Not Oil on'da Dirty Coast



WWOZ Presents Gulf Aid

Musicians Respond to Gulf Oil Spill with Texting Campaign, Benefit Concert
~"Music for Relief is working with Voice of the Wetlands on a response encouraging people to make donations now for wetlands restoration that will take place later, after the cleanup," according to MFR's Whitney Showler.

In the midst of it all, Jefferson Parish President Steve TheRIOT gets Penis Envy
~Files Lawsuit -on Tax-Payers dimes- against 100 JOHN D'OHs who have offended his manhood such as it is ahem!
Offended Is TheRIOT! Embarrassed Is TheRIOT!
What a Fuckless Corrupt Self-Centered Useless RIOT Is TheRIOT!!!