Oil washes onto Mississippi, Louisiana coastal islands (tarballs & soft patties)

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story/Agence France-Presse

Oil washes onto Mississippi, Louisiana coastal islands

By Agence France-Presse
Saturday, May 15th, 2010 -- 11:30 am

Oil leaking from a ruptured well pipe in the Gulf of Mexico washed ashore in two new locations on Saturday, the Coast Guard said, as the latest attempt to contain the spill faltered.

Efforts to siphon leaking oil via an "insertion tube" up to a container vessel continued a day after US President Barack Obama blasted oil companies for seeking to shift blame for a growing oil slick threatening environmental disaster.

Petty Officer Erik Swanson told AFP Saturday that oil from a riser pipe that ruptured after the collapse of the Deepwater Horizon rig had been discovered in two new locations -- Whiskey Island, Louisiana and Long Beach, Mississippi.

"We sent crews to assess what type of oil, and we determined it's 'soft patties' on Whiskey Island and 'tarballs' on Long Beach," he said.



Read more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0515/oil-washes-mississippi-louisiana-coastal-islands/

[lunatica]

1. Further down in the article

"The president said he had ordered "top to bottom" reform of the Minerals Management Service, decrying the "cozy relationship between the oil companies and the federal agency that permits them to drill."

He also promised a review of compliance with environmental regulations after reports that MMS allowed BP and other oil firms to drill in the Gulf of Mexico without the required permits."

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I hope this opens the door and gets the ball rolling. Let the truth come out.

[Ticonderoga]

3. So does that

mean they'll have to stop boinking each other now, or what?

[Bitwit1234]

2. Kevin Costner and a group of investors

were on MSNBC. They showed a machine that has been developed to separate oil and water. Then the water is cleaned and it has been proven to be able to be 97% drinkable. They are working on making it 100% drinkable.

Two LA Parish have requested it be used in their Parish. If this works they are going to try to improve the size to see if they can clean up larger areas. I sure hope this thing works. But it if worth a try. Anything at this point is worth a try.

Kevin Costner is an environmentalist and is very interested in the machine. And hopes it will help in this disaster.

[Robbien]

4. What cute names they have for pollution

tarballs

soft patties

Makes it sound not dangerous or horrible at all, little balls and patties. Playthings.

[marions ghost]

5. yeah, good point, cute terms "tarballs and patties"

you can be sure they worked on the right benign descriptive labels.

Sounds a lot better than "toxic, heavy metal-laden, gooey globs."

I see scenes from 'The Blob'--that vintage sci-fi movie--pretty soon it will start oozing up from the depths and fine looking young Americans on the beach will start screaming and running for their station wagons.

This is how the movie ends:

The Blob – now an enormous mass – engulfs the diner and begins to ooze in through the windows. The occupants seek refuge in the cellar. The police try to kill the Blob by dropping a power line onto it. This fails, and only sets the diner on fire. The people are trapped inside with no hope of escape. The diner's owner uses a CO2 fire extinguisher on the fire, which also causes the approaching blob to recoil. Steve remembers the blob recoiled from the refrigerator too, and tells Lt. Dave that the Blob cannot stand cold. Jane's father Mr Martin, the school principal, takes Steve's friends to the high school to retrieve fire extinguishers which are used to freeze the blob. Dave requests an airforce jet to transport the blob to the north pole to keep it frozen. Steve muses that this solution will be fine as long as the north pole stays cold. A military plane is shown dropping the blob into an Arctic landscape.

The film ends with the words "The End", which then morph into a question mark, suggesting that the Blob may return (which it does fourteen years later - this time, to a Los Angeles suburb—in the sequel Beware! The Blob).
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(Problem with this ending--the Arctic might not be cold enough to freeze the blob now).

[IScreamSundays]

6. US oil spill spreads to new coasts

Source: PressTV

Oil spill gushing in the Gulf of Mexico has reached new locations, as renewed efforts to contain or even slow the giant leak failed to yield result again.

The US Coast Guard announced on Saturday that the oil leaking from a rig in the Gulf of Mexico has spread to two new locations, Whiskey Island, Louisiana and Long Beach, Mississippi, AFP reported.

The latest effort to contain the leak through siphoning oil via an "insertion tube" up to a container vessel was unsuccessful.

US President Barak Obama has fiercely slammed the companies responsible for the leak -- British Petroleum, Transocean and Halliburton -- for their incompetence and has warned them against "more finger pointing or irresponsibility."

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Read more: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=126615§ionid=3510203

[Mika]

7. 'Bout time our president is pointing his finger. n/t

[subsuelo]

14. Let me know when those to blame see some jail time. n/t

[time_has_come]

8. Exxon spilled 250,000 barrels, and covered 1300 miles of coastline. This is 70,000 barrels per day..

..news headlines of "oil spreads to new coasts" are going to start getting repetitive before lone, tragically.

[paparush]

9. Soon they'll add, "Oil Spreads to Other Countries"

[greiner3]

10. "Soon they'll add, "Oil Spreads to Other Countries"

Hemispheres?

[tblue]

11. I hope "fiercely slammed" becomes "grabs by the throat" soon.

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Same here, tblue

and if this gusher is still spewing by hurricane season, then what??

[Divine Discontent]

13. and we're far from overreacting here! this is a huge disaster & the ones who caused the gusher to

happen need penalized for the entire spill and the lax behaviors need ended, and specifically, the pres needs to say because of this major catastrophe, we need to change our energy needs immediately, and sue BP or kick them out of the country if they won't pay, to bring a safer energy source.

Millions of people are going to be effected slowly but surely by this damned mess.

[lib2DaBone]

15. They are acting like this is a minor problem....

This oil spill could affect food sources beyond their wildest imagination. They do not know what they are dealing with...

[live love laugh]

16. If the spill goes into international waters maybe the world court will prosecute. nt

[janx]

17. Whiskey Island was yesterday or the day before.

I don't know about Long Beach.