Gulf Oil Spill: Mississippi Coast Hit With Tar Mats The 'Size Of School Buses'

McClatchy:

What appeared to be the largest amount of oily tar to hit the Mississippi Coast at one time was washing in from west of the Long Beach Harbor into the edge of Pass Christian late Wednesday night.

Read the whole story: McClatchy

Comments

[krizpy99]

08:55 AM on 07/09/2010

What about the tar ball on the east coast of Florida on Cocoa Beach?!?

Where's the news where's the news?

Just from some "shrimp boat" ?? Nope, those tarballs are not.

Where's the news!?@!

[ElectricFuture]

09:57 PM on 07/08/2010

OVER 1500 CLEANUP WORKERS ILL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTxx9fu5Ta8&feature=player_embedded

[mrJJ]

05:47 PM on 07/08/2010

Kevin Costner's oil skimmer to work in fouled Gulf

Source: Associated Press

PORT FOURCHON, La. — Kevin Costner's company has sent an oil-skimming vessel to help clean some of the crude that has fouled the Gulf of Mexico.

The actor told workers and visitors Thursday who had come to see the latest in the fight against the oil spill that "the machine I once dreamed of is here to help you."

The Ella G, now one of the Vessels of Opportunity, was retrofitted to receive oil and water from the skimmer, separate the oil and place it in storage tanks, and return the cleaned water to the Gulf. It had once been an offshore supply barge.

The system was built in 10 days, and BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles says the system offers many advantages. He says it can remove more oil, stay at sea indefinitely, and skim in seas up to 10 feet. Most skimmers can't work in seas higher than 4 feet.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jsBA97BcyWFKvO0q4-h5pG2arFdgD9GR43JO0

[cambo]

04:20 PM on 07/08/2010

The reporting on this is a joke. They`re showing a few tar balls yadi yada when there is so much wildlife and habitat being destroyed but they`re not showing - bp`s orders.

[Ladyrantsalot]

03:02 PM on 07/08/2010

Bu...bu....but ole Haley said there warn't nothin' ta worry about.

[mudshark12]

04:07 PM on 07/08/2010

I think he said it was like chocolate mousse, or was that some other jerk?

[gws1968]

02:56 PM on 07/08/2010

"He said the material was in large mats, floating near the bottom, and breaking up and washing onto the beach in smaller pieces."

I thought BP said this was impossible. The oil only floats on top of the water. No Plumes underwater.

Famous last words!

[lamabombpruf]

02:40 PM on 07/08/2010

Demand the MUD LOG from BP!!! Write your congress people in mass and demand that they make the BP MUD LOG of the Deepwater Horizon made available to the public.
The MUD LOG is the geological record to the strata they they crossed in the 6 mile hole they dug.. Also know that they are 10's of thousands of wells that are antiquated...whose aquifers have filled back up again and have the potential to leak..we are talking about steel and concrete infrastructure that is well deteriorated and some of it from the 1940's!!!

[planetjeffy]

02:31 PM on 07/08/2010

A new toupee for Haley?

[From the Raft]

02:26 PM on 07/08/2010

Mississippi Mud!

[IfIonlyknew]

02:13 PM on 07/08/2010

Haley Barbour: Oil? What Oil?

[Capt America]

02:06 PM on 07/08/2010

what will it take to plug this muther effer!?