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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/27/boat-crashes-oil-creating-new-spill-gulf-mexico/





DEVELOPING: Fox News is being told by the Homeland Security director for Jefferson Parish, La., that a new oil leak has sprung up in the Gulf of Mexico after a boat struck an oil well in the early morning hours on Tuesday.

A tugboat or other workboat collided with the well, shearing off its valve structure and releasing pressurized natural gas and light oil, DHS official Deano Bonano told Fox News.

Cleanup workers are currently booming off the area and the scene at sea has been taken over by federal agents. A contractor who handles wild wells is also on the way, Bonano said.

Federal officials do not know who owns the well, which is being approached by the U.S. Coast Guard, Jefferson Parish police and fire officials, as well as Vessels of Opportunity boats that conduct surface skimming operations.

Oil is spewing about 20 feet in the air from the severed 4-inch pipe, a contractor told Fox News. The area has been evacuated and civilian boats are being told not to enter the scene, the contractor said.







My question is, why was a well head setting so shallow/close to boat traffic?

[BillyVance 35]

How well was the well head marked? If there was no indication there was a well head there, then whoever capped it and left it, fucked up. If it was clearly marked as a danger and for boats to avoid it, then the boat's operator fucked up.

I guess that's my take on it.

"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban

[rhaig 0]

at least this one will be easier to fix

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Rob

[skymiles 3]

My question: Has Fox blamed Obama yet? If not, what is taking them so long?

[rhaig 0]

I believe they're waiting for someone to blame it on Bush

:)

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Rob

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I believe they're waiting for someone to blame it on Bush

:)

No
Cheney

"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

[kelpdiver 2]

Was this Greenpeace at work?

[Andy9o8 3]

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Was this Greenpeace at work?

Close: it was Japanese whalers.
Fuckers. You'd-a thought their ass-whipping woulda lasted longer. Time to learn 'em again.

[Andy9o8 3]

Obviously a developing story. This article says the well was owned by the state.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/us/28leak.html

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Another Oil Leak Is Spotted in the Gulf
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON

NEW ORLEANS — A wellhead in southeastern Louisiana was spewing oil up to 20 feet into the air on Tuesday morning, local officials said, at least the third unrelated oil leak in the area since the Deepwater Horizon spill began 99 days ago.

The well, owned by the state, is in Barataria Bay, about 65 miles south of New Orleans. By Tuesday afternoon, a reddish brown sheen 50 yards by one mile long was spotted near the well, according to a spokeswoman for the Coast Guard.

The wellhead is believed to have burst after being hit by a dredge barge that was being pushed by a tug boat in Barataria Bay, though the details were being investigated, said Petty Officer Tom Atkeson of the Coast Guard’s Eighth District.

A clean-up crew from a company in nearby Houma that is already involved in the Deepwater Horizon spill response was dispatched to the area, and a Coast Guard helicopter was surveying the spill. About 6,000 feet of boom was placed around the spill.

There is no indication of how much oil has leaked from the wellhead, though WWL, a local television channel, reported that it seemed to be spewing mostly gas by midday.