I spent Memorial Day weekend on the Gulf Coast. Not in NoLa with my colleagues staking out Thad Allen’s new solo briefings, but along Florida’s southern coast where my parents live. I was surprised to see the beaches more packed than I’d ever seen them. All the hotels in town were sold out, my parent’s told me, because of …
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Muddying the Oil
British Petroleum is about to try and plug the leak with a never-tried-at-this-depth procedure called a “top kill” which essentially dumps upwards of 50,000 barrels of drilling mud on top of the leak followed by cement to plug it permanently. You can watch this process live over the next two days here. The risks are that it might …