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This list of links courtesy of dabhug.

-The Greater New Orleans Foundation’s Gulf Coast Oil Spill Fund.

-Another source, complete with timeline HERE.

- Huge list of resources and volunteer hotlines at NOAA.

- EPA Response to BP Spill Flood in the Gulf of Mexico.

- Deepwater Horizon Response to the oil flood.

- Louisiana's Response Efforts.

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I had a more comprehensive links list post all done up but I managed to delete most of it, so here's the simple version without my commentary. The entire thing has me upset beyond words anyway.

Gulf Oils Spill Balloons

This post on crooksandliars has several links and some backsory on why BP didn't have a specific safety device on the rig that could have ( Read more... )

The BP oil spill is already being called as bad as the 1969 Santa Barbara spill off the coast of California which prompted a moratorium on oil drilling off both the Pacific & Atlantic coasts. The inevitable scenario of the oil infiltating the already precarious balance of the delicate wetlands ecosystem which is still nowhere near recovered from ( Read more... )

The recent BP oil rig disaster, now pumping about 5000 barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico, is a major, major threat to the fragile wetlands on the coast of Louisiana. These marshes are barely beginning to recover from Hurricane Katrina; this manmade disaster threatens the area in unimaginable way environmentally and economically ( Read more... )