The New Orleans Saints plan a trip to Plaquemines Parish on Tuesday.

"These people have been a big part of our fan base. This is a way for us to be supportive of them, especially in this time," Payton said. "We will be a better team on our way back tomorrow then we are on the way there."

BP buys 'oil spill' sponsored links for search engines, ( ( Read more... )

From neworleans.com:

"NEW ORLEANS | I have obtained a copy of the almost-600-page BP Regional Oil Spill Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico as of June, 2009, thanks to an insider. Some material has been redacted, but these are the three main takeaways from an initial read. The name of the well has been redacted, but if it's not Deepwater Horizon ( Read more... )

Wait...WHAT?

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote President Obama a letter on Wednesday criticizing his decision to implement a temporary moratorium of deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico ( Read more... )

The second wave of economic hardship is beginning--first hit were the fishermen--now the tourist industry is already suffering and it will only get worse as the oil continues to wash ashore. Next up for a major hit will be the more interior wetlands on Louisiana's coast and once the oil makes its way in there, it will likely be the death of that ( Read more... )

Quelle surprise--in an unannounced move, the EPA suspended negotiations with BP over whether it would be barred from federal contracts as a result of the massive disaster caused by the oil that continues to spill into the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials at the Environmental Protection Agency are considering whether to bar BP from receiving government ( Read more... )

BP, Coast Guard Officers Block Journalists From Filming Oil-Covered Beach

So BP gives orders to the fucking Coast Guard now?


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Transocean made $270M profit from their insurance payout.

Transocean Ltd. [..], the owner of the rig leased by BP [..] which is currently leaking oil into the Gulf of Mexico, made a $270 million profit from insurance payouts after the disaster, the Sunday Times reports ( Read more... )

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The bad news on the oil drilling disaster continues.

If it gets into the Gulf Stream the entire east coast could be impacted. The Gulf Stream also heads off the coast of Ireland and past France and beyond.
How did that self-regulation go? Same old story, different industry.

Scientists are finding enormous oil plumes in the deep waters of the ( Read more... )

This is a snapshot of ocean currents in the Gulf of Mexico ( Read more... )