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07-27-2010, 11:48 AM
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Omfg
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07-27-2010, 11:49 AM
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Was at lunch and caught the end of it on the T.V........
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07-27-2010, 11:51 AM
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Just heard bout it. Details seem scetchy right now. More ammo for the left though!
Hopefully it's an easy fix! |
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07-27-2010, 12:09 PM
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The Coast Guard says a towing vessel hit an oil well early Tuesday in a waterway north of Barataria Bay in south Louisiana and there are reports of oil spewing from the damaged wellhead. Jefferson Parish Council member Chris Roberts says oil is spewing from the well. And the Coast Guard has received reports of an oil sheen in Mud Lake, north of Barataria Bay - an area where officials have been trying to head off invasions of oil from the BP oil rig disaster to the south.
The extent of the damage and the amount of oil leaking are not yet known. |
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07-27-2010, 12:11 PM
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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 near Bayou St. Dennis, La., 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. The U.S. Coast Guard, Jefferson Parish police and fire officials, as well as Vessels of Opportunity boats have all been dispatched to the scene. Federal officials do not know who owns the well, but a contractor who handles wild wells is also on the way, Bonano said. Oil is spewing about 20 feet in the air from the severed 4-inch pipe, a contractor who flew over the leak told Fox News. The area has been evacuated and civilian boats are being told not to enter the scene, where "a fair bit of oil" is leaking out, the contractor said. 
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07-27-2010, 12:33 PM
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just messing with ya Bruce |
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07-27-2010, 12:48 PM
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The Coast Guard is responding to a new oil leak on the Gulf Coast.
This spill involves a well in a portion of Barataria Bay known as Mud Lake, near Bayou St. Dennis about 10 miles south of Lafitte, Louisiana. Although this latest spill is unrelated to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it's blocking vessels of opportunity based in Lafitte from accessing the Gulf, as officials assess air quality and other health and safety issues at the site. (Boats staged in other areas are unaffected). "It's apparent that some type of vessel has hit the well head, has laid it over," said Donald Nalty, COO of oil spill cleanup contractor ES&H, who just returned from a flyover of the site in single engine seaplane. "It's probably about a four inch casing and it's spewing out oil and natural gas." Nalty said the oil was coming out as a mist and was dusting nearby marshes. Read more: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2...#ixzz0uuGbMHdS |
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07-27-2010, 12:51 PM
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***???
 They just let us back onto Lafitte and now this BS!! 
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07-27-2010, 01:03 PM
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You do realize that Jeff Davis parish is land locked right? |
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07-27-2010, 01:21 PM
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you know why all this is happening?
because the saints won the super bowl |
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07-27-2010, 01:25 PM
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No lights
After looking at overhead pictures of the wellhead, I have good idea of what happened. This particular wellhead either doesn't have any lights to mark it at night or they're broken. I've passed this well countless times, and it's the only one not lit in the whole area. It's right off of one of the main travel lanes for the spill response out of Lafitte.
From the WWLTV website. |
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07-27-2010, 01:35 PM
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07-27-2010, 01:37 PM
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not to be picky but it is technically not land locked. Lacasinne bayou, and the Mermentau run through the borders hahaha just messing with you, i know what you mean |
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07-27-2010, 01:38 PM
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