GULF OIL DISASTER
BP/Gulf Oil Spill – Any Backup Containment Devices Ready?
http://blog.skytruth.org/2010/06/bp-gulf-oil-spill-any-backup.html
How Important is Gulf of Mexico Oil?
http://www.theenergywatch.com/2010/06/24/343/
Pew Research/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll, sponsored by the Society for Human Resource Management
http://www.pollingreport.com/energy.htm
DEEP WATER DRILLING MORATORIUM
Judge Won’t Stay Drilling Decision
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/us/25spill.html
Jindal keeps up push against drilling moratorium
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/24/1698486/jindal-keeps-up-push-against-drilling.html
U.S. Chamber energy chief: Lift drilling moratorium
http://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/stories/2010/06/21/daily40.html
WILDLIFE, HUMAN and ECOSYSTEM IMPACTS
Gulf oil leak threatens baby turtles' food
HANDS ACROSS THE SAND
Hope That Spill Will Bring Change (CNN video report)
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/06/24/costello.gulf.environment.cnn
Offshore Drilling Foes to Stage Global Demonstrations (NY Times)
ALASKA
BP's Liberty Oil Well in Alaska to Face New Safety Rules
FLORIDA
Crist during Delray Beach visit pushes for more skimmer ships, oil drilling referendum
USF official: Oil seen near Jacksonville
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/jun/24/na-usf-official-oil-seen-near-jacksonville/
"Some of the tar balls may start showing up on the east coast as far as Jacksonville," Bill Hogarth, dean of the College of Marine Science at USF, told members of the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Association in a telephone conference call. Satellite imagery interpreted by researchers at USF shows the oil continues to be a part of the loop current, the conveyor belt of water that dips from the Gulf and into the Florida Straits before traveling up the east coast as part of the Gulf Stream.”
