Gulf oil disaster - Oil from the massive spill in the Gulf has moved into the inland waterway along coastal Alabama, prompting the U.S. Coast Guard to close Perdido Pass, the main water access route for fishermen and boaters in the popular resort town of Orange Beach. BP and the government have tried to protect the pass for weeks with thousands of feet of boom, but thick waves of oil have seeped into the pass and down the waterway, coating the marshy shoreline as it moves through.
On Thursday President Obama is scheduled to meet with the families of the 11 workers killed in the BP oil rig explosion. The meeting with the families comes as the administration sends Labor Secretary Hilda Solis to New Orleans, Louisiana, to meet with fishermen affected by the gushing oil and as Capitol Hill opens another series of hearings on the mater.
Rig workers frustrations – Workers aboard the Development Driller III in the Gulf of Mexico can't watch the news anymore. Outsiders criticizing their work, saying they’re not working fast or smart enough, it can be too much to bear. The men and women aboard this platform are drilling the relief wells that promise to be the only surefire answer to the oil disaster unfolding in the Gulf. They understand how grave the situation is. They are, after all, working on a memorial site, the place where their friends and relatives died. And they carry that weight with them everyday. CNN's Jessica Ravitz and Kyra Phillips report.
Van der Sloot - Today we're learning more about two separate cases involving Joran van der Sloot. He is a suspect in an extortion claim related to Natalee Holloway's disappearance. A federal law enforcement official told CNN that a representative for Holloway's mother who paid $25,000 for information on the whereabouts of her remains was an undercover FBI agent. However, the FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Birmingham, Alabama, said Wednesday that the FBI did not supply the money.
And in Peru, we're finally hearing from van der Sloot's attorney, Maximo Altex, who told CNN affiliate Panamericana TV that he's going to ask the judge to strike down his client's confession because he was not being properly represented when he was interrogated.
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The oil situation is just getting worse. I think it is time to take down the oil rigs and put up solar panels, convert cars from oil and gas to solar, electric, hydrogen and get the obese people on bicycles. With the amount of fat in the US, bicycles would bet a healthy alternative. Driving around in SUVs just isn't cool anymore and I wouldn't be caught dead in a hummer. Americans have no one to blame but themselves. Their thirst for oil has created the worst environmental disaster in US history. You guys should have listened to Ron Paul. He has been talking about alternatives for years. You can blame Bush, Obama or BP, but I blame the citizens who demand gas and oil and all the corrupt idiots who have totally taken advantage of this addiction. Shame on you all and stop blaming everyone else and take responsibility for your additions. I won't even get into what your addiction to drugs has created in the middle east. Wake up people!
http://www.englishtips-self-taught.blogspot.com The situation is getting out of control, it is impossible to describe how long this event is going to stop...
Check out this link for a song that address the oil spill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu-9Dob_oXw
Since the BP oil spill, as Founder & CEO of CO2toMethanol.com, (and with his 6/4/10 email calling for replacing petroleum with methanol sent to a Harvard alumni group) John M. Kocol is the first person in the world that is calling for replacing our petroleum based economy with a methanol based economy. Had methanol spilled, within just a few days, it would of completely mixed with water.
"Because of the BP oil spill, now's the time to replace our petroleum based economy with a methanol based economy." John M. Kocol's comments sent by email to a Harvard alumni group on 6/4/10.
For more information about methanol replacing oil, read MIT Technology Review: "The Methanol Economy," 3/2/06, by Kevin Bullis. This MIT article is about "Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy," by George A. Olah, winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize in chemistry.
What do you think about John M. Kocol's idea about replacing petroleum with methanol? Please send your comments to: kocol@post.harvard.edu.
John M. Kocol is Founder & CEO of USMEXenergy.com (coal2oil.com, CO2toMethanol.com are USMEXenergy.com companies) which is a veteran owned Federal Government energy contracting firm based in Washington, DC.