President Obama said that the oil spill does not mean we should give up offshore drilling, but new offshore drilling leases will have to wait until safeguards are in place that would prevent a repeat of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that threatens the Gulf Coast. Within 30 days, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been [...]
It has been reported that there was an initial explosion on the Deepwater Horizon at approximately 7:00 pm on April 20th—three hours before the second, larger explosion that caused the oil rig to go up in flames. After burning for 36 hours, the oil rig sank into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Experts [...]
Late last night, the District Eight Coast Guard command center received reports of an explosion aboard the Deepwater Horizon, a Transocean semisubmersible drilling rig, off the Louisiana Gulf Coast, 52 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana. The rig was still burning early this morning and listing heavily. According to Marine Log, more than a dozen crew [...]
