BP is now spending 100ma day on efforts to clean up the Gulf of Mexico.
People ask what its like and all I can say is Its worse than you can imagine. The company announced the updated total in a news release Monday.
WASHINGTON AP You might be able to get rich quick if you can fix the BP oil spill. And I dont really want to talk about it because there is nothing I can really tell them except perhaps to relate small personal recollections or. BP Senior Vice President Kent Wells said.
HOUSTON BP says the rig drilling the relief well thats the best hope of stopping the Gulf oil spill has made it within about 20 feet horizontally of the blownout well thats gushing crude.
NEW ORLEANS AP BP says the cost of the companys response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has reached about 2. The more likely track is towards northern. The X Prize Foundation wants to make fixing the BP oil spill a multimillion dollar competition.
BELLE CHASSE La.
Tropical Storm Alex could become a hurricane over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico this week however the wind currents in that region do not favor the storm coming anywhere near the oil spill. But the rough weather also might give nature a hand in.
NEW ORLEANS Associated Press The tropical storm plowing across the Gulf of Mexico could send oil skimmers back to port and make containment booms useless even from far away.
If you think you have plenty of reasons to hate BP just be glad you arenta BP employee in the US or a British retiree. AP Billy Nungesser a rotund and feisty millionaireturnedpolitician from Louisianas bayou hasnt been afraid of taking on everyone from big oil to big government since crude started washing up on his coast.
MIAMI AP Tropical Storm Alex is gaining strength and a hurricane watch has been issued for the coasts of south Texas and northeastern Mexico. The National Hurricane Center in Miami says Alex is expected to become a hurricane.