Amid the gloom and doom of this Summer of Oil, amid all the accusations and acrimony, weve noticed that some folks on the Emerald Coast are pausing to say kind words about those fighting the oil spill.
The kind words arent for the president, of course; in Northwest Florida he is almost universally loathed. Nor are they for the unified command�
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http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion/amid-30324-summer-doom.html
Nothing brings people together like a disaster, right?
Wrong.
America has turned down help from around 30 countries and international organizations. Obama has dismissed miracle cures from Croatia, barges from Sweden, and containment boom from various obscure allies, according to the State Department. Belgium? Denied! Israel? Denied! Qatar? Denied!
Nearly 5,000 miles from the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, BP and its culture of cost-cutting are contributing to another environmental mess.
According to internal BP documents obtained by Truthout, and after interviewing more than a dozen employees over the past month, the Prudhoe Bay oil field is at risk.
An e-mail Thursday from the Gulf Coast office of the Minerals Management Service says that "until further notice" no new drilling is being allowed in the Gulf, no matter the water depth.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/03/gulf-oil-spill-feds-halt-_n_599491.html
Rush Limbaugh took to his radio show today to claim that the Gulf oil spill is really no big deal because, "More oil is spilled every year in Africa, in Nigeria, than so far in the Gulf, so it's not unique.
It's not exceptional. It's not the largest...So yes, it's a disaster. It's not the worst of its kind." How much BP stock does Limbaugh own?
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http://www.politicususa.com/en/limbaugh-gulf-oil-spill
Ed Markey (D-Mass.), chairman of a House energy committee investigating the oil spill, slammed BP's response to the disaster in an appearance on "Face The Nation" Sunday morning.
He suggested that the oil company has misled the public about the magnitude of the spill, and warned the public not to trust what the company is saying.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/30/ed-markey-bp-lying-or-inc_n_594800.html
On a day when the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico surpassed the Exxon Valdez as the worst oil spill in U.S. history, President Barack Obama continued his verbal assault on the oil industry Wednesday � and packed a punch as well.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2010/05/24/daily43.html
Speaking at The Monitor Breakfast, Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) criticizes President Obama's handling of the Gulf oil spill and asks whether it poses a 'serious, long term problem' for Democrats.
There was a "skirmish" between BP and Transocean staff about whether to proceed with a procedure shortly before the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the rig's chief mechanic says.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37363106/ns/gulf_oil_spill/
On April 20, we witnessed one of the worst oil spills in American history, an event that has caused oil to surge into the Gulf of Mexico for weeks now.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/05/21/bauccio.fish.sustainable/index.html
Gov.
Bobby Jindal (R-LA) has done his share of balking at federal spending. But now he's asking for funds to help mitigate the economic fallout from the oil spill - just in case, of course.
Bush-era FEMA head Michael Brown accused President Obama Monday of "playing politics" with the Gulf Coast oil spill, claiming that Obama waited for the spill to worsen in order to turn public opinion against offshore drilling.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/03/michael-brown-obama-wante_n_562004.html
