Posts belonging to Category Horizon Oil Spill Progress
Posted by Zach on June 22, 2010
With an oil-free week in the books so far, city leaders are still busy at work updating plans to protect East Pass and our inland waterways. “The current in East Pass is very difficult,” City Manager Greg Kisela said Monday night. “Some of the booming plans that we had in place have been dropped.” As [...]
Categories: Destin Oil Spill Updates, Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Local Action Plan and Contacts, Status of Beaches
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Posted by Zach on June 15, 2010
Update from destin and miramar beach
Categories: Destin Oil Spill Updates, Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Status of Beaches
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Posted by Zach on June 14, 2010
With the post below and talking to some captains in the area, the oil spill is still out from Destin. There are crews working to skim and collect the oil alot of boats are in service with BP from the Destin harbor. Alot of people don’t know this, we have one of the largest commercial [...]
Categories: Destin Beach Updates, Destin Oil Spill Updates, Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Status of Beaches
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Posted by Zach on June 14, 2010
No oil is in the Destin area. There have been mixed reports today here are the 2 main sources combined answer, we are not considered in the areas that have already seen oil impacts. The next 2 days will be touchy ones from what is predicted and what actually happens i will post it no matter [...]
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Posted by Zach on June 7, 2010
The cap is now keeping up to 462,000 gallons of oil a day from leaking into the Gulf, Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen said today in Washington. That’s up from about 441,000 gallons on Saturday and about 250,000 on Friday. Federal authorities have estimated the ruptured pipe is leaking between 500,000 gallons and 1 million [...]
Categories: Horizon Oil Spill Progress
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Posted by Zach on June 4, 2010
GRAND ISLE, La. (AP) — A cap collected some of the oil spewing out of the blown-out Gulf well, but black crude was still leaking into the sea, and officials said they won’t know until later Friday how the device is working. It’s the latest bid to contain — not plug — the nation’s worst [...]
Categories: Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Oil Spill Tracking Maps
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Posted by Zach on June 3, 2010
The winds have changed bringing the oil east from LA but still no effect expected in Destin as of now. Most forcast predict that we might not see large amounts of oil even if it were to come. Only time will tell the oil seems to be breaking up as it comes east towards us. Many [...]
Categories: Destin Oil Spill Updates, Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Oil Spill Tracking Maps, Status of Beaches
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Posted by Zach on June 2, 2010
We are getting mixed messages of the spill NOAA shows it a ways off the shore of Pensacola , some captains in pensacola have reported a sheen 10 miles off thier coast. There are no effects in Destin fishing boats have been out on the water and seen no sheens from Destin.The air is still [...]
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Posted by Zach on June 2, 2010
Escambia County spokeswoman Sonya Daniel said the county first got word of the oil’s proximity to Pensacola from the Unified Command in Mobile about 4 p.m. Tuesday. By the time county officials got the word, oil response contractors stationed in the Pensacola area had already begun ramping up protective measures against the impending oil. Daniel [...]
Categories: Horizon Oil Spill Progress, Oil Spill Tracking Maps, Status of Beaches
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