Oil spill closes stretch of beach in Florida
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June 26, 2010, Saturday
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MORE evidence of the massive oil spill has washed ashore along the Gulf Coast for residents who don't need any more reminders of their frustration over failed efforts to stop crude gushing from a blown-out undersea well.
In Florida, officials closed a 400-meter stretch of Pensacola Beach not far from the Alabama line when thick pools of oil washed up, the first time a beach in the state has been shut because of the oil spill. A large patch of oil oozed into Mississippi Sound, the fertile waters between the barrier islands and mainland of a state that has mostly been spared.
The news came as a cap collecting oil from the well was back in place after a deep-sea robot bumped it and engineers concerned about escaping gas removed it for about 10 hours on Wednesday. Even before that latest setback, the government's worst-case estimates suggested the cap and other equipment were capturing less than half the leaking oil.
BP's pronouncements that it would soon be able to collect more spewing oil have "absolutely no credibility," Jefferson Parish councilman John Young said. The latest problem shows "they really are not up to the task and we have more bad news than we have good news."
"Our intent is to restore the Gulf the way it was before it happened," BP managing director Bob Dudley, who has taken over the company's spill operations, said in Washington.
BP said it was gradually ramping back up to capture about 2.7 million liters a day with the cap, and burning off an additional 1.7 million liters a day.
In Florida, officials closed a 400-meter stretch of Pensacola Beach not far from the Alabama line when thick pools of oil washed up, the first time a beach in the state has been shut because of the oil spill. A large patch of oil oozed into Mississippi Sound, the fertile waters between the barrier islands and mainland of a state that has mostly been spared.
The news came as a cap collecting oil from the well was back in place after a deep-sea robot bumped it and engineers concerned about escaping gas removed it for about 10 hours on Wednesday. Even before that latest setback, the government's worst-case estimates suggested the cap and other equipment were capturing less than half the leaking oil.
BP's pronouncements that it would soon be able to collect more spewing oil have "absolutely no credibility," Jefferson Parish councilman John Young said. The latest problem shows "they really are not up to the task and we have more bad news than we have good news."
"Our intent is to restore the Gulf the way it was before it happened," BP managing director Bob Dudley, who has taken over the company's spill operations, said in Washington.
BP said it was gradually ramping back up to capture about 2.7 million liters a day with the cap, and burning off an additional 1.7 million liters a day.
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