Posted on 19 July 2010. Tags: Coast Guard, disaster, Environment, oil spill, Orlando, SeaWorld, theme park, whale
ORLANDO, Florida (GlossyNews) — Wearied by weeks of fighting the horrendous Gulf oil spill, the U.S. Coast Guard mobilized today to battle a large leak from a giant whale in a SeaWorld theme park.
“This is massive,” said Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen. “An animal this size naturally produces a very big leak.”
As of this morning the leak was still spreading, Read the full story
Posted in Environment, Science
Posted on 25 May 2010. Tags: British Petroleum, Coast Guard, Exxon Valdez, FEMA, gulf of mexico, louisiana, Mississippi, oil spill
New Orleans, LA (GlossyNews) — The announcement that shipments of millions of small household pets would be soon arriving to the gulf region was met with cheers by cleanup crews who had all but exhausted local populations of coastal animals.
Clean up teams from across the area have been complaining that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was slow to act in replacing the dwindling number of terns, gulls, turtles, and other gulf creatures they had been using to sop up the growing volume of crude oil that was spewing into gulf waters at the rate of over 210,000 gallons a day. Read the full story
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