The Cardinal

An ExxonMobil pipeline that runs under the Yellowstone River near Billings ruptured and dumped an unknown amount of oil into the waterway, prompting temporary evacuations along the river Saturday morning. The rupture occurred Friday night about 12 miles east of Billings, Montana. Experts estimate up to 42,000 gallons of crude seeped into the Yellowstone River. [...]

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Just when it seemed Gulf residents couldn’t get any more outraged about the massive oil spill fouling their coastline, word came Saturday that BP’s CEO was taking time off to attend a glitzy yacht race in England. “It’s disturbing for the simple fact that there’s a problem that needs to be fixed, and he needs [...]

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We care about the small people. I hear comments sometimes that large oil companies or greedy companies that don’t care, but that is not the case indeed at BP. We care about the small people. Carl-Henric Svanberg (born May 29, 1952) is a Swedish businessman and current Chairman of BP. Svanberg holds a Master’s degree [...]

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MSNBC Trashes Obama’s Address: Compared to Jimmy Carter, ‘I Don’t Sense Executive Command’ AND enough MERITOCRACY to make you barf. Why does he (Obama) continue to say that the Secretary of Energy has a Nobel prize? … I’d barf if he’d do it one more time. – Chris Matthews, MSNBC Meritocracy is a system of [...]

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Associated Press reporter Harry Weber is on the ship that carried the containment box that could stop much of the oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. Weber describes how the box was lowered onto the ruptured well. BP announced the containment box was on the sea floor in the Gulf of Mexico. The box [...]

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Gulf Shores in Alabama is often referred to as the ‘redneck riviera.’ But now its otherwise carefree residents and visitors are worried about the recent oil spill. They’re hoping it won’t mean the end of their ‘beautiful’ shoreline. View Larger Map View Larger Map Gulf Shores is one of three seaside resorts in the state [...]

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A sense of doom settled over the Gulf Coast as a massive oil slick spewing from a ruptured well kept growing. Experts warned that it could become a nightmare if the Gulf Stream carries it toward the Atlantic. Boothville, La. is home to a large community of Vietnamese fishermen. The oil spill has forced them [...]

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The U.S. Coast Guard begins burning oil leaking from the site of an offshore oil rig that exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico. The Environmental Protection Agency EPA.gov website (see also deepwaterhorizonresponse.com) is providing information regarding the April 20 incident in the US Gulf of Mexico involving a Transocean drilling Rig Deep Water [...]

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Crews raced to protect the Gulf of Mexico coastline Monday as a remote sub tried to shut off an underwater oil well that’s gushing 42,000 gallons a day from the site of a wrecked drilling platform. Oil is gushing from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico a deep water well exploded about one week [...]

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