Personal Injury Law

Florida Beaches are threatened as Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill travels despite new cap move

By LaBovick Law

The Florida Pan Handle beaches are threatened as the BP oil slick moves closer. The latest attempt to control the seafloor gusher is risky. Even if it works, the current mission to cut a major pipe and cap it would not stop the oil flow. If it fails, it could make the Deepwater Horizon oil spill even worse. The new maneuver, called a top kill, failed Saturday, when engineers were unable to plug it with heavy mud. A permanent fix is not expected until August. 

Investors are not giving the Oil Giant BP a second chance, as the BP stock declined a second day after reactions to the top kill failure and the Justice Department's announcement of  criminal and civil probes into the spill, although no specific targets for prosecution were named.

Since the Oil Spill Started after the April 20th explosion, BP has lost $75 billion in market value and are expected to lose billions as the damage claims escalate. There are no sympathies for this corporation. The impact and the devastation on the lives and environment that this oil spill tragedy has caused is heart breaking.  

Officials in Florida, officials confirmed an oil sheen about nine miles from Pensacola beach, where the summer tourism season was just getting started. Emergency crews scoured the beaches for oil and shoring up miles of boom. County officials will try and block oil from reaching inland waterways but plan to leave beaches unprotected because they are too difficult to protect and easier to clean up.

According to Keith Wilkins, deputy chief of neighborhood and community services for Escambia County "It's inevitable that we will see it on the beaches,"

The oil has been spreading in the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on April 20th,  killing 11 workers and eventually sinking. BP, the largest oil and gas producer in the Gulf operated the rig. 

Click on the following link to read more from the Associated Press  - Oil nears Fla. beaches as BP tries risky cap move
 

Full post as published by LaBovick Injury Law Blog on June 02, 2010 (boomark / email).