Coast Guard Investigating Reports of Oil Spill in Gulf

Coast Guard Investigating Reports of Oil Spill in Gulf

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.....a pilot flying over the area reported a sheen of about a half-mile long and a half-mile wide, according to Barnard. Another caller reported a much larger sheen – about 100 miles long.

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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/20/coast-guard-investigating-reports-oil-spill-gulf/

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Coast Guard begins cleanup, skimming of new oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico

http://www.examiner.com/environment...-skimming-of-new-oil-spill-the-gulf-of-mexico

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Dark Knight said:

They have no idea what it is:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelo...l-slick-as-louisiana-coastline-is-oiled-again

I bet it's the oil coming up off the bottom of the Gulf that was leftover from the BP oil spill.

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Even as officials tried to determine the source of weathered oil near Grand Isle, whole new swaths of what could be fresh surface oil have popped up on the other side of the Mississippi River, in the open water between the delicate coastal bayous and the sandy crescent-shaped Chandeleur barrier islands.

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A Houston-based oil company has accepted responsibility for a mysterious spill near Grand Isle, although it says it remains "surprised" that what it thought was a minor discharge from a long dormant well could have produced miles-long slicks.

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