Latest Updates on the Gulf Oil Rig Disaster:

     The presidential commission investigating the accident reported that the cement used to seal the bottom of the well was tested a number of times and found unstable. BP and Halliburton, the company hired to cement the well, could have taken measures to correct the problem. They did not.

  
     Tourist beaches will be cleaned. Other uninhabited shorelines not so much as tar ball 2 inches across along with oil bands 1.2 inches thick and patchy remain on the coast as acceptable terms of agreement in SCAT – the Shoreline Treatment Implementation Framework, a new method of disbursement signed by BP, the U.S. Coast Guard and other state officials.

     Workers in the clean-up effort are becoming sick. About two weeks from the initial clean-up over seventy workers complained of symptoms including irritated throats, coughing, shortness of breath, nausea and headaches. If the symptoms resemble the Alaskan Exxon Valdez oil spill disaster why is BP ignoring requests for better equiptment?

-Julie Post