Follow the North Star

Thursday, 1 July 2010, 9:38 | Category : Barack Obama, Environmentalism, immigration, People, Places, Virginia, Washington
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The New York Times has a handy oil spill tracker on-line. This is useful for making vacation plans if you’re considering a coastal retreat in the eastern U.S. . If only the pelicans, whales and dolphins could read it. Where is their Harriet Tubman? The spill is approaching being the largest oil disaster in the [...]

Eclectique Citizen: The President’s Weekly

Transcript available here. This week the President made his third trip to the Louisiana coast in lieu of a trip to Australia and Indonesia, to check on the lack of progress of BP’s next move on capping the oil pipe as well as the lack of confidence in the administration’s ability to bring BP to [...]

Watch and Weep

Friday, 28 May 2010, 20:25 | Category : Barack Obama, Environmentalism, Louisiana, Science and Technology
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This is the live feed from BP of the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve restarted the “top kill” process of shooting heavy drilling mud into the hole to essentially “plug it up.” The video source and ticker is from PBS’s Newshour. The live feed was ordered by the U.S. Government. What a [...]