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Austin Wildfire Burns Down 476 Homes
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A huge wildfire just east of Austin has already burned down 476 houses since Sunday. Officials said that it is still out of control on Monday. April Saginor, public information officer for the Texas Forest Service, said that the Bastrop County Complex Fire has gulped up 25,000 acres so far.
The number of homes destroyed is already a record for...
Obama: Authorities Failed to Cope with Massive Oil Spill
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The massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico isn’t the only matter of concern for the Obama administration. There are tons of issues related to this incident and after a lot of pondering; President Obama stepped up to admit that the authorities failed in coping up with the issue. He also made it a point by including the federal government equally...
BP Hopes the Chamber Will Divert the flow of Oil
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In related news, we mentioned earlier that a containment vessel was being lowered in the seabed to handle the recent oil spill problem. This chamber has been lowered into the Gulf of Mexico, amidst the strict restrictions against fishing.
BP’s – Doug Suttles said that our company is positioning the 78 ton chamber – with a steel dome and concrete...
Oil Spill Is Progressing
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COCODRIE, La. — Environmental disasters are really something which can’t be dealt with so easily and nowadays the Gulf of Mexico is subject to a massive oil still that is still being taken care of right now. So far, the rough tides and strong winds are hindering the overall progress towards cleanup efforts and methods of redeeming the spill.
The...