April 30, 2010 — Barack Obama, the US president, has mobilized the military to help deal with the spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico.
Endangered birds and animals in four US states are threatened by slick that Obama, said oil giant BP is ultimately responsible for.
Experts fear the pollution could be worse than the Exxon Valdeez spill more than 20 years ago.
The first traces of oil from the slick have now reached the mouth of the Mississippi river, but out to sea, the situation is much worse.
Planes spraying dispersant chemicals on the oil slick are making little progress - while BP's crews fail to cap the ruptured well-pipe on the sea bottom and called for help from US Navy submarines.
Al Jazeera's Sebastian Walker reports from Louisiana, where shrimp fishermen fear the worst.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
US oil spill crisis continues
April 29, 2010 — The state of Louisiana's governor has declared a state of emergency due to the Deep water Horizon oil rig that exploded on April 20 and left 11 workers missing and presumed dead.
An unfolding environmental crisis resulted as the spill made its way within 20km of the US coastline by Thursday.
The spill was expected to hit land by Friday.
The US government says that it is doing everything it can to minimise environmental damage following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but says that British oil giant BP will have to shoulder the blame for the disaster.
Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports from the US state of Mississippi, where the oil threatens a number of environmental and commercial interests.
An unfolding environmental crisis resulted as the spill made its way within 20km of the US coastline by Thursday.
The spill was expected to hit land by Friday.
The US government says that it is doing everything it can to minimise environmental damage following the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but says that British oil giant BP will have to shoulder the blame for the disaster.
Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports from the US state of Mississippi, where the oil threatens a number of environmental and commercial interests.
Gulf of Mexico oil slick reaches US coast
April 30, 2010 — An oil slick that threatens to become the Americas' worst environmental disaster in decades has started to wash up along the Gulf coast.
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