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May 18, 2010

CL – Barbour may be right to veto Windpool, coast residents should pay for it themselves

CL – Barbour may be right to veto Windpool, coast residents should pay for it themselves Barbour’s second Windpool veto isn’t popular, but does face hard realities about Gulf Coast insurance rates. At some point, insurance subsidies have to stop and long-term fixes like more stringent construction standards and mandatory improvements to existing structures have…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
May 18, 2010

chron.com – BP prepares for ‘top kill’ to plug well

BP prepares for ‘top kill’ to plug well BP is siphoning up to 1,000 barrels of oil a day from the undersea leak in the Gulf of Mexico and hopes to double that while workers close in on another attempt to shut down the well for good. A flexible tube inserted into one section of…