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Although National Weather Service reports predicted strong winds, high tides and high waves through Sunday that might delay the arrival of the bulk of oil slick on the Gulf Coast, some say the weather may actually push oil deep into the inlets, ponds and lakes in southeast Louisiana. Crews may be unable to effectively collect or eliminate oil because of the weather, and high waves may wash over yellow and orange collector booms strung out just off shorelines to stop…

The first known patch of oil washed up on Freemason Island, in the Chandeleur Islands chain off Louisiana’s St. Bernard Parish, Coast Guard officials reportedly said. Although small traces of oil were reported on the shores of Louisiana over the past few days, a larger more destructive part of the BP oil disaster spreading toward Gulf state shores now is beginning to arrive. The landfall, reported Thursday, also appeared off New Harbor Island, another part of the chain. Wildlife was…

Louisiana and Alabama shrimpers have filed several class-action lawsuits against BP as owners of the drilling platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, reports say. The lawsuits, according to reports, accuse the company of negligence. Suits were filed on behalf of three commercial shrimp fishermen from Louisiana and Alabama. Each lawsuit seeks economic and compensatory damages of at least $5 million, the minimum sum required by the federal Class Action Fairness Act. They also seek unspecified punitive damages. Swiss-based…

With reports of globs of what appears to be roofing tar washing up on the Chandeleur Islands off Louisiana, fresh questions about the actual cost – of both money and of natural destruction – of the Gulf Coast oil spill are on the minds of local residents. Gulf Coasters are now bracing for not just the worst oil spill in the Gulf, but what now threatens to become the worst oil spill in US history. And the well is still…

Deepwater Horizon, the owners of an oil exploration rig that sunk into the Gulf of Mexico last Thursday after a exploding into flames 50 miles off the coast of Louisiana, has rescue crews covering nearly 2000 square miles, looking for 11 missing crew members. TransOcean, the company that owns the oil rig, believes they will not be found. British Petroleum, which contracted the rig, realized almost immediately that there was the potential for a major oil spill, and crews are…