Here's another look at conditions at Grand Isle and Grande Terre, Louisiana as the effort to contain the worst of the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico goes into high gear:
Kevin Clarke
Deepwater Horizon oil comes ashore at Grande Terre, La.
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Meinrad Scherer-Emunds
14 years 5 months ago
Thanks for this eye-opening on-the-scenes report, Kevin. What an awful mess!
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