Also, community rallies around Ithaca police officer whose house was set on fire, and poll shows nearly three-quarters of New York residents support medical marijuana.
View full sizeA pelican cleans its feathers while resting on oiled shrubs on Cat Island off the coast of Louisiana on Tuesday.From The New York Times:
ABOARD THE RESOLUTE, 40 miles off Louisiana — Workers on surface ships continued to flare gas and oil on Wednesday at the site of BP’s runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico after officials announced that a critical pressure test on the well would be postponed.Kent Wells, a senior BP vice president, said scientists from the industry and government were reviewing the test procedures. “This test is so important that a decision was made to give them another 24 hours,” he said at a Wednesday morning briefing in Houston. “We don’t want to end up with a test with inconclusive results.”
He said that drilling of a relief well that is considered the ultimate solution to stopping the gusher would be halted during the test as a precaution.
» Read the story: U.S. Delays Test of Device That Could Seal Gulf Well
» Blow-out fears hit BP efforts to seal leak [Financial Times of London]
» Oil spill muddies bank M&A in U.S. Gulf [Reuters]
» A good energy strategy doesn't fit in a slogan [The Washington Post]
» BP oil spill has already altered the food web, putting future of Gulf marine life in jeopardy [New York Daily News]
In other news:
» Community rallies behind Ithaca police officer whose home was set ablaze [centralny.ynn.com]
» NYC lawyer petitions to force a primary against Gillibrand for U.S. Senate seat [The Auburn Citizen]
» Seaway reopens after oil cleanup [Watertown Daily Times]
» Syracuse signs deal with HUD for 9 apartment buildings for $9 [centralny.ynn.com]
» Six teenagers charged in gang attack, fight in East Utica [Utica Observer-Dispatch]
» Poll: Nearly 70 percent of Upstate New Yorkers support medical marijuana [pressconnects.com]