When this operation started, we were controlling all skimming and in-situ burning operations out of the Incident Command Post in Houma, Louisiana, which has responsibility for the area where the well is at.
You might have read over Thanksgiving weekend a piece by friend-of-the-blogger Martha Irvine of The Associated Press, who wrote about the continually recession-proof industry of youth sports, an economic engine that shows no sign of burning out thanks to ever-more parents throwing bigger and bigger piles of money into stove to stoke its fire.
RWE, for example, is dropping dark hints about scrapping a DM4.5 billion project to build a coal-burning power plant in the north-west, wiping out 14, 000 new jobs a blow in a country where unemployment is nearly 11%.