{"id":13181,"date":"2015-04-21T07:56:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T11:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2015-04-21T07:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T11:57:11","slug":"in-memoriam-gulf-bp-disaster-5-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/in-memoriam-gulf-bp-disaster-5-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam Gulf BP Disaster 5 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RigRag.001\"<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

WORD SWARM APRIL 20 2010<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

joint military operation <\/span><\/p>\n

Iraqi American forces killed two senior al-Qaeda leaders <\/span><\/p>\n

Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi <\/span><\/p>\n

News broke explosion at 11 p.m. EST on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig<\/span><\/p>\n

safe house in Thar-Thar in the province of Salaheddin<\/span><\/p>\n

umbrella group, Islamic State of Iraq<\/span><\/p>\n

radical Sunni militant groups<\/span><\/p>\n

General Raymond Odierno said significant blow to al-Qaeda <\/span><\/p>\n

24 people killed 2 separate suicide bombing attacks in Peshawar <\/span><\/p>\n

A schoolboy victim attacks take death toll to 73 in three days, after two blasts in the city of Kohat killed 49 people during the weekend<\/span><\/p>\n

News broke an explosion occurred at 11 p.m. EST on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake hit Western Australian mining town <\/span><\/p>\n

Kalgoorlie-Boulder this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n

Long Island\u00a0 <\/span>teen guilty of murdering Ecuadorian immigrant Marcelo Lucero. <\/span><\/p>\n

Toyota pays a record $16.4 million fine to the US government over allegations that the automaker concealed defects in its vehicles \u2014 sticky pedal<\/span><\/p>\n

NATO service members died bomb attack army base southern Afghanistan.<\/span><\/p>\n

death toll of foreign soldiers in 2010 to 166 in Afghanistan<\/span><\/p>\n

McLaren driver Jenson Button won the Chinese Grand Prix <\/span><\/p>\n

re-open the skies over Europe<\/span><\/p>\n

ash from a volcano in Iceland<\/span><\/p>\n

a high pressure here and a low pressure there<\/span><\/p>\n

News broke that an explosion occurred at 11 p.m. EST on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico southeast of Venice<\/span><\/p>\n

the jet stream came down, spun around, & then went back up through the Straits of Gibraltar<\/span><\/p>\n

amphibians, reptiles, mammals, bird and fish species<\/span><\/p>\n

Remembering Columbine 11 years ago<\/span><\/p>\n

celebrate National Park Week<\/span><\/p>\n

largest subtropical wildnerness<\/span><\/p>\n

showdown Senate financial reform<\/span><\/p>\n

Zephyrs top Express in 11 innings<\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s Money Word is deflation<\/span><\/p>\n

BIG Oil Rig Explosion Off Louisiana Coast, 11 to 15 People Missing, Infernal Blaze<\/span><\/p>\n

trust leaked away with the Tritium<\/span><\/p>\n

bar NEPA analysis of climate change impact<\/span><\/p>\n

Being fat is bad for your brain<\/span><\/p>\n

erratic, potentially fatal heart rhythms <\/span>defibrillator responsibility <\/span>the Guidant Corporation <\/span><\/p>\n

short-circuit and fail<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNobody is being held accountable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Google criticized privacy practices<\/span><\/p>\n

the privacy rights of the world\u2019s citizens forgotten<\/span><\/p>\n

stricter enforcement of title IX<\/span><\/p>\n

Twain\u2019s last words<\/span><\/p>\n

Best Nonholiday Quarter for Apple<\/span><\/p>\n

Taliban sniper fire <\/span>lethality rates drop<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Steele \u201cLife is killing me\u201d is dead<\/span><\/p>\n

no ban on animal cruelty videos<\/span><\/p>\n

Off Louisiana Coast, 11 to 15 People Missing,<\/span><\/p>\n

Statoil Committed to Oil Sands<\/span><\/p>\n

Bush warcrimes on off broadway<\/span><\/p>\n

Miami Condo Sales rise<\/span><\/p>\n

Oil Rig Explosion\u00a0 <\/span>Infernal Blaze<\/span><\/p>\n

boxer hangs himself in jail<\/span><\/p>\n

Reds pitcher Volquez suspended<\/span><\/p>\n

Tuesday, April 20 <\/span><\/p>\n

News broke that an explosion occurred at 11 p.m. EST <\/span><\/p>\n

on BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n

52 miles southeast of the Louisiana port of Venice. <\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Coast Guard, 11 to 15 crew members were reported missing<\/span><\/p>\n

of the total 126 workers aboard the rig <\/span><\/p>\n

at the time of the blast.<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

from my poem-sequence\u00a0The Gulf (from Rigwreck to Disaster):\u00a0<\/b>A Triptych <\/b>(Barzakh<\/em>, Black Widow Press 2014). Image collage by Nicole Peyrafitte for multi-media\u00a0performance of the piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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