new gulf oil slick?

[sts7049]

anybody heard anything reliable on where this latest oil slick is coming from?

seems everyone is jumping on BP just because it's close to Macondo.

[cajuntugster]

anybody heard anything reliable on where this latest oil slick is coming from?

seems everyone is jumping on BP just because it's close to Macondo.

The New Orleans newspaper carried an article on it this morning. They only said it was reported to be north of the Horizon site and that the coast guard had taken samples to determine what exactly it is.

[Infomania]

Nothing reliable but an AP story included this possibility.

Coast Guard spokeswoman Casey Ranel says the agency sent out a cutter Sunday morning to collect samples of the substance, which was spotted off the coast of Louisiana. She says officials are still awaiting the results of testing. Officials also were working to determine how big of an area the substance covered.

The Coast Guard had gotten reports of an oil sheen, but officials have not confirmed the substance is oil.

Ranel says dredging had been going on not far away at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and it's possible the substance is silt dredged from the bottom.

[KennyW1983]

I cant find it but I read earlier that it was indeed silt from dredging.

[Jemplayer]

Some dam hippies over at http://oilspillaction.com/ are the one's screaming about it being oil. They have some pictures up and even I could tell that it was just sediment. Very typical this time of year due to the increased current flow out of the rivers.