Wednesday night in Seminole there will be a community forum on the environmental disaster that continues in the Gulf of Mexico beginning at 6 p.m.
Called the Impact of the Gulf Oil Crisis on Tampa Bay, it will take place at the Digitoirum on SPC’s Seminole Campus, 9200 113th Street North, Seminole.
It's the second type of forum in Pinellas County in the past month. Precisely a month before, a similar forum was held at the Palladium in St. Petersburg that drew an estimated 900 people.
One of those who was at the previous forum, D.T. Minich, executive director of Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater, will also speak the Seminole affair. It's scheduled to run until 8:30 p.m.
Meanwhile, BP is now testing whether a huge cap can hold back crude flooding up from well of the Deepwater Horizon rig, and are praying that an end may be in site to the 13-week oil leak.
Last night seismic surveys began after underwater robots successfully lowered a 30-foot-tall device known as a capping stack on top of the ruptured wellhead.
BP is conducting tests that may not end until Thursday to determine if the well is holding back the oil sufficiently, or might be escaping from another area.
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.