On May 26th BP, the company responsible for the well that Deepwater Horizon had drilled, started to pump heavy drilling mud into the well's blowout preventer, a set of valves on the sea floor.

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This is what this data is supposed to monitor, but the well flow evidence would appear to have been ignored, because at this point the BP rig supervisors should have gone to a well kill operation and started to pump heavy mud back into the well bore to restore the primary control mechanism.

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Glasgow City Council said heavy rain seeped into a water pump building, affecting toilets and fresh water.

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Instead, it has continued to pump resources into infrastructure construction and heavy industry.

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Higher prices at the pump have also made extraction from oil sands and heavy oil feasible.

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There were pump and spritz sprays on the tables in the poodle grooming area, but none of the heavy-duty aerosol hairspray cans that are a no-no.

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