All eyes on Macondo slick

Coastal defence: orange oil booms have been placed along the Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi coastlines a bit to catch oil leaking from Macondo before it makes landfall

(AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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By Jonathan Davis Anthony Guegel Noah Brenner and Anthea Pitt

 30 April 2010 06:19 GMT

Oil leaking from the blownout Macondo well is lying just off Louisiana’s Mississippi Delta, but the US Coast Guard said no confirmed reports of the slick reaching beaches or sensitive coastal wetlands had been received.

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