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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Obama forms spill commission as oil mess spreads AFP - Sunday, May 23 Send IM Story Print GRAND ISLE, Louisiana (AFP) - – President Barack Obama unveiled a commission Saturday to probe the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as the growing environmental catastrophe hit Louisiana's fragile wetlands. With the federal government facing accusations of lax supervision of the lucrative offshore oil drilling industry, Obama vowed to hold Washington accountable and warned that the future of the industry hinges on assurances such a disaster would not happen again. He also sharpened his tone against the three firms involved in the spill -- BP, Transocean and Halliburton. As frustration grew that the huge spill gushing from a ruptured well nearly a mile (1,500 meters) below the surface was still not capped more than a month into the disaster, Obama hinted for the first time that a criminal investigation could be launched. "The commission shall ensure that it does not interfere with or disrupt any ongoing or anticipated civil or criminal investigation or law enforcement activities or any effort to recover response costs or damages arising out of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, fire and oil spill," his order stated. Obama gave the bipartisan body headed by former Democratic US senator and Florida governor Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly, a Republican, six months to report its findings and recommendations for the future of offshore drilling. In an election year rife with anti-incumbent anger rattling lawmakers' hopes of hanging on to their seats, some have narrowed their sights on the spill and who is to blame. They have already held 10 congressional hearings over the past two weeks and are scheduled to hold five more next week and yet others in June. "In addition to the companies that were drilling, it is important also to know what the administration approved," Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said in statement, noting the Obama administration approved the Deepwater Horizon drilling site and the spill response plan. "And hopefully in the course of the testimony, we'll be able to figure out what went wrong not only with the companies themselves, but with the oversight of the companies." Some 1,150 vessels, over 24,900 personnel and more than two million feet of protective boom have been deployed so far by BP and federal, state and local governments. They have recovered over 9.73 million gallons of oily water so far. BP says it has already spent over 700 million dollars on the cleanup. But for parts of the Gulf Coast's fragile ecosystem, it was all too little, too late. A viscous blackish-orange slick sloshed ashore Grand Isle, Louisiana, forcing officials to close its popular seven-mile tourist beach. Volunteers armed with spades were locked in a desperate battle to scoop up the oil into plastic bags. "It was dirty at 6:00 am. We cleaned it up. When we came back from lunch it just looked exactly the same," said Eric Thomson, 19, wearing a white safety helmet, black boots and dark glasses under the hot sun. Even at the lowest estimates, more than six million gallons of crude have soiled Gulf waters since the BP-operated rig sank spectacularly some 52 miles offshore on April 22, two days after an explosion that claimed 11 workers' lives. Just how much oil is gushing from the rig's wreckage has been a major point of contention, with BP initially putting the figure at 5,000 barrels, or 210,000 gallons, a day. Independent experts examining video of the ruptured pipe have estimated that the flow from the two leaks could be as high as 120,000 barrels per day. BP is currently suctioning up an average of about 2,000 barrels of oil a day with a mile-long tube inserted into the ruptured pipe. It will take at least two months for relief wells to be completed and hopes of stopping the flow are currently pinned on a "top kill" operation, which aims to inject heavy drilling fluids into the well and then seal it with cement. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said he expected the operation to take place early next week, possibly on Tuesday. 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