of dispersants have been applied in the four weeks since the EPA banned their surface use May 26. In addition has used sub-surface. New York Times in an article headlined "BP Is Pursuing Alaska Drilling Some Call Risky" says BP has gotten permission to get around offshore rules by building an "onshore" well which is to be built at Endicott, Alaska on an artificial sandbar of and code named "Liberty." The well would go two miles (3 km) below the surface and then up to horizontally under the water to the oil reservoir. June 25 With the first tropical depression of the season forming in the Gulf Allen outlines the downtime when a storm hits—in which the vessels disconnect from the oil recovery and drilling operations (114 to 120 hours before gale-force winds (40-knots) are forecasted). During this time the full amount of oil would go into the Gulf. Senator Nelson noting the times coupled with reconnecting says that a storm could cause oil to go unchecked into the Gulf for 10 days. Feldman's released financial statement shows he "owned shares in at least 17 oil and gas companies last year, including an unspecified interest in Transocean Ltd." in 2009. The Wall Street Journal reports he sold shares of Exxon, one of the parties in the moratorium case, on June 22 before hearing the case. The Journal reports that he had sold Transocean prior to the case and that he did not own stock in any of the companies affected directly by the moratorium. BP stock closes at $26.96—down 53% since April 20. Suttles tells the New Orleans Times-Picayune, "The flow rate has never impacted the response," adding it is "extraordinarily imprecise and we took a view very early on that we didn't think you could do it and we didn't think it was relevant either." June 26–30 June 26 The tropical depression becomes Tropical Storm Alex. The initial forecast track indicates it will not directly go over the spill. Allen in his daily briefing notes that the time to resume operations once the ships returned would be 38 hours for Discover Enterprise, 72 hours for the Development Driller 2, 72 hours for Development Driller 3, and 90 hours for the Q4000. Obama and David Cameron meeting at the 2010 G-20 Toronto summit in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reuters quoting a "British official" says, "Both agreed that there was nothing to