This thing is making tar balls look like spilt milk...
NEW ORLEANS — Oil continued to pour into the Gulf of Mexico on Monday as the authorities waited to see if the quickest possible method of stopping the leaks would bring an end to what was threatening to become an environmental disaster.As Fred Grimm says today in the Herald, this could be a game changer.
Remote-controlled robots operating 5,000 feet under the ocean’s surface were more than a full day into efforts to seal off the oil well, which has been belching crude through leaks in a pipeline at the rate of 42,000 gallons a day. The leaks were found on Saturday, days after an oil rig to which the pipeline was attached exploded, caught on fire and sank in the gulf about 50 miles from the Louisiana coast.
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Ugh what a disaster. I read somewhere that there are like 500 oil platform accidents a year? someone really needs to inform the public of the obvious risks.
Who the hell said this practice was safe? Idiots.
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