1 Month Later, Numbers Just Get Worse for Gulf

[jus_the_facts]

Source: CBS/AP

CBS/AP) One month after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused a massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, officials from both the government and oil company British Petroleum continue to struggle to manage the crisis.

Heavy, sticky oil was starting to clog Louisiana marshes on the Gulf of Mexico as another edge of the partly submerged crude reached a powerful current that could take it to Florida and beyond.

BP is successfully siphoning off at least a portion of the oil spewing into the Gulf after hooking up a mile-long tube that connects the blown-out well to a tanker. Officials also are preparing an attempt to "kill" the well shooting a mixture known as drilling mud into it. Those efforts are expected to take place this weekend.

Another researcher, Timothy Crone of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, said the latest video suggested a leak of at least 840,000 to 4.2 million gallons a day, though poor video quality made it difficult to come up with an accurate figure.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/20/national/main6502529.shtml

[Cal Carpenter]

1. Geez, a month? How quickly time goes by...

:(

[Tempest]

2. BP CEO: Environmental impact is "likely to be very, very modest"

"I think the environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest. It is impossible to say and we will mount, as part of the aftermath, a very detailed environmental assessment as we go forward. We’re going to do that with some of the science institutions in the U.S. But everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental impact of this will be very, very modest."
- Tony Hayward


Tone deafness at the extreme.