Times-Picayune Reports: "New Gulf Oil Spill Source Found--But the Slicks May be Spreading!"

[KoKo]

One Gulf Oil Spill Source Found But Slicks May Be Spreading

Rocky Kistner




Media associate, NRDC
Posted: March 23, 2011 08:21 AM


The Times Picayune is reporting that a Houston based company, Anglo-Suisse Offshore Partners, has taken responsibility for leaking Louisiana crude from a non-producing well that has contaminated Louisiana coastal beaches and wetlands and created a slick that spread for miles offshore.

The newspaper earlier reported that state officials had fingered work being done to the Anglo-Suisse's non-producing oil well near Southwest Pass of the Mississippi River as the likely source, calling it a "well capping out of control." Anglo Suisse Offshore Partners released a statement last night confirming it was the source of the spill, but that it was "surprised" that its dormant well could have released that much oil, according to the paper. The Times Picayune reported the well was being capped for permanent abandonment and that the operators told the Coast Guard it had been leaking only small amounts of oil.

In three reports to the Coast Guard since Friday, the company had reported that less than 5 gallons of crude had escaped. But state Wildlife and Fisheries agents traced the oil to the Anglo-Suisse well at its Platform E facility on Monday afternoon and found a crew on a boat trying to close in the well with a remotely operated submarine.

National networks are also covering the story as incredulous residents are once again dealing with an oil threat that could damage this year's fishing and tourist seasons. Grand Isle shrimp buyer Dean Blanchard told MSNBC that fishermen had reported oil slicks were as large as 100 miles. "One guy said he was in it for 8 to 10 hours."

more at.......

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rocky-kistner/one-gulf-oil-spill-source_b_839401.html

[Aerows]

1. I thought they said..

...it was just sludge from the Mississippi River? Oh wait, I didn't believe it I heard that.

[KoKo]

3. Yes...story died over weekend...but (as usual) turns out there's something going on

that's not good. The article is long and worth a read.

It seems it's another cover up going on. We are told "sludge" then yesterday there was a little more about Coast Guard still investigating...and now today the sludge truth starts to bubble to the surface. :-(

[Angry Dragon]

2. No worries, the oil corporations will police themselves

so we might as well get rid of all those regulations ............

[Marblehead]

4. I wonder

if the corp media will report on this, unlikely

[Thunderstruck]

5. B-b-but CNN and MSNBC said it was river silt! RIVER SILT! That is the official line!

[lob1]

6. So five gallons of leaked oil made an oil slick a 100

miles long. Why that makes perfect sense. What idiot would question that?

[HockeyMom]

7. My Republican husband doesn't believe FAUX on this

That everything is just fine. No, even he doesn't believe. HOWEVER, he thinks it is a cover up by OBAMA! What? So now Faux News is covering up for Obama? Hello? WHY in the world would the most corrupt, right wing "news" outlet in the country cover up for Obama?

I told him this and he just looked stunned. Cannot rationalize with Republicans. No use trying.

[blindpig]

8. Another capitalist oopsie

Who could imagine?

When profits are your purpose nothing else matters.

[Urban Prairie]

9. Any energy source that is profitable has the inherent potential to be misused and abused

causing deaths, injuries. illnesses and widespread contamination, as well as environmental/ecological damage, as we have so vividly witnessed in the oil, coal, gas, (fracking) and nuclear energy industries over the past year alone.

:-( :mad: :cry: :grr:

[blindpig]

10. All true, but that's not the issue.

When the sole purpose of an activity is to produce maximum profit all other considerations go by the board. Anything which inhibits this primary goal will be defeated or circumvented. On the other hand if the purpose of an activity is to meet human need then all human needs associated with that activity are fodder for consideration.