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“No way to prevent this” says only planet where this regularly happens

I haven’t forgotten how BP used chemicals to make all the oil just sink to the bottom of the gulf so people would forget what they did quicker. We don’t deserve this planet.

hey I've seen this episode before

Surely the oil executives will be held accountable for destroying everyone's environment...right?

How do 1 million gallons of oil accidentally leak into the Gulf Of Mexico? Don't the oil companies have valves on their equipment?

But didn't you all see the commercial on TV promoting Oil and Natural gas as being amazing? This is a good thing right? /S

The inevitable sequel to "drill baby drill" entitled "spill baby spill" was not enjoyed as enthusiastically as the oil companies had hoped.

Potentially?

That reporter/editor should be fined or charged with this blatant bullshit.

"The U S. Coast Guard said Monday that an estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil has leaked into the Gulf..." and linked the actual press release in that line.

When you actually read the press release, and then lower in the article, it says the amount is actually unknown.

They know how much oil the pipeline holds, which would be around that estimate. It could only be a couple hundred gallons that have actually leaked.

Also they are not even sure where the leak is, so it might not even be the named company's fault.

Yeah oil industry sucks, but this sounds like a fat nothing burger that CBS is pumping for clicks. No wonder no one trusts the media.

(This is a reposted comment from when this bullshit article was posted earlier)

The OP of this repost didn't even have the decency to share the qualifications from inside the article.

They are just as terrible of an attention seeking whore as the writer of the article.

Again? Isn't this whole sea contaminated yet? What can possibly still be there?

For comparison, this is less than 1% of the deepwater horizon spill, and they've turned off the entire pipeline so there's little danger of it increasing in size.

Turns out, building your entire economy and financial system on O&G causes problems for the environment, huh?

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021AGUFMOS53A..07M/abstract

Greeeat

Let's fucking goo! Another one! A big boost for Any% world destruction Speedrun.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

On Facebook, the Coast Guard said that oil was "skimmed and sampled" roughly four miles southeast of South Pass, Louisiana on Friday, at which point they retrieved about 210 gallons of "oily-water mixture."

Matt Rota, senior policy director for Healthy Gulf, told CBS affiliate WWL-TV that the amount of oil thought to have spilled could still increase.

NOAA is helping oversee the incident, and the agency's emergency operations coordinator Doug Helton told WWL that it's not necessarily the amount of oil, but its impact, that is of most concern.

Just north of the spill and Plaquemines Parish lies the Chandeleur Islands, where last year, the world's most endangered sea turtle species, the Kemp's Ridley, was found hatching for the first time in three-quarters of a century.

"Continued oil and gas development in the Gulf represents a clear, existential threat to the whale's survival and recovery," a group of 100 scientists said in a letter to the Biden administration last year.

"The government's Natural Resource Damage Assessment on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill estimates that nearly 20% of Gulf of Mexico whales were killed, with additional animals suffering reproductive failure and disease."

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