Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Stephan: Let's talk about reality, as this report lays it out, "Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast since 2004, when an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan. Many of the wells have not been capped, and federal officials estimate that the spill could continue through this century. With no fix in sight..."
It is a measure of the power of the carbon energy industry that this pollution catastrophe has been going on for 14 years, and is projected to go on for decades yet to come. Once again we see that profit is more important than the health and wellbeing of humans, or any species on the planet. In America nothing matters but greed. One always has to remember that.
An aerial image of an oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, taken on April 28, 2018.
Credit: Oscar Garcia-Pineda
NEW ORLEANS — An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.
Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast since 2004, when an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan. Many of the wells have not been capped, and federal officials estimate that the spill could continue through this century. With no fix in sight, the Taylor offshore spill is threatening to overtake BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster as the largest ever.
As oil continues to spoil the Gulf, the Trump administration is proposing the largest expansionof leases […]
It is getting to be time for an “environmental civil war” here in the USA. We cannot let these greedy fools get away with murdering our planet. It does not belong to them!!!!!! It belongs to us. Let’s start the war NOW.