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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAnother Gulf Oil Spill Adds Fuel to Movement Against New Offshore Drilling Leases
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/05/21/another-gulf-oil-spill-adds-fuel-movement-against-new-offshore-drilling-leases
Another Gulf Oil Spill Adds Fuel to Movement Against New Offshore Drilling Leases
bySue Sturgis
Last week a damaged pipeline at a Royal Dutch Shell deepwater production field about 100 miles off the Louisiana coast spilled what's been officially estimated at 90,000 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico before the leak was stopped.
However, On Wings of Care, a nonprofit environmental watchdog group that flew ECOGIG scientist Ian McDonald over the spill, estimated that much more oil was actually released. They noted that the slick covered over 5 square nautical miles, or about 5,000 acres:
Even if the average thickness of the visible oil were a mere 100 micron (0.1 millimeter, vastly smaller than the areas of emulsified oil that stretch across the area), the visible surface oil would represent about 500,000 gallons of oil. We haven't seen images like this since the BP disaster of 2010.
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That's right: a modern pipeline at a high-tech deepwater development project leaked thousands of gallons of oil, and that leak was accidentally discovered. Not because high-tech telemetry on the pipeline signaled an alarm due to a drop in pressure; not because flow metering detected a difference between what was going in one end of the pipe vs. what was coming out the other. How long would this leak have continued, if not for the sheer luck of having a vigilant pilot happening by?
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Another Gulf Oil Spill Adds Fuel to Movement Against New Offshore Drilling Leases (Original Post)
Melissa G
May 2016
OP
as long as it was Obama who acted weakly on Deep Horizon they're okay with leaks
MisterP
May 2016
#4
Melissa G
(10,170 posts)1. There was a time when DU would be full of this news.
I would have come to DU for the latest information that I could not find anywhere else on this topic.
There would be insightful analysis...
I miss that place and I mourn the damage to the Texas Gulf.
Rhiannon12866
(205,220 posts)3. K&R. Good point...
This is one of the most pressing issues of our time, belongs on The Greatest Page.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. as long as it was Obama who acted weakly on Deep Horizon they're okay with leaks
Fairgo
(1,571 posts)2. Where is the outrage?
I guess only the first rape counts as news. The perps are free to gang rape the gulf at will and are actually rewarded for doing so...why that's not news at all. The gulf is turning into a cesspool.