Saturday, August 27, 2011

Fresh oil slicks forming over Deepwater Horizon spill site

(OK, see the cleanup for the BP Oil Spill Disaster was way too easy, and done far too quickly. And that's because they didn't clean it up at all--they sunk that oil to the bottom of the sea with Corexit and some of it has started floating back to the surface Now what? BP's not going to spend any more money to clean that area up.--jef)

Posted on 08.26.11 - RAW Replay
By Stephen C. Webster
Despite assurances from British oil company BP that no oil was present at the Deepwater Horizon site in the Gulf of Mexico, two Louisiana State University men have returned with video evidence of large blooms of crude oil swelling up to the water’s surface where the doomed oil rig once hovered.

Tests on the oil were inconclusive as far as linking it to the now-plugged oil well, but if it is from the Deepwater Horizon spill it could indicate the formation of fissures on the seabed, seeping oil into the ecosystem anew.

If so, that would mean the worst accidental release of oil in human history — a spill so bad, it took five months just to stop crude from flowing — isn’t quite over.


This video is from AL.com.

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