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Remember the movie Deck the Halls, in which Danny DeVito went nuts and wanted his Christmas lights seen from space? Well, BP just one-upped him, because the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico can be seen from space.
A May 4, 2010 photo on NASA’s web site taken from the international space station clearly shows the magnitude of the oil slick in the Gulf …and if you live near the coast in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana it’s headed your way.
BP, the corporation responsible for cleaning up the mess, failed to cap the oil leak that is gushing from a hole they drilled almost one mile below the surface of the ocean. So far, estimates of the amount of oil released into the Gulf of Mexico range from 210,000 to 2.5 million gallons per day since April 20th. That means there could be as much as 50 million gallons of crude oil floating on the waters in the Gulf today, although our friendly corporate media will tell you it’s only about 4.2 million gallons. Keep in mind that it takes only one quart of oil to poison 250,000 gallans of seawater for all marine life.
According to the Independent UK, the oil spill may be five times worse than previously thought. Ian MacDonald, a biological oceanographer at Florida State University, said he believed, after studying NASA data, that about one million gallons a day were leeching into the sea, and that the volume discharged may have already exceeded the 11 million gallons of the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, widely regarded as the world’s worst ecological disaster. Mr MacDonald said there was, as of Friday, possibly as much as 6,178 square miles of oil-covered water in the Gulf.
Wayne Madsen, writing for Global Research, claims that “the Obama administration…conspired with BP to fudge the extent of the oil leak, according to our federal and state sources.”
Guillaume Decamme, writing for Agence France-Presse, states that Admiral Thad Allen, head of the US Coast Guard, suggested BP is considering what he called a “junk shot” to plug the main leak.
They’re actually going to take a bunch of debris, shredded up tires, golf balls and things like that and under very high pressure shoot it into the preventer itself and see if they can clog it up and stop the leak, said Allen, who is leading the US government’s response, on CBS’s Face the Nation.
Great! With all the marvels of modern technology at hand, it’s come down to golf balls and shredded tires to save the ecosystem in the Gulf. I don’t know how that sounds to you, but to me that sounds like we are…nevermind, you fill in the blank.
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