You think when you open a tap that squirts out 5000 barrels of oil a day
Written by duckrabbityou’d make sure you know how to turn it off again, right?
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The Gulf of Mexico was already heavily polluted before this, the mouth of the Mississippi a veritable oxygen depleted deadzone. This will never be “cleaned up;” the Exxon Valdez oil spill can still be found just two inches underneath the sand surrounding the original spill. Thirty per cent of the nation’s seafood will be gone, for a decade at very least- not to mention the devestation to marine mammals, turtles, birds, and the “local” economy. This spill is an unprecedented catastrophe “the equivalent of one Exxon Valdez tanker every four days.” And Shell has just been given permission to drill in the Arctic… Yeeehah!!!
BP CEO Tony Hayward- It’s “relatively tiny” compared to the “very big ocean.”