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I don't know if you guys have been looking into this accident as much as I have but its really taking a turn for the worse right now. In case you didn't know, the Semi-submersible drill right Deepwater Horizon was drilling for oil 50 miles off the Louisiana coast on April 20th. An explosion occurred at night killing 11 workers (I think transocean still reports them as missing). The rig sank two days later.
Anyway, they were trying to cap the well all last week but its not looking good. There are unmanned rovers there tying to "hot-stab" the well shut but they aren't being very successful. Right now BP is trying to drill a relief well but that's going to take almost 3 months to finish.
So the uncapped well is shooting anywhere from 210,000 - 315,800 gallons of oil PER DAY into the gulf. They say the spill will be worse the Exxon Valdez. Fisherman in the area are going to be hurting.
Some good articles
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...ce_as_bad.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7105649.ece
Anyway, they were trying to cap the well all last week but its not looking good. There are unmanned rovers there tying to "hot-stab" the well shut but they aren't being very successful. Right now BP is trying to drill a relief well but that's going to take almost 3 months to finish.
So the uncapped well is shooting anywhere from 210,000 - 315,800 gallons of oil PER DAY into the gulf. They say the spill will be worse the Exxon Valdez. Fisherman in the area are going to be hurting.
Some good articles
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...ce_as_bad.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle7105649.ece
damn they should get there shit together and move a little bit faster.
as resident weirdo environmentalist...I'm worried here bout the progress of this 
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