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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 2nd, 2010 4:32 am by HL
Outlook Dims on Efforts to Staunch Gulf Oil Spill
Bryan Walsh, Time
Oil booms protect a small island occupied by birds along Port East in the Gulf of Mexico, south of Louisiana, where oil leaking from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead continued to spread on April 29, 2010. It may be time to stop referring to the Deepwater Horizon rig accident in the Gulf of Mexico as an oil spill. A spill sounds like something temporary, a glass of milk overturned, which empties and then can be cleaned up. But what is unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from the sensitive shorelines of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, isn't a spill. It's an unchecked…