Coast Guard: NEW oil leak in Gulf of Mexico

[Bluebear]

Source: AP

NEW ORLEANS – The Coast Guard says a new leak has been found at the site where an oil platform exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico.

Rear Adm. Mary Landry says that 5,000 barrels a day is now estimated to be leaking. Officials had been saying for days that it was 1,000 barrels a day.

She also says the Secretary of Homeland Security has briefed the president on this new information. She says the government has offered to have the Department of Defense help contain the spill.

Rear Admiral Mary Landry says National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration experts upgraded the figure based on aerial surveys, study of the trajectory of the oil slick and other factors.

Officials say the leading edge of the oil was nearing the Louisiana coast.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_on_bi_ge/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion

[flvegan]

1. Spill baby, spill!

[David Zephyr]

2. Perfectly said.

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[awoke_in_2003]

22. +1000. nt

[daleo]

3. First ot was zero barrels leaking

Then 1000 per day.

Now 5000 per day.

[Bluebear]

4. And it will take months to seal, yet no change of plans to open new coastal drill areas.

Yish.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Maybe less new drilling?

Since all the #%#@!##$!^% oil is now spilling out of the Gulf .
There won't be enough left to drill new wells for.

[Strelnikov_]

5. Yep. Considering a collapsed, kinked pipe is the flow restrictor

this could get worse by the day.

[dotymed]

26. Yep

It makes one wonder what the true number is..drill baby dril :sarcasm:

[Strelnikov_]

6. "offered to have the Department of Defense help contain the spill"

There we go . . socializing the risks.

[Canuckistanian]

12. The gov't should sue for the costs

This is just the BEGINNING of the REAL damage.

[Strelnikov_]

14. Agree. However, I expect a Price–Anderson act to indemnify the oil industry

from offshore spills.

The private profits MUST BE PROTECTED.

[Bluebear]

19. +

[joshcryer]

31. If you mean that they'd have to buy copious amounts of insurance before hand.

That I doubt, because it would mean higher gas prices.

[Strelnikov_]

32. Good point n/t

[CLANG]

16. Yeah, the ocean is too big to fail.

[jimlup]

8. This is bad news indeed!

[defendandprotect]

9. When all the lies stop -- who's going to pay for this damage? BP ... ??? Doubt it!!

Insurance?

Who could possibly insure against anything like this catastrophe --???

Same as the nuclear crap -- can't possibly be insured -- can't possibly be

guaranteed to be safe -- and no one but the people can possibly cope and pay

for damage on this scale !!!

Capitalism is simply exploitation -- suicidal exploitation of nature!!

[Jumping John]

10. Will the taxpayer take the hit or will BP pay for all this help???

[Electric Monk]

13. Didn't you get the memo? They privatize the profits but socialize the true costs.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. Either BP will or it will come out of the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund

BP is responsible for all the cleanup under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. If they should fail to pay for any part the the Oil Spill clean up then the Liability Trust Fund is used.

[Strelnikov_]

11. 51.429 days to Exxon Valdez volume using the new 5000 bbl/dy rate n/t

[CLANG]

17. The people of Louisiana and Mississippi will get there sooner, I'm afraid.

I know you're talking oil volume, but the true impact of Exxon Valdez was not known to many Americans. By photograph, yes, but when it is in your own backyard it is more horrifying.

[joshcryer]

30. Biloxi had some of the best beaches in the world before Katrina.

They were just getting things fairly back to normal, too...

[CLANG]

15. 1000, do I hear five? Five thousand! Can anyone make it10?

Not good. Not good at all...

[dencol]

20. BP should have all US assets seized...

And sold off to the highest bidder. And the execs should be tried for environmental terrorism. That's what should happen to companies who are so negligent.

[mbperrin]

21. I was wondering when anyone was going to notice that many wells

are drilled from one platform location, up to 96, depending on the platform.

No telling how big this mess is going to be.

[Codeine]

23. An oil spill expert on BBC World Service just said

that this will likely be the worst oil spill in history when all is said and done. Far larger than the Exxon Valdez spill. :(

[dipsydoodle]

24. Would apparently take less than two months.

The leak now appears so great that it's calculated that in less than two months it could match the 11m-gallon spill from the oil tanker Exxon Valdez off Alaska in 1989.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8650620.stm

[joshcryer]

27. "The Exxon Valdez [tanker disaster off Alaska in 1989] is going to pale [into insignificance]...

...in comparison to this as it goes on."

Ugh.

[Doug.Goodall]

25. More pollution for the Earth to deal with

BP needs to be forced to pay for the clean up and then pay equivalent matching funds for wind power to offset the use of oil.

[saigon68]

28. Rear Adm. Mary Landry SHILLING for British Petroleum

Just a couple of days ago this Imbecile was saying "NO OIL IS LEAKING"

Lies repeated become lies Believed.

She swills deeply on the Govt Trough

PIG

[AsahinaKimi]

29. Its too bad that

We can't get these "Lets drill for Oil" conservatives to go out there and help clean up the mess. Maybe If Sarah Palin was out there for a few hours, she might learn something.

[blueworld]

33. Backup system failed; fail-safe system failed, ah technology

WSJ reports that an acoustic shut-off device isn't on the rig. Apparently the Dept. of Interior Minerals Division decided not to require those for deep-water rigs because at $500K they were "too expensive".

Isn't the DOI Minerals Div all the guys & gals that were exposed partying with the oil company execs?