Oil leak worse than rig owner says

[Quemado]

WASHINGTON — A new federal study has found that an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that began 14 years ago has been releasing as much as 4,500 gallons a day, not three or four gallons a day as the rig owner has claimed.

The leak, about 12 miles off the Louisiana coast, began in 2004 when a Taylor Energy Company oil platform sank during Hurricane Ivan and a bundle of undersea pipes ruptured. Oil and gas have been seeping from the site ever since.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/climate/taylor-energy-gulf-of-mexico.html

[BootinUp]

1. Honest mistake I'm sure. Nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. People have talking about that down here for years.

ANY leak/discharge/spill will always be much more than the official totals. We know that by now.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Surprised that it has taken this long

for this to surface. No one ever checks the real facts on these Platforms.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. There are a surprising number of resistance folks down here.

Who have reported on the truth of what happens in the Gulf, but rarely will newspapers support their efforts, so blogs and other sites are used.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Some what familiar how that game plays.

In the late fifties and early sixties,Humble Oil was dumping their Drill Sludge and their Salt Water slurry into shallow holding ponds that would always flood into the swamps and creeks along the Arkansas Louisiana Border. Still remember this crap flooding into a Friends Rice Fields killing off his crop or contaminating it were it was not harvestable. The Stench of Crude was pure ugly and the overflow would kill off anything and everything in it's path.

At that time,the State of Arkansas sided with the Drilling Companies and any damage as a result of exploration was,tough sh*t.