Attorney Says BP's Macondo Well Still Leaks Oil From Seafloor

[The Straight Story]

Attorney Says Macondo Well Still Leaks Oil From Seafloor


NEW ORLEANS (CN) - An environmental attorney said oil is still leaking from BP's Macondo Formation more than 16 months after the well was declared sealed. The attorney said the only explanation for fresh oil bearing the Macondo fingerprint that's washed ashore on barrier islands is that the seafloor was damaged during the Deepwater Horizon blowout, and oil is seeping through.

The April 20, 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon killed 11 people and dumped millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days, until the well was declared capped, on July 15, 2010.

But attorney Stuart Smith told Courthouse News that new oil is washing up on barrier islands in Louisiana and Mississippi.
"There's a deafening silence on the issue," from the Coast Guard and from BP, Smith said.

"We've been doing environmental testing, we've been spending a lot of time and resources doing what's called 'fingerprinting' the oil," Smith said.

http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/11/21/41602.htm

[Vincardog]

1. GEE who woulda thunk it?

[xchrom]

2. I can't wait for the Official Expression of SURPRISE from

Government.

I'm sure they will be sharp and terse as well.

[mojowork_n]

3. It would be interesting to know how the FIRST big spill, Azeri Central Rig

...is doing.

I haven't read the book, yet, but I plant to:

http://www.gregpalast.com/vulturespicnic/

When the Deepwater Horizon well blew out in the Gulf, BP acted shocked. Just six months before the
Gulf explosion, a BP vice president testified to Congress that the company had drilled offshore for fifty years
without a major blowout. When the big well did blow in the Gulf, the company said that nothing like this had
ever happened before. That is, nothing they reported.
Weeks after we received the first message from the ship in the Caspian Sea, we located our terrified
source in a port town in Central Asia; and he told us BP’s claim to Congress was a load of crap. He himself
had witnessed another deep water platform blowout. He seemed really nervous.