Approximate oil slick locations from April 25, 2010 to April 30, 2010
Make sure BP foots the bill for the clean-up operation...
Posted on 05/01/2010 4:19:36 AM PDT by myknowledge
Bad weather is hampering clean-up efforts in the Gulf of Mexico, where emergency crews are struggling to cap an undersea oil leak. U.S. officials are pressing British Petroleum to do more to respond to the disaster.
Strong winds and high tides are complicating the work of emergency crews that have fanned out across the Gulf of Mexico in response to the oil spill. U.S. officials say the leak is dumping 5,000 barrels of oil a day into the gulf, feeding a massive slick on the surface of the water.
Emergency crews are using a number of methods to stop the spread of oil, such as laying containment boom, burning small pools of oil, and spreading chemicals to disperse the oil.
But Doug Suttles, chief operating officer of British Petroleum which is responsible for the spill, says many of those methods are only possible during good weather. "But when the winds and the seas come up, unfortunately we can't do much on the surface of the sea. As a I stand here today, because of wave height, we are unable to skim. We are able to place dispersant," he said.
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Approximate oil slick locations from April 25, 2010 to April 30, 2010
Make sure BP foots the bill for the clean-up operation...
No word from media about asphalt mounds on sea floor off the coast of Santa Barbra oil washing ashore.
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