Hurricane Alex worsens oil spill
Posted on July 8, 2010
Filed Under oil spill |
By Brandon Rose
The BP oil spill is nearing the 140 million gallon mark based on the federal government’s estimates. This will set a new record for the largest oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The 1970-1980 Ixtoc I spill off Mexico’s coast, which leaked 139 million gallons into the seas, has held the record so far. The growing total is vital to track, because BP will likely be fined per gallon spilled, Larry McKinney, director of Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi’s Gulf of Mexico research institute, told the AP.
To make things worse, Hurricane Alex is slowing the containment efforts by creating high winds and rough seas. Many of the collection boats have been called off due to safety. The storm has already shifted parts of the slick closer to sensitive area in Florida and Louisiana, and could also push the oil deeper into fragile coastal wetlands.
A clean up worker Otis Butler said:
“We’ve been steady busy until today,” Otis Butler said. “Now we’re mostly standing around and looking around. We just find things to do when we can today. But once this is over, I bet we’ll be twice as busy.”
President Obama was scheduled to meet with senior U.S. officials on Thursday to review the spill situation and oil containment plans, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
For the latest news on the Oil Spill: CNN This Just In
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