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May 24, 2010

BP Booms Keeping Oil ON Shore, Not Off — Greenpeace

By Michael Shaw

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What’s with that?

Oil cleanup technology hasn’t kept pace (WAPO)

Despite previous spills, oil cleanup research falls short (USAT)

(caption: Mississippi Delta, Louisiana (USA). May 23rd, 2010. Booms and boats surround oil from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead as it reaches the marshlands on the NE pass of the Mississippi Delta on May 23, 2010. The BP leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning, leaking an estimate of more than 210,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead.)

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  • bystander

    There was a great DKos diary written May 10th that talks about booms in very colorful language. If you can navigate past the salty oil field signifiers, you can learn a lot about booms and why they’re failing from someone who appears to know booms really, really well.

  • Gasho

    This image is awful but somehow inevitable.. with all of the complexity involved, you have to get an image like this at some point where it looks bass-ackwards.

    I’ve started to become concerned with the strategy of sending the oil UNDER the water using the detergents. Oil on top might look more awful from above, but let’s face it.. that’s where we can contain it best and clean it up the easiest. Sending it down into the depths makes the whole puzzle much more complex.. where do the currents go at a depth of 30′? 60′? 1000′? 5000′? Are we sending oil to South America? Europe? Maine? Where? We have no idea.

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