Three months after the explosion and fire that killed 11 workers and released millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico BP seems to have finnally manged to cap the well.
Kent Wells (unfortunate name) announced rather stupidly that
“I am very excited that there’s no oil in the Gulf of Mexico,”
I am sure he meant there would be no new oil leaking from the site of Deepwater Horizon since it is extremely unlikely that all the oil that has leaked into the Gulf since April 20 has magically disappeared. Of course BP and the rest of the oil industry will be hoping that the cap will end public debate on the wisdom of offshore drilling and that the business of raping the world can continue in due course. As for the environmental consequences of 100 million gallons plus of crude oil leaked into the ocean, I am sure we will get bombarded with reassuring messages of how it isn’t really as bad as we might have imagined…
87 days later…via the Guardian
