If anyone thinks, we will be able to clean up or repair the damage - when you dig a hole some 20 feet into the coastline where the Exxon Valdez fouled beaches 21 years ago, guess what comes up? Oil! Alaska Crude, Texas T, oil my friends! BP and the rest of the oil industry are counting on you and the press getting bored (sorry for the bad pun) with the story and they can go back to killing the planet while pretending that individually what they do will never harm them or their loved ones.
Yesterday's MODIS/Terra satellite image has some of the usual complications - clouds, haze, and turbidity again may be obscuring portions of the slick. Observable slick and sheen covers 4,683 square miles (12,129 km2). Thicker, fresh-looking oil is apparent in the vicinity of the leaking well, and still appears to be entrained in a counterclockwise gyre (a circular current): |
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