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This Oil spill in the Gulf sounds like it could be an economic catstrophe

  • QuakerOats
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-12/bp-spill-may-be-least-of-gulf-woes-as-farm-chemicals-invade-wetlands-sink.html

    "Visit the Gulf of Mexico today and you’d hardly recognize it as the scene of what President Barack Obama called “the worst environmental disaster America has ever faced.” "

    I guess he was wrong ......................... again.
  • majorspark
    Looks like another oil rig has exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
    VERMILION BAY, LA (WAFB) - The Coast Guard is responding to another oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico.

    According to the Coast Guard, 13 people were onboard when it exploded and caught fire Thursday morning.

    Everyone is accounted for. Officials are reporting one injury.

    The injured worker is being taken to Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma.

    The other workers are in the water in immersion suits.
    The rig is located about 90 miles south of Vermilion Bay


    http://www.wafb.com/Global/story.asp?S=13089364