Five Years Ago
Oil started flowing into the Gulf when the Deepwater Horizon exploded at 9:53PM CDT on April 20th, 2010. It stopped at 2:25PM CDT on July 15th after spewing 190 million gallons [4.5 million barrels] of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
The explosion killed 11 workers on the platform, and the oil and dispersants shortened the lives of countless others.
The CBC has a broad overview of the costs and a video report on conditions today.
The US corporate media, like the US government and BP think that people are too fragile to hear the truth about what happened and what is continuing to happen in the Gulf. A major portion of the oil that was spilled is sitting in cold water on the bottom of the Gulf waiting for a hurricane to bring it ashore.
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And the sad thing is that they’re drilling even deeper in the Gulf now, in areas even more dangerous than where the Deepwater Horizon exploded, and have no better ways of handling a spill today than when the Deepwater Horizon exploded.
And believe me, Badtux, I’ve worked among the people who made and still make those (bad) decisions, and they are arrogantly unenlightened and eternally unrepentant. Expect more of same.
The oil companies lie and the regulators do nothing. That’s the way the politicians want it, because if there were actual regulation a source of ‘campaign funding’ would dry up.
The entire system is designed to protect the crooks and incompetents.