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Gulf of Mexico oil spill

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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a massive ongoing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that is now considered the largest offshore spill in U.S. history. This oil is owned by BP (British Petroleum) and they are responsible for spending their own money to clean up their own mess with the help of other countries. BP is experiencing a complete financial collapse. Some estimates placed it by late May or early June, 2010, as among the largest oil spills in the world with tens of millions of gallons spilled to date. The spill stems from a sea floor oil gusher that resulted from the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion. The explosion killed 11 platform workers and injured 17 others.

With the hurricane season that flies over the Gulf of Mexico every August, people fear that it will create a widespread environmental disaster. Countries from all over the world are offering help; Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

Interesting fact:
- It is suspected that the oil is flowing at 35,000 to 60,000 barrels (1,500,000 to 2,500,000 US gallons; 5,600 to 9,500 cubic metres) of crude oil per day.

A ton more information can be found here; Deepwater Horizon oil spill - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The OIL SPILL tracker can be found here; Gulf Coast Oil Leak | The Rundown News Blog | PBS NewsHour | PBS
This tracker includes how much oil is releasing per second and you can see the live video (look in video, top right corner, it has a date to prove that its live).

DAY by DAY animated map of oil spill tracker; Tracking the Gulf oil disaster - CNN.com

What do you think about this issue?

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^ All the shiny white stuff in the aerial view is all oil.
 
This is already "old" but yes.. people get informed
It's been more than 60 days of infinite amounts of oil going out to the sea..

Stuff like this will make the world "stick it's head in it's ass"
 
I heard that they burned some oil in the water but failed n some tortoises (spelling?) got burned alive :(
 
Yes.. it's fucking up everything!

And it'll be storm season in a few months or so.. that means oil everywhere and a lot of animals will get killed ;(
 
hoho petrohurricane :p
 
The first hurricane is arriving sometime this hour; Hurricane Alex.
It's going to go over the Gulf of Mexico, but it will stay in the south, heading into Mexico.
 
Poor beaners :( This is who you should blame for the oil spill.
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Archez said:
Poor beaners? This is affecting everyone, and it includes you little princess.
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As Archez said, This is almost a global problem, and don't need to make a jokes about this, This is a Seriusly problem, and let's take it as It need to be, Seriusly. ;)
 
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