Sadly it looks like yesterday's oil spill barrel leak diaries after BP released the spill video were quite accurate, and ahead of today's announcement by the Coast Guard. Now it looks like the well is gushing out 70,000 barrels a day or more, and that's starting on April 22, the blow-out date.
I apologize for the short diary, but I wanted to get this out to as many readers as soon as possible - plus I can't find any words as I'm pretty well speechless and aghast. 2012 doesn't sound so far off anymore right now.
U.S. Coast Guard estimates of the amount of oil surging into the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon rig may be low by a factor of 10 or more, National Public Radio has reported.
Analysis of sea floor video made available Wednesday by BP suggests that 70,000 barrels a day are pouring into the Gulf, not 5,000 barrels a day as estimated by the Coast Guard, the report says.
If the analysis by Purdue University professor Steve Werely is correct, the amount of oil in the Gulf has already exceeded the 250,000 barrels spilled in the 1989 Exxon Valdez tanker accident in Alaska.
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