Satellite Image, courtesy of NASA, of Gulf from New Orleans to Mobile, showing oil slick.

Fourth in a series  1, 2, 3, 4) that began on “Earth Day” (0).

Steve Gelsi at Marketwatch (click here) reports that BP is now siphoning 3,000 Barrels Per Day from the Deepwater Horizon Spill. According to research by NPR, the spill was 70,000 barrels per day.  In the 30 days that have elapsed since the April 20 accident a total 2,100,000 to  barrels have spilled.  And BP is siphoning off 3,000 per day. At that rate the spill will be cleaned up in only 700 days if it were to stop gushing now. That’s less than two years.

Greg Bluestein and Michael Kunzelman at Gouverneur Times (click here) report that oil from the slick has entered the Loop Current – which is part of the Gulf Stream.

This could be for fossil fuels what Chernobyl was for nuclear power.

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