Link to actual report page: https://coastalscience.noaa.gov/data_reports/an-integrated-a...
PDF: https://cdn.coastalscience.noaa.gov/publication-attachments/...
Here's your bimonthly reminder that fossil fuels also create toxic waste that lasts generations and affects huge swaths of the globe.
If one day we run out of oil, someone would go back and ask “what if we stopped all the leaks and perhaps we could have two extra days.”
I don’t understand and perhaps I missed it... it’s only 450 feet below. Why can’t anyone stop the leak?
I would mention there are a lot of natural oil leaks.
A friend of mine living in Santa Barabara has said there's a lot of 100% all-natural tar on the beaches there.
Every hour, hour after hour
It's really weird how, if there's one thing that a large majority of Americans seem to hate, it's forcing companies to take responsibility for negative externalities that they create by profiting off of something.
There seems to be basically no limit to how much damage the "America is open for business!!!" cheerleaders will support as long as
1. Someone is making a profit off of it.
2. It's happening in someone else's backyard (This one is sometimes optional, see the entire state of Louisiana [1] or flammable tap water in Pennsylvania and NY [2])
[1] https://iaspub.epa.gov/triexplorer/release_geography?region=...
Don't worry, there will be a lot of profit to be had, the environment doesn't matter.
Paywall
pay/privacy wall, why even bother posting this link...
"up to" 4,500 gallons per day. The two new estimates in the article are 9-47 barrels per day and 19-108 barrels per day. A total of 250-700 barrels of oil per day might be flowing into the Gulf from various sources, so this is a significant fraction but not a majority.
>[Taylor Energy Company] claim that only one drop of oil per minute is being released from a small area covered in mud, amounting to less than three gallons each day.
.... 14 years later ...
Somewhere between 1,000 and 71,000 gallons have been leaking per day.
> Taylor Energy has disputed every outside assessment of oil flowing from the site.
Welp hopefully now that there is proof, they will get to pay for their externalities.
From http://www.taylorenergy.com/
>Taylor Energy Company LLC sold its oil and gas assets in 2008 and ceased all drilling and production operations. Taylor Energy exists today solely to respond to the MC-20 incident.
Okay nevermind. Socialize the losses, concentrate the profits, the American dream.