The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill keeps getting worse–now gushing more than 200,000 gallons per day , according to NOAA estimates–five times more than original estimates and more than BP’s absolute worst case scenario in disaster plans filed with the government. That may not change any time soon. The last big blowout, at Ixtoc off Mexico in 1979, took almost a year to stop and spilled some 140 million gallons of oil before it was through, making it still the second largest oil spill ever (Saddam Hussein’s intentional opening of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi wells during the first Gulf War remains, by far, the largest oil spill at roughly 1 billion gallons .) [More]
Oil spill worsens, offshore drilling plans in dire straits?
