A NASA satellite image shows that the worst-case scenario for the Deep Horizon slick is becoming a reality: the oil has entered the Loop Current.
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A Hydrocarbon Chernobyl
In this clip from CNN.com, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar cites Chernobyl as a comparable disaster to the Deep Horizon spill. Who wants to bet that he’ll regret using that analogy?
Deep Horizon: pictures worth a thousand words.
Images of the fire, and diagram and video showing what happened when the rig sank, and what BP is trying to do to fix it.
Today, Puerto Rico. Tomorrow, Texas.
I think you can be sure that the full scope of the Deep Horizon crisis hasn’t yet penetrated the American consciousness. This could be a environmental and economic disaster that makes Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath look pedestrian.