Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Today in BP Oil Disaster: Day 86
Posted by Alex Woodward on Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:05 PM
The threat of a crater forming on the sea bed around the well — with oil flowing from multiple points — would be a potentially catastrophic scenario that would make containing the oil extremely difficult.
But according to Darryl Bourgoyne, director of the petroleum research lab at Louisiana State University, leaks deep in the well may not be much of a problem — so long as it was so deep that "the fluid would stay in the subsurface, and cratering wouldn't be a risk."
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I keep getting sent youtube videos of "evidence" of toxic Corexit rain, which seems to be based on some brown spots on some trees. Is there any truth to the rumors of Corexit evaporating into the atmosphere and falling in the rain? I can't find any information on this.
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Danielle, the main viral video of crop failure attributed to Corexit rain claims that it's in Mississippi, but it's actually in Tennessee -- and the prime suspect is a fuel dump from a jetliner: http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/07/jet-fuel-dumping-behind-tenn-crop-damage-blamed-on-bp-spill.html I'm no scientist, but I don't know how Corexit would somehow hopscotch across Mississippi and Alabama and kill a patch of crops in Tennessee. Moreover, I've been out to Grand Isle (right on the oil coast) and didn't see anything like this.
