The U.S. Coast Guard said Monday that an estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico near a pipeline off the coast of Louisiana. Officials are concerned about the oil’s potential impact on endangered and threatened species.
The Coast Guard first reported seeing the spill on Friday, saying that an aircrew had identified the leak. In their last update on Tuesday, officials said the leak is near the 67-mile-long Main Pass Oil Gathering company’s pipeline system near Louisiana’s Plaquemines Parish. It was not specified when the leak began, but officials said the pipeline was closed down at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday.
“The volume of discharged oil is currently unknown,” officials said Tuesday. “…Initial engineering calculations indicate potential volume of crude oil that could have been released from the affected pipeline is 1.1 million gallons.”
When a spill of this size happens, the company responsible should have its assets liquidated and be dissolved. If shareholders start getting shafted, maybe the remaining oil and gas companies will start being hyper vigilant so it doesn’t happen to them.
No way man I used to watch green acres on Nickelodeon they clearly shot a bullet in the ground and then moved to Beverly Hills
Speed-running environmental collapse.
Just a reminder that BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster was 230M gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and nobody went to jail.
Smh, the oil and gas industry got lazy, just doing reboots of old content.
Why do I feel like industries that have to self report spills are lying ten fold?
Downvoting for misleading title. There is no “millions of gallons” leaked. Amount is currently unknown. “Could have” wording is an excuse for the headline.
ban gulf drilling. damn the oil price, we need to destroy the oil industry
Stopping subsidies would help.
We speed running this bitch now.
