Expert: If Cap Fails, Oil in Gulf Will Triple

[tekisui]

Source: The Raw Story

The worst fears of one conservationist may be coming true.

Admiral Thad Allen said Friday that the cap placed over the leaking well was only collecting oil at a rate of 42,000 gallons a day. Recent estimates put the leak's flow at 500,000 to a million gallons a day.

That figure may have increased by 20 percent after the pipe at the top of the blowout preventer was cut off during BP's latest attempt to staunch the flow.

"If the cap doesn't work, we're going to have three times the amount of oil in the Gulf of Mexico," conservationist Rick Steiner told MSNBC's Keith Olbermann Thursday.

As much as 46 million gallons have already leaked into the Gulf. If the "cut and cap" operation fails there could be more than 138 million gallons of oil spilled before a relief well is finished in August.

more: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0604/expert-3-times-amount-oil-cap-work/

[blue sky at night]

1. I can hardly stand to read about the disaster anymore....

but I had to read your post, then I look to the right and see the ad for South Carolina; how sad it will be when their beaches are fouled and the dead sea life washes up. Guess the folks who "need a pristine beach" had better get a move on.

Didn't you just feel when the SCOTUS selected the idiot son that it was the "end of the world as we know it"....god damn them all.

[Selatius]

2. I live here on the Mississippi coast. Like Katrina 5 years before, I'm mentally preparing for the...

worst case outcome in my area: Namely, oil washing up on our beautiful barrier islands and eventually on our shores. The tourism/gaming economy here will suffer a devastating blow, as if the Great Recession and Katrina were not enough. The fishing industry will be utterly annihilated for decades. The environment will be the greatest victim out of it all, countless fisheries and marshes lost along with untold numbers of animals.

The 2000s will go down as one of the harshest decades for the coast since the Great Depression. The last ten years have been nothing but bitter harvests, starting with the economic hit that came right after 9/11.

[pokerfan]

3. The BP CEO just wants his life back!

Poor thing.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. 2 views of the spewage:

2 views of the spewage:

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http://mfile.akamai.com/97892/live/reflector:21145.asx ?...