BP oil spill: crude reality
LAST UPDATED AT 13:41 ON Tue 1 Jun 2010
Oil washes onto the shore of Grand Isle in Louisiana last week. It is over 40 days since BP's Deepwater Horizon well exploded some 42 miles offshore yet oil continues to gush from the ruptured well-heads, coating the Louisiana coast.
Louisiana is struggling to cope
with the fallout from the BP oil spill
