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Not again! A new oil spill hits Louisiana
Oil and gas escapes after tug boat hits platform south of New Orleans
A tug boat pushing a barge close to marshlands south of New Orleans accidentally hit an oil platform yesterday, sending a plume of oil and gas 100ft into the air and creating an oil slick a mile long.
A clean-up crew already working on the BP Macondo spill was immediately dispatched to the area and a boom was placed around the spill. The well is owned by Cedyco, a company based in Houston, Texas.
Normally, the area would be occupied by fishermen, shrimpers and oystermen.
But because of the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe on April 20, they are no longer working in the region.
The leak is at least the third unrelated oil spill in the Gulf since the Deepwater oil rig exploded. "We cannot catch a break," said Deano Bonano, emergency management director for Jefferson Parish, where thousands have seen their livelihoods wrecked by the BP spill.
A spokesman for the US Coast Guard said the federal Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, funded by a tax on oil companies, would be used to pay for the emergency response. ·
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Peter - this one was done by an American firm. That's why they've not been yelling their heads of about it!
Notice how the 'BP' rig problem concentrated on BP, whilst the three American firms involved, including the American owner of the rig, got left out of the 'toys out of the pram' throwing?
Whats up USA, not blaming BP for these three "unrelated" oil incidents?
This federal oil spill liability trust fund, where was that when the BP rig blew?
There are people in other parts of the world who see just how corrupt the USA is and how corruptly it has acted in all of this.
There have been at least 6 major oil blow outs in the gulf of Mexico since the 1990's, all unrelated to BP. The US oil industry wants BP for the USA and this it sees as agreat way to get what it wants. The US administration cares nothing for those who live on that coast, care nothing at all. The administration only cares what its paymasters, the oil industry wants.