More than 1 million gallons of oil leaks into Gulf of Mexico, potentially putting endangered species at risk (www.cbsnews.com)

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[-] LifeLikeLady@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Again huh... Who would've thought.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

Sadly, this sort of thing cannot be predicted, and nothing can be done to prevent it.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

On Facebook, the Coast Guard said that oil was "skimmed and sampled" roughly four miles southeast of South Pass, Louisiana on Friday, at which point they retrieved about 210 gallons of "oily-water mixture."

Matt Rota, senior policy director for Healthy Gulf, told CBS affiliate WWL-TV that the amount of oil thought to have spilled could still increase.

NOAA is helping oversee the incident, and the agency's emergency operations coordinator Doug Helton told WWL that it's not necessarily the amount of oil, but its impact, that is of most concern.

Just north of the spill and Plaquemines Parish lies the Chandeleur Islands, where last year, the world's most endangered sea turtle species, the Kemp's Ridley, was found hatching for the first time in three-quarters of a century.

"Continued oil and gas development in the Gulf represents a clear, existential threat to the whale's survival and recovery," a group of 100 scientists said in a letter to the Biden administration last year.

"The government's Natural Resource Damage Assessment on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill estimates that nearly 20% of Gulf of Mexico whales were killed, with additional animals suffering reproductive failure and disease."

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[-] Froyn@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Someone get the wieners and marshmallows...

It's time for Gulf Fire 2: Cthulhu Boogaloo!

[-] Krzak@discuss.online 2 points 11 months ago

We're getting a suspicious number of leaks, considering oil being a vital and expensive stuff hmm

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