The BP oil spill will affect everyone around the Gulf of Mexico for years and years. Now the Associated Press reports that New Orleans is back within the thick of an oil slick thanks to an errant tow boat called the Pere Ana C. . Oil is currently shooting 20 feet into the air, Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser told MSNBC.
Well found south of New Orleans
Along the border of Plaquemines Parish and Jefferson Parish is the well which is about 65 miles south of New Orleans. Roads won’t bring you directly to the place. Recovery workers had already been working in nearby Barataria Bay, an ecologically sensitive coastal estuary where waves of oil had entered from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now, it hasn’t been reported who owns this well. The Pere Ana C. collision has caused quite a bit of oil to start leaking from the well, reports Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts. Since you are able to only get to the area on a boat, not much is known about the recovery or how much is leaking. There is a concern that natural gas may be leaking with the oil since some gas clouds are reported within the area recently.
Mud Lake is near the area where Pere Ana C. hit
Mud Lake was unfortunate enough to be the lake right next to where the Pere Ana C. collision occurred. After the accident, the Coast Guard ship was moved to the LaRose area. No injuries resulting from the crash were recorded. Authorities are trying to discover somebody that is responsible to clean up all of this oil that is causing disaster. It’s unknown whether expense of the cleanup will approach what has already been spent by BP for local cleanup following Deepwater Horizon.
Associated Press
miamiherald.com/2010/07/27/1748599/oil-spews-from-la-oil-well-struck.html
MSNBC
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Remember when BP blocked media access to cleanup workers?
youtube.com/watch?v=dZHnStD690U
