Oil Spill in Gulf of Mexico May Be Five Times Worse than Thought [Satellite Pictures]
by Kwame Opam | 3:10 pm, April 29th
The oil spill that, for more than a week now, has been growing in the Gulf of Mexico is getting worse and five times faster than originally estimated. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is now saying, after closer investigation, that the spill that started with the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig is leaking oil at a rate of 5000 barrels per day, versus the original estimate of 1000 barrels a day. While that doesn’t put the spill on the scale of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, it has already reached and exceeded the size of Rhode Island. That’s not some past oil spill that happened in Rhode Island, mind you; that’s the actual U.S. state.
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