The news keeps getting worse from the British Petroleum oil catastrophe in the Gulf. The UK Telegraph reports:
The view from space indicates that the oil may be leaking at a rate of 25,000 barrels a day, dwarfing the figure of 5,000 barrels that US officials and the British oil giant BP have used in recent days.
That would mean that some nine million gallons may already have escaped from the underwater well following the April 20 explosion that killed 11 rig workers. It suggests the disaster will almost certainly prove greater than the Exxon Valdez tanker spill off Alaska in 1989, which released 11 million gallons and was the worst previous spill at sea.
via Oil Disaster 5X Worse Than Estimated, ‘Churning Slick’ Now the Size of Puerto Rico | | AlterNet.
