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Once again light is shed on the Gulf of Mexico’s risky relationship with offshore drilling.
“Coastal economies, which depend on healthy oceans, simply cannot afford more offshore drilling disasters,” says Jacqueline Savitz, deputy vice president for the environmental group Oceana, in a statement released Wednesday about the latest gas blowout. “This is yet another reminder that offshore drilling remains dirty and dangerous…”
Offshore Drilling Rig Partially Collapses Off Louisiana Coast, Reuters
Louisiana Drilling Rig Blowout Causes Evacuation of 47 Workers, Guardian UK
3,200 Gulf wells unplugged, unprotected lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, AP (Uploaded 04-20-2011)
More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help prevent leaks that could threaten the same waters fouled by last year’s BP spill. These wells likely pose an even greater environmental threat than the 27,000 wells in the Gulf that have been plugged and classified officially as “permanently abandoned” or “temporarily abandoned.”
