“Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup Will Take Years”

Website:

http://environment.about.com/b/2010/06/07/bp-partially-contains-gulf-oil-spill-environmental-cleanup-will-take-years.htm

Summary:

There was an under sea rupture from the oil well, and it has been leaking oil into the gulf since April 20th, it was the largest disaster in U.S history. They are now making progress at containing the oil leakage in the Gulf of Mexico. The cleanup of the oil will take a long time, especially the wildlife habitat this will be years to fix. The oil is doing a lot of damage to the shorelines, the animals, etc. The new containment dome that they placed over the damaged oil. When the oil leaks out it is funnelled to a ship that is on the surface of the water. It was able to collect 6,000 barrels of oil just in 24 hours. Later they then collected 10,000 barrels daily and then so on. So now they are getting another craft to the well site so they can increase the amount of oil the company can capture, so then it can capture up to 20,000 barrels daily. They say that the oil is releasing 19,000 barrels of oil a day in the Gulf of Mexico. The engineers cut to the riser to improve their chances of a better seal with the new dome. So then they will be able to avoid problems that happened to contain the well to fail.

Opinion:

My opinion on this is that the engineers should get a very large machine so it can get all the damaged oil out of the Gulf of Mexico. Like all of the animals that are in the water, like birds, should be taken out of the water until the oil is all gone out of the water. It is a sin to see all the birds full of oil, because they can’t fly or anything. The well with the oil in it should be checked daily so they wouldn’t have this problem ever again.