Another day , another update on the on-going oil tragedy in the Gulf . BP ’s latest containment dome attempt has successfully siphoned 250,000 gallon of fossil oil to the surface , but it ’s only a third of the 798,000 gallons shed daily .
According to BP ’s senior VP Boy Fryar , “ that operation has pop off super well . ” super well is , of course , extremely relative in such a situation ; the placement of the jacket itself is definitely a succeeder , though there ’s still a monolithic amount of fossil oil spilling into the sea every day . BP says that when the pressure inside the cap lessens , valve on the cap can be close , allowing the setup to syphon up to 630,000 gallons to the surface a day . That ’s a good figure , but still not enough to hive off all the crude .
Meanwhile , on the net , there ’s no dearth of places to chance selective information on what ’s bump in the Gulf ( or feeling on how BP ’s reach it ) but here are a few special herculean token that are making the round :
•Oilaholicis a new aggregator for all - things - oil - disaster ,
pack a live UStream , Flickr photos , and Twitter updates on one page .
• Boston.com ’s Big Picture blog delivered some of the most brawny mental imagery of the saga yet with“Caught in the oil,”a commove aggregation of picture register petroleum - covered wildlife .
• And Robert Reich , Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley , post a disheartening item on his blog entitled“Closing the Hole in the Gulf : A Petroleum Engineer Responds . ”Take Reich ’s anonymous source with a grain of salt , but it pretend BP look even bad than they already do .
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