BP exposed. 1/500th of the oil.... skimmed. Promises.

by Gorette

Start with the poll. It's a quiz. Indulge me. Do the poll thing now! Before you read this. Please?

How much of the oil gushing from Deepwater Horizon well is being skimmed or burned off? Do you, as I did,* believe you know?

If you believe BP press releases are confusing on purpose you would be right. Journalists have been getting it wrong. Hard to believe, huh?

In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day.

Please. Read that again.

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Oil on Pensacola Beaches 9 mi of it

by Chaoslillith

So I was watching AC360 and the part I caught had a report of about 9 miles of Tar Balls on Pensacola Beach that washed up today.

One of the many links

and so it continues.

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Rachel Maddow Did Some Great Reporting Re: Wetlands Last Night

by Muzikal203

. . . and if you missed it you should definitely check it out. I'd heard people saying how bad it will be for the oil to hit the wetlands, but no one really told WHY before. I mean outside of the obvious fact that it would be terribly difficult (damn near impossible) to clean. Last night Rachel explained what the wetlands were, what they do, and how the oil spill will harm the wetlands and ultimately the city of New Orleans and the rest of the country. I'm going to post the video below the jump.

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