GOOD NEWS – BAD NEWS: BP Oil Leak in the Gulf is Capped!

GOOD NEWS: It looks like we finally have some good news, as BP announced yesterday that the oil leak pouring into the Gulf of Mexico was stopped. This is the first time we have had something positive on the BP oil disaster since the rig blew up back in April. There are government reports that an estimated 94 to 184 million gallons have been spilled into the Gulf is between 94 to 184 million. On a side note: I find this odd, as we can find a hair in the middle of a cornfield and analyze the DNA to track down a murder suspect, but we have a 90 million gallon difference in the estimates? Anyway, the good news is that we are finally headed in the right direction.

While this is great to hear, the Gulf is not out of the woods yet when it comes to a future leak. There is a lot of testing that needs to be done to ensure the cap will remain intact. There are a team of engineers looking at the cap every 6 hours over the next few days to verify its stability.



BAD NEWS: This cap is not a permanent fix for the Gulf BP oil leak. According to BP “relief wells remain the sole means to permanently seal and isolate the well.”



BP is  working on the two relief wells and they are expected to be completed by the middle of August. There is also a whole lot of clean-up that needs to take place, and of course we have no idea as to the long term damage this disaster will not only have on the environment, but the Gulf states economy as well.



We have a live stream of the well running on the website 24 hours a day, and you can check it out by clicking HERE.  It is so nice to see the calm in the video stream, and let’s hope and pray that the spill is finally under control and the great states that border the Gulf of Mexico, as well as the wildlife and environment, can slowly start to recover.



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