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Coast Guard Admiral Says BP Oil Spill Clean Up Will Take Years

In the past weeks since the start of the Deepwater Horizon disaster I’ve gotten asked on countless occasions how long it’s going to take to clean up all the leaking oil. Considering that, despite efforts to stop the gushing oil , this is all still ongoing this is an open-ended question to some degree. However, US Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen has thrown his hat into t… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Coast Guard Admiral Says BP Oil Spill Clean Up Will Take Years

BP Can’t Stop the Massive Oil Leak – Can Hollywood?

Photo via the First Post BP’s attempts to stop the gushing oil geyser it unleashed upon the Gulf of Mexico have only sounded like Hollywood plot contrivances: Lower a giant ‘top hat’ over the leak! Let’s go for operation: ‘top kill” to blast the thing shut. Or how about a giant ‘junk shot’ to plug it with garbage. So if BP execs’ plans to halt the oil flow were the stuff of B-movies, what would real H… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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BP Can’t Stop the Massive Oil Leak – Can Hollywood?