The BP oil spill will affect every person around the Gulf of Mexico for years and years. New Orleans will have even more issues consider the towboat, Pere Ana C, hit an oil rig and created one more oil spill, reports the Associated Press. The Louisiana marshland was hit and there was a wellhead in head. MSNBC reports that Plaquemines Parish President Nungesser explains oil is shooting within the air right about now.
Well located south of New Orleans
The gushing oil well is located in an inland waterway along the border between Plaquemines Parish and Jefferson Parish, approximately 65 miles south of New Orleans. Roads won’t bring you directly to the place. Recovery workers had already been working in nearby Barataria Bay, an ecologically sensitive coastal estuary where waves of oil had entered from the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Nobody knows who the owner is right now. The Pere Ana C. collision has caused quite a bit of oil to start leaking from the well, reports Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts. . Since there have been gas clouds reported within the area, officials worry about natural oil leaking as well.
Mud Lake is near the area where Pere Ana C. hit
Mud Lake was unfortunate enough to be the lake right next to where the Pere Ana C. collision occurred. After the accident, the Coast Guard ship was moved to the LaRose area. No injuries resulting from the crash were recorded. Media sources say that authorities are trying to find who the well belongs to so they can find somebody to clean it up. Nobody knows if this spill is as costly as the BP spill with Deepwater Horizon.
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Associated Press
miamiherald.com/2010/07/27/1748599/oil-spews-from-la-oil-well-struck.html
MSNBC
msnbc.msn.com/id/38429966/ns/us_news-environment/
Remember when BP blocked media access to cleanup workers?
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