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. . Some officials are concerned that in addition to oil, natural gas may be leaking, as gas clouds were reported within the area.
Pere Ana C. hit around Mud Lake
Tuesday Morning, the Pere Ana C. collision happened quite close to Mud Lake. After the collision occurred, the Coast Guard ship had to move right away to the LaRose area. No injuries resulting from the crash were recorded. Reports from various media sources indicate that local authorities are presently in the process of searching for somebody who can go in and stop the new oil spill. It’s unknown whether expense of the cleanup will approach what has already been spent by BP for local cleanup following 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?
youtube.com/watch?v=dZHnStD690U
