Oil Execs Grilled By US Senate Over Gulf Eco Catastrophe
- 14 years ago
Oil Executives Grilled by US Senators Over Gulf Ecological Catastrophe. President Barack Obama is naming former Senator Bob Graham and former Environmental Protection Agency chief William Reilly to co-chair a bipartisan commission to investigate the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Mexican Gulf BP Oil spill Catastrophe affects Louisiana and Mississippi. The undersea leak from the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig is very deep at 5,000 feet down on the sea bed, and BP has asked the
Pentagon to supply underwater imaging technology and robots. Many scientists dismiss an original 5,000 bpd estimate of the total leaking oil -- often defended by BP executives -- as ridiculously low and say it could be 70,000 barrels (2.9 million gallons/11 million liters) per day or more.
Pentagon to supply underwater imaging technology and robots. Many scientists dismiss an original 5,000 bpd estimate of the total leaking oil -- often defended by BP executives -- as ridiculously low and say it could be 70,000 barrels (2.9 million gallons/11 million liters) per day or more.