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New Three-Mile Oil Slick Traced to BP Spill | Common Dreams

12.10.12

New Three-Mile Oil Slick Traced to BP Spill | Common Dreams: The reason for the appearance of the new slick, which is currently about 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, was still unknown.

BP and Coast Guard officials said the slick could be residual oil from the Deepwater Horizon wreckage; oil debris left on the seabed from the original spill; or oil emanating from bent piping still on the sea floor.

However, Ian MacDonald, a professor of oceanography at Florida State University and a spill expert, said that the presence of the slick could mean that oil is till leaking from BP’s Macondo well, the site of the blowout. “The jury is out here,” he said, adding that it was too early “to rule out that this is oil freshly released from the reservoir.


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