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Besides this spill and the cover-up, the story has plenty more to be alarmed about regarding offshore drilling ...

A 14-year-long oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico verges on becoming one of the worst in U.S. history

An oil spill that has been quietly leaking millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico has gone unplugged for so long that it now verges on becoming one of the worst offshore disasters in U.S. history.

Between 300 and 700 barrels of oil per day have been spewing from a site 12 miles off the Louisiana coast since 2004, when an oil-production platform owned by Taylor Energy sank in a mudslide triggered by Hurricane Ivan. Many of the wells have not been capped, and federal officials estimate that the spill could continue through this century. With no fix in sight, the Taylor offshore spill is threatening to overtake BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster as the largest ever.

As oil continues to spoil the Gulf, the Trump administration is proposing the largest expansion of leases for the oil and gas industry, with the potential to open nearly the entire outer continental shelf to offshore drilling. That includes the Atlantic coast, where drilling hasn’t happened in more than a half century and where hurricanes hit with double the regularity of the Gulf

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The Taylor Energy spill is largely unknown outside Louisiana because of the company’s effort to keep it secret in the hopes of protecting its reputation and proprietary information about its operations, according to a lawsuit that eventually forced the company to reveal its cleanup plan. The spill was hidden for six years before environmental watchdog groups stumbled on oil slicks while monitoring the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster a few miles north of the Taylor site in 2010.

 

Or as we say in the business, never let the facts get in the way of a good story.

 

The real killers? Sounds like a job for OJ!

EDIT: Starman beat me to it.

 

I love Daniel Dale:

 

Good starting show of support for the rally tonight

 

Stonekettle Station: The Big Lie

 

Do Liberals Hate Trump Because He’s a Typical American?

LOL. WSJ thought Trump is typical.

 

Unknown Middle Easterner: "Hmmm, how could we get a terrorist into the United States?"
Other UME: "I've got it! Let's fly some operatives to Honduras, where they will spend weeks and weeks walking with a few thousand migrants escaping violence. Hopefully nobody notices he doesn't speak Spanish!"
UME: "BRILLANT!"

 

Prince Iwana Quil Merikan: Why don’t we just let trump be trump?
Terrorist Leader #1: alhamdulillah
Terrorist followers #1 to 5,000,000,000 : ٱلْـحَـمْـدُ للهِ WE WIN

 

Well, that'll teach 'em to dismember a US resident!

 

Early voting started today where I live (in TX). Longest lines I've ever seen at the polls, and from what I'm hearing from others and seeing from various other sources, that's been a pretty common occurrence in a lot of places statewide.