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Posted Mon Apr 26 2010: from Agence France-Press:
BP struggles to cap leak as US oil slick spreads http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1272309356
 British oil giant BP used robotic underwater vehicles Sunday to try to cap a leaking well and prevent a growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico from developing into an environmental disaster. Satellite images showed the slick had spread by 50 percent in a day to cover an area of 600 square miles (1,550 square kilometers), although officials said some 97 percent of the pollution was just a thin veneer on the sea's surface. BP has dispatched skimming vessels to mop up the oil leaking from the debris of the Deepwater Horizon rig, which sank on Thursday, still blazing almost two days after a massive explosion that left 11 workers missing presumed dead.
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'Doc Michael says:
Use of fossil fuels is ALREADY an environmental disaster.
These spills are just a redundancy, you see.

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