Whistleblowers: Gulf Oil Spill Larger than Exxon Valdez Spill

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The environmental whistleblowers at SkyTruth  debunked earlier lowball estimates from the government and BP and a recently leaked memo revealed that the whistle blowers calculations that over 1 million gallons of oil per day are leaking into the Gulf of Mexico are indeed correct. The calculations state that the Gulf Oil Spill is larger than Exxon Valdez Spill.

Gulf Oil Spill Larger than Exxon Valdez Spill

Calculations by oceanographer Ian MacDonald of SkyTruth  show that the spill is leaking 26,500 barrels  or 1,113,000 gallons of oil per day. The calculations show the amount of oil have topped the amount leaked in Exxon Valdez Spill on Saturday May 1st, 2001.

The calculations by MacDonald states that 12.2 million gallons of oil have already leaked into the Gulf of Mexico which is 1.2 million more than the 11 million gallons leaked in the Exxon Valdez spill.

Even at this rate, we are still only half way to the worse case scenario in which a fully unconstrained leak could gusher as much as 2 million gallons (150,000 barrels) per day. Experts are warning that even at the current rate of flow the oil spill will reach catastrophic proportions when the oil spill reaches the Gulf Stream. Experts now warned that is not a matter of if but when the oil slick will make its way up the East Coast according to Yahoo news.

“The spill and the spreading is getting so much faster and expanding much quicker than they estimated,” said Hans Graber, executive director of the university’s Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing. “Clearly, in the last couple of days, there was a big change in the size.”

“It will be on the East Coast of Florida in almost no time,” Graber said. “I don’t think we can prevent that. It’s more of a question of when rather than if.”

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