Recently we reported on the over 3 million fracking wells and chemical lakes abandoned in the USA, many leaking oil and methane and poisoning groundwater.
Now we find that the same thing has happened in the Gulf of Mexico where the billionaire capitalists have for 50 years illegally abandoned hundreds of undersea oil pipelines and badly sealed wells, bribing the authorities to turn a blind eye and adding to the environmental apocalypse in the biggest marine ‘Dead Zone’.
The US media highlighted heroic efforts to control an oil slick visible from the Port Fourchon shore, while ignoring the other 349 spills. (The massive onshore petrochemical disaster is another ignored story).
Hurricane Ida: nearly 350 reported oil spills “investigated”
Map of current undersea pipelines and drilling rigs off Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico dead zone is “largest” ever recorded
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Hundreds of Abandoned oil pipelines still leaking in the wake of Hurricane Ida
Published on September 10, 2021 by Charles Digges from Bellona.org > Gulf of Mexico oil spills
More than a week after Hurricane Ida hit Louisiana so violently that it reversed the course of the Mississippi River, it’s become clear that the storm had also made a shambles of one of the nation’s largest chemical, petroleum and natural gas hubs.
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«Es hora de desmitificar una época y construir un nuevo mito desde el arroyo hasta las estrellas», escribe James Ellroy en América.
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