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Ever since the explosion on offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, British Petroleum (BP) and the National Oceanic Atmospheric and Administration (NOAA) have been sticking by their estimates that only 2000 barrels of oil a day are being dumped into the Gulf of Mexico. A prominent Florida State University oceanographer said the oil spill was likely five times larger than 5,000 barrel-a-day. Based on other independent scientist models, the volume of oil spilling can be as high as 25,000 to 80,000 barrels a day.
This is unheard of and unprecedented contamination of our environment. It is a catastrophe that at the very[...]