If we're lucky, BP's relief wells will be done in August and the company's all-time blunder will stop leaking. But even it that happens, the Coast Guard now concedes, it will take years to clean up this disaster.
“It’s the breadth and complexity of the disaggregation of the oil” that is now posing the greatest clean-up challenge, the commander, Adm. Thad W. Allen, said at a news conference at the White House [The New York Times].
The oil has now spread 46 miles
from the original site of the Deepwater Horizon explosion, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration now says, and has been found at a depth of more than 3,000 feet. That confirms the wide undersea plumes of oil; BP initially denied
those existed. Admiral Allen said it's time to think of this not as one spill, but rather as hundreds of thousands of little ones. Meanwhile, more oil ...
