I’ve heard dire environmental predictions about the future of the Gulf, and we’re all worried about what’s going to happen to the ecosystem there as a result of the oil leak. Remember, some 40% of US wetlands are in Louisiana, and the oil leak has reached them. What’s more saddening to me, however, is that […]
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How Much Oil Is Leaking In The Gulf Of Mexico Spill?
I wrote in The Kelly Letter yesterday: The initial US Coast Guard estimate that the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is gushing 5,000 barrels of oil into the sea per day may be conservative. New analysis of video footage of the leak by scientists and environmental groups found that the rate is […]