{"id":543599,"date":"2010-04-26T09:47:40","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/1000-barrels-a-day-of-crude-hemmoraging-in-to-the-gulf-of-mexico-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-26T09:47:40","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T13:47:40","slug":"1000-barrels-a-day-of-crude-hemorrhaging-into-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/543599","title":{"rendered":"1,000 Barrels A Day Of Crude Hemorrhaging Into The Gulf Of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bd0a06a7f8b9ae7093c0000-400-\/oil-rig-fire.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"oil rig fire\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Coast Guard is warning that the Gulf of Mexico&#8217;s ecosystem is threatened by the recent Transocean\/BP rig disaster.<\/p>\n<p>1,000 barrels a day of oil are leaking into the water, and the the spill is covering 400 square miles of ocean.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/energy\/oilandgas\/7633286\/Louisiana-oil-rig-explosion-Underwater-machines-attempt-to-plug-leak.html\">Telegraph:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Four underwater vehicles have been deployed under the plan outlined by the Coast Guard and US Minerals Management Service. They will dive unmanned to the ocean floor to activate a blowout preventer, a giant series of pipes and valves that could staunch the leak.<\/p>\n<p>Problem is, if the underwater subs don&#8217;t work, then it could take <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wwno\/news.newsmain\/article\/0\/0\/1641291\/WWNO.News.Reports\/Oil.Spill.Could.Take.Months.to.Contain\">months to stop the leak<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/1000-barrels-a-day-of-crude-hemmoraging-in-to-the-gulf-of-mexico-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ttS4xOReE7dScDmWkZxTwg2qDpM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ttS4xOReE7dScDmWkZxTwg2qDpM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ttS4xOReE7dScDmWkZxTwg2qDpM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/ttS4xOReE7dScDmWkZxTwg2qDpM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=7sOhtoK-ImM:JErn9JeI2x4:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/7sOhtoK-ImM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Coast Guard is warning that the Gulf of Mexico&#8217;s ecosystem is threatened by the recent Transocean\/BP rig disaster. 1,000 barrels a day of oil are leaking into the water, and the the spill is covering 400 square miles of ocean. 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