New Oil Leak in Gulf Of Mexico (Just one of the pipes, small leak)

[Elandiel BernElve]

New Leak Found on Gulf Coast
July 27, 2010 - 12:48 PM | by: Jonathan Serrie
The Coast Guard is responding to a new oil leak on the Gulf Coast.

This spill involves a well in a portion of Barataria Bay known as Mud Lake, near Bayou St. Dennis about 10 miles south of Lafitte, Louisiana.

Although this latest spill is unrelated to the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, it's blocking vessels of opportunity based in Lafitte from accessing the Gulf, as officials assess air quality and other health and safety issues at the site. (Boats staged in other areas are unaffected).

"It's apparent that some type of vessel has hit the well head, has laid it over," said Donald Nalty, COO of oil spill cleanup contractor ES&H, who just returned from a flyover of the site in single engine seaplane. "It's probably about a four inch casing and it's spewing out oil and natural gas."

Nalty said the oil was coming out as a mist and was dusting nearby marshes.


source: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/07/27/new-leak-found-on-gulf-coast/

[LeeEllisMusic]

Oil spewing from well near Louisiana marsh
Boom placed around 100-foot-high plume; tugboat hit well, officials say

NBC, msnbc.com and news services
updated 7/27/2010 5:29:32 PM ET

Adding insult to the Gulf's injury, an oil platform hit by a tugboat early Tuesday is now spewing oil and natural gas near a Louisiana marsh area.
While there was no estimate of how much oil was gushing, officials said the mile-long slick it created was small compared with the Gulf spill.
The oil and gas is shooting up 100 feet into the air, officials said, as a private contractor was called in to try to cap the well.
While small in size, the spill weighed heavy on locals. "We cannot catch a break," Deano Bonano, Jefferson Parish emergency management director, said in a note to parish officials.
Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said a strip of oil 50 yards wide and a mile long was spotted on the water near the well, which was no longer in operation when it was hit.
Some 6,000 feet of boom were placed around the site, Thad Allen, the national incident commander for the nearby BP spill, told reporters.
The tugboat was pushing a barge when the collision happened, he added.

The well is in inland waterways on the border of Plaquemines and Jefferson parishes, about 65 miles south of New Orleans; it's marsh area not accessible by road.
The tugboat hit the well around 1 a.m. local time. The tugboat captain immediately notified officials, and another boat later called in the leak.
The tugboat captain told investigators the well was not lit as required, Coast Guard Capt. John Arenstam said.
Allen said the well is owned by the state of Louisiana.
The leak is north of Barataria Bay, a sensitive coastal estuary where crews have been fighting waves of oil from the BP spill


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38429966/ns/us_news-environment/

[ascendingstarseed]

Lets see a couple weeks ago in Utah we had a spill, today another spill in Michigan and then this one in Louisiana....Drill baby, drill!

Why aren't Americans taking to the streets across America saying enough is enough?! This is insane, it's like people have become totally desensitized to environmental destruction.

[Lucrum]

So, if I get this right...

Oil wells are small non-marked "tubes" breaching the surface of the water so it is hard to see and most definitly will get hit by something sooner or later?
I'm overwhelmed by the security measures these companies are dealing with...

From the pictures I've seen, this does not look like an active well...resemble a pipeline to me, but may be the picture was taken at a bad angle or something. Oil plattforms to me is big structures that should be able to take a towboat accidentally bumping into it.

Oh well....

[LeeEllisMusic]

Lets see a couple weeks ago in Utah we had a spill, today another spill in Michigan and then this one in Louisiana....Drill baby, drill!

Why aren't Americans taking to the streets across America saying enough is enough?! This is insane, it's like people have become totally desensitized to environmental destruction.

I'm thinking it has a lot to do with Corporate Control of the Media~ Just look at the half lies and hysteria whipped up by Fox News - or "Faux News" as I've heard them called. And the nightly network news isn't much better.

TPTB keep the sheeple all hot and bothered about things that don't *really* matter - kind of like a magician who says " Look over there, Look over there (not here) Look Over There!!!" :)