When a spill of this size happens, the company responsible should have its assets liquidated and be dissolved. If shareholders start getting shafted, maybe the remaining oil and gas companies will start being hyper vigilant so it doesn't happen to them.
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No way man I used to watch green acres on Nickelodeon they clearly shot a bullet in the ground and then moved to Beverly Hills
Speed-running environmental collapse.
Just a reminder that BP's Deepwater Horizon disaster was 230M gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and nobody went to jail.
That reporter/editor should be fined or charged with this blatant bullshit.
"The U S. Coast Guard said Monday that an estimated 1.1 million gallons of crude oil has leaked into the Gulf..." and linked the actual press release in that line.
When you actually read the press release, and then lower in the article, it says the amount is actually unknown.
They know how much oil the pipeline holds, which would be around that estimate. It could only be a couple hundred gallons that have actually leaked.
Also they are not even sure where the leak is, so it might not even be the named company's fault.
Yeah oil industry sucks, but this sounds like a fat nothing burger that CBS is pumping for clicks. No wonder no one trusts the media.
Why do I feel like industries that have to self report spills are lying ten fold?
Smh, the oil and gas industry got lazy, just doing reboots of old content.
Downvoting for misleading title. There is no "millions of gallons" leaked. Amount is currently unknown. "Could have" wording is an excuse for the headline.
ban gulf drilling. damn the oil price, we need to destroy the oil industry
Stopping subsidies would help.
We speed running this bitch now.