Obama’s not blameless on oil blowout but we share blame

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In May 2000, an environmental assessment for deepwater drilling in the Gulf presciently warned that “spill responses may be complicated by the potential for very large magnitude spills (because of the high production rates associated with deepwater wells).” The report noted that the oil industry “has estimated worst-case spill volumes ranging from 5,000 to 116,000 barrels a day for 120 days,” and it even anticipated the underwater plumes of oil that are currently haunting the Gulf:

It shouldn’t be a surprise that the oil under the Gulf is under such pressure with a mile of water pushing down on it. I used to bore my children about the glaciers by telling them how Duluth keeps rising by a few milimeters each year from the melting of the mile thick glaciers that once depressed the land. That was 10,000 years ago and we are still recoiling.

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