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Air date:
Mon, 05/03/2010 - 12:00am
US Oil spill update
Kinder weather offered some respite Monday to Louisiana's coastal communities from a giant oil spill looming off shore.
But it could still take months to cap the leaking well.
Weekend storms grounded aerial drops of dispersants and prevented skimming vessels from mopping up the growing one hundred thirty by seventy-mile oil slick.
An army of more than two thousand five hundred responders today laid out miles of protective booms, skim the sheen and train local fishermen for the cleanup effort.
An unknownamount of crude oil, estimated to be at least two hundred thousand gallons a day, has been streaming from the wellhead below the Deepwater Horizon rig that sank on April twenty- second.
KBOO’s Benjamin Allotay spoke with Diane Wilson, a shrimp farmer and activist from south Texas about the implications of the oil spill:
- KBOO
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