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"How a 672,000-Gallon Oil Spill Was Nearly Invisible" [1]

"Mention oil spills, and images of birds coated in black slime and a shiny slick on the ocean’s surface come to mind.

But not all oil spills are the same.

About 672,000 gallons of oil spilled when a pipeline fractured about a mile below the ocean’s surface this month in the Gulf of Mexico southeast of Venice, La., which is about 65 miles south of New Orleans.

Hardly any of it was visible."

Christina Caron reports for the New York Times October 29, 2017. [2]

Energy & Fuel [3]
Pollution [4]
National (U.S.) [5]
Public [6]
Source: NY Times [2], 10/30/2017
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/how-672000-gallon-oil-spill-was-nearly-invisible [2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/science/gulf-oil-spill-louisiana.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/energy [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81