BP Oil Leak Live Video Stream
 

http://www.livestream.com/wkrg_oil_s...wkrg_oil_spill

wasn't looking for it but cropped up as I was sorting out my channel

looks like the same stream shown on BBC news at lunchtime today

awful . water car now. oil sucks

Actually, oil is food! Of all the really bad spills in the last 50 years (Torry Canyon, Braer, Exxon Valdez, etc.) it is documented that something less than 10% of the spills have actually been cleaned up. The rest is broken down by bugs in the sea because oil is a natural product. Refined oil (petrol, derv, etc.) is the one to watch, as it has to be all cleared up otherwise it just stays there.

This is an awful situation and one can only hope that they can stop the leak, and make the best job of preventing people's livelihoods and localities (especially the littoral waters) being polluted.

I know that oil and water dont mix, but you would think that the whole of that area woudl be BLACK with oil, rather than the oil coming out like a plume of smoke. It is also difficult to get an idea of the scale. How big is that pipe to the left hand side?