BP pipeline sprays ‘oily mist’ over 33 acres of Alaskan tundra!

Although hard to belive that BP can still perform work for the federal government after the deepwater Horizon 4 years ago, They are already causing destruction in Alaska! Alaska state officials confirmed Wednesday that an oily mist sprung from a compromised oil pipeline and sprayed into the wind without stopping for at least two hours, covering 33 acres of the frozen snow field in the oil well's vicinity.

The company was at fault in at least two oil spills in the same region since 2006. That year, an estimated 267,000 gallons of oil seeped through a quarter-inch sized hole in a corroded BP pipeline. That accident went unnoticed for five days, until an oil worker smelled the aroma of crude when driving through the area.

 

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Ohio pipeline spill much worse than previously thought

This week the Environmental Protection Agency has doubled their estimates on the amount of crude oil that leaked into a nature preserve in Ohio through an underground oil pipe.

Originally officials projected that 240 barrels of oil (10,000 gallons) had spilled into the area but after noticing a 5-inch crack in the pipeline on March 17, They now say more than 20,000 Gallons of oil has leaked into the nature preserve and does pose a threat to local wildlife such as amphibians and fish, some of which have been found dead in the area (About the size of a football field).

But this isn't the first time, According to the US Department of Transportation, This one pipeline  has suffered 39 incidents since 2006! losing more than 31,000 gallons of oil and inflicting about $7.5 million in damages.

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