The Gulf Oil Spill You Never Heard About May Be The Largest Ever [1]

Source: www.commondreams.org [2] | Original Post Date: April 17, 2015 –

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The AP charges that Taylor Energy Company ‘has downplayed the leak’s extent and environmental impact’

While Gulf Coast residents and environmental groups focus on the upcoming five-year anniversary of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, a damning Associated Press investigation [4] has exposed the lingering impacts of a separate 2004 leak in the Gulf of Mexico—one that few people know about, and one that is far worse than the industry wants to admit.

Taylor Energy Company, which formerly operated the oil platform that collapsed during Hurricane Ivan, “has downplayed the leak’s extent and environmental impact, likening it to scores of minor spills and natural seeps the Gulf routinely absorbs,” according to AP journalists Michael Kunzelman and Jeff Donn.