Scenes from the Spill #4

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“Oil is shown gushing from the broken Deepwater Horizon well after the containment cap was removed on June 23.”

– via Newsweek

After a robotic submarine collided with a vent in the Gulf today, BP was forced to remove the containment cap – a cap which was capturing around 16,665 barrels of oil, two-thirds of the total recovery operation. It still hasn’t been determined when the cap can be reattached.

Editor’s note: we will be posting an image from the Gulf oil spill every day (M-F) until the leak is fixed. Send pictures, links and tips to spill at ecosalon dot com.