The Other Gulf Oil Disaster: Chronic Offshore Pollution

Five years since the BP/Deepwater Horizon disaster began, Sky Truth highlights all of the other oil and hazardous material spills that have been reported in the Gulf since the BP spill was stopped in July 2010.

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Including one well that has been leaking for over a decade!

In a letter Friday to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, Sen. Bill Nelson said it is "unacceptable" that oil is still leaking from the site off Louisiana's coast where an oil platform owned by Taylor Energy Company toppled during Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

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Halliburton Pleads Guilty To Destroying Gulf Oil Spill Evidence

Halliburton has agreed to plead guilty to destroying evidence related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and will pay the maximum possible statutory fine, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday.

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The rule that allows companies not to disclose the chemical contents of fracking fluid is called the Halliburton rule. Yup, no endocrine disruptors or cacinogenic chemicals in our fracking fluid.

Meanwhile there has been another blow out in the gulf, this time a gas drilling rig.

Responsible Modern Offshore Drilling. Except When It Isn't.

Oil spills continue to be a way of life in the Gulf.

MODIS satellite imagery taken Tuesday (June 18, 2013) shows a slick 32 miles long emanating from the Taylor Energy site, which has been reliably oozing oil into the Gulf for more than 8 years now.

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BP settles with US for $4.5 billion in Gulf spill

BP said Thursday that it will pay $4.5 billion in a settlement with the U.S. government over the massive 2010 oil spill and will plead guilty to felony counts related to the deaths of 11 workers and lying to Congress.

The figure includes nearly $1.3 billion in criminal fines — the largest such penalty ever — along with payments to several government entities.

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Spill, Baby Spill

See how the oil spill grows in the Gulf of Mexico. (Via: USA Today)

National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration experts now estimate that 5,000 barrels a day of oil are spilling into the gulf. Officials had estimated the leak for days at 1,000 barrels a day.

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