BP oil well ‘effectively dead’ 5 months after spill began
A Coast Guard photo shows the failed blowout preventer being raised from the Macondo well site on September 4.
Editors Note: This is total propaganda and goes to show you how the corporate media basically works for BP. -Shepard-
The blown-out well at the heart of the worst oil spill in U.S. history has been cemented shut and is “effectively dead,” the federal government’s point man for the disaster said Sunday.
“Additional regulatory steps will be undertaken but we can now state, definitively, that the Macondo well poses no continuing threat to the Gulf of Mexico,” former Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen announced.
President Barack Obama hailed the “final termination” of the ruptured well, but said the federal government will continue to do “everything possible to make sure the Gulf Coast recovers fully from this disaster.”
The well erupted on April 20 and spewed an estimated 4.9 million barrels (206 million gallons) of crude into the Gulf of Mexico before it was temporarily capped in July.
Its owner, oil giant BP, began its final cementing operations to cap the well on Friday.
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