BP Prudhoe Bay Spill Cleanup Continues

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Cleanup of several thousand gallons of freeze protection fluids, seawater and crude oil continues at a BP oil field on the North Slope.

The Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation says the spill reported more than a week ago was at a drill site in the Prudhoe Bay oil field. It occurred during a well warm-up procedure.

DEC says BP Exploration (Alaska) has eight response technicians using hand tools to remove contaminated snow from a confined area of piping.

The spill has been estimated at more than 3,600 gallons.

Crews will continue to remove contaminated snow, ice and gravel from the drill pad and an area within the reserve pit.

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Comments

[Longtimeliberal]

06:52 AM on 04/22/2012

We are being brainwashed by the media. Check out Free Energy on the web and find out how close we really are to almost free, non-polluting energy. Plants are being built right now and countries across the globe are going this way. We even have plants ready or almost ready to provide the products here in the US. We have to demand they come to market and soon. Some will be ready for production this fall and some are ready right now. This is previously suppressed energy and innovations some of which go back to Nicola Tessla.

[bad spelling grammar]

01:39 PM on 04/20/2012

BP shouldn't exists

[artbylas]

01:25 PM on 04/20/2012

Sad they have messed up the north as well as the gulf and we know hundreds of other sites have issues yet the government give them the biggest tax relief and the clean up effort is lacking to say the least. Its this really in the best interest of the people???

[Wright-O]

08:29 AM on 04/20/2012

....

The Dems are gonna bail on O and help pass the XL pipeline...

Our poor Lil' POTUS....got no mo mojo

[janmB]

07:53 AM on 04/20/2012

There was an ridiculously low liability cap
inserted into the bill that was supposed to prevent another Exxon
Valdez oil spill. That is why BP felt they could take such
experimental risks in the first place, because they had put in place
a law that said they could get away with it for a token cost if
things went drastically wrong as they now have.
That is why the environmental review process was limited to 30 days,
to make sure it would never amount to anything more than a once over
lightly if at all. President Obama now says that any laws that need
to be changed to make sure this does not happen again will be
changes.
Well, they ALL have to be changed. Every single law on the books has
got to be totally revamped to stop giving self-serving corporations a
pass when it comes to public safety and the public interest.

[Longtimeliberal]

06:54 AM on 04/22/2012

We export more than we use! This is just about profit.

[janmB]

11:57 AM on 04/22/2012

The exporting came about when the economy tanked around 2008 and we had more oil than we were using. Speculators are blamed for some of the costs rising now.... Bloomberg reports that instability in the Middle East, particularly threats by Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz in the event of an attack on its nuclear facilities. About a fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait. and of course the worldwide economic recovery using more oil.

[Vera Gottlieb]

03:07 AM on 04/20/2012

BP = Beastly Polluter??? BP seems to have a knack for spills.

[olitenup]

09:34 AM on 04/20/2012

Shell is flunking big time. Chevron or Conoco is nailed in China. Brazil won't allow oil executives there leave, as they are on trial for a big spill there

Big oil has become the Keystone Cops, except for their mess is not funny.

[Vera Gottlieb]

11:34 AM on 04/20/2012

They don't seem to like their own medicine!

[flipped54]

02:39 AM on 04/20/2012

Even though fossil fuels will be around for a long time, the true cost of fossil fuels is something that the average person does not think about. Oil spills and the cost of clean up, damage to the environment, military costs (human lives and monetary) to keep oil available, air and water pollution, the cost of global warming, etc., etc. We do need energy from all sources including fossil fuels, solar, wind, water, geothermal, biofuels and energy sources we have not even thought of yet.

[olitenup]

11:16 PM on 04/19/2012

Front Page Huff Po!!! The feds (BLM) are looking for public comments regarding allowing more drilling on the North Slope!

Shell has a disastrous environmental safety record, BP has a pipeline leak, China is pis$%d off at Chevron because of their spills, Brazil won;t let oil execs of out the country because of a big spill there.

[wtf is this]

10:56 PM on 04/19/2012

Once again people. Oil drilling is perfectly safe. Don't worry about that pipeline going through your backyard. The taxpayers will clean up any drips.

Sigh.

[missirish9]

10:27 AM on 04/19/2012

BP at fault again? Color me shocked. In other shocking news, bears poop in the forest and the sky is blue.