Video: Gulf Oil Leaking from Multiple Sources on Multi-Screens

Last week, after Rep. Edward J. Markey’s (D-Mass.) request, BP finally agreed to provide live footage of the oil spill operations in the Gulf of Mexico. (Here's the Spill Cam.) But that view just shows one leak out of many, and Markey is now demanding that BP make public all 12 possible video feeds, showing the full range of oil leaks and activities. Congressman: give them an inch, they take a mile. Below, for the first time, Markey has shared what BP engineers are looking at on your average, catastrophic day:

When we first began noting the seemingly unstoppable Gulf of Mexico oil spill, some wondered what any of this had to do with NYC. Well, besides the fact that all species—even New Yorkers—cling to the same fragile ecological web of life, here's a specific example of how the spill is penetrating our precious NYC bubble: seafood prices are going up! Chefs at some local restaurants report that they're paying more for shrimp and oysters, even though they don't source from the Gulf of Mexico. "The supply is tighter, and it's driving the prices through the roof," Ron Licht, co-owner of Scandia Seafood, tells Crain's. "It's going to affect the restaurants as people who bought a larger shrimp buy smaller [less expensive] shrimps."

Crown Fish Co. of Hunts Point is reportedly paying up to $8 per pound for shrimp from the Gulf region, or about 30% more than one month ago. And because oil is now beginning to spread to the marshes where shrimp breed, some Louisiana shrimp sellers foresee not having shrimp next year. Many of the local waters have now been closed to fishing, but some shrimp boats are ignoring the ban and are going ahead with shrimping anyway. And other areas that are open to fishing are already polluted. "I could see the tar balls on top of the oil," one fisher tells the Wall Street Journal about an area that's still open for fishing. But never fear, tomorrow, BP goes for the Top Kill.

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By John Del Signore in News on May 24, 2010 4:34 PM

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ridgeside

OMG does your self esteem make my stomach hurt. You do realize that computer your typing on was completely mined from the earth. If you don't like industrialization then move to a remote island and STFU! If you don't like people using natural resources then don't use them yourself.

Amanda Harletsch

what a horrific situation!

Humans destroyed the environment with oil!!

In 200 years of industrialization we have manged to destroy a beautiful perfect system what took millennium to evolve, for what?

There you have for human superiority: shitting on the system to then die for our own greediness.

Aimlow Joe

BP's plan is to stall until the well runs dry. Sounds like a good plan to me. Although I am disappointed. I saved all my old golf balls and was planning on donating them to the cause. Now I'll just hit them into the ocean and hope I don't hit any whales.

Aimlow Joe was here.

http://www.aimlow.com

rfid4dna

I expect that at some point in my lifetime, I'll be describing these wonderful tasty little things called 'Shrimp' that used to live in the ocean back when it was OK to eat stuff in the ocean. Then, I'll say, now finish your soilent green!

eyekantspel

without downplaying the damage created by this spill, we still need to determine what caused this; whether it was an accident, negligence or a combination of both. Offshore drilling until this point has had a pretty good record. For now, it's more important to stop the spill and contain the damage than to point fingers.

Sinchy

The engineers can figure out how to stop the gusher while at the same time investigators, politicians and prosecutors can figure out who to blame.

The longer we wait to assign blame the less likely we are to hold those responsible accountable.

Sinchy

How does this affect New Yorkers is one question, another is how can New Yorkers affect the situation in the gulf.

Right now the best thing we can do is call your congress person and senators and tell them to get tough on BP, limit and tightly regulate oil exploration, and above all support renewable energy development.

Jerry Nadler did some good grilling of BP execs recently and when I saw him strolling across W. Bway this weekend (boy is he rotund) I thanked him for speaking out.

NannyState

And get a fucking haircut.

longacre

If there is any civilization on earth in 200 years, history books will point to this as a watershed moment in the collapse of the United States. This is an epic failure of government at all levels and across party lines.

Politburo

Only in a right-wing fantasy world could an industrial disaster by a private company be considered a failure of government.

It'd be funny if it weren't so sad.

henryhamilton

These videos have the potential to be game changers. They are going to piss people off, over time, like nothing else could. It's very hard for BP to offer any limp-dick defensive spin, when you can just take a look at the viddy.