Quoting from this site:
BP has shut 12 producing wells at its Alaskan operations after workers told the Financial Times the wells were leaking oil or diesel insulating agent….
BP’s move comes as the firm could face a criminal investigation in the US over a massive oil spill in Alaska in March.It is under investigation by a grand jury over the spill of some 267,000 gallons (1 million litres) discovered at the Prudhoe Bay field, and the largest ever on Alaska’s North Slope region.
Did you hear about this spill? No? Neither did I.
Drilling for oil is safe, though. It’s clean. Let’s go ahead and drill in ANWR because it’s not really a danger to anyone or anything.
Oh, and a spokesperson for the company said none of the ‘leaked material’ reached the Alaskan tundra. Does that mean it went into the ocean? Canada? Or is it just hovering in little globules above our pristine tundra?
We’ve got ONE planet. It is time for this careless attitude to GO.