Seven Mile Long Oil Slick In Gulf of Mexico

At 10:51 AM EDT June 8 2011 I tweeted:

Mystery #Oil Slick, Breton Sound, #GOM http://1.usa.gov/meA33J

The link within my tweet is to IncidentNews, which is a .gov website that provides publicly available information related to oil and hazardous material spills, both current and historical.

This is what ‘IncidentNews reported on June 8:

Mystery Slick, Breton Sound (NRC 978985)
Breton Sound, GOM 2011-Jun-08

At 1014 hours local time on 8 June 2011, USCG Sector New Orleans notified the NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator of a reported mystery slick WSW of Breton Island. The size of slick is reported as “several miles” in length. The initial information is sketchy, and the USCG has launched a helicopter and small boat to investigate as well as coordinating with the USFWS Breton Wildlife Refuge Manager. No responsible party is yet known. NOAA was requested to provide an Initial Trajectory Analysis and Resources at Risk analysis. In 2005, this same refuge was impacted by a small spill resulting in the death of more than 600 pelican. USFWS reports that there are nearly 7000 pelican on North Breton Island currently and this is nesting season.

Incident Details
Spill, potential spill, or other: Oil Spill
Cause of incident: Mystery Spill
Products of concern: Unknown

Latitude (approximate): 29° 26.08′ North
Longitude (approximate): 89° 16.42′ West

"The size of slick is reported as “several miles” in length."

From an AP article in the NYTimes June 8 Louisiana: Coast Guard Investigates Origin of Oil Slick in Gulf of Mexico. We see they report the Oil Slick as being a "seven-mile slick" and thought to be from BP’s oil spill last year, yet the origin has not been determined.

I have looked around and as of now [June 13] have not found anything other than the above, the same by various media outlets. Nothing new.

Are they keeping this hush hush ?

Is the capped BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo well spewing oil again ?

Is this oil once deposited on the Gulf of Mexico’s floor through the use of dispersants [Corexit] now surfacing ?

Is this a new leak from a well, or a ruptured seabed ?

Will we ever know ?

Now we know….

Update June 14: Found this today – Bird’s Eye View: Have You Seen This?

You may recall reports last week that a fisherman discovered a several miles long slick and that efforts were underway to find whether it was BP oil resurfacing from last year’s blowout. By week’s end, our friends at the National Wildlife Federation had already determined that the oil near Venice was not from the BP disaster. They were able to retrieve a sample from the fisherman and have it tested at a lab at LSU, which concluded it was not oil from BP’s Macondo well.

The link above has a link to the National Wildlife Federation report, and a slide show of the new oil leak from a different well in the Gulf Of Mexico. While this oil spill is no ‘BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo’, it is still an oil spill that is being ignored. Ignored because this is an everyday occurrence in the Gulf of Mexico.

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