"The new order was issued one day after a Washington Post article appeared on the front page of the newspaper citing a recent analysis that estimated the amount of oil leaking from the Taylor's wells could be as much as 697 barrels per day. "
"The U.S. Coast Guard has made a sudden course correction in how it’s handling a 14-year-old oil leak off the tip of Louisiana.
On Oct. 23, the Coast Guard ordered Taylor Energy to build and deploy a massive containment system to temporarily contain and capture the oil that’s leaking until a permanent solution can be worked out. A sheen has appeared most days in the Mississippi Canyon 20 lease block area, about 12 miles east of Pass a Loutre, ever since Hurricane Ivan toppled the New Orleans-based company’s production platform there in 2004.
The new order is the first since 2012, when the Coast Guard told Taylor to build an oil containment system but never determined where to deploy it. Taylor was ordered to monitor the leak with overflights, but the government reduced the number of flights over time, from twice a day, to once a day, to twice a week."
David Hammer reports for 4WWL New Orleans November 19, 2018.
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