labradore explains in graphic detail the gulf between the Old Man’s bland assurances that such things could never happen here and what an oil spill of BP magnitude in the Gulf of St. Lawrence (centred theoretically on Old Harry or a field near it) might look like.
The Premier focused his attention on current production wells which are a couple of hundred miles offshore.
But there is another offshore that isn’t quite so far away.
Bear in mind this isn’t based on an analysis of currents and so forth. it’s just what you get if you lay a map of the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico in another oil rich Gulf.
What opens, as a result, is not so much a gulf but ye olde chasm of credibility that swallows the Premier’s assurances whole.
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