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infrogmation ([personal profile] infrogmation) wrote2010-07-04 01:31 pm

Remembering Ixtoc

Times-Picayune: 1979's Ixtoc oil well blowout in Gulf of Mexico has startling parallels to current disaster

A look back at what is now the 2nd worst oil disaster in the history of the Gulf.

(By the way, the name is Yucatec Maya, and is pronounced "Eesh-TOK", not "ICKS-tok". Sheesh, broadcast media, you've only had 30 years to learn that.)

[identity profile] mshollie.livejournal.com 2010-07-04 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I didn't know. I don't speak Yucatec Maya.

[identity profile] niamh-sage.livejournal.com 2010-07-04 07:06 pm (UTC)(link)
My brain keeps trying to rearrange the letters to make the word 'toxic'.