Remembering Ixtoc
Jul. 4th, 2010 01:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
infrogmationTimes-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.)
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.)
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Date: 2010-07-04 07:06 pm (UTC)