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Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
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