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| Oil spill work on hold as tropical |
| Oil spill work on hold as tropical storm nears
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 24-July-2010
5:40:6 AM |
| Oil workers halted efforts Friday to permanently choke off the broken oil well in the Gulf of Mexico after ships around the site were ordered to evacuate ahead of Tropical Storm Bonnie.
There had been worries that the cap that has mostly contained the oil would have to be reopened and left gushing if a major storm came through. But engineers are confident enough in the strength of the cap that they decided to leave it sealed while most ships left the area.
Tropical Storm Bonnie raked the low-lying Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas with rain and lightning on Thursday, and forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm could reach the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday
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