Dome over leak possible

The chairman of BP, Lamar McKay, told ABC's "This Week" that he can't say when the well might be plugged, but said he believes a dome that could be placed over the well is expected to be deployed in six to eight days. The dome has been made and workers are finishing the plan to get it deployed. (Source: AP via Press-Register, 05/02/10) In Gulfport, Miss., the state director of the Mississippi chapter of the Sierra Club, Louie Miller, described the spill as "America's Chernobyl" in a news conference Saturday, a reference to the power plant explosion in 1986 that resulted in a plume of radioactive fallout across a large area of Europe. (Source: Mississippi Press, 05/02/10) But count Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., as one who doesn't see it quite that way. After a three-hour flight over the Gulf of Mexico Saturday, Taylor concluded, "This isn't Armageddon." (Source: Mississippi Press, 05/02/10) BP Plc operated the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico which sank April 20 after an explosion that left 11 people missing and presumed dead. The underwater well has been spewing oil since the accident. Communities along the Gulf Coast have been doing what they can to prevent the oil slick from reaching sensitive shores and marsh lands.