I've written many times about the aerial flights in the Gulf by Bonny Schumaker of the group On Wings of Care. Since the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in 2010, Bonny has spent considerable time here on the Gulf Coast, documenting the truth about the BP oil spill. It was Bonny who played a key role in alerting both federal authorities as well as the media to the presence of continuing oil sheens at or near the Deepwater site, long after the BP spill had been supposedly capped. But in here flights over the Gulf, Bonny has also documented ongoing sheens and signs of pollution at another site that you've probably never heard about unless you live in southern Louisiana. It's called the Taylor Energy site, an offshore oil rig north of the Macondo field that was operated by a well-known locally based oil firm (whose founder built the world's largest Ronald Reagan statue, but that's another story...). The platform and its 28 wells were destroyed by an underwater landslide during Hurricane Ivan which took place in 2004 -- or nearly nine years ago. And it's still leaking today. This week, NOLA.com had a good look at an environmental nightmare that will ...
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