SME Times News Bureau | 08 Jun, 2010
US President Barack Obama Monday said that several months would be required to bring the environmentally disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico under control.
"Even if we are successful in containing some or much of this oil, we are not going to get this problem completely solved until we actually have the relief well completed. And that is going to take a couple more months," Obama was quoted as saying by a news agency after a special cabinet meeting on the crisis.
The US President said that already a lot of oil has been released, and more is bound to be released no matter how successful the ongoing containment effort is.
"We are still trying to get a better determination as to how much it's capturing," he added.
