Deepwater Horizon has finally been shut off

And about time too because that place has just been pumping oil into the Gulf of Mexico for the last four months. The oil well (which was built in South Korea; commissioned by a firm based in Switzerland; registered in the Marshall Islands; and located off the southern coast of the United States) exploded in April and has been pumping oil into the Gulf until it was sealed two days ago by use of a relief well. The aftermath of this disaster is to be of unprecedented scale and complexity compared to previous disasters which themselves took years to fix up, especially if al-Qaeda had something to do with the explosion.