Claims that the effects of the Gulf disaster are premature. BP never removed the oil. They just hid it, and its coming out just in time for Halloween, all trick and no treat. As the US prepares to resume deep water drilling, the time has come to fire Ken Salazar and replace him with someone sufficiently concerned about our environment to make sure that does not happen until after the report, postponed to March, is out and its findings are used to implement measures sufficient to prevent a recurrence.
Just three days after the U.S. Coast Guard admiral in charge of the BP oil spill cleanup declared little recoverable surface oil remained in the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana fishers Friday found miles-long strings of weathered oil floating toward fragile marshes on the Mississippi River delta.
The discovery, which comes as millions of birds begin moving toward the region in the fall migration, gave ammunition to groups that have insisted the government has overstated clean-up progress, and could force reclosure of key fishing areas only recently reopened.
The oil was sighted in West Bay, which covers approximately 35 square miles of open water between Southwest Pass, the main shipping channel of the river, and Tiger Pass near Venice. Boat captains working the BP clean-up effort said they have been reporting large areas of surface oil off the delta for more than a week but have seen little response from BP or the Coast Guard, which is in charge of the clean-up. The captains said most of their sightings have occurred during stretches of calm weather, similar to what the area has experienced most of this week.
On Friday reports included accounts of strips of the heavily weathered orange oil that became a signature image of the spill during the summer. One captain said some strips were as much as 400 feet wide and a mile long.
The captains did not want to be named for fear of losing their clean-up jobs with BP… [emphasis added]
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Frankly, as tepid as the Democrats have been in dealing with this issue, electing GOBP candidates will guarantee another GOP Gusher in the Gulf.
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You knew it was gonna come back – I mean with BP running the clean up and that Admiral siding with BP, you know they did a half assed job, at best. There should be an anonymous way for these fisherman to report what they’ve seen. And get BP’s asses out there to do the job the right way this time. 800M gallons of oil just doesn’t disappear on it’s own. Duh. 🙄
Of course. I predicted it. The problem is that there’s no way to get at it now, until it surfaces.
It’s as bad as we all thought. The impact of the spill will be felt for DECADES, not years. Meanwhile, people and animals suffer from the oil spill.
A agree and have said so often.
That’s one of the problems with using dispersants. As the dispersant decomposed, it releases the oil and the oil again become insoluble in the water and coagulates and rises to the surface.
Now you see it. Now you don’t. Oh wait! Here it is again. It’s magic!
Exactly!