It Isn’t Over
Bill Finch is director of Mobile Botanical Gardens, a senior fellow for The Ocean Foundation and garden writer for the Press-Register in Mobile, Alabama. He has written a piece describing what is likely to happen as a result of the oil spill – Insight: The oil’s underhanded threat to life in the Gulf.
Robert Lee Hotz of the Wall Street Journal has a good piece on the continuing research – Much Oil Remains in Gulf, Researchers Estimate
The UGA team, which has been at the forefront of investigating the underwater oil plumes created by the leaking well, took a closer look at the government’s calculations and came to a more pessimistic conclusion: As much as 79% of the oil and its toxic byproducts still remained in the subsurface waters of the Gulf. Moreover, it might easily be years before these petrochemicals disappear.
“One major misconception is that oil that has dissolved into water is gone and, therefore, harmless,” said UGA marine scientist Charles Hopkinson, the senior investigator in the effort. “The oil is still out there, and it will likely take years to completely degrade.”
Dr. Samantha Joye, University of Georgia [UGA] Department of Marine Sciences blogs about her latest research in the post, Where has the oil gone? Short answer – it’s still in the Gulf.
All of the “happy talk” from BP and the Federal government is garbage. The oil is still there. Since last Thursday, oil patches have been coming ashore on beaches East of me in Walton County.
