The Worst Is Yet To Come
The BBC reports on the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon blowout: Gulf spill’s effects ‘may not be seen for a decade’
The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill “devastated” life on and near the seafloor, a marine scientist has said.
Studies using a submersible found a layer, as much as 10cm thick in places, of dead animals and oil, said Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia.
Knocking these animals out of the food chain will, in time, affect species relevant to fisheries.
She disputed an assessment by BP’s compensation fund that the Gulf of Mexico will recover by the end of 2012.
Millions of barrels of oil spewed into the sea after a BP deepwater well ruptured in April 2010. Oil slick Assessments of the clean-up effort have focused on the surface oil, but much oil remains at depth
Professor Joye told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Washington that it may be a decade before the full effects on the Gulf are apparent.
The oil is sitting on the bottom of the Gulf turning it into a lifeless oil bog. The organisms that should be there to provide food for the upper forms of sea life are dead. The effects of this will ripple upwards and kill off the tuna, shrimp, red snapper, etc. We still get tar balls on the beaches, and there is oil residue in our seafood. There has been widespread illness that doctors suspect is related to the use of dispersants.
Those of us on the Gulf Coast know that we are being lied to by BP and the US government. All of the other studies of the health of the Gulf were made without any inspections of the floor of Gulf, something that Dr. Joye actually did for her work.
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thank you, thank you, dr joye!
not that anybody is likely to listen, though.
I don’t know, Hipparchia, my Mother said that our Congresscritter held another of his tele-townhalls and was complaining that BP lied to us. Maybe the reality is finally sinking in.
miller seems to be happy to bring a little pork back to the district. i approve, especially if it will help the beaches, but he’s probably only doing so because some rich person called him up to complain about a tar ball on their beach.
call me cynical, but i’m not expecting him to ever do anything that might help poor and/or nonwhite people [it’s not just the sand on our beaches that’s white…] here’s the ending paragraph of the email newsletter that arrived in my inbox yesterday:
::headdesk::
They intend to destroy the government to remake it as a co-opted board of directors for the “owners of all the wealth”. They don’t understand about systems and why they are killing the system that makes their lives possible, they just assume they can move, without understanding that they are destroying the real value of their wealth.
What are they going to do when no one will accept dollars?
i think deep in all their little lizard brains, most of them want the idealized version of mexico: a few very desireable more or less walled off spots [acapulco, etc], where a few of the underclass – the ones who are glad to get such jobs – will be their servants, the rest of the hoi polloi will be dirt poor, and to salve their undersized consciences, they’ll occasionally contribute small sums to charity causes that toss a few crumbs to those poor.
i suspect that for a lot of them, it’s less about their absolute wealth and more about how much poorer the rest of the population is than they are.
There is a different psychology involved between people who have never had anything being poor, and those who were well off facing poverty. A certain percentage of those who were screwed over are going to react badly, and the “masters of the universe” are really stupid for pushing guns the way they have.
These people really don’t have a sense of the future.
and the “masters of the universe” are really stupid for pushing guns the way they have.
i guess they think we’re all going to shoot each other as we take turns looting each other’s pitiful few possessions.
These people really don’t have a sense of the future.
nor a very good grasp of history either.
Twaddle… that’s a disposable diaper, right? Duffy, is that the brand you use?
It “depends”, Steve…