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"It's enough to knock you down"
Jun. 25th, 2010 10:54 amAP: Pensacola Beach is closed after oil from Gulf spill washes ashore
"Lifeguard Collin Cobia wore a red handkerchief over his nose and mouth to block the oil smell. "It's enough to knock you down," he said."
Pictures on the news or web can show what the oiled water or beach look like, but they don't convey what's in the air.
Note as well, major efforts to clean up all the tar that washes up on to a beach doesn't mean it's good as new.
St. Petersburg FL Times:USF scientists find long line of oil 6 inches under the sand at Pensacola Beach
"PENSACOLA BEACH — The sugar-sand beach here appeared cleaner Thursday, after workers picked up tar balls overnight with shovels and nets. By noon they had collected 44,955 pounds of tar balls and oil material, according to the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center.
"But a University of South Florida geologist made a grim discovery Thursday morning, 24 hours after the worst oil onslaught in Florida so far. [...] A dark, contiguous vein of oil, about 6 inches beneath the surface of the sand. [...] "It's a continuous layer" [up to the wave high tide line] "The problem is they're only cleaning up the top of the beach. [...] The beach is not going to be the same for a long time.""
CS Monitor: In Gulf oil spill 'war,' cleanup foot soldiers threaten mutiny
"The main problem, they say, is the confusing command structure, which to them seems to have too many generals and not enough battlefield commanders, thus gumming up the ability of local leaders to react to approaching oil.
""How can you fight a war when you don't let the people on the ground make decisions," says Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson. "You're going to lose that war.""
Times-Picayune:Shoddy disposal work mars Gulf oil spill cleanup from Mississippi to Florida
"There's no point in collecting this stuff if they're just going to spread it around."
Elsevier Global Medical Network: BP’s $20 Billion: Not A Single Dollar For Health
Times-Picayune: Monitoring health of residents affected by Gulf oil spill is urged by experts
Times-Picayune: Gulf of Mexico oil spill health concerns take center stage at open house
"Residents worried about the public health effects of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico pressed officials from BP, the Coast Guard and even New Orleans City Hall on Wednesday about the use of chemical dispersants, the long-term availability of medical care for spill victims and other answers they said are not readily available."
[...] "Another woman wanted a commitment from BP spokesman Larry Thomas that the company will continue to pay for medical services "20 years from now, when people have cancer" and when children who live near the spill zone may experience post-traumatic stress disorder"."
Background; BP has long history of lousy safety and ecological spoilage:
Huffington Post:BP: Come for the Gulf Disaster, Stay for the Great Lakes Pollution
"British Petroleum didn't just fall out of the sky one day and decide to start polluting the Gulf of Mexico with the worst oil disaster in United States history. Oh no, they've been at this a while and their exploits are not confined to destroying important ocean ecosystems with risky, unsafe technology."
"Lifeguard Collin Cobia wore a red handkerchief over his nose and mouth to block the oil smell. "It's enough to knock you down," he said."
Pictures on the news or web can show what the oiled water or beach look like, but they don't convey what's in the air.
Note as well, major efforts to clean up all the tar that washes up on to a beach doesn't mean it's good as new.
St. Petersburg FL Times:USF scientists find long line of oil 6 inches under the sand at Pensacola Beach
"PENSACOLA BEACH — The sugar-sand beach here appeared cleaner Thursday, after workers picked up tar balls overnight with shovels and nets. By noon they had collected 44,955 pounds of tar balls and oil material, according to the Escambia County Emergency Operations Center.
"But a University of South Florida geologist made a grim discovery Thursday morning, 24 hours after the worst oil onslaught in Florida so far. [...] A dark, contiguous vein of oil, about 6 inches beneath the surface of the sand. [...] "It's a continuous layer" [up to the wave high tide line] "The problem is they're only cleaning up the top of the beach. [...] The beach is not going to be the same for a long time.""
CS Monitor: In Gulf oil spill 'war,' cleanup foot soldiers threaten mutiny
"The main problem, they say, is the confusing command structure, which to them seems to have too many generals and not enough battlefield commanders, thus gumming up the ability of local leaders to react to approaching oil.
""How can you fight a war when you don't let the people on the ground make decisions," says Escambia County Commission Chairman Grover Robinson. "You're going to lose that war.""
Times-Picayune:Shoddy disposal work mars Gulf oil spill cleanup from Mississippi to Florida
"There's no point in collecting this stuff if they're just going to spread it around."
Elsevier Global Medical Network: BP’s $20 Billion: Not A Single Dollar For Health
Times-Picayune: Monitoring health of residents affected by Gulf oil spill is urged by experts
Times-Picayune: Gulf of Mexico oil spill health concerns take center stage at open house
"Residents worried about the public health effects of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico pressed officials from BP, the Coast Guard and even New Orleans City Hall on Wednesday about the use of chemical dispersants, the long-term availability of medical care for spill victims and other answers they said are not readily available."
[...] "Another woman wanted a commitment from BP spokesman Larry Thomas that the company will continue to pay for medical services "20 years from now, when people have cancer" and when children who live near the spill zone may experience post-traumatic stress disorder"."
Background; BP has long history of lousy safety and ecological spoilage:
Huffington Post:BP: Come for the Gulf Disaster, Stay for the Great Lakes Pollution
"British Petroleum didn't just fall out of the sky one day and decide to start polluting the Gulf of Mexico with the worst oil disaster in United States history. Oh no, they've been at this a while and their exploits are not confined to destroying important ocean ecosystems with risky, unsafe technology."
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