BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster Update

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Remember that oil spill that was in the national news a few months back? It's not just a memory on the Gulf Coast.

WDSU: Researchers: Thick Oil Coats Gulf Sea Floor

"Far beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, deeper than divers can go, scientists say they are finding oil from the busted BP well on the sea's muddy and mysterious bottom. Oil at least two inches thick was found Sunday night and Monday morning about a mile beneath the surface. Under it was a layer of dead shrimp and other small animals, said University of Georgia researcher Samantha Joye, speaking from the helm of a research vessel in the Gulf."

Times-Picayune: New wave of oil comes ashore west of Mississippi River

"About 16 miles of coastal beaches in Plaquemines Parish from Sandy Point to Chalon Pass were lined with black oil and tar balls. Meanwhile anglers returning to Lafitte told Sidney Bourgeois, of Joe's Landing, that new oil was surfacing on the eastern side of Barataria Bay in the Bay Jimmie, Bay Wilkerson and in Bay Baptiste areas."

Baton Rouge Advocate: An oil wave still possible

"LSU coastal scientist Gregory Stone notes that significant amounts of oil that leaked into the Gulf of Mexico after the Deepwater Horizon disaster is still poised to come into Louisiana’s sensitive coastal marshes."

WWL: Dead whale and thousands of dead fish found near Venice Louisiana shipping canal

Comments

responds BP:

[wrayb.livejournal.com]

"damn those pesky "researchers", I thought we paid off, I mean had an agreement with the Coast Guard that "unqualified" interlopers would be kept out of the gulf..."