This is bigger than the Valdez, but if you think this is big ....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...er-delta-shell
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This is bigger than the Valdez, but if you think this is big ....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010...er-delta-shell
How did the environment recover?Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
Not to my knowledge. Right now, out-of-work fishermen are being employed by BP to place oil booms (the stuff to stop and soak up surface oil), using their own boats. Not sure who they're getting to clean the beaches.Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
I hope this doesn't turn out to be another 9/11 in terms of damage to health for those doing cleanup -- and possibly for people who live in affected areas.
Some of the fishermen working on the spill have been hospitalized or treated and released after contact with the oil-corexit mix. I heard on the radio over the weekend that one of the big N.O. local hospitals will be establishing a clinic down on Grand Isle, a populated barrier island which has an oil soaked beach, thus workers present to clean it up. Our days are in the 90's and the workers are going down with heat exhaustion as well getting ill from the fumes. Grand Isle doesn't have the infrastructure to handle all the extra people, it hasn't completely recovered from the 2005 and 2008 hurricanes.Quote:
Originally Posted by PamNY
Beth, here's some info for you on our spill
http://www.watoday.com.au/environmen...1109-i59k.html
http://www.marineconservation.org.au...ve_page_id=513
and that doesn't even make the top 10. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Trek420
http://envirowonk.com/content/view/68/1/
I'm watching the press conference now, let's hope this spill does not make the top 10. :(
The temporary cap is working. No oil is spilling into the Gulf. A brief sigh of relief. But there's still a lot of oil in the Gulf :(
If you have the opportunity and are so inclined, eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico - if it comes to your market, it's safe to eat. Support our Fishermen and women. Besides warm water grown shrimp and oysters taste better :p
Hoping the best for a permanent, reliable solution there Beth.
Even people in Germany were talking about it when we were there.
It'll take awhile for things to be normal for the fisher folks and for environment.
At this time, I probably wouldn't buy seafood from the Gulf. But then again, we have other (cold water) choices closer to home.
The concrete kill plug is holding. The Wicked Witch of the Gulf might actually be dead this time.
And if Gulf of Mexico seafood happens to reach you market, buy it, eat it. If it reaches your market, it's safe to eat. Support Gulf fisherman, because despite all the claims from BP, they're loosing money. I had boiled shrimp this weekend - from Louisiana waters - and they were delicious. Nice big fat shrimpies. :D
And ride a bicycle and stop driving with just "you" in the car in that big fat gas guzzling SUVs. Look how big the cars have gotten. Compare some of the big SUVs, Toyota Sequoia, Tahoe, Suburban, Escalade... and compare it against an older proto-SUVs like 70's vintage Ford Bronco. It was really big back then and now it looks so tiny. And the original Honda Civic CVCC looks like a toy. BTW original honda civic gets comparable MPG as my Prius. We really haven't improved!!
Drive less, ride more and be a true conservative!! conserve our natural resources, its not reneweable for heaven sake. If we did maybe we could have avoided all these risky drilling operation. and all that oil spill.
And I truly hope that the Deep Water Horizon is shutdown/plugged. What about the Ocean Saratoga operation? Has that leak been plugged yet? or has it been claimed that it never leaked?
hope for better days to come and the worst is behind us.
One year ago today 11 men lost their lives in the biggest oil disaster in North America.
http://media.nola.com/2010_gulf_oil_...de268f29c4.jpg
Here's a sickly fascinating graphic of the oil spill: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-sp...ster/index.ssf
:( That made me tear-up. :(
And the fat cat BP just keeps getting richer and fatter. :mad:
I'm still disgusted by it all, but more disgusted that they are still in business and making millions.
This is what they should be left with- imagaes of their carelessness as a company (not the millions in their pockets):