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Sudden Deaths - People. People. Earthquakes - Arkansas. Earthquakes - Gulf of Mexico. Money for Victims. Paul Doomm. Lawsuits. Feinberg. Videos. Studies. Petitions. Dead animals, fish and wildlife. Laws - bad ones. Resignations. Homelessness. Detox. Environmental Risks. Dispersant. Blogs. Biofuel. MODIS Rapid Response System - USA7 Subset - Terra 1km True Color image for 2011/044 (02/13/11) Doctors or Hospital that are helping. A Crude Awakening in the Gulf of Mexico. Life seems almost normal along the highway that runs the length of Grand Isle, a narrow curl of land near the toe of Louisiana’s tattered boot. Customers line up for snow cones and po’ boys, graceful live oaks stand along the island’s central ridge, and sea breezes blow in from the Gulf of Mexico. But there are few tourists here this summer. The island is filled with cleanup crews and locals bracing for the next wave of anguish to wash ashore from the crippled well 100 miles to the southeast.
Behind Grand Isle, in the enormous patchwork of water and salt marsh called Barataria Bay, tar balls as big as manhole covers float at the surface. Oily sheens, some hundreds of yards across, glow dully on the water. Below a crumbling brick fort built in the 1840s, the marsh edges are smeared with thick brown gunk. Even here, at the heart of the disaster, it’s hard to fathom the reach of the spill. Today, southern Louisiana loses about a football field’s worth of land each and every half-hour.
WAKE UP AMERICA YOU ARE BEING LIED TO! I took a walk along the beach Feb. 09, 2011. I had seen the many ads placed on your TV and news outlets all over the world paid for by BP proclaiming“The oil is gone and our beaches are clean”. The one that really gets me is how safe the seafood can be when this is what our beaches look like. I have visited the locations seen here many times during the BP crisis and seen it in various conditions. This last trip was as bad as it was in July during the height of the disaster at sea. The real disaster has just begun I am afraid. It is my sincere belief that this is only the beginning of years of BP dispersed oil episodes on our beaches and in the food we eat. It isn't hard to walk along the beach and see that things are not well. GOSIC Home - Gulf Oil Spill Information Center - Campus Guides at University of South Florida Libraries.
Budget Cuts a Step Back for Marine Research (July 4, 2011) By Kate Spinner, Herald-Tribune – "Crippled by debt and funding cuts, the ocean research institute that played a critical role in responding to last year's oil disaster is struggling to keep its science ships afloat. The Florida Institute of Oceanography, a state-funded program based at the University of South Florida's St. Petersburg campus, operates two of the state's three research ships capable of carrying scientists and their equipment to the deep sea for more than a week at a time. Scientists at universities, as well as state and private research centers, rely on the organization's ships to conduct field studies. They were essential in discovering underwater oil plumes during the spill and the "dirty blizzard" of oil and dead organic debris that may still be settling to the sea bottom.
DEEPWATER_ReporttothePresident_FINAL.pdf (application/pdf Object) GOSIC Home - Gulf Oil Spill Information Center - Campus Guides at University of South Florida Libraries. Budget Cuts a Step Back for Marine Research (July 4, 2011) By Kate Spinner, Herald-Tribune – "Crippled by debt and funding cuts, the ocean research institute that played a critical role in responding to last year's oil disaster is struggling to keep its science ships afloat. The Florida Institute of Oceanography, a state-funded program based at the University of South Florida's St. Petersburg campus, operates two of the state's three research ships capable of carrying scientists and their equipment to the deep sea for more than a week at a time. Scientists at universities, as well as state and private research centers, rely on the organization's ships to conduct field studies.
They were essential in discovering underwater oil plumes during the spill and the "dirty blizzard" of oil and dead organic debris that may still be settling to the sea bottom. Louisiana seafood safety emphasized as industry reps treat officials in Washington, D.C. In an effort to show that Louisiana seafood is safe after last summer's BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the industry brought its products to the nation's capital this week for complimentary tastings. View full sizeRusty Costanza, The Times-Picayune archiveThe state of Louisiana has asked BP to provide $15 million to rehabilitate oyster beds damaged from last year's massive oil spill. "It's a chance to really showcase Louisiana oysters and our entire Gulf Coast oyster industry," said Ewell Smith, executive director of the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board, during a "Let the World Be Your Oyster Reception" at Washington's Acadiana Restaurant Wednesday night.
More Louisiana seafood, including oysters, was served at a Washington Mardi Gras reception Thursday night. "The government is testing at an unprecedented level, and we just want them to get the word out that it is being tested and that our seafood is safe to eat," Smith said. Also this week, Sen. Tunnell Vision? | BPs Oil Drilling Disaster in the Gulf of Mexico | Blog| Gulf Restoration Network.